The popularity of plays that feature trauma is certainly a trend in British theatre today. But is this a good thing? On the one hand, staging stories of sexual assault might offer consolatio…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:06AMlittle scratch (deliberately styled in lower case) is adapted by Miriam Battye from Rebecca Watson’s 2020 debut novel, and was first staged at the Hampstead Theatre in 2021. It now transfe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe Downstairs studio space of the Hampstead Theatre manages to continue to offer an opportunity to go beyond the usual naturalism of traditional storytelling, and this is exemplified by Cor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWow! James Norton naked! Wow! New play by Ivo van Hove. Wow! It’s four hours long. Wow! Wow! Wow! The much anticipated play of the year, an adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s 700-page best…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIn Olivier Award-nominated actor and activist Danny Lee Wynter’s Royal Court debut, the attractively titled Black Superhero, the ambitious theme of black queerness is explored through the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMEmpathetic revival of Zinnie Harris’s 2000 play about a lost world and small island longings The post Further Than the Furthest Thing, Young Vic appeared first on Aleks Sierz.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe memory play is a theatrical genre which allows the playwright to locate their characters in the here and now while at the same time travelling back in time. It is the form adopted by Bj�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMBjørg Vik’s The Journey to Venice at the Finborough Theatre: Norwegian memory play is tender if slight The full version of the article Bjørg Vik’s “The Journey To Venice” At the Fi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:50AMIs anyone still nostalgic about their teen years? The coming-of-age drama is a staple of contemporary British theatre, but surely there is something just a bit too predictable about stories …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:18AMHas theatre’s time passed? In Tim Crouch’s latest 70-minute show, Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel, first staged at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh last year and now at Battersea Art…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDonmar Warehouse, London – until 25 March 2023 With the fast-approaching anniversary of the latest war in Europe, our culture’s continued fascination with the second world war gets a con…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIs new writing becoming increasingly literary? Recently, some of the language being used by younger playwrights seems to me to be becoming too subtle, something to be savoured on the page ra…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe female monologue is a well-established contemporary theatre form, but often the content is predictable and sometimes clichéd. No such doubts come to mind with Laura Horton’s latest pl…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:27AMWith the total loss of its Arts Council funding, Hampstead Theatre’s future as a specialist new writing venue is in doubt. But before anything drastically changes, the playwrights and play…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMCulture which arrives from the margins to the mainstream is a classic phenomenon. In the case of Sam Steiner’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons it has taken almost a decade for this two-…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWilly Hudson is a writer and performer from Exeter — his Willy Hudson Ltd theatre company advertises itself as making “fabulous queer theatrical extravaganzas to make you go ooh, argh an…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:46AMEver been to a queer club? You know, drag cabaret night at Madame Jojo’s, or the Black Cap or Her Upstairs. No? Well, not to worry — the Royal Court’s latest provides a fabulously extr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMBilled as an examination of gentrification, Kerry Jackson at the National Theatre has disappointingly little to say about this subject. Its main characters have clichéd opinions and stereot…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMHow many plays pass the Bechdel Test? Originally featured in a comic strip, and popularised in film criticism, it simply states that to pass this test your story has to have: 1) at least two…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIn his award-winning play, which premiered in Boston in 2011, American playwright Stephen Karam examines the issues in a thoroughly original, brilliantly constructed and thematically compell…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWhat is the best way of talking about the Middle East? Should plays take a documentary or verbatim approach, all the better to educate and inform, or is there another path, which includes en…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:20AMJulia Pascal is a resourceful theatre-maker who is unafraid of controversy. Her interest in the relationship between the personal and the political, and sympathy with both the victims of the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMJulia Pascal is a resourceful theatre-maker who is unafraid of being controversial. Her interest in the relationship between the personal and the political, and sympathy with both the victim…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:15PMIn his latest, Blackout Songs, a powerful 95-minute two-hander, Joe White uses a flexible structure to represent some excruciating emotional material, and the result gives an almost overwhel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMJoe White is great at staging fraught emotions. His Mayfly in 2018 vividly showed a family whose members were at the end of their tethers; it also had an intriguingly intelligent form. In hi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:14PMAt best Baghdaddy at the Royal Court Theatre is a surreal trip into traumatic memory, at its worst it’s a self-indulgent mess. If you think that American crime are worse than Saddam’s yo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMLast night, at the Arcola, I witnessed the return of The Poltergeist, Philip Ridley’s blazing one-man show from 2020. It is a terrific piece of writing, a text which is a masterpiece of st…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:58PMMartin Crimp’s Not One of These People at the Royal Court: radical investigation of presence and absence in fiction
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:14PMSudha Bhuchar’s Evening Conversations at the Soho Theatre: a calmly intelligent exploration of family identity
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:24AMNica Burns’ choice of an opening production for @sohoplace is Marvellous, a celebratory bio-drama about Newcastle-under-Lyme’s local legend, the irrepressible Neil “Nello” Baldwin, w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTherapy is inherently dramatic. After all, it’s all about character — and it has the aim of producing a recognizable change. But who is most affected by the process: client or therapist?…
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