Monday, March 13, 2023
The memory play is a theatrical genre which allows the playwright to locate their characters in the here and now while at the same time travelling back in time. It is the form adopted by Bj�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMBjørg Vik’s The Journey to Venice at the Finborough Theatre: Norwegian memory play is tender if slight
The full version of the article Bjørg Vik’s “The Journey To Venice” At the Fi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:50AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
Is anyone still nostalgic about their teen years? The coming-of-age drama is a staple of contemporary British theatre, but surely there is something just a bit too predictable about stories …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:18AMSaturday, March 4, 2023
Has theatre’s time passed? In Tim Crouch’s latest 70-minute show, Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel, first staged at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh last year and now at Battersea Art…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, February 24, 2023
Donmar Warehouse, London – until 25 March 2023 With the fast-approaching anniversary of the latest war in Europe, our culture’s continued fascination with the second world war gets a con…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, February 20, 2023
Is new writing becoming increasingly literary? Recently, some of the language being used by younger playwrights seems to me to be becoming too subtle, something to be savoured on the page ra…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, February 16, 2023
The female monologue is a well-established contemporary theatre form, but often the content is predictable and sometimes clichéd. No such doubts come to mind with Laura Horton’s latest pl…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:27AMMonday, February 13, 2023
With the total loss of its Arts Council funding, Hampstead Theatre’s future as a specialist new writing venue is in doubt. But before anything drastically changes, the playwrights and play…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, February 5, 2023
Culture which arrives from the margins to the mainstream is a classic phenomenon. In the case of Sam Steiner’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons it has taken almost a decade for this two-…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWilly Hudson is a writer and performer from Exeter — his Willy Hudson Ltd theatre company advertises itself as making “fabulous queer theatrical extravaganzas to make you go ooh, argh an…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:46AMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Ever been to a queer club? You know, drag cabaret night at Madame Jojo’s, or the Black Cap or Her Upstairs. No? Well, not to worry — the Royal Court’s latest provides a fabulously extr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, December 30, 2022
Billed as an examination of gentrification, Kerry Jackson at the National Theatre has disappointingly little to say about this subject. Its main characters have clichéd opinions and stereot…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, December 23, 2022
How many plays pass the Bechdel Test? Originally featured in a comic strip, and popularised in film criticism, it simply states that to pass this test your story has to have: 1) at least two…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, December 18, 2022
In his award-winning play, which premiered in Boston in 2011, American playwright Stephen Karam examines the issues in a thoroughly original, brilliantly constructed and thematically compell…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, December 17, 2022
What is the best way of talking about the Middle East? Should plays take a documentary or verbatim approach, all the better to educate and inform, or is there another path, which includes en…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:20AMSunday, December 11, 2022
Julia Pascal is a resourceful theatre-maker who is unafraid of controversy. Her interest in the relationship between the personal and the political, and sympathy with both the victims of the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, December 10, 2022
Julia Pascal is a resourceful theatre-maker who is unafraid of being controversial. Her interest in the relationship between the personal and the political, and sympathy with both the victim…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:15PMSunday, December 4, 2022
In his latest, Blackout Songs, a powerful 95-minute two-hander, Joe White uses a flexible structure to represent some excruciating emotional material, and the result gives an almost overwhel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
Joe White is great at staging fraught emotions. His Mayfly in 2018 vividly showed a family whose members were at the end of their tethers; it also had an intriguingly intelligent form. In hi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:14PMTuesday, November 29, 2022
At best Baghdaddy at the Royal Court Theatre is a surreal trip into traumatic memory, at its worst it’s a self-indulgent mess. If you think that American crime are worse than Saddam’s yo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
Last night, at the Arcola, I witnessed the return of The Poltergeist, Philip Ridley’s blazing one-man show from 2020. It is a terrific piece of writing, a text which is a masterpiece of st…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:58PMSaturday, November 12, 2022
Martin Crimp’s Not One of These People at the Royal Court: radical investigation of presence and absence in fiction
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:14PMThursday, November 10, 2022
Sudha Bhuchar’s Evening Conversations at the Soho Theatre: a calmly intelligent exploration of family identity
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:24AMTuesday, November 1, 2022
Nica Burns’ choice of an opening production for @sohoplace is Marvellous, a celebratory bio-drama about Newcastle-under-Lyme’s local legend, the irrepressible Neil “Nello” Baldwin, w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, October 23, 2022
Therapy is inherently dramatic. After all, it’s all about character — and it has the aim of producing a recognizable change. But who is most affected by the process: client or therapist?…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:10AMMonday, October 10, 2022
Therapy is inherently dramatic. After all, it’s all about character – and it has the aim of producing a recognisable change. But who is most affected by the process: client or therapist?…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, September 30, 2022
If you accept the documentary verbatim style of Jews. In Their Own Words at the Royal Court, and don’t mind the lack of any real drama, this is an intelligently crafted and committed piece…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, September 26, 2022
Identity is the sum of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of these are personal, and some political. Sometimes they blend, sometimes clash. In Aaron Kilercioglu and Bilal Hasna’s excellen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIdentity is the sum of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of these are personal, and some political. Sometimes they blend, sometimes clash. In Aaron Kilercioglu and Bilal Hasna’s excellen…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:53AMTuesday, September 20, 2022
Britain is a divided nation, but one of the divisions that we don’t hear that much about is that between Pakistani gay men. Written by Waleed Akhtar (who also stars in this impressively he…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, September 11, 2022
In Silence at the Donmar Warehouse four British playwrights have adapted Kavita Puri’s book Partition Voices: Untold British Stories in a joint production between Donmar Warehouse and Tara…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM 
