Saturday, 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 01:00PMFriday, November 3, 2017
What extraordinary actors the Russians produce and what a revelation is this newly filmed version by Moscow’s Satirikon Theatre uncomfortable, disturbing, unsettling though it also is.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
When I read that Anything that Flies was her debut play by writer, Judith Burnley, I naturally assumed it was a young playwright being given a big chance by Jermyn Street’s new artistic di…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, October 30, 2017
Raizada’s dialogue is unflinching in the way she captures speech that symbiotically interweaves between everyday conversations and those portrayed on TV as if both were entwined and feedin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIt’s all elegantly if slightly laboriously done in studied anachronistic style, delivered facing out to the audience as if emphasising precisely its decorative home.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 24, 2017
Rupert Goold’s previous, James Graham’s Ink, went on to enjoy its present run in the West End. For sheer entertainment value, I’ll be amazed if Mike Bartlett’s stirring eulogy for a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, October 23, 2017
The grounding comes in Kwame Kwei-Armah’s decision to transplant the play to 1950s Caribbean and in the casting of Nikki Amuka-Bird as Doctor Wangel’s second wife, Ellida giving her raci…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, October 19, 2017
Simon Stephens’ version makes no bones about how an obsession for fame can lead to ruin, hell and damnation or all three. Adelayo Adedayo’s Nina is burning to be a 'celebrity’, idolisi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Whereas Heisenberg celebrates taking a chance on love, even in one’s dotage, Beginning seems, sotto voce, to be saying something interesting about class.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, October 12, 2017
You win some, you lose some. Sometimes 'forgotten gems’ are cast aside for good reason. Fashion, sensibilities, history – always changing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMI think I should start off by saying Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle that launches a brave new commercial venture in the West End by director Marianne Elliott and producer Chris Harper…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM"Theatre is important. Theatre has the most amazing ability to give people an understanding of what can often be very complex social issues by telling human stories, while at the same time s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, October 11, 2017
Child of the Divide launches Bhuchar’s Boulevard, a new development on from the company, Tamasha, she founded with Kristine Landon-Smith in 1989 and which premiered Child of the Divide ori…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, October 8, 2017
It is now a little over a year since director Yukio Ninagawa died and this revival of his Macbeth, arguably his greatest hit, certainly brought an extra emotional tug to the Barbican.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, October 6, 2017
As a play, there is so much in What Shadows that touches on and echoes today’s myriad trouble spots, it could hardly be more topical.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, September 30, 2017
Having excavated Visconti (Ossessione), Ivo van Hove has now moved on to Ingmar Bergman. Much as I admire van Hove – and I do – I am a little perplexed as to why he’s involved himself …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMThursday, September 28, 2017
In David Storey's The March of Russia, Up in Arms find a source of such acutely observed family, domestic pain and political pertinence as to set the heart racing afresh.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, September 25, 2017
Fusing brilliant imaginative speculation with humour, in Natalie Abrahami’s revival, Wings becomes a deeply moving, ultimately even uplifting account of what it might feel like for a strok…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMWith its peeling walls and echoes of proscenium grandeur, Alice Childress’s 1955 American classic in praise of theatre carries a wonderful sense of authenticity, even to some of its echoin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, September 22, 2017
Howard Brenton gives us a barn-storming role for the actor playing Strindberg – in this case, Jasper Britton – and the women who appear in his life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, September 21, 2017
As any story going behind-the-scenes of history, Oslo gives audiences a thrilling and enthralling sense of being, for once, on the 'inside' of events. And Rogers keeps personalities and the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, September 18, 2017
Moscow’s Vakhtangov Theatre’s filmed version of a live performance of the play of the novel by its artistic director, Rimas Tuminas has arrived, if only for one screening at the Barbican…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, September 14, 2017
Doubt is a painful path to follow, even more so when it comes to religious belief. Shanley’s parable of doubt, first seen in 2005 and in Britain two years later, then carried under-current…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, August 16, 2017
I remember Apologia from its first time around, at the Bush Theatre. Then it seemed an extraordinarily acute if honest rebuke to those women of the 1960s and ‘70s.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, August 15, 2017
I reckon this should be on a drip-feed so flamenco aficionados can get a daily fix of the artistry, beauty and passion that is Paco Peña and his company of dancers, singers and guitarists.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, August 6, 2017
Even if Czech is not your first language, nor Leos Janáček’s music for that matter, Guido Martin-Brandis, Oliver Till and The Opera Company’s chamber version, part of the Arcola’s ex…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, July 17, 2017
It’s a very strange feeling when you come across two new plays with almost identical themes – a zeitgeist moment where an idea floating in the ether gets picked up by two playwrights in …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, July 14, 2017
If there was such a thing as `chick-lit’ in theatre, this would be the nearest thing to it. But that would neither be respectful nor entirely accurate.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, July 9, 2017
Seeing Northampton’s Royal & Derngate production almost at the end of its tour in the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre – such a lovely theatre now, clearly well cherished locally and a perfect…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 5, 2017
Journalist, activist, educator, one of Time Out magazine’s first theatre reviewers, policy adviser for several local authorities and head of diversity at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMSunday, July 2, 2017
He does his homework, does Graham, who is fast turning into our most consistent and energetic political farceur. If we can’t have That Was That Was, the next best thing – apart from The …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM 
