Off 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe fear of getting older is something that many of us grapple with our entire lives. Milestone birthdays turn into worrisome days where we mourn the years we have lost instead of looking fo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThis particular adventure takes place around Camden Markets, a hotbed of cultural activity. Our efforts are focussed on the Stables market, an apt place for an equine related mystery adventu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMGetting older is often confused with getting sicker, becoming frail and disabled or ending up confined to a vegetative-like state in an old people’s home. But there is still vitality in th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIn an abstract sense, it feels as though an apocalypse is approaching. In reality, it is simply the devastating onslaught of globalisation.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWe are swiftly approaching theatre festival season – Brighton Fringe kicked off on 5 May and it won’t be long before the biggest theatre festival in the world, Edinburgh Fringe Festival,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe Blue Fairy (Zie Jackson) welcomes the audience into the underground world, the Department of Enchantment & Niceties (DEN). Set in the labyrinthine space of Shoreditch Town Hall’s …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBlood is thicker than water; family comes first. The idea that a relative takes precedence over friends or partners seems archaic and old school, yet it still holds fast today. But what if s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:05AMRoss and Rachel – what a couple they were. Or are, if they are still together in sitcom land. Fritz offers up an opinion that is perhaps darker than people may hope, but is altogether more…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe Sir John Cass School at London Metropolitan University have decided to try something different for this year’s final showcase on their Theatre course. Instead of a straight show that a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMHow can you review a show when you don’t get to see it all? Alice’s Adventures Underground is a production that takes you down the rabbit hole into wonderland to experience the true madn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThere is a myriad of sexual stories out there to tell – the cast have interviewed a number of real people as part of Spill and compiled them into an hour-long summary of insights, opinions…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFor the blind, there is no need to have colour in the world. Thom Southerland’s production of The Braille Legacy is devoid of such frivolities – a black and white revolving set by Tim Sh…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:12PMBut I cannot sit here and write objectively about something so inherently subjective and aligned to my own personal experience. As a theatre writer, this is new to me; I have always been abl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMCOMET is meant to be an unanticipated conversation, a guerrilla style performance that catches its audience offguard and hits them with verbatim issues facing young people today.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMFollowing a successful UK tour marking the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, Dare Devil Rides To Jarama comes to Tara Theatre for a limited run.I caught up with writer and actor Nei…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMThe back of the set is a false dividing wall (as you would find in offices) that has exploded. That was the one metaphor – the idea that all of these things flood the space but that nothin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMA group of London’s keenest bloggers and theatre writers were invited by RAW PR to a pre-show exclusive event for Half A Sixpence. I was fortunate enough to attend and get a flavour of how…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMHow many puns can one play contain, particularly when they aren’t incorporated into the original story to begin with? Alexander Raptotasios has taken The Scottish Play, one of Shakespeare�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFor the blind, there is no need to have colour in the world. Thom Southerland’s production of The Braille Legacy is devoid of such frivolities – a black and white revolving set by Tim Sh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMAfter a successful run at the Camden People’s Theatre in 2016, CTRL+ALT+DELETE by Emma Packer returns as part of FIRST Festival of Solo Performance 2017 at the Tristan Bates Theatre. Explo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTokyo, Rome, Paris, London. Sarah Tullamore sure gets around. After 22 years of living in Paris, she has decided to up sticks again to who knows where. She’s a ‘Woman of A Certain Ag…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PMIncoming Festival has quickly become synonymous with this safe environment and is back for a fourth year of shows by emerging theatre companies that push boundaries, ask questions and challe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAs an original musical, not based on a book or a film, nor brought over from America to our side of the pond, Miss Nightingale is somewhat of an anomaly on the theatrical scene at present. I…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThe Spring Offensive, a so-called charge after the winter snow had thawed on the front lines each year throughout World War One, a final push for the Germans to break allied lines before US …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMAnd now it’s back for a three-week run in its home venue. Following highly acclaimed, sell-out performances in Dublin, New York, Sydney and Edinburgh, Peter Darney‘s verbatim drama retur…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTokyo; Rome; Paris; London, Sarah Tullamore sure gets around. After 22 years living in Paris, she has decided to up sticks again, to who knows where. She’s a “Woman Of A Certain Age” w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMverything Jamie Lloyd touches seems to turn to gold, the current Midas of the directing world. A long-standing partnership with designer Soutra Gilmour is certainly one of the reasons that h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIt’s Not Yet Midnight is devised to highlight the success of collaboration and the danger of trying to accomplish everything solo. Working together, the acrobats build towers four people t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSimone Tani, one of the founders of Teatro Pomodoro, must be completely shattered. Speaking to me over Skype, he has just become a father and is also trying to finalise bringing the company�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMEverything Jamie Lloyd touches seems to turn to gold, the current Midas of the directing world. A long-standing partnership with designer Soutra Gilmour is certainly one of the reasons that …
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