Monday, January 14, 2019
Written by Isley Lynn and devised by Rhum & Clay, War Of The Worlds uses the original broadcast as jumping off point to ask certain questions – particularly in relation to the veracit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, January 11, 2019
Written by Peter Mulligan and directed by Zoey Alexis Boyd, Loop examines different philosophical outlooks one might have and how they ‘help’ (or not) with expectations of life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, January 7, 2019
Written and directed by Christopher Styles, Illicit Signals Bletchley is an immersive, theatrical experience that places the audience into the heart of wartime operations.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, December 17, 2018
If Orpheus was simply a re-telling of this myth, it would be over very quickly. Instead, music features heavily in the show – some of which are original compositions and some are well-know…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
In Sarah Daniels’ Head-rot Holiday (which is directed by Will Maynard) we’re privy to the goings-on in Penwell Special Hospital (‘Head-rot Hotel’) – a psychiatric prison for women …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
Plays that show a number of perspectives are generally more nuanced, thought-provoking and naturally entertaining. With this in mind, the double bill of plays by Henry Naylor at Arcola Theat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, December 10, 2018
For those seeking an alternative to pantos and Peter Pan for family entertainment over Christmas, look no further than this enchanting tale: The Box of Delights at Wilton’s Music Hall.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, December 7, 2018
Directed by Gerald Armin, A Christmas Story looks at the festive season through the eyes of Ralphie – a nine-year-old boy in Hohman, Indiana. But as well as the show having a child’s per…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 4, 2018
One of the most successful playwrights in the interwar years, Aimée Stuart has recently been ‘rediscovered’ – leading to Nicolette Kay’s revival of the 1940 play Jeannie.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, November 26, 2018
In The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale, Haley McGee not only re-examines eight former relationships but assesses the potential of assigning a monetary value to items that have an emotional connection.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, November 21, 2018
Possessing the wit of Wilde and the sexual frankness of a Restoration play, George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer has been a firm favourite since its first performance in 1706. Jenny Ea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, November 17, 2018
Written by Charlotte Ryall and directed by Jenny Eastop, Indebted To Chance follows the life of Charlotte Charke (née Cibber), a forgotten 18th-century pioneer who showed that not only can …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 16, 2018
Written by Reece Connolly and directed by Georgie Staight, Chutney is a black comedy that examines the ‘less-civilised’ aspects of human nature and whether we can – or should – curb …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, November 15, 2018
The work of Edgar Allan Poe wouldn’t be the most obvious choice for such an innovation, but Christopher York has adapted Poe’s short story The Pit & the Pendulum and transposed it t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
Devised by theatre company Tormented Casserole and directed by Kathryn Papworth-Smith, Gilded Butterflies looks at two women who are on death row in the United States.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, November 10, 2018
The heart of Bury The Dead is the army using the loved ones to emotionally manipulate the soldiers to ‘obey orders’ – or at least try to.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, November 9, 2018
Written by Jesse Briton and directed by Jessica Daniels, A Pupil explores what happens when someone who is ‘broken’ and the help they might need to find their musical ‘voice’.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Written by Michael Head and directed by Adam Morley, The Greater Game has as its centre the friendship between Richard McFadden (James Phelps) and William Jonas (Steven Bush).
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, October 25, 2018
Written and directed by David Morton, The Wider Earth looks at the early years of Charles Darwin and how a fateful voyage to the Southern Hemisphere became the catalyst for On the Origin of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
The first production of Ella Hickson’s play since its revival in 2009, Precious Little Talent (which is directed by Brock Elwick) makes a timely appearance in the run-up to the close of th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, October 21, 2018
In the first half of the 20th century, many of the great American playwrights such as O’Neill, Miller and Williams dealt with the fraught relationships between fathers and sons. In James P…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
Inspired by the adaptations of Welles and Polanski, Paper Cinema’s Macbeth is as much a love letter to ‘The Scottish Play’ as Citizen Kane is to the language of cinema itself.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, October 12, 2018
Bryony Kimmings’ latest show I’m A Phoenix, Bitch is autobiographical in nature in which she gives a very frank account of what it is was like for her a couple of years ago, where after …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, October 8, 2018
Written by Halley Feiffer and directed by Bethany Pitts, it’s fair to say that A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynaecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, October 5, 2018
Intimacy: letting oneself be vulnerable to ‘baggage’, words and actions of another. Perhaps not a textbook romantic/sexual definition of the word, but in Hedgehogs & Porcupines, ‘…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
Watching Jekyll & Hyde, one releases that its core, it is about a man who is falling apart because he’s lost his sense of identity and everyone he knows is powerless to help him. A pa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, September 30, 2018
Written as a response to their previous play Tanja, which explored life in immigration detention centres such as Yarl’s Wood, Stand and Be Counted Theatre’s latest show Where We Began lo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, September 28, 2018
Semi-autobiographical in nature, Danusia Samal’s Busking It is inspired by the 10 years she spent as a London Underground busker.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
Written by Rib Davis and directed by Brian Woolland, The Sword of Alex examines through a fictional scenario the inherent contradictions in ‘independence’ and ‘keeping the status quo�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, September 23, 2018
Written by Lydia Rynne and directed by Kay Michael, Hear Me Howl looks at Jess (Alice Pitt-Carter) a young professional whose life mirrors many women in Britain.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 19, 2018
Written by Abi Zakarian and directed by Hannah Hauer-King, Fabric looks at one woman’s experience of sexual assault.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
