Monday, September 13, 2021
Proforça Theatre’s Lately doesn’t directly address the pandemic, but the emotions it portrays – loneliness, loss and a longing for escape – are feelings audiences will relate to per…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, September 4, 2021
Don’t Send Flowers at the White Bear Theatre is a really thoughtful and enjoyable piece of new writing from My Theatre Mates’ Emily Garside, sensitively presented by a talented team.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, July 23, 2021
The impossible “five years” question is posed to each of the characters in Ben Barrow and Lucy Ireland’s excellent new musical From Here – and each has a different answer.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, July 12, 2021
The first in-house production at the Jack Studio since The Invisible Man back in late 2019, Wolves Are Coming From You by Joel Horwood is a story about a small community forced to pull toget…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, June 24, 2021
Since last March, going to the theatre – like, actually going to the theatre – has become a rare and magical experience. But even by that standard, there’s something truly enchanting a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, June 9, 2021
Written, rehearsed and filmed in lockdown, Marcia Kelson’s Devil’s Food Cake sensitively shines a light on the impact of an eating disorder on one ordinary family.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, April 25, 2021
You wait all year for an Arrows & Traps production… and then five come along at once. Unable to return to the stage just yet, Arrows have instead taken to the screen – and given the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, December 2, 2020
The Sleeping Trees’ The Legend of Moby Dick Whittington is a witty, fast-paced musical adventure that’s full of surprises and will have audiences of all ages joining in from (and possibl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, November 2, 2020
Tamara Harvey’s digital production of What a Carve Up! skilfully builds the suspense, while also systematically taking apart those in power who enjoy all the benefits of their position, wh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, April 25, 2020
Waiting For The Ship To Sail is a worthwhile reminder that while our minds and our media may currently be focused on one crisis, that doesn’t mean other, equally urgent, issues have gone a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, March 10, 2020
Written by Dameon Garnett in response to the ongoing debate around free speech, Sticks and Stones is a fascinating two-hander that explores how we talk about issues of race, class and privil…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, February 29, 2020
Meat is an intense and thoughtful play, which doesn’t spoon feed answers to its audience but instead poses a set of questions and leaves us to process them in our own way and within the fr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, February 22, 2020
It’s great to see how Netflix and Chill has grown and the important message that now comes through loud and clear about male mental health and the responsibility we all have to encourage f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, February 9, 2020
If you’ve ever wondered how this particular legend was born, the play Chaplin: Birth of a Tramp offers a fascinating, entertaining and surprisingly poignant way to find out.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, January 31, 2020
As the Brexit debate continues to rage on, Harry Darell’s timely new play For The Sake of Argument considers the ways in which language can be used for both better and worse,
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, January 19, 2020
As a slightly weary Twelfth Night veteran, personally I enjoyed this more sombre adaptation of the play, which remains accessible to newcomers while offering a fresh perspective to those who…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, January 12, 2020
The content of Lullabies for the Lost and The Delights of Dogs and the Problems of People is intensely real and raw and shines a spotlight on a variety of mental health issues in a very pers…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 9, 2020
Pan Productions’ unique and memorable adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic The Importance of Being Earnest is the company’s first production in English, its cast being made up entirely …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, December 7, 2019
As always, Chickenshed’s Christmas show Snow White is a festive treat that’s guaranteed to warm your heart and send you home feeling a little bit better about the world. Who can say no t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, November 27, 2019
Before long the stage is overflowing with so much joy, romance and goodwill to all that ultimately, much like the snow song, this White Christmas proves impossible to resist.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, November 11, 2019
Kathryn O’Reilly’s second play Poisoned Polluted focuses on the fragmenting relationship between two women – in this case, sisters.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, October 28, 2019
While this reimagining of Gaslight doesn’t necessarily deliver on all its promises, the production does successfully highlight the continuing relevance of both the story and its core issue.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, October 20, 2019
Based on a true story, Kate Barton’s play Fast invites its audience into the disturbing world of “Dr” Linda Hazzard (Caroline Lawrie), whose controversial fasting diet method claimed t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, September 28, 2019
As with any dystopian drama, the central idea of Florence Bell’s The Open – the GBGC itself – sounds far-fetched, but the foundations on which it’s built aren’t all that implausibl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, September 7, 2019
Arrows & Traps’ The Strange Case Of Jekyll & Hyde is one for a new generation: an endlessly thought-provoking, unsettling, enthralling production that’s not to be missed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, August 12, 2019
Just as much as the emotional impact, though, it’s the unique and original approach to the subject matter that makes this debut production from Turn Point Theatre particularly memorable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, August 9, 2019
Touching on themes of religion, sexuality and more than one form of mental illness, the play asks some difficult questions and frequently makes for unsettling viewing, and yet Ned Bennett’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, July 21, 2019
While most of us would probably be willing to admit that Taming of the Shrew is far from Shakespeare’s best, Canadian actor, writer and comedian Gillian English has gone a step further and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, July 16, 2019
Writer and director Ben SantaMaria experienced for himself growing up as a gay man in 80s Britain. He wrote the autobiographical show Really Want to Hurt Me as a way to explore what has – …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, July 14, 2019
With immigrants across the USA bracing for planned Ice raids this weekend, Lunatic 19’s, a topical new play by Iowa-based writer Tegan McLeod, shines a spotlight on the soullessness and ab…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 9, 2019
One Giant Leap is a very silly story with no other mission in mind but providing two hours of pure entertainment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM 
