For Chronic Insanity’s latest piece entitled Snowflakes the company has partnered up with Dissident Theatre in a production at London’s Park Theatre. It’s a dystopian alternative reali…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMA good double bill of one act plays can be a bit of a rarity. It might consist of pieces with radically different themes by diverse writers who adopt varying tones forming an unsatisfactory …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTaking as his central text American journalist John Reed’s seminal book Ten Days That Shook The World, Matthew Jameson’s “labour of love” project Ten Days (it has taken a mere 10 yea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMExpertly directed by the ever dependable Mark Gatiss, The Way Old Friends Do at the Park Theatre is a surprising delight which does what it says on the tin, and then a bit more.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMBenny And Hitch concentrates on the turbulent relationship between the director and his often first choice composer, Bernard Herrmann. They worked together on an unbroken stretch of eight fi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWriter John Mortimer once said “Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute”, a notion which Enda Walsh seems to have taken to heart in his 2006 play The Walworth Farce …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAlthough Windfall at the Southwark Playhouse purports to be a farcical comedy, I only found myself intermittently chuckling; the rest of the time I sat with my metaphorical head in my metaph…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe latest piece to grace the stage of the Park Theatre is a curious beast, and no mistake. Taking the form of a (fictional) lecture with illustrative acted examples, a healthy dose of audie…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe lockdown experience was, of course, an infinitely lonely and disturbing one for many and involved living life rather differently. It was also a time for making discoveries about oneself …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMEver since Covid’s early days pioneering company Threedumb Theatre has developed and sustained the idea of the one shot livestream; this is unedited and raw but captures much of the sponta…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSmall Truth Theatre has commissioned a series of micro plays recorded as part of its Digital Caravan space (their original mini theatre on wheels being decommissioned because of the need for…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIt’s been an absolute age (well, about a year anyway) since I visited those innovative people at Chronic Insanity. They are well known for pushing boundaries of the possible in both live a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMOne of Alan Ayckbourn’s biggest ever successes, 1975’s Bedroom Farce, has only just made the transition in an entertaining production from Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres which premiere…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIf you want to see a couple of young actors bringing truth and sincerity to a well structured piece of dialogue and elevate it towards the stars which provide a backdrop to this piece, then …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe War Of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience from experts in the field Layered Reality takes H.G. Wells’ famous novel, adds a heavy layer of input from the famous 1978 concept album mas…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWhat is certain is that if you want an account that’s faithful to the spirit (sorry!) of the original but doesn’t let proceedings drag on (it comes in at under two hours without missing …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIt’s that time of year when days get shorter, nights get longer and tale telling revolves around the supernatural. Just a couple of days ago the last thing I saw on stage, Here, was (partl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWhen individual members of a family are facing a variety of problems, can looking back at their collective past help to resolve matters or does that simply serve to make things worse? This i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMPhilip Ridley’s The Poltergeist is an irresistibly restless creation which emulates the troublesome violent spirit conjured up by the title. The firework cracking solo piece has had a chec…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDarkfield promoted site specific theatre even when we couldn’t actually go anywhere. Their neat answer was to get you using spaces in your own home or in permitted public places such as a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMHarold Pinter and Samuel Beckett meet in a cricket pavilion and end up as trapped as some of the characters in their plays
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSeptember 2020 and the pandemic was quietly raging. So too was Maureen Lipman in Hope Mill Theatre’s online production of Martin Sherman’s intense monologue Rose; her performance was rou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThree Women & Shakespeare’s Will comes from the pen of Joan Greening who has made something of a speciality of writing about historical figures connected to the arts, albeit in imagina…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSo, it was with a sense of keen anticipation that I approached Dante Or Die’s latest piece entitled Odds On which is currently on a “digital tour”. It’s a piece about the world of on…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMA real life adventure told with wit, flair and some stunning movement sequences
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIt’s third time lucky for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and 101 Dalmatians which is billed as a new musical. Given that it should have premiered two years ago – and then one year ago …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAmbreen Razia’s play Favour looks into the lives of a trio of women from the same family but of rather different generations. It does so with a vigour that is at times quite intoxicating a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe Edinburgh Festival is not far away now and, as often happens at this time of year, there are a number of shows playing themselves in before transferring in a northerly direction for thei…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAugust Strindberg’s The Dance Of Death from 1900 has been credited with prefiguring the works of Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter and most notably provided a template for Edward Albee’s Who’s …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMCultural appropriation doesn't just take place across different nations
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe second pair of plays from #FinboroughFrontier’s quartet of pieces #VoicesFromUkraine reflecting on the situation in the war torn nation is now available. They join the first couple to …
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