Thursday, December 10, 2020
Classical murder mysteries end with a neat solution — and with the arrest of the perpetrator. Postmodern murder mysteries play games with the genre, turning it upside down and inside out. …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:27AMWednesday, November 25, 2020
Today, I watched the first episode in the Tools for Change trilogy, digital reimaginings of three plays exploring racism, censorship, power and identity from the Theatre Uncut archive, in a …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:03AMSaturday, November 21, 2020
Playwright Philip Ridley has had a very productive lockdown. Despite the constraints of the pandemic he has been exceptionally creative. In March, when all theatres in Britain were closed, h…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:39PMWednesday, November 18, 2020
Misfits, from the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, comprises four excellent fractured monologues, written by Kenny Emson, Sadie Hasler, Guleraana Mir and Anne Odeke, which focus on Essex,
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, November 5, 2020
There’s plenty to enjoy in Little Wars’ jokes, and then, later on, the final harrowing monologues about the genocide are both powerful and deeply moving.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, October 27, 2020
Success smells sweet. The Bridge Theatre’s pioneering season of one-person plays continues with sell-out performances of David Hare’s Beat the Devil and Fuel’s production of Inua Ella…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:49PMThursday, October 15, 2020
Originally commissioned as part of The Power Plays produced by Theatre Uncut in 2018, A Coin in Someone Else’s Pocket is a wonderfully thoughtful meditation on what it means to be a female…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, October 11, 2020
When the history of British theatre’s response to COVID-19 comes to be written, the names of two men will feature prominently: Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr. The “two Nicks” were the …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:14PMMonday, October 5, 2020
Do you know the Urdu word for story? No? Well, look it up. Okay, this might prove a bit tricky, so let me suggest an easier route: buy a ticket to participate in We Are Shadows: Brick Lane, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:48AMFriday, October 2, 2020
Theatre is just different organisms in close proximity. It’s a great image, and one of many that float gently to the surface in Ben Duke’s In a Nutshell, a monologue which explores with …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, September 27, 2020
This is a masterly revival of An Evening with an Immigrant, Inua Ellams’ 2016 autobiographical one-man show which is both poetic and engaging.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, September 13, 2020
Although I have visited Brick Lane a number of times over the years, much of We Are Shadows: Brick Lane this was refreshingly new to me and the adventure was a delightful experience.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, August 22, 2020
During the current pandemic, stories about isolation have a particular resonance. Feelings of claustrophobia, loneliness, and frustration slide off the stage and echo in our subconscious —…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:45PMThursday, August 20, 2020
Simon Stephens and Juliet Stevenson create a perfectly beautiful and haunting installation for our times in The Blindness at the Donmar Warehouse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, August 8, 2020
The strength of the response to the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter campaign has encouraged some theatres to create provocative, new work. Often, the keynote is a personal feeling. On…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:25PMWednesday, August 5, 2020
The bright colours of the performance underline the surrealism of Scrounger’s quest for justice, and Athena Stevens, the first actor in a wheelchair nominated for an Offie, performs her st…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMCan the act of dusting be a metaphor? This is the all-too-obvious question that jumps into the mind while watching Spring Cleaning, a very site-specific immersive theatre production that ta…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:36AMWednesday, July 22, 2020
This is the age of marketing, not the age of criticism. To give an example, I’ll start with a small incident that has a wider symbolic value. In November 2013, a new show called Gastronau…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:41AMSaturday, July 18, 2020
Lorraine Hansberry’s debut, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first drama written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, where it opened in 1959. It is now an American classic, but it’…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:23PMSaturday, July 11, 2020
Edwardian dramatist St John Ervine was once, along with Arthur Wing Pinero, Henry Arthur Jones, Harley Granville Barker and George Bernard Shaw, hailed as a British Ibsen. They wrote problem…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:41AMThursday, July 2, 2020
A rediscovered Edwardian problem play gives a clear picture of marriage and morals in a bygone era.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, June 28, 2020
Lockdown occasionally spawns some real delights. Like the surprise appearance of a strange creature from the most profound depths. One of these must be Andrew Scott’s superb performance in…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:35AMTuesday, June 23, 2020
Yesterday, I took a break from my sunny local park and turned a room in my house into the Finborough fringe theatre. You know the kind of thing: very small, very dark, very hot and airless, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:52AMSunday, June 21, 2020
In Continuity, Gerry Moynihan explores the men’s fanaticism and the effects of their frustrated masculinity on their political beliefs.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, June 19, 2020
This venue's urgent response to the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter campaign is powerfully realised.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, June 16, 2020
Alan Bennett writes that “I’ve always had a soft spot for George III”, for no better reason than that he had studied the monarch’s reign at secondary school and then again at uni.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, June 14, 2020
If any musical can attempt to live up to this title in these troubled times, it must be this show from Graeae, a theatre company whose mission is to champion the work of Deaf and disabled ar…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:06AMSaturday, June 13, 2020
We are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times. Maybe. But do weird times necessarily require weird art? Do bad times provoke bad art? Well, one of the most unusual response…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:57AMThursday, June 11, 2020
The problem with creating theatre in an era of lockdown is that the constraints of working online tend towards a uniformity of creativity
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, June 8, 2020
We are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times. Maybe. But do weird times necessarily require weird art? Do bad times provoke bad art?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, June 7, 2020
In his wide-ranging, and widely read, survey of postwar British theatre, called State of the Nation, the Guardian critic Michael Billington sets out his stall: in the introduction to the …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:08AM 
