Saturday, December 10, 2022
Julia 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 03:15PMSunday, December 4, 2022
In 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 07:00AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
Joe 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 02:14PMTuesday, November 29, 2022
At 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 07:00AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
Last 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 02:58PMSaturday, November 12, 2022
Martin Crimp’s Not One of These People at the Royal Court: radical investigation of presence and absence in fiction
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:14PMThursday, November 10, 2022
Sudha Bhuchar’s Evening Conversations at the Soho Theatre: a calmly intelligent exploration of family identity
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:24AMTuesday, November 1, 2022
Nica 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 12:00PMSunday, October 23, 2022
Therapy 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?…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:10AMMonday, October 10, 2022
Therapy is inherently dramatic. After all, it’s all about character – and it has the aim of producing a recognisable change. But who is most affected by the process: client or therapist?…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, September 30, 2022
If you accept the documentary verbatim style of Jews. In Their Own Words at the Royal Court, and don’t mind the lack of any real drama, this is an intelligently crafted and committed piece…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, September 26, 2022
Identity is the sum of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of these are personal, and some political. Sometimes they blend, sometimes clash. In Aaron Kilercioglu and Bilal Hasna’s excellen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIdentity is the sum of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of these are personal, and some political. Sometimes they blend, sometimes clash. In Aaron Kilercioglu and Bilal Hasna’s excellen…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:53AMTuesday, September 20, 2022
Britain is a divided nation, but one of the divisions that we don’t hear that much about is that between Pakistani gay men. Written by Waleed Akhtar (who also stars in this impressively he…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, September 11, 2022
In Silence at the Donmar Warehouse four British playwrights have adapted Kavita Puri’s book Partition Voices: Untold British Stories in a joint production between Donmar Warehouse and Tara…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, August 20, 2022
In developing The Trials, the Donmar worked with more than 1,300 young people plus a further 200 in workshops at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and National Youth Theatre. Director…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, August 14, 2022
While Britain is experiencing a “summer of discontent”, with inflation, strikes and other conflicts, it is odd that so few plays are as overtly political, and as overtly resonant as Sona…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:40PMThursday, August 11, 2022
If the plotting is predictable, and the story arc unremarkable, the image of life represented is both strongly compassionate and often very pleasurable. In true welfare state style, comedian…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, August 4, 2022
Yesterday evening I went to see Dog/Actor at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. Written by Steven Berkoff, in his instantly recognizable snarling voice, these two short monologues are brillia…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:55AMSaturday, July 30, 2022
With its energetic arguments, moments of great charm, gritty humour, and mix of filth and idealism, Sonali Bhattacharyya’s Chasing Hares at the Young Vic is both relevant and contemporary.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, July 24, 2022
I live in Brixton, south London. A few days ago, the borough’s aptly named Windrush Square hosted events which celebrated the contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:44AMMonday, July 18, 2022
Is gig theater the latest sugar rush? Okay, it ups the brain’s serotonin levels and charges around your body like a crazy electric current, but amid the joyous nerve reactions does the mus…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:54AMSaturday, July 2, 2022
With Windrush Day being 22 June, last week was originally going to be the opening night of Roy Williams’ new Hampstead Theatre play, The Fellowship, until plans had to be changed because L…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, June 25, 2022
Bangers at the Soho Theatre has a fine buzz of the contemporary and a real sympathy for sexual confusion and other experiences such as the loss of a parent.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
Theatre is slowly recovering from the effects of the pandemic, and many shows which were canceled because of the first lockdown are now finally getting a staging. The latest is Satinder Choh…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:12AMif you buy a ticket you will not see That Is Not Who I Am by Dave Davidson (who doesn’t exist), but instead you will experience Rapture by Lucy Kirkwood, who is an established playwright. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, June 18, 2022
In the past, most plays by black-British writers have been about the legacy of the Windrush generation, or occasionally about migrants from west Africa, and their main theme has been exposin…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:54AMMonday, June 6, 2022
Beru Tessema’s drama House of Ife, about an Ethiopian-British family facing a tragic loss, is deeply felt and emotional and marks a good start to this venue’s 50th anniversary season.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, May 30, 2022
Satinder Chohan’s Lotus Beauty at the Hampstead Theatre, a loving portrait of a Punjabi family-run beauty parlour in west London’s Southall, is an uneasy mix of comedy and tragedy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, May 9, 2022
David Eldridge’s trilogy about relationships, which started in 2017 with the hit show Beginning, now reaches its second part with Middle, which has opened at the National Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 4, 2022
Even 20th century drama is under threat. So can the National Theatre buck this trend with this rediscovery of The Corn Is Green, and some help from its star, Nicola Walker?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
