Monday, May 16, 2016
Political conflict, local gossip and an unstable economy threaten the foundations of family life in Better Together, the winner of the Brockley Jack's annual new writing competition and fest…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2016
Brian Jones. Jimi Hendrix. Amy Winehouse. Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison. Kurt Cobain. Peter McMaster? No, he didn't join the "27 Club" but he celebrates the risks and excesses of the age that t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 8, 2016
A young couple meet, the relationship blooms, then goes through a rough patch and eventually ends when they are much older. Was it meant to be? Are the events in our lives accidental or cont…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2016
What happens when a dancer and performance maker loses the ability to dance due to chronic pain? She makes a solo dance piece with hardly any dance in it. A mix of emotive description, encou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Laura Dean has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She's afraid she's going to kill herself in her sleep so spends at least two hours before bed checking her house for anything she could use to s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Some people are so precious about Shakespeare. There's historical merit in periodic restrained, original practice productions, and modern productions with superficial concepts add a degree o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:40AM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2016
What sort of trouble would you have got into as a teenager if you were equipped with today's technology? It's a frightening thought. What with the teenage brain's late-developing understandi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:36AM[SHARE]There's been a lot of attention on the lack of diversity in theatre lately. White, middle class, able-bodied males dominate theatre and the industry is finally beginning to see that it's a p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 23, 2016
In 1975, Paul Hill was convicted for bombing two English pubs, along with three other people. Coerced into confessing by the police, the twenty-one year old from Belfast later retracted his …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:15AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2016
These women that playwright Charlotte Keatley created are passionate, feisty and reflect society's views of women from the 1930s through the 1980s. Though there's been inevitable progress in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:47AM[SHARE]Shakespeare 400 has understandably inspired a glut of Shakespeare productions this month. Whilst it's brilliant to see people celebrating the Bard at all performance levels and abilities, th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2016
Fringe Shakespeare can be terrible, brilliant and everything in between those two ends of the spectrum. The better productions are vivacious and effortlessly handle Shakespeare's language wh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:27AM[SHARE]Five performers gleefully throw themselves around the stage inside Southbank's upside down purple cow. Displays of tumbling, trapeze and acrobatics abound, but what makes Australian company …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 16, 2016
Laura is a single mum who just wants a shag. Jake is also a fan of no strings attached sex. When the two match on Tinder and he cabs it over to her east Glasgow neighbourhood, things start o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2016
Jay Gatsby's distinctive yellow car is an iconic image in The Great Gatsby. Power, wealth and charisma emanate from its shimmering, custom paint job as it rolls between Long Island and Manha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
Alistair McDowall's Pomona was one of the best things I saw last year, after it transferred to the National. Like many others I eagerly awaited his latest work, X, at the Royal Court. Set on…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:04AM[SHARE]Kate Lock's Russian Dolls tells the fraught story of an unlikely dependency that is doomed to end badly for both women. Lock's characters are fantastic, and their scenes together are tense a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2016
It's purely anecdotal, but it feels like one-person shows have become vastly more popular over the past few years. It makes sense: they're cheaper to produce, easy to tour, give theatre make…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2016
It's a touching story about the human condition and need to connect with others, no matter how damaged we might be, and the character-driven plot in a well-suited venue make this a good prod…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:47PM[SHARE]Phil Willmott's musical could easily be at home in a large, commercial venue but rather than wait for a big money backer, he puts it on the fringe. Though it lacks progressiveness in form, P…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:26PM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2016
People, Places and Things is really about reaching rock bottom and not knowing who the fuck you are anymore and barely keeping it together from moment to moment. The depiction of that emotio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2016
Kids have it tough, especially if they're poor. Decreasing social mobility, higher costs of education and living, and decreasing welfare are trapping our future generations in inescapable cy…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:05PM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2016
When I received an invitation to Camden People's Theatre festival Sprint 2016 closing show, Will Dickie's latest work Rave Space, I jumped at the opportunity to experience more of his work.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 26, 2016
In 1968, Elvis Presley was an ageing, faded icon, largely disregarded by the free love/anti-war youth of the 60s. Towards the end of a particularly rough year, he filmed the '68 Comeback Spe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:28PM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2016
Shakespeare productions in churches are similar to those at the Globe: the ornateness of the environment is a set in itself that gives the show grandeur and importance. Scena Mundi's Twelfth…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Fabrice Dominici is a solitary librarian who takes great pleasure from the books he tenderly looks after. Gently stroking them, he flips to his favourite passages before giving them a sniff …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2016
I hate balloons. Well, not balloons themselves, but the noise they make when they burst. After more than three years as a children's entertainer that does balloon modelling, you'd think I'd …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:10PM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2016
The heaps of white pillows that cover most of the stage make How To Survive a Swarm of Bees look like a slumber party or a kids' fort, something with a lot of fun and giggles. But Anna Crace…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Sunday evening was a night of new discoveries. The Canvas Café, just off Brick Lane, serves homemade cakes and prosecco by the glass. It also has walls you can write on and a cosy downstair…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2016
This year sees the launch of a new playwriting competition, RED Women’s Theatre Awards. Co- produced by Edinburgh-based academic and playwright Effie Samara, Greenwich Theatre and Fema…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:02PM[SHARE]Musical theatre is growing rapidly on the fringe, thanks to venues that focus on small-scale shows and producers staging lesser-known works. New British musicals are seen less often, with on…
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