Music spans generations, connects people through a love of the melody and the beat. It brings The Boy (Aaron Price) and The Girl (Rubie Ozanne) together in LOOP, Alexander Knott’s newly wr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:06PMShovel, tip, repeat. The monotony on Robben Island continues, a worthless activity that Winston (Edward Dede) and John (Mark Springer) carry out simply because they looked the wrong way at a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSet on death row in America, Pharmacy Theatre adapts Rene Denfeld’s novel The Enchanted for the stage. Exploring the nature of ‘evil, punishment, clemency and redemption’, the creative…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMDanny (Gareth O’Connor) gets in to fights and drinks beer in dingy American bars. He’s quick to anger, but lacks punch in his simmering delivery. The first half of Danny and the Deep Blu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMA pushy, mollycoddling mother and an intelligent, emotionally involved prostitute make for quite the female influences in Jack’s (Christopher Adams) life. One is determined for him to lose…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AMMusic spans generations, connects people through a love of the melody and the beat. It brings The Boy (Aaron Price) and The Girl (Rubie Ozanne) together in LOOP, Alexander Knott’s newly wr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMVixen is a homeless girl in a world that only seeks to take advantage. Vixen is a fiery redhead who can take care of herself, lashing out at any man that tries it on. Vixen eschews typical h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMn Sarah Page’s production of Punts, the roles played by the two women are not the stereotypical ones we expect. This is a show about acceptance and tolerance, wrapped up in a somewhat comi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMA tale of affection and companionship: Daniel Perks reviews a play about life on Robben Island. The post Review: The Island at Southwark Playhouse appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 02:00AMMatt Parvin’s debut play JAM looks into the future, when troubled teen Kane (Harry Melling) is all grown up and back visiting teacher Bella (Jasmine Hyde), who moved schools to try and get…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIt’s both a lecture and a life-changing series of events, the story of losing your parents while teaching an attentive audience how to cope with and ultimately conquer grief. Mortality man…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMA chill-out that summarises the current state of Britain’s chemsex scene – drugs, sex parties and damaged backstories are all part of the package. 5 Guys Chillin’ is a verbatim consoli…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMThis Is Not Culturally Significant was a highlight of this year’s Vaults Festival. Adam Scott-Rowley delivers an exposing performance that simultaneously shocks and slays his audience. Wha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIf you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. That’s Laura Curnick's mantra anyway. Stand-up comic, her career is taking off, until she melts down on stage, confronted by the fact that she can’t h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMA converted metal shipping container is an appropriate theatre for Under My Thumb, a show that traps six women in a prison cell without ever revealing why. Cassiah Joski-Jethi eludes to it i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM140 words per day. That’s it. Short sentences, keep brief. Bernadette (Ivor) and Oliver (Slade) can’t waste anything. Yet… sometimes nothing to say. Others… Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe opening is punchy; the dialogue sharp. Charlotte Josephine and Daniel Foxsmith jump right in – tales of revenge porn and teenage sex education fly out the gates. Josephine’s writing …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:12PMA chill-out that summarises the current state of Britain’s chemsex scene – drugs, sex parties and damaged backstories are all part of the package. 5 Guys Chillin’ is a verbatim consoli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThey appear awkwardly, all angles and monochrome; pallid faces, wide-eyed and cautious. There is an immediate comedy in their gloom, an abstract performance of heart-warming intent. After al…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe opening is punchy, the dialogue sharp. Charlotte Josephine and Daniel Foxsmith jump right in – tales of revenge porn and teenage sex education fly out the gates. Josephine’s writing …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMBoxLess Physical Theatre are a newly formed company, founded by graduates of Italia Conti’s acting course. Their first show, LOOP, is a piece of unconventional movement and storytelling, a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMLucy Pevensie, Lucy Barfield and Lucy Grace – fictional child, real-life muse and storyteller, Lucy Grace embodies all three in Lucy, Lucy and Lucy Barfield. It’s inspired by a magical t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAll the kings are dead; all the heirs are dead – this is a particularly bloody time in royal history. It all centres around Richard III (Greg Hicks), the Machiavellian hunchback that lets …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThese are the people that scoff at Emma Rice, the ones that balk at such drastic notions as re-enacting Shakespeare in the modern day. Thankfully, GOLEM Theatre do not fall into such a categ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMHelen (Laura McKee) is a soulless beauty, Medea (Lucy Avison) a heartless mother and Phaedra (Niamh Branigan) a scorned wife. What characters Euripides put onto the stage, some of the origin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMPaul (Paul Thirkell) wanks to porn until he is a caught with his pants down (literally) by a ninja-clad invader brandishing a samurai sword. But it’s all ok – she is just making sure he …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:54PMPaul (Paul Thirkell) wanks to porn until he is a caught with his pants down (literally) by a ninja-clad invader brandishing a samurai sword. But it’s all ok – she is just making sure he …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe show opens to the sound of children’s voices echoing dangerously throughout the theatre, whilst two characters give birth (and I mean this literally) to two black coffins, and therefor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIt is immediately obvious why Nell Gwynn is an Olivier-award winning comedy and it’s down to one inspirational writer – Jessica Swale. An individual with a keen eye for context within th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMOne addition to Theatre N16’s Wandsworth Arts Fringe programme is brought by Black Sheep Productions, a self-confessed ‘Girl Gang of Creatives’. Their latest work, Full Circle plays at…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMOff West End Awards winner Frankie Bradshaw (Best Set Design, Adding Machine at The Finborough) strikes again – the Gate Theatre is transformed into a ramshackle Havana apartment for Assat…
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