Monday, 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 10:00AMA tale of surrogacy, of a western mother renting’ the womb of an Indian village woman, Satinder Kaur Chohan’s three-hander and Katie Posner’s clever, beguiling production provides enor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, March 11, 2017
First we’re ushered into what at first sight appears to be a variation on a classroom. We sit, like pupils, upright, on white stools.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Ten years on, this teenage 'coming out’, social media/quirky comedy proves a perfect vehicle for the rising star that is Patsy Ferran.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:43AMThursday, February 23, 2017
Terrific Revolution season, Mehmet Ergen has put together at the Arcola. Along with Gorki’s The Lower Depths, a howl of distress from the underbelly of society now sits Chekhov’s The Che…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, February 21, 2017
Following previous and award-winning forays into Nigerian politics ( `Iyà-Ilé – TheFirst Wife, and The Estate), Oladipo Agboluaje’s New Nigerians takes another sharp-eyed, satirical lo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, January 1, 2017
Recalling the year past, which is de rigueur for those of us who have spent too many nights in darkened rooms, I’m struck again by the richness and talent of so many shows I’ve seen, par…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, December 18, 2016
Well, he’s done it again. Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, based on the iconic movie by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is a triumph, whichever way you look at it. Scenic-wise, musi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:09PMSaturday, December 17, 2016
Turning Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol into a mock radio recording is, in a sense, returning Dickens to his roots. Dickens public readings of his work are legendary. So here we are, in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:34PMMonday, December 12, 2016
Kelly Hunter’s Hamlet is one that hammers on the eyelids. Ferocious and deeply moving, it harbours an incendiary central performance from Mark Arends that at times makes you fear for his l…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:04PMWith its kooky look at the characters drawn to California’s movie gold rush, Once in a Lifetime took a comic swipe at the coincidental, accidental happenings that turned opportunists into …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, December 11, 2016
This House has taken on a life of its own since its first appearance at the National Theatre in 2012 in the Cottesloe Theatre. Transferred to the Olivier, then revived this year at Chicheste…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, December 7, 2016
What a titan was James Bridie aka Osborne Henry Mavor, doctor and writer, co-founder of Glasgow Citz and prime mover in the launch of the Edinburgh Festival as well as a driving force in the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 6, 2016
"We can’t not believe in something – we just end up dying if we stop. Just end up dead." America in the grip of a malaise, America tearing itself apart and here, right in the middle of t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:32AMMonday, December 5, 2016
A great wave has engulfed the coast with consequent damage to the nearby nuclear power plant. Within this framework, Kirkwood builds a wonderfully delicate portrait of love, marriage and ten…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMWednesday, November 30, 2016
None of the plays would have travelled in quite the same way (to Broadway and back) had it not been for Harriet Walter sticking her colours to the mast from Day One, leading the company as B…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, November 27, 2016
Anybody going to see Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Swan Lake expecting business as usual is going to be in for a big surprise. But then, few would go unprepared. Keegan-Dolan has been around for …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30PMMonday, November 21, 2016
E V Crowe has been steadily building a reputation as a writer of taut, stringent control since her debut, Kin (2010) followed by the positively garrulous (by her standards) but impressive H…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, November 17, 2016
So the 'new world order’ is upon us but maybe not quite as many of us might have expected or hoped for. And if the new order of things continues as recently indicated, Ella Hickson’s vis…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMMonday, November 14, 2016
August Strindberg is best known for the violence of his views on sexual politics. Miss Julie and Dance of Death are nothing if not agonised and agonising examinations of the hopeless wish to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMWednesday, November 9, 2016
You can’t keep a good man down. Nicholas Kent may no longer be presiding over the nation’s conscience as he did from his Tricycle Kilburn haunt but here he is popping up on the other sid…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMMonday, November 7, 2016
Sri Lanka, an island paradise for tourists but for its inhabitants and those who have lived through its recent civil war between the government and the independent seeking Tamil Tigers, it�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AMSaturday, November 5, 2016
This revival of Caryl Churchill’s 1997 Royal Court original is another grand example of the astuteness of Paul Miller. A co-production this time with Bristol’s acclaimed Tobacco Factory …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:17PMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Adaptor director Peter Glanville was artistic director at Little Angel puppet theatre for eight years and it shows in this delightful, imaginative adaptation of the book by Helen Stephens of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:30PMFranz Xaver Kroetz works in miniature, holding up a mirror to the lives of `small people’, in The Nest, a lorry driver and his pregnant wife, working all the hours that god sends to make e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMThursday, October 27, 2016
It’s a strange and perplexing fact that the number of plays about or engaging in some way with the Spanish Civil War could still be counted on the fingers of one hand.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 26, 2016
Schizophrenia remains one of the great mental health taboos. With nearly one in five likely to be affected by mental health issues in the UK, schizophrenia is still the one that can cause th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:05AMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Searching the soul is what prison allows/forces/impels from some and Oscar Wilde with his talent and genius proceeded to turn his personal suffering into a searing work of art during his inc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:40AMMonday, October 24, 2016
I warmly recommend the upcoming documentary celebrating 50 years of the Roundhouse, and my own audio podcast for the venue's website, recalling my own time working there in the 1970s. Fond m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:45AMTuesday, October 18, 2016
Music can move mountains, although for Malcolm X it wasn’t moving fast enough. In Kemp Powers pulsating, extraordinarily topical account of four African-American legends meeting one night …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:21PMYou begin to run out of superlatives when it comes to Thom Southerland and Danielle Tarento’s touch with small scale musicals. Having seen three of their previous ones at Southwark Playhou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:51AM 
