Thursday, June 23, 2022
My friend Roger Chapman, who has died aged 77 from heart failure, was a director and producer who made a huge impact on international theatre touring. In the 1980s, while based in Australia,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSaturday, October 9, 2021
WHAT IF IF ONLY – how many times must that have been said of a best beloved who has died. If only I had, what if this or that hadn’t happened?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, March 30, 2020
A talented character actor, Christopher Stanton will be best remembered as the slightly daffy headmaster in the long-running CBBC children’s spy series
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:43PMThursday, March 5, 2020
A 65 minute tour de force, The Apologists certainly deserves a longer life than the few performances at Omnibus.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Churchill’s vision two decades ago in Far Away now seems even more prescient and accurate of planet Earth’s downhill spiral: endless wars and realignments, climate change, imminent envir…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, February 14, 2020
Despite the challenges, and judging by the Young Vic’s typically youthful, mixed audience, Nora: A Doll’s House is a production to which they can relate and which, so far as I could see,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, February 5, 2020
I loved precisely Persona’s sense of oddness, it’s sense of non-Englishness, Krige’s subtlety and wonder, Mngcwengi’s unspoken defiance and calmness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, January 26, 2020
Jermyn Street Theatre, London ****
www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk
Review: of perf seen January 17, 2020:
© Robert Workman, James Hayes in Krapp’s Last Tape, recalling a moment of blis…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, January 2, 2020
Natalie Abrahami makes Ella Hickson’s text and Elizabeth’s story pulsate with the sound of a young woman for whom insecurity runs in every fibre of her being.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, December 30, 2019
The intimacy of the Orange Tree gives Candida the perfect setting for a discussion of moral, spiritual and political ethics.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, December 23, 2019
In Jackie Sibblies Drury’s case, Fairview is very much tied up with the method, the form. She blows the traditional form sky high, introducing repetition, caricature and a final twist.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, November 22, 2019
Land Without Dreams may be difficult, irritating, sometimes alarmingly ‘obvious’ but they also manage to dig further into what it is to be human, coming at us as it were from left-field.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, November 12, 2019
In a mere 90 minutes On Bear Ridge creates a theatrical metaphor of unforgettable power and impact.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, November 4, 2019
Spectators will go away wiser and sadder from this encounter with Shook, but most of all they will go away remembering Samuel Bailey’s dialogue and Josh Finan’s barnstormer of a performa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, October 22, 2019
Jemima Rooper, Kate O’Flynn, Zainab Hasan and Joanna Horton carry a lion’s share delivering the vitriol, pain and helplessness of struggling women in [Blank].
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, October 3, 2019
Like characters in a book who never die, Laura Wade’s The Watsons at the Menier Chocolate Factory deserves to last forever.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, October 1, 2019
Now, in a daring and radical re-imagining, Marina Carr and Yaël Farber have transported Lorca’s Andalusian tragedy Blood Wedding to a deeply Celtic, Irish setting.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, September 25, 2019
A great memorial, an unforgettable, nuanced testimony, we have to pay attention to what Until the Flood tells us. Listen, feel, and learn. Do see.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Maya Arad Yasur’s Amsterdam had already had an illustrious reception before it hit Paul Miller’s pocket dynamo Orange Tree, Richmond.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, September 17, 2019
Total immediate collective imminent terrestrial salvation. Quite a handful of a title to get hold of. But unlike much printed on the front of the bottle these days, it is what it says. It is…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, September 9, 2019
Cordelia Lynn’s Hedda Tesman renews Ibsen’s play in the light of today without in any way losing sight of the original. In this age of radical reinterpretations, that’s quite some achi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, August 29, 2019
Donmar Warehouse, London ***
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 28, 2019
Problematic, troubling, with a cast who give of themselves with unstinting commitment, once again Icke has pulled off a brilliant reframing in The Doctor.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, August 12, 2019
To the credit of Kwame Kwei-Armah and Idris Elba – and maybe Tori Allen-Martin and Sarah Henley – you can feel the urge to find a healing of all sides in a conflict between black and whi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, August 6, 2019
In Ché Walker’s dynamic, scarlet splashed, viscerally staged production, The Time of Our Lies is nothing if not a battle cry against those who govern the USA and its militaristic and fore…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, July 4, 2019
Michael Longhurst’s terrific, visceral debut production of David Greig’s Europe at the Donmar Warehouse packs a fierce climactic punch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, June 22, 2019
It could be said that Bitter Wheat lifts the lid on the exploitation of power in the film industry, but it eaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth. Perhaps that was also part of David Mamet�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, June 21, 2019
Theatre director and playwright who spoke for those on the margins of societyThe playwright and director Philip Osment, who has died aged 66 from complications arising from pulmonary fibrosi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMThursday, June 13, 2019
Marie McCarthy’s Clapham Omnibus venue never ceases to surprise. Dedicated, as befits its previous life as a library, to storytelling in all its various forms, Scott Le Crass’ revival of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
It was a bold idea on Tom Littler’s part to think of adapting Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray into a multi gender-swapping stage production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, June 4, 2019
Come From Away, the story of how one small town, Gander in Newfoundland, responded to events of 9/11 when 7,000 passengers from 38 diverted aircraft landed in their midst, is one of the most…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM 
