Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Amanda Coutts has been treading the boards in a number of shows and is now starring in An Evening Of Dirty Dancing, playing the role of Sylvia, on tour. I caught up with Amanda to find out a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:45AMSaturday, October 22, 2016
Longsight Theatre presents award-winning Edinburgh Festival 2015 sell-out smash hit, Where Do Little Birds Go? starring Jessica Butcher and directed by Sarah Meadows. This uplifting and beau…
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I’m really excited to be directing Frankenstein. It’s a taut, gripping thriller, an exciting gothic fairy tale for grown-ups and a morality play all rolled into one.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:13AMThursday, October 20, 2016
Amongst young leftwing activists in the early 1970s a debate was raging. It was about ‘direct action’: you say you are for revolutionary change but that’s just words, what are you prep…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:21PMThe piece is a musical reworking of a classic Gothic short story from one of the genre’s masters. With that in mind, it’s no wonder that my character is a classic Gothic trope, the namel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:05AMSunday, October 16, 2016
Bardolph’s Box tours to schools and public venues this month. I chatted to Artistic Director. Nicola Pollard about the production that is opening up Shakespeare to younger audiences.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:50PMImagine If Theatre Company present the world premiere of You Forgot the Mince UK Tour: October – November 2016 Francesca Joy’s debut play, You Forgot the M…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:25AMWednesday, October 12, 2016
One of Sondheim’s best-loved musicals was brought deliciously to life at Derby Theatre, last night. It has been ably directed by Daniel Buckroyd and his take on it has cemented the story f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:38AMTuesday, October 11, 2016
We didn’t want to shy away from the rude and playful experiences of becoming an adult, which means we got up to lots of boisterous and theatrical things that helped develop the show’s st…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:34AMSince 2010, homelessness has increased nationwide by 55%, with an unprecedented 100% increase in rough sleepers in London. With ongoing cuts to services, this trend is expected to continue. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:40AMMonday, October 10, 2016
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the works of Emlyn Williams, it’s that he writes a thriller or murder mystery, if you like, with a predictable culprit and lack of twist. However…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:20AMSunday, October 9, 2016
I have always wanted to write a book. Like a lot of people, I expect. I always struggled with writing and I was found to be dyslexic ONLY when I went to university – Central, where they se…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:28AMSaturday, October 8, 2016
I have seen a variety of incarnations of The Sound of Music, from the ever popular film, to a selection of touring and regional productions and I also completed a hat trick at the London Pal…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:09PMWednesday, October 5, 2016
I was lucky enough to be involved in the play from its outset. Jonathan Maitland is a neighbour and we had initial readings in his kitchen a couple of years ago. I always thought it had huge…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:19AMTuesday, October 4, 2016
The show is much more personal than a Fascinating Aïda show, and though it’s rude in parts, it’s not quite as searingly blue…! I didn’t want it to be “Fascinating Aïda lite” …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:33AMSunday, October 2, 2016
Quite apart from being one of the top tourist attractions in London, the West End is part of the fabric that holds the ‘Big Smoke’ together. For centuries the West End has held a pivotal…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:01AMThe piece is an avant-garde rock concert & experimental text collage in response to the worship of life and fetishisation of death. It’s a poem on the topic of self-destruction, a por…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:18AMSaturday, October 1, 2016
Sleeping Beauty runs at Malvern Theatres from 15 December 2016 to 8 January 2017, for more information and to book your tickets for this fabulous family pantomime, follow this link: http://w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:28AMThursday, September 29, 2016
When I read it and saw that Elspeth was what one might call a character part I jumped at the opportunity and was thrilled. Elspeth Howe is not essentially like me and these are the kind of r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:36AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
I started writing this play in 2012 and, even though I obviously haven’t been working on it that whole time, it has felt like a lot of work to get to this point. The initial idea came out …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:38AMThe thought of the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher being played by a man sounded somewhat akin to Pantomime Dame, but I didn’t bank on the brilliance of Steve Nallon who is known for providin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:20AMMonday, September 26, 2016
Mrs Lovett has always been a role I would love to inhabit. I like to think I can pay homage to the great Dame Angela Lansbury within my version.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:10AMI’m basically fixated on new stories and fresh perspectives – I wrote Skin a Cat because I didn’t see my experiences of sex reflected in the media around me.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:45AMFirst performed in 1775, The Rivals is still standing the test of time, it seems, and never more evident than with this production at the glorious Bristol Old Vic. The eloquent dialogue (wri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:20AMSunday, September 25, 2016
The two dominant strands running through the piece are both the voice and running and how they became interconnected. I wanted the audience to experience moments of what it may have been lik…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:36AMSaturday, September 24, 2016
The We Plays are a continuation of a series of Monologues I wrote in 2014 titled ‘The Me Plays’. Those plays ‘Junkie’ & ‘Hi Life, I Win” were semi autobiographical in nature…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:15AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
It’s a reworking of Shakespeare’s Richard III. I was thinking about the fact that men get all the best speeches. Even where women have played those parts and bring a different perspectiv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMMonday, September 19, 2016
More fablas than I can say, more ‘mazing than ‘lympics! This piece is an absolute triumph and the two-hander cast which comprises of Gregory Ashton and the ever amazing Louise Jameson as…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:50AMThursday, September 15, 2016
Lyn Paul is described as the definitive Mrs Johnstone and last night, I saw the reason for this accolade, as she brought the house down in Blood Brothers at Malvern Theatres.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMTuesday, September 13, 2016
We started with some intense r&d on Strindberg’s play, and found a surprisingly modern 1901 existentialist piece. Some research into the interpretation of dreams via Freud and Jung fo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:50AMSunday, September 11, 2016
Bessie Carter has the knack of moving seamlessly from a carefree, smiley young woman, to a conniving estranged daughter, to an opinionated Communist. Facial expressions that she puts to exce…
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