It certainly packs a punch, and this is not solely due to the finesse displayed in the writing. Like an ultrasound revealing Bodies’ truly threatening potential, director Jude Christian he…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMLisa Spirling will make her directing debut as artistic director of Theatre503 with In Event of Moone Disaster, winner of the theatre’s International Playwriting Award 2016.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMFinally in our Spotlight feature is God’s Waiting Room, which plays Festival 47 on 22 July 2017 at 18:30. I caught up with writer and actor Karen Bartholomew.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTiffany (Rosie Wyatt) seems very logical about death – who knew it would be so complicated? Funeral arrangements, wills, certificates; the Google spreadsheet goes on and on. She’s not ok…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThe white cage keeps them in. Or maybe it keeps us out. A combination of the physical and emotional; a safety blanket for the performers to hide behind, lest they open themselves up to their…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMCommon, DC Moore’s paganistic tale of one woman’s desire to save the lady she loves from an oncoming darkness, is causing quite the stir – for all the wrong reasons.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMYANK! comes to London after a successful opening at the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester from March 2017. Set in 1943, it tells the story of a young man’s struggle to understand both himsel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMJean Cocteau and Francis Poulenc are two bastions of 20th century French creativity, pushing the envelope away from a traditional Romantic period into one of expressionism, serialism and alt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMNext up in our Spotlight feature is Bad Men, which plays Festival 47 from 17 July 2017 at 18:30. I caught up with writer and director Jake Westow Miller.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMNext up in our Spotlight feature is Adele Is Younger Than Us, which plays Festival 47 on 15 July 2017 at 21:30. I caught up with production company Stiff and Kitsch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMNext up in our Spotlight feature is Fall Of Duty, which plays Festival 47 from 15 July 2017 at 17:00. I caught up with writer and actor Alison Child.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMNext up in our Spotlight feature is Fridge, which plays Festival 47 from 15 July 2017 at 15:30. I caught up with writer and actor Emma Zadow.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMNext up in our Spotlight feature is By All Accounts Two Normal Girls, which plays Festival 47 from 15 July 2017 at 14:00. I caught up with production company Stiff and Kitsch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMNext up in our Spotlight feature is Bury the Hatchet, which plays Festival 47 from 13 July 2017 at 21:30. I caught up with producer Joseph Cullen.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMA story about transsexuality, self-identity and sacrifice. Witty and gut-wrenching, stylised and simple. Can a single production encompass all these things and leave an audience wanting more…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMNext up in our Spotlight feature is Bicycles and Fish, which plays Festival 47 from 13 July 2017 at 18:30. I caught up with writer, director and actor Katie Arnstein.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMNext in our Spotlight feature is Britney in: John, which plays Festival 47 from 12 July 2017 at 20:00. I caught up with writer and actor Ellen Robertson.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe ending to an 80-minute long, one-man musical, in which all elements seem stacked against it, epitomises the journey that both solo performer Charlie Bradley (Michael Rouse) and audience …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMNext up in our Spotlight feature is Bridle, which plays Festival 47 from 11 July 2017 at 21:30. I caught up with writer and actor Stephanie Martin.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMNext up in our Spotlight feature is Wet Bread, which plays Festival 47 from 10 July 2017 at 20:00. I caught up with director Tom Latter.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFirst up in our Spotlight feature is Body and Blood, which opens Festival 47 from 10 July 2017 at 18:30. I caught up with writer Lorraine Mullaney.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMGiven the current offering at The Globe as part of the Summer of Love season, Emma Rice’s seminal work for Kneehigh fits right in – it almost feels as though the programme was concocted …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMEach critic will see a minimum of 15 performances within their specialist area, and their responses may include traditional written reviews, blogs, vlogs, podcasts, tweets and visual respons…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMUtilising the concept of journey to inform both her form and content (personal and metaphysical), Frankland creates a cyclical style that moves in chapters (or rituals); first Salt, then Ear…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMI spoke with writer Patrick Cash and director Peter Darney about their experiences with the King’s Head in the past, their hopes for the show in the future and their excitement at being a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMThis is Heartbreak Hotel filled with ‘The Unloved’ in hoodies. This channels Monty Python, but without making fun of the French. This is a fusion of Renaissance instrumentation with soar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:12AMDanny (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: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AMDavid Fairs flips comedy into tragedy with apparent ease – the fluidity of the text belies the time and effort taken to rework a Shakespearean script and give it a whole new angle. Puritan…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMA stonemason or a delivery boy; a cocktail waitress or a trucker. Whether they be a housewife or factory worker or retiree, the ordinary man is often overlooked. Working is a musical for the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWhen it comes down to it, children are pretty shit at most stuff. As adults, especially as relatives, we sit through their talent shows, their sports games or their music recitals as they sc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMusic 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 12:06PM
