The pine tree design by Camilla Clarke provides a subtle serenity, juxtaposing the trauma of war in Bad Roads – a series of sparsely connected stories by Natal’ya Vorozhbit around her ho…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThis cabaret-style show has energy, passion and emotion in spades. It’s not a slick production; it doesn’t shine with bells and whistles, or a complex, sharply written narrative with int…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMNeil Gore’s retelling of this story is one equally full of passion and guts; one which honours and pays homage to a poignant moment in socialist history.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThree Mothers, each with three stories; three relationships with their children; three reflections on their sense of belonging, of home – more specifically, on migration.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMTerry Johnson’s Insignificance didn’t happen, but it could have done, such is his attention to detail and understanding of the characters’ intrinsic behavioural patterns.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM"Kept separate by the chasm of the centuries": Daniel Perks reviews Elizabeth Kuti's trio of detached monologues set on the Suffolk Coast at Finsbury Park's Park Theatre. The post Review: Fi…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 09:32AMTryst: A private, romantic rendezvous between two lovers, conducted with no one else’s knowledge. Perhaps they wouldn’t approve, perhaps they would recognise the affair for what it is �…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWritten and directed by Hamza Mohsin, The Ends features a cast and crew of emerging, culturally diverse artists from a working class background, the majority of whom have been plucked from w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIt all feels like a childish game, a competition as to who can impress the other the most. Joanne (Tessie Orange-Turner) is in charge, the alpha female that demands attention and uses playgr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMKieran Knowles’ insightful show focusses not on those who moan about the loss of life, but on those whose job it is to clean it up, remove all trace and get the railways up and running aga…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMJoseph Barnes Phillips launches into a monologue with gusto, transitioning between numerous characters in a portrayal of love and loss on a personal level.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMNick Lane’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic tale is well suited to the stage – The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is expanded to provide more substantia…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe Toxic Avenger is certainly a stylised, kitsch, cult musical – takis’ set and costumes paint a vivid picture of a luminously dystopian New Jersey (or is it reality?), overrun with tox…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIt pauses awkwardly yet intentionally, peppered with sharp, monosyllabic grunts and statements of the obvious. The feeling is fresh and new, exactly the reputation that the Royal Court has g…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM"A piece of eloquent controversy": Daniel Perks analyses the London transfer of What Shadows, Chris Hannan's kaleidoscopic interrogation of Enoch Powell. The post Review: What Shadows at the…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 02:00AM"When you get big school groups in, mass hysteria breaks out – they set each other off. It becomes a kind of white noise all the way through the show."
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMScott Stroman’s composition feels heavily influenced by Bernstein, particularly West Side Story. Indeed, Fever Pitch has a number of themes that coincide with the lovers Romeo & Julie…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe Revlon Girl opens with an evocative soundscape in pitch black, the audience experiencing an impending sense of doom as the slurry of colliery waste slides down the hill and buries part o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIt has been three weeks since I left the bubble that is Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 to return to the much larger bubble that is London. And ironically, the manic, fast-paced lifestyle of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAs the ultimate experiment of the Turing Test, which examines whether a machine can exhibit behaviour indistinguishable from a human, The Test takes the concept of Artificial Intelligence to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMJack Rosenthal and Simon Block’s script is a keen observation on how this ordeal takes over the lives of those trying to master it, in a time when knowledge of The Knowledge was at its pea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTo chop Mozart’s The Magic Flute down into two hours, with an interval; to translate it entirely into English; to set it in a modern-day nightclub-style setting, are all brave moves by Ope…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe recent production of Jim Cartwrwight’s Road at the Royal Court made for unmissible viewing – a blindingly relevant show that gives expression to the inhabitants of an unnamed northe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFive minutes into a combination of John Patrick Shanley’s purposeful script with Chè Walker’s acute eye and we are transported.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIt’s the end of the transfer window – Deadline Day. Tensions are running high as clubs, players and agents alike attempt to make the best of the opportunity to switch up their teams and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMPhilip Correia’s Hyem is a haven for those who don’t belong, pre-judged by their inability to fit in. Mick (Patrick Driver) is one such individual, ostracised by his community because of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThrill Me is an insight into the warped worlds of high-functioning psychopathy that draws from Nietzsche’s philosophical construct of supermen – the ultimate in human, transcendental arr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIt’s a refreshing angle to chart the change in gay social progression over the last seven decades. From the 1950s, when homosexuality was a criminal offence, to the present day, when gay m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMContinuing in their “glorious summer of performances”, directors Ben Horslen and John Risebero bring Shakespeare’s historical play, Richard III, to Temple Church, London.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMJulia Croft is a contemporary performance artist, first manipulating her own body in an effort to take hold of the microphone, then the sound of her voice to add emphasis on a distorted soun…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24AMMark Watson wanders onto the stage and picks up a totally unseen script by a totally unknown female writer. It’s coincidence that tonight’s comedian is Mark Watson – there’s a differ…
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