Thursday, August 20, 2020
A new play written for lockdown by Martin Murray, Jury puts us into the jury room " or Zoom " as 12 people on furlough come together to consider a case against a high-profile white female TV…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 16, 2020
Alice: A Virtual Theme Park is ultimately a show of charm and occasional barbed wit, which is fun for both families or adults. You don't have to switch your video on and join in, but it is f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2020
Not for the faint-hearted, Grip is worth a look to consider what it adds to a constant contemporary debate. It is available for free once you have registered for the Reading Fringe.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2020
Claire Louise Amias' pair of plays, The Masks of Aphra Behn and Oranges & Ink, resurrect Aphra Behn from a place of relative obscurity into sharp relief as a chatty, warm, and witty raco…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2020
As an audio play for three rather than a stage monologue, Natalie Barney's Last Salon is directed by Fiona Leonard and reimagined with the voices front and centre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 21, 2020
By developing a language which is uniquely that of the theatre, the world in which Hot Coals Theatre's film My Darling Christopher exists comes to life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 19, 2020
A bold initiative from Platform 4 comes to your computer screen with this new immersive digital film. Invisible Music starts from the point of considering the issues around hearing loss but …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 17, 2020
Harry Gabriel is one of those unsung heroes in theatreland: the stage door keeper. Part surrogate parent, part nurse, part firm friend, they are the conduit between front and back of house, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2020
Raising funds for her beloved Omnibus Theatre (a treasure based in a former public library on the edge of Clapham Common), Miriam Margolyes proves to be every inch the entertainer and racont…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2020
In advance of its inclusion in this year's Hollywood Fringe (which is taking place virtually), Black Women Dating White Men has been made available as a Zoom recording put together during lo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2020
Hot on the heels of their starry audio version of The Understudy, Lawrence Batley Theatre has now released an audio version of Toast to the digital space following a successful tour last yea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 5, 2020
Love Letters At Home takes the well-worn Our Tune concept from the old days and uses it to develop a show where, no matter what's going on and whether we are together and apart, it is always…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 3, 2020
At just eleven and a half minutes, this satirical musical by Haddon Kime is a quick diversion on YouTube from the Atlanta-based company Out of Hand.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2020
The Barn Theatre in Cirencester has built on its broadcast earlier in lockdown of Henry V to develop a sequence of thirty-five monologues from Shakespeare's plays.
Series one begins w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 27, 2020
I'm sharing the message that I've sent to Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS).
Large West End production compan...
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Up to Manchester for this Zoom screening of 2011's mix of movement and words from Quarantine, followed by a discussion with the creatives.
Entitled is "a show about nothing" on the su…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 12, 2020
In Praise of Love is a complex play which relies on a claustrophobic gathering of people in one place and the tensions which come from hiding their feelings.
Over the past two weeks the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2020
The government stance appears to be that the arts is on its own and needs to prove its worth. I think, and hope, theatre has over many years of serving towns, topics and communities. I want …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2020
The Berliner Ensemble have located a jewel in their theatre history. Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage is a modern classic of the German theatre.
Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage is a mo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2020
I wanted to try out something from The Yard Online's day of fun, and chose No Show, a Zoom performance which sounded something a bit different.
It's ...
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2020
'For the first time in my life, I feel truly vulnerable when I am singing these songs. It's terrifying and exhilarating at the same time.'
West End performer Siobhan Dillon's new albu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2020
Is it worth watching? If you like watching theatre or performance, yes. There are songs, monologues, poems, stand-up (or sit-down) routines, and a lot of charm and commitment.
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 3, 2020
Edalia Day brings their mix of observational comedy, music, and Shakespearean interpretation to the video game space in the show Super Hamlet 64.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Original Theatre's touring production of The Habit of Art was one I missed in 2018. It was due to return this year, but circumstances being as they are, here is a streamed version available …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 26, 2020
Making a dramatic property based on a book into a musical can sometimes be hit and miss, whatever the quality of the source material or the best intention of the adaptor.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 18, 2020
Conor Mitchell's provocative and high camp opera Abomination: a DUP Opera made its streaming debut on the new Queen's Film Theatre online player, in a recording filmed at the Lyric Theatre i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Bubble looks at the issues of free speech, feminism, misogyny, the use of language, the misuse of technology, the moral minefield around reportage, and the rise of hate groups.
Bubble…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2020
This show by political comedian Mark Thomas takes a long, hard look at our National Health Service in its seventieth year of operation. He shadowed medics and interviewed clinical experts, e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 6, 2020
Orangutan is presented by Cup of Brew, written by Toby King, directed by Fiona Kingwill, and performed by Louise Waller. We first meet Alice sitting on her messy bed, overflowing with cushio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2020
The Barn Theatre in Cirencester is not a venue I have been to in person, so I am happy to be able to go "once more into the breach" in the ultramodern version of Shakespeare's Henry V.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 29, 2020
I am delighted that Teddy Lamb has decided to make this recording of Since U Been Gone at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year available for a limited time on YouTube.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE] 
