Wednesday, April 3, 2019
This charming kaleidoscope takes the model invented by Craig Taylor in his landmark play One Million Tiny Plays About Britain to present a few dozens vignettes about daily life in Reading.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, March 31, 2019
My mother and her mother, and their generation, faced a crisis: How to stay connected to their heritage and history when the history was so painful? The solution for many was fantasy: unreal…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, March 29, 2019
The Show In Which Hopefully Nothing Happens is a deceptively simple and wonderfully surprising little show for little ones, but grownups, particularly those with a penchant for the strange a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, March 25, 2019
The world Rosy Carrick creates through video and storytelling in Passionate Machine is both a joy and an insight into the tenacity of the human spirit and the passion that drives us.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, March 18, 2019
Forgive me for blending my Shakespeares, but when I try to summarise Headlong’s Richard III, the phrase that comes to mind is pure sound and fury. And wicked good fun, too.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, March 17, 2019
Frankenstein is a tour de force. A choral, beatboxing, rap-infused version of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, Battersea Arts Centre’s ‘live concept album’ manages to entertain and analys…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, March 16, 2019
The Trick is another gem in the Bush’s long list of shows that represent parts of society that aren’t often explored, and brings sparkling joy as well as stark reality to this story of l…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, March 15, 2019
In 10, playwright Lizzie Milton wants to redress the balance. The potted stories of 10 women who have been largely forgotten in the passage of time unfold in choral celebration, serving to b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
I can’t begrudge anyone their enjoyment of Six, a fast-paced display of talented women – I enjoyed it, too. However – rather like the history it’s trying to tell – such awesome per…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, March 11, 2019
Angry Alan is an angry little show with huge impact that smartly appropriates the rampant misogyny of its subject flipping the mirror so all its flaws are magnified.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Once A Lesson From Aloes finds its momentum, it keeps moving towards an ending that significantly fractures what remains of the main characters’ lives. Celebrated director Janet Suzman use…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, March 7, 2019
The Grand Expedition – the title alone calls to mind the colonial narratives of Dr Livingstone or Phileas Fogg, so it is perhaps no surprise that this show is more interested in presenting…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 4, 2019
Mark and Marichka Marczyk’s band Lemon Bucket Orkestra shares songs from their newest album in the short, intimately staged gig Balaklava Blues at the Vault Festival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, March 3, 2019
Lou and Jaz have met on Tinder and are going on a date. A simple premise, but in its use of different narratives, Greyscale highlights the complexities of relationships, sexual power and per…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, March 1, 2019
If you’re a 20- or 30-something It’s Not A Sprint might be the most painfully relatable show you see all festival – or indeed all year – or perhaps ever
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, February 28, 2019
Outbox Theatre’s latest show And the Rest of Me Floats is a celebration of non-binary and transgender people. It honours the blurry lines of gender and brings joy to people that endure pre…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
I’m not sure whether The Justice Syndicate is a play, event, experiment, or interactive performance. Whichever of this, it doesn’t really matter and certainly presents an interesting fut…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, February 17, 2019
It’s that self-conscious laughter in Binaural Dinner Date that arises from the artifice of a first date and the things we are asked to do/share, but there are several diversions that add h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, February 16, 2019
Thanks to three great performances and a taut script, Tryst is a gripping piece. The three characters are well-rounded and convincing, and as lies unravel and confessions are made it is diff…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMFriday, February 15, 2019
Call Me Fury tells what we know of the stories of these women (although there were some men, too). The four-strong cast swoop amongst us in the small, thrust space playing judged and jury, w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, February 11, 2019
Cosmopolitan’s current most-read article is a feature on a $35 maternity dress worn by Megan Markle. This is, as explored in performance artist Paula Varjack’s latest work, an example of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, February 10, 2019
Essentially, Superhoe is a story about losing and then finding yourself again. Nicôle Lecky also takes us on a journey through our warped view of social media and what it means to be a dre…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, February 9, 2019
Idiosyncratic, eccentric, fearless and alien-like are just a few of the descriptors a rudimentary Google search of Tilda Swinton will throw up. Based on these, Byron Lane’s Tilda Swinton A…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, February 8, 2019
Parody is too broad a stroke to apply to Drenched at the Vault Festival. There is something more intelligent and altogether weird and wonderful at work here.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, February 1, 2019
Naoise Murphy may be a fictional boxer in Kicking All the Boxes but actor-writer Liz FitzGibbon was a teenage European kickboxing champion in her own right. When she left school she left the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Welcome to the UK is an emotional, engaging and – most importantly – vital piece of theatre. If only the government could be made to watch this, perhaps it will see that its inhumane pol…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, January 27, 2019
Séance is one of two productions that Darkfield has brought to the VAULT Festival this year, and this sensory explosion is not one for the faint-hearted.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, January 26, 2019
17 does not disappoint. Its confessional tone is threaded with beat poetry set to tracks and there’s even a rap – although the cavernous walls of Vaults unfortunately eat some of the wor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, January 21, 2019
There are some stellar performances and a stunning soundscape from Atticist in Outlying Islands at the King’s Head Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Orson Welles’ 1938 broadcast of The War of Worlds caused widespread panic with its reports of an alien invasion in New Jersey. Or did it? Did the newspapers exaggerate the reaction to sell…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, January 8, 2019
By the last ten minutes, the energy of the language and the characters’ burning need for meaningful relationships in Time is Love has set the place alight.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM 
