Sunday, August 26, 2018
Midsummer is indeed a sweet, imaginative rom-com celebrating the madness and delirium of midsummer and the value of taking risks in life and love.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, August 21, 2018
John Goodwin, who has died at the age of 97, was one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures of British subsidised theatre in the latter half of the 20th century, admired and somet…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, August 19, 2018
There is no mistaking the anger that informs and pulsates through the piece like a roaring fire. But this is an Emilia for our life and times, bringing the past and present and hopefully the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, August 14, 2018
Aristocrats does show once again Brian Friel’s remarkable ability to understand and cross religious and personal boundaries, but this time it fails to grapple the heart with quite the keen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, August 4, 2018
Overall, then, Van Kampen’s production of Othello is a bold, zippy, lively affair that slips neatly into today’s sensibilities, underlining its message of the destructiveness of jealousy…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
A small, quiet important play for our times, Charlotte Jones’ The Meeting is led by a luminous, fiercely honest performance by Lydia Leonard as Rachel and Gerald Kyd as the puzzled ultimat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, July 19, 2018
Like two of its major successes last year, Oslo and Network, and despite some flaws, The Lehman Trilogy is another unmissable state-of-our-world account from the NT. Do see it if you can.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, June 25, 2018
The Wooster Group’s Town Hall Affair is a beautiful, dedicated piece of craftsmanship, highly technically and artistically accomplished but in comparison with material in earlier years, it…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, June 23, 2018
Notes From the Field is an even more searing, brilliant, majestic account – an examination, profound in its detail and presentation by Anna Deavere Smith of disenfranchisement and the brok…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, June 18, 2018
Findlay’s finely tuned production is full of nuance and provides a singular, emotive finale in which responsibility, influence, life choices, aspiration and limitation are all beautifully …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, June 16, 2018
Natalie Abrahami has done Sophie Treadwell proud. A great, absorbing revival. Wouldn’t it be nice to see other Treadwell plays given a run?!
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Within a stone’s throw of Grenfell Tower, Gregory Evans’ tale of greed, ambition and plain heartlessness, Shirleymander tells the darkest of stories with a very light touch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, May 20, 2018
Here, in Shakespeare’s, 400 years ago, actors ‘conjured’ and beguiled their audiences. And so here, too, in 2018, theatre and As You Like It has again worked its magic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, April 1, 2018
In its incorporation of Howards End and the conversation between its fictional literary inspiration and its contemporary – Matthew Lopez – The Inheritance manages to create something who…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, February 26, 2018
One helluva writer, that Kelly and his ‘muse’, Carey Mulligan. Will Girls & Boys transfer? It would be a sell-out, if arduous to maintain, I imagine for Mulligan. Time will tell…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMVictoria’s Malthouse Theatre and Black Swan Theatre’s joint production of Picnic at Hanging Rock does have its moments of scariness and there are fine, spirited performances from its qui…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMFriday, February 23, 2018
Told by an Idiot’s stage adaptation of Simon Leys’ acclaimed counter to the-great-man-of-history novella The Death of Napoleon though asks the useful question that gels nicely with the c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, February 16, 2018
An interesting corrective to those soft-focus romantic images of rural equanimity, in the end, Gundog doesn’t quite come off. But, like grandad’s homily to his family, Longman too has br…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, January 23, 2018
The second of a brace of plays running in rep at the Southwark Playhouse, Russian writing star, Mikhai Durnenkov’s The War Has Not Yet Started – featuring Mark Quartley, Sarah Hadland an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, January 5, 2018
With the demise of the repertory system, it is the fringe and alternative theatre that has stealthily and often in unrecognised ways provided the apprenticeship and forcing house in recent y…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Seiriol Davies’s How to Win Against History is not quite like anything I’ve ever seen before. But then again, it is. A pastiche, a satire, a brilliant piece of aesthetic campery on a par…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, December 4, 2017
Something very exciting is happening in small-scale opera. This is the third one I’ve seen in as many months, all striking in their own ways but Eugene Onegin is by far the most enjoyable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, November 27, 2017
This was a labour of love, Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson’s inaugural production for their newly formed OperaGlass Works for which they raised all the funds, a cool £145,000.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, November 25, 2017
What with the BBC’s Gunpowder Plot and now Anders Lustgarten’s spymaster drama, we really seem unable to quite slough off our fascination with those grisly times when terrorism came in C…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Stewart Pringle’s Harry and Denise fortuitously keep meeting over the trestle table in the local village hall rented out for evening classes and meetings. Harry is one of the backbone-of-t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, November 19, 2017
Whoever decided to revive Chayefsky’s film via a stage production made an astute choice. Network could hardly be more topical or timely in an era that has become infamous for false truths,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
With Kathy Burke’s imprimatur attached as director, my expectations were high for Sam Bain’s The Retreat although everything else about the writer was unknown to me.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Coriolanus may not be the most frequently staged of Shakespeare’s political Roman dramas although it nearly always gets included when a series of them are run together as here with the lat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, November 9, 2017
There is something exquisitely philosophical and European about Lot Vekemans’ approach, at once logical and precise as she moves her two-hander from a point of unresolved conflict and outr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, November 5, 2017
Devil You Know theatre company director Paul Tomlinson describes his setting as 'post apocalyptic’ and certainly Peckham’s Bussey building lends itself to such a concept.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, November 4, 2017
Some of the most viscerally shattering productions I’ve seen in recent years have turned up at the tiny Gate Theatre, Notting Hill. Magali Mougel’s Suzy Storck is no exception.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM 
