Sunday, 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 07:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 " y…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 11:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 stor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Can 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 …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 02:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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's …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 12:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2020
A rediscovered Edwardian problem play gives a clear picture of marriage and morals in a bygone era.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 S…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 03:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 08:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 10:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 t…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2020
This revival of a 2011 HighTide hit, reconceived for streaming, stars Diana Quick and is intimate and quietly moving.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2020
During the lockdown, the best online theatre, more or less, are shows that are specially created for this digital format. Much better than dull records of dramas that might have worked well …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2020
World on fire: The NT Live recording of this classic Young Vic production stars Gillian Anderson and is genuinely unmissable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 24, 2020
Over the past couple of months, theatre reviewing has become film reviewing, and venues all over the country have struggled to make material available for watching online. The biggest instit…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2020
So far, it could be said that the National Theatre is having a good lockdown. Every week, this flagship streams one of its stock of NT Live films, which are always a welcome reminder of the …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:21PM[SHARE]Lockdown occasionally spawns some real delights. Like the surprise appearance of a strange creature from the profoundest depths. One of these must be Andrew Scott's superb performance in Sim…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Howard Brenton's docu-drama about the harassment of the Chinese artist is imbued with fresh urgency and relevance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2020
The megahit NT Live version of this iconic tale of creative hubris features a dynamic acting duo, but it is not perfect.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 3, 2020
She's an ordinary young woman, and she really doesn't know what to think. After all, things are way out of control. Out of order. She knows that the natural world is pretty fucked and that n…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:30AM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2020
Reviewing theatre now means reviewing the film. Knowing that Emma Rice's Old Vic 2018 production of Wise Children, her typically rambunctious version of Angela Carter's last novel, published…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2020
Virginia Woolf's reputation has closely followed British cultural trends: in the interwar years she was a beacon of modernism, austere and difficult; by the 1970s a feminist icon; in the 199…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:39AM[SHARE] 
