Everything 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 …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AMNew writing evenings are very popular in London, so it’s always interesting to hear about one with a bit of a difference. Monorogue brings writers and actors that work together to create t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIf It’s Not Yet Midnight comes across as a complete mess, may there be more chaos in the world. This is a show that may look slapdash, messy and at times dangerously close to falling apart…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMFinders Keepers is a biblically-inspired story with a modern update – Mr Pharaoh (Clare-Louise English) and Daughter (Jo Sargeant) have their simple lives interrupted when a baby is abando…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMThe start of Am I Pretty? feels like an academic exercise – the premise is to convey a set of situations surrounding cosmetic surgery by utilising the jazz musical form as a framework to s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMThis joyful show for Deaf and hearing families is inspired by the story of Moses. The post Review: Finders Keepers at Park Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:26AMMiss Nightingale storms the stage to start the show just as it ends – with energy, enthusiasm and a patriotic desire to support the troops. Unfortunately, these kinds of scenes are often w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe premise of a jewellery heist, the glitz and glamour of living in the shadows, is enticing – a fictional world that promises escapism, freedom and taking control. Certainly Sophie (Oni)…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMOmnibus artistic director (and director for Spring Offensive) Marie McCarthy sits the actors and the writer around a table as part of the second rehearsal of Omnibus Associate Artist Victori…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMDavid Henry Hwang’s Chinglish looks at the crossover between the Westernised and Chinese cultures, both in business, in marriage and in dedication to one’s partner. For all it promotes i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMA Door In A Wall started with this style of treasure hunt format and quickly grew to become one of London’s foremost in immersive puzzle solving. Director Tom Williams and a group of frien…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMDark comedy thriller, Sublime, is the first of three works currently in development by new writer Sarah Thomas. It plays in April at Tristan Bates Theatre, the central London theatre attache…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMA quote by Naguib Mahfouz resonates with Ellams’ story, “Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease”. Ellams and his tightknit family are constant…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMA modern master of the ‘play within in a play’, Bertolt Brecht’s epic theatre piece The Caucasian Chalk Circle is as relevant a political commentary today as it was in the 1940s.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMIt isn’t particularly high brow or Shakespearean, but Francesca Goodridge ekes out the laughs from the saccharine material and innuendo comedy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMusic and theatre have always held a close, interlinking relationship – as performance arts, it could be argued that one is incomplete without the other. Both are emotive, structured and a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMRave culture is not the typical setting for Romeo & Juliet. An abandoned warehouse; double denim and tracksuits; being slipped acid in the middle of a mosh pit. But this is a story abou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe Chemsex Monologues is not a poster production – it does not preach of the dangers that this ever-growing scene is obviously intimately entwined with, nor does it paint a rosy picture o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:36AMIt feels fictional but never absurdist, outlandish but never untenable. Andrea’s (Emily Thornton) situation is shocking and slightly outrageous, but is ultimately believable. Philip Ridley…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:24PMTo mark the occasion, Younis and executive director, Jon Gilchrist, invited friends, family and collaborators to cut the ribbon and open the theatre doors once again. The message was clear �…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMIt feels fictional but never absurdist, outlandish but never untenable. Andrea’s (Emily Thornton) situation is shocking and slightly outrageous, but is ultimately believable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSet a 1970s prison, half of the performances are given by an all-male cast, half by an all-female cast. The downside to this concept – in order to see both sides of the story, it is necess…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIn arguably the most challenging production seen at the festival so far, Boxman is a one-man show. The 45 minutes focussed on Ringo (Reice Weathers), a homeless man who fled from his war-str…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMHere we have a squabbling couple, going through marital difficulties. The premise for Dario Fo’s The Open Couple may seem fairly typical for a play, but the solution in this case is somewh…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMAfter Liverpool has nothing to do with the city in North West England – it’s best to reveal that detail straightaway so there are no misconceptions of scousers with their hair in rollers…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMCaptain Amazing is the story of a superhero and a puppet. Like all good stories, it needs a good guy and a bad guy, a villain hellbent on destroying the world with his nuclear missile. Mark …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMNowadays, no festival programme is complete without a LGBTQ production, so engrained as they are in modern day society. It’s a wonderful thing. Highlighting and debating previously taboo i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:03PM"I originally trained at East 15 to be an actor. Within two weeks of graduating I already knew I didn’t want to pursue it – I was good at being proactive at getting an agent, but the stu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe individuals were given full rein, not only pitching, casting and directing, but in producing, marketing, fundraising and ultimately organising the festival itself.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMThis is not the beginning of the end of the housing crisis, despite what LUNG Productions would have us believe. This is a campaign that has been raging for four years with the simple hope o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSophie (Rebecca Omogbehin) and Abiodun (Joseph Rowe) never directly interact, confined as they are to their separate nightclub toilets. But there is a natural partnership between them, a dee…
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