The vibrant culture of the Notting Hill Carnival is celebrated and examined in Yasmin Joseph’s play about three young women, J’Ouvert.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMAdam by Frances Poet was originally commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland and is now showing as part of the BBC Lights Up Festival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMBoth Benedict Salter and Joshua Oakes-Rogers have created complex characters and handle the cut and thrust of Barry McStay’s dialogue with aplomb in Vespertilio.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMHaving missed the National Theatre production of Medea in the theatre I was pleased to catch up with it and, especially, Helen McCrory’s performance for she was on blistering form.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMOn World Earth Day today this new piece from the creative collective GymJam, Anthropocene: The Human Era, makes its points in an unusual way.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMHarm by Phoebe Eclair-Powell was due to run at London’s Bush Theatre last spring but has now been remade for the small screen.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWriter/performer Jack Holden’s full on powerhouse performance in Cruise will hold you in awe for 90 minutes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMDirectors Sid Phoenix and David Alwyn have delivered the goods once again for CtrlAltRepeat with The Temporal Society providing a mind-blowing evening which more than stimulates “the littl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWritten skilfully by Katherine Parkinson, Sitting thankfully mixes up the monologue format a little to provoke interest and show that there’s life in the formula yet.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMLights Up has performed a valuable service in rescuing David Ireland’s latest piece Sadie from oblivion.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMJulia Grogan’s Playfight, the winner of the 2020 ETPEP Award, is given a rehearsed reading online directed by Blanche McIntyre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThirty-eight Shakespeare plays in a year, that was the aim, and the project is completed by The Two Noble Kinsmen as performed at the Globe Theatre in a 2018 production helmed by Barrie Rutt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTwo horror based audio plays/experiences, Monster and Hairy Hands FM, use sound to full effect to creep you out.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMHalf Moon Theatre in the east end of London can usually be relied on for quality product and they are just in the middle of streaming a trilogy of filmed plays so I settled down to watch a p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAssembly is a new piece in a livestream experiment that mixes live action, animation and sound. Initially planned to play live at the venue last July, it has now been reconfigured as an onli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMDespite the general negativity inherent in John Webster’s work, Creation Theatre has managed to give us something which is full of positive creativity in the company’s production of The …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMA theatrical phenomenon in a recorded stream from a converted shed – unusual? Well, you could say that of White Rabbit Red Rabbit.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMChatroom, a play about being online from Northern Comedy Theatre, is an uncomfortable but riveting watch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFollowing the release of two compilation “best of” videos earlier in the year, the Letters Live project returns for another outing in celebration of International Women’s Day.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThree monologues from the Old Vic for International Women's Day cover a range of issues.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMarking International Women’s Day, the Old Vic is streaming One Hand Tied Behind Us, a collection of short plays originally staged in 2018 to mark 100 years since women were given the righ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTheater In Quarantine has now established itself at the forefront of innovative technique and have found some surprising ways to utilise the limited performance space at their disposal.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIf you’re in search of something a bit left field and quirky and that deconstructs some of the tropes of fairy tale telling, you should find Lem ‘n’ Ginge: The Princess Of Kakos a toni…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMLate Night Staring At High Res Pixels is a dense and intense piece of work which examines the interplay of relationships but leaves the audience to come to its own conclusions about the moti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMA past event recreated from a contemporary perspective makes for an interesting history lesson in Cato Street 1820.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMCalling their collection Grimm Tales For Fragile Times And Broken People, Creation have woven together five of the Grimm brothers’ stories which have resonances with the current lockdown s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAncient Myth clashes with modern Myth in a powerful rock musical about fame and mental health.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe RSC’s stirring production of the not often seen Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida with canny casting and a thrilling percussive score.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIf you’re a whodunnit devotee and you like plenty of (frozen) red herring then you’ll love Sherlock In Homes 2: Murder On Ice.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMA pandemic sweeps the land and the government introduces new quarantine rules - yes, that is the plot of The White Plague, not the news headlines.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMA rom com with a dark edge makes for good Valentine's Day entertainment
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