Sunday, July 2, 2017
He does his homework, does Graham, who is fast turning into our most consistent and energetic political farceur. If we can’t have That Was That Was, the next best thing – apart from The …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, June 30, 2017
Juan Radrigán was to Chilean literature and theatre as Maxim Gorki was to Russia under the Tsars. Writing during the Pinochet era, Radrigán’s subjects were exclusively those on the margi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, June 24, 2017
A `Sacrament of Listening’ could be the subtitle for Carol Ann Duffy and Rufus Norris’s post-Brexit project that opened three months ago at the National and which, caught now at the end …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, June 20, 2017
It began 40 years ago, the Mothers of the Disappeared, the `madres of the Plaza de Mayo’, circling the square, in white head scarves demanding answers as to why their children had `disappe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, June 16, 2017
Love her or hate her, Katie Mitchell is surely our most bravely iconoclastic theatre director working in Britain today. If Robert Lepage is the magician who smoothes the cracks between techn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, June 14, 2017
In Hassan Abdulrazzak’s Love, Bombs & Apples, Asif Khan became a mesmerising shape-changer, adopting different Muslim and Jewish personas as varied as pugilistic to down-trodden. Taki…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, May 23, 2017
This was a huge undertaking for somewhere like the Arcola. Big cast plays don’t often surface so it’s a coup for the ever enterprising Mehmet Ergen to not only do one of the most famous …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, May 20, 2017
Interesting that two new plays in recent weeks have referred back to Nazi Germany and indirectly to the Holocaust. Whereas Cordelia O’Neill’s fine No Place for a Woman (Theatre503) looks…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, May 19, 2017
Whatever you may think about Bertolt Brecht’s more doctrinaire views, here’s a play in Joe Wright’s visually spectacular, star-gazing production that says exactly what needs to be said…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, May 13, 2017
Really, the kindest thing to do about Yaël Farber’s Salomé is quietly to draw a veil over it. There is bad theatre and then there is very bad acting. Sadly, Farber’s Salomé falls into…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, May 12, 2017
Already sold out before it had even opened and announced to be transferring to the West End in June, the combination of Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem, Mojo amongst others) and director Sam Mend…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
Subtitled `a play with music and movement’, Elliott Rennie’s deep noted cello is the thrilling underscore to Cordelia O’Neill’s mesmerising but enigmatic Holocaust-fringed two hander…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, May 5, 2017
Well, to start at the end, I can’t remember a more personally `engaged’ ending than Simon Evans manufactures for the climax of Brecht’s 1940s political satire on the rise of Hitler in …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
There can be so many ways to get young children interested in ballet. The oldest and sometimes the most archaic of dance art forms, it still has an allure and glitter that rubs off on the yo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, May 2, 2017
Walking back from the Bush the other evening, I glanced back at the Green and remembered the years when the one-room Bush hovered above a far from welcoming pub, up some uncomfortable and cr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, April 30, 2017
An existentialist who writes in the film noir/crime thriller genre, a compulsive writer for whom language and its derivations are a vital, never ceasing line of enquiry as a construct that g…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, April 28, 2017
Ivo van Hove is simply everywhere at present, the wunderkind of international theatre and opera. It’s understandable why he is so much in demand. He has a way of envisioning that is either…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
There’s something refreshingly anarchic about Simon Stephens. In his very long preface to the printed text of Nuclear War, Stephens talks at length about the process of writing this play a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, April 24, 2017
You lose some, you win some: two former libraries now turned into arts centres-cum-community spaces-cum theatres plus Bunker’s Theatre takeover of an underground car park in Southwark Stre…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMCardboard Citizens are a remarkable success story, especially dealing as they do with those at the sharp end of society, the ones who have fallen through the cracks. For 25 years, Adrian Jac…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, April 23, 2017
Surrealism never quite dies. It goes quiet for a while before popping up in times of absurd turmoil and stress to poke fun at and point a delicate, macabre or shocking finger at our absurd a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Soutra Gilmour’s stunning Taj Mahal parapet wall stretches into the far distance creating a Stygian gloom with a channelled, divided stage floor that, it’s true, caught one unfortunate s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, April 15, 2017
As Brecht also observed tellingly at the end of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, 1941, shortly being revived at the Donmar, things come round again. Just when you think humans may have lear…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Women and modern warfare. Women have fought to be treated as equals on the front line. A question of equality. The corollary to that is, they are open to being just as badly injured.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, April 2, 2017
That it resonates with our own current hysterias about `fake news’, what is true and untrue, and the threat immigrants appear to pose here, in Europe and in the USA, goes without saying. T…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, April 1, 2017
Even if you’re not a musical aficionado, Michael Blakemore’s production and the way the young cast headed by Sharon D Clarke get hold of and deliver Cy Coleman’s music with Ira Gasman�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 30, 2017
The really interesting question arising from Simon McBurney’s latest multi-media bonanza is why Robert Evans? The amount of money and artistry lavished on this admittedly important but by …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTaken a little time to get here but Kieran Hurley’s 2016 Edinburgh Fringe hit (part of their Made in Scotland showcase 2016) absolutely nails the zeitgeist of our times. With his nervy, ur…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
A man falls to the ground, seriously injured. As he falls, ghosts of the past and his life swim before him. This is the start of Lizzie Nunnery’s extraordinary impressionistic sound pictur…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, March 14, 2017
It’s fashionable these days to rubbish acting and actors and lump them altogether, disparagingly, as `luvvies’. But really we’d be lost without them.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, March 13, 2017
Here they are again, `Woy’ Jenkins, Shirley Williams, Bill Rodgers and a whirling dervish of a David Owen. But for the rest of us, Steve Waters has done us great and entertaining service i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM 
