For a comedy, there are not enough laughs. Although Torben Betts is perfectly skilled at delivering humorous dialogues, in Monogamy there is very little sun, but plenty of glowering darkness.
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMAt its’s best Fiona Doyle’s text is an ambitious, theatrically exciting and fast-moving panorama which conveys something of the breath-taking scope of contemporary migration, as well as …
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIt’s hard to doubt the integrity of the process that produced Fatherland, but it must be admitted that its conclusions are generally already well known.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWith its great mix of pointed exchanges, convincing plotting, relevant issues, sense of learning from experience and emotional integrity, this is a brilliant production of a truly wonderful …
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMLessons in Love & Violence is a deliciously cool, intellectually stimulating and tremendously suggestive reading of a brilliant piece about the politics of power, the confusion of desir…
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMNamed as one of the 1,000 most influential Londoners by the Evening Standard, Barney Norris’ latest play, Nightfall, has just opened at the very high-profile Bridge Theatre.
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMood Music is all about the music industry and the pains of creativity. It is a powerful journey into the dark heart of music-making — and surely a candidate for best play of the year.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThis revival of Sarah Daniels’ 1983 feminist classic, Masterpieces, is Neil McPherson’s latest good idea. It’s a play that is often seen, in textbooks, as typical of a militant feminte…
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMLondon-born actress Natasha Gordon’s warmhearted play, Nine Night, now making its first appearance at the National Theatre, is as much about family, music and mourning as it is about ethni…
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe Writer makes a strong case for theatre as a place to debate the most urgent issues of the day and prove that, for some women, experimenting with form is not an option, but a necessity.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThe cast’s good work goes a long way to saving what is hyped as a classic, but is actually not such a very good play. Absolute Hell is fun, but this time the show is better than the writin…
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThere’s much to enjoy in The Prudes, an evening of wisdom and fun, directed by Anthony Neilson himself, and Jonjo O’Neill (James) and Sophie Russell (Jes) have great onstage empathy and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMJoe White’s debut, Mayfly, is a family play that although marketed as “ethereal” is actually much more rooted than that. It also expresses a deep sense of loss. And, with its title in …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFirst seen in Edinburgh last year, Half Breed is one of those plays that embrace you warmly and hold you tight for all of its 60-minute duration.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIn Kenneth Emson’s superbly crafted new play, Plastic, a small town along the Thames Estuary in Essex smoulders its hormonal slow-burns until a teenage disagreement escalates into a traged…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe trouble with Instructions for Correct Assembly is that for a drama which depends on the contrast between humanoid robots and real flesh and blood, there are no sympathetic human beings.
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