I like to spend time unpacking a play and in particular the writing a little more. So here is my not-review of Brad Birch’s new play Tremor at the Sherman Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWhat the discussion about Julius Caesar led me to conclude was that in fact, the best thing about this production was that it offered you a choice. A means to experience this semi-immersive …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMI was the first one to declare how much I hated the idea of using existing pop music for a ‘new’ musical. I was certain that Mamma Mia! would not last long and I’d pick up some deeply …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMHere it is a list of the 10 shows that for various reasons made a mark in 2017.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThis was my last theatre outing of the year, and what a way to end a year. Everyone should be talking about Jamie if they aren’t already.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe Bridge Theatre is a lovely new toy for theatreland. Firstly, its location is spectacular - the views of London are glorious and next summer it will make for many a delightful pre-theatre…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThe idea of music existing "between the notes" seems to be the best description of Heisenberg. A bit like the principle from which it takes its name, that you cannot view a thing and observe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMIt's a rare play that gets both into your head and under your skin. Watching The Busy World is Hushed sends both a mind reeling trying to keep up with the ideas and questions posed by the ch…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMIt’s all exciting, and has the potential, we already know, to produce exciting work. A company that is starting with a new Simon Stephens play starring Anne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIt seems everyone has a first memory of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Mine, in typical style is mildly embarrassing and reveals me to be the uncultured swine I so often am. It was my third yea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAlmost a week ago now, Prior Walter bid the Lyttleton theatre ‘More Life’ one last time. Twenty-four years earlier it had opened next door in the Cottesloe. And some 14 or so years earli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMI love a bells and whistles musical as much as the next person. But the true magic of musical theatre is in the musical storytelling magic that sometimes if we're really lucky, happens. As m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThere's some arguments that come around and you think 'really? we're still talking about this?' but also you're not really surprised.So when it was annoucned Tom Hiddleston…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFirst a note, I know it's been wall to wall Angels here and for those who follow me on social media/know me in real life. But I've loved this play for 14 years.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMI'm happy to report there were no 'Apes in America' this time around, and aside from momentary sound glitches there were no technical issues until the very end...where for about 20 seconds s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMI really enjoyed the NT Live screening of Angels in America. I particularly liked the way they did the CGI Apes, and the jungle was really realistic and I'm not one for CGI usually.Confused?…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMI spoke about Rent fans, and how they were a trailblazing 'fandom' for the newer models of fandom we see in theatre today (Subtitle: sorry Hamilton you didn't invent it) but also about the o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe thing that swung this production, aside from the fantastic writer that is Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, and a great cast including Colin Morgan, was the news that the Hampstead had sealed bits…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMRichard Tunley has directed an energetic production that walks the line between tribute and mimicry well for the iconic roles. The influences of the original Python roles are all there, but …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM“History is about the crack wide open” warns the Angels to Prior Walter. And history, of Reagan, 80s America and AIDS is certainly on show for all to see in the revival of Angels in Amer…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe play has flown home to the National, where it was staged 25 years ago (as the world premiere in fact). And in a world where Reaganism now looks like a moderate American political approac…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMWhen I called my PhD thesis "Angels at the National" (I write terrible titles I know) I never thought I'd be able to say it again. Of course, the Gods like to have a laugh at my expense.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMAs I write this, the curtain is about to rise on the first major revival of Angels in America in nearly a decade, it's the fastest selling show in the National Theatre's history and it's got…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM"Something about always": that's the line I always think of when I think of La Cage Aux Folles. For some people the height of romance is the heroics of Les Mis, or the doomed love affairs of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIt was at once like coming home to an old friend and falling in love all over again.This isn't a review really, although I will write about the production, it's my collection of thoughts, re…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM"Wales? I thought that was a town in England"... Raise your hand if you're from Wales and an American has said that to you... One of Chris Harris' spot on observations about being Welsh, an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMAs a member of Sororitas choir, based in Cardiff, I along with many other choirs across the city and beyond were invited to take part in a ‘Mass Choir’ as part of the City of the Unexpec…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:22AMOh and for anyone wondering what exactly a groundhog is, it's like a large Marmot, a relation of the squirrel. Also known as a Woodchuck. Now we're all up to speed on our small mammals and f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:44AMThe Brannagh season at the Garrick comes to a close in style with John Osbourne's classic 'The Entertainer'. When curating the season it seems a fitting finale for Kenneth Brannagh, who take…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:38AMThere was no real fear of poor execution from two masters of the stage in Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. Their double act, supported by fine work from Owen Teale and Damien Molony lifts t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:10AMIf it's between Mamma Mia! and the Royal Court, which would you choose and what does that say about you? Emily Garside has been asking herself such questions...
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