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Monday, September 17, 2018

‘It’s hard not to sound like a raging slut’: Vanilla’s Laura Mead on writing about sex by Featured Content

Why is writing about sex so tricky as a woman? Laura Mead recounts her own sexual faux-pas on her way to exploring them onstage in new play Vanilla, premiering at Tristan Bates Theatre in a …

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‘TV now is run more by accountants & marketing executives’: Glenn Chandler on why he returned to theatre after Taggart by Featured Content

After phenomenal success with the world's longest-running detective series, Taggart, Glenn Chandler has been writing, directing and producing for the stage with gusto. For his latest, KIDS P…

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Friday, September 14, 2018

REHEARSAL PHOTOS: Glenn Chandler’s Kids Play aims for ‘as many twists as a Taggart plot but about sex, not murder’ by Featured Content

After a sell-out run at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, Taggart creator Glenn Chandler's new, award-winning stage play KIDS PLAY transfers to London's Above the Stag Theatre this week, for a s…

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Thursday, September 13, 2018

NEWS: Taggart creator Glenn Chandler’s latest EdFringe hit Kids Play transfers to Above the Stag with new cast by Featured Content

After a sell-out run at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, Taggart creator Glenn Chandler's new, award-winning stage play KIDS PLAY transfers to London's Above the Stag Theatre this week, for a s…

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WATCH: What’s in store with Much Ado About Salsa? What’ve audiences said? Trailer & vox pops here by Featured Content

Summer Light Theatre brings its dancefloor Shakespeare hit Much Ado About Salsa to London's Drayton Arms Theatre later this month for three weeks only. What have audiences been saying so far…

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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

NEWS: Arabian Nights cast announced as Hoxton Hall transformed into ancient Middle East by Featured Content

Grade II-listed Victorian London landmark Hoxton Hall is this week transformed into the ancient world of the Middle East as Iris Theatre moves in to premiere its brand-new adaptation of Arab…

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What does punk mean to you? ‘Self-expression over convention’: Introducing Hear Me Howl’s all-female team by Featured Content

What does punk mean to you? What's your favourite song ever and why? What makes you howl with rage? It's time for the all-female team behind one-woman punk play HEAR ME HOWL, starting perfor…

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NEWS: Full company announced for Soldier On’s World War One centenary season by Featured Content

Soldier On, Jonathan Lewis' extraordinary piece based on and involving real servicemen and women, returns to London next month mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. The full …

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‘Faith is much feistier than Hero’: Much Ado About Salsa adds more than dance to Shakespeare’s classic. Watch our cast interviews by Featured Content

Summer Light Theatre's new version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing adds more than salsa to the mix. Writer Joanna O'Connor and co-stars James Kingdon, Jennifer Biggs and James Edward…

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Monday, September 10, 2018

WATCH: The punk producers of Hear Me Howl wanna hear YOU howl! Trailer + competition by Featured Content

What makes you howl with rage? And how loudly can you do it? We're counting down to the premiere of Lydia Rynne's one-woman play HEAR ME HOWL, in which 30-year-old Jess joins a punk band. Ch…

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NEWS: Cast announced for Laura Mead’s new three-hander Vanilla at Tristan Bates by Featured Content

Do modern sex lives belong to the Internet? After development while at the National Theatre, up-and-coming playwright Laura Mead's latest play, Vanilla, premieres at London Tristan Bates The…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:26AM
Sunday, September 9, 2018

FEATURED SHOW: Square Rounds at the Finborough Theatre, ‘unmissable’ reviews are in! by Featured Content

Proud Haddock's intimate, all-female revival of Tony Harrison's Square Rounds, marking the centenary of the end of the First World War, has attracted the attention of military historians as …

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NEWS: Caroline Harker enters the ring in the premiere of female boxing play Sweet Science of Bruising, Full cast announced by Featured Content

Full casting - including Caroline Harker - has been announced for the world premiere of The Sweet Science of Bruising, Joy Wilkinson's new play about Victorian female boxers which comes to L…

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PHOTOS: Summer continues with Much Ado About Salsa at Drayton Arms by Featured Content

Are you feeling the nip in the air? Fend off autumn with some salsa-and-sun-infused Shakespeare fun as you hit the dance floor with Much Ado's Ben and Bea in Summer Light Theatre take on the…

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Friday, September 7, 2018

PHOTOS: Crossing swords in rehearsals with The Sword of Alex cast by Featured Content

We're counting down to the world premiere of Fringe First award winner Rib Davis' latest stage politically-infused play, The Sword of Alex, which premieres at London's White Bear Theatre thi…

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Thursday, September 6, 2018

PHOTOS: Alice Pitt-Carter unleashes her inner punk ahead of Hear Me Howl premiere by Featured Content

Alice Pitt-Carter stars as thirty-year-old Jess, who chooses punk over having children, in Lydia Rynne's one-woman play HEAR ME HOWL. Check out these fab photos of Alice as she unleashes her…

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Wednesday, September 5, 2018

NEWS: Lydia Rynne’s one-woman punk play Hear Me Howl transfers to Old Red Lion by Featured Content

After performances at the Landor Space, Barbican and Plymouth Fringe, Lydia Rynne's debut play, one-woman punk revolution HEAR ME HOWL, now transfers to London's Old Red Lion Theatre for a l…

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‘History teaches us that nationalism is the first in a series of stepping stones’: Rib Davis on the inspiration for his new play The Sword of Alex by Featured Content

How dangerous is the rising tide of nationalism in countries around the world? His concerns inspired Rib Davis to write his latest stage play, The Sword of Alex, premiering this month at Lo…

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FEATURED SHOW: How are writers & critics responding to new #MeToo play EROS? by Featured Content

Kevin Mandry's new play EROS, exploring female objectification, has been attracting a wide range of responses at London's White Bear Theatre. In addition to reviewers - we've rounded up sele…

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Sunday, September 2, 2018

NEWS: Summer Light dances into Drayton Arms with Much Ado About Salsa by Featured Content

What happens when you cross Shakespeare with… salsa? Summer Light Theatre relocates the bard’s classic comedy Much Ado About Nothing from 17th-century Italy to modern Spain wher…

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‘I’m such a political nerd, I think Antigone was inevitable’: Aequitas director Rachael Bellis on setting Sophocles in the 1980s by Featured Content

Aequitas Theatre Company follows its take on Brecht's Fear and Misery in the Third Reich with a new version of Sophocles' Antigone, opening this week at London's Bread and Roses Theatre. In …

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Thursday, August 30, 2018

NEWS: Aequitas Theatre relocates Greek tragedy Antigone to Thatcher’s Britain & miners’ strike by Featured Content

Aequitas Theatre Company explores unjust laws and their consequences in Sophocles' timeless Greek tragedy Antigone. Their brand-new production, relocating the action to 1980s Britain, runni…

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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

FIRST LOOK: New play Eros focuses on consent & the dawn of the internet by Featured Content

Kevin Mandry's new photographer studio-set play EROS, now in previews ahead of its world premiere tomorrow (30 August 2018) at London's White Bear Theatre, captures the moment in time when t…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:06AM
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

NEWS: Soldier On transfers to The Other Palace & enlists new military recruits by Featured Content

Jonathan Lewis' play SOLDIER ON transfers this autumn to The Other Palace Theatre for a limited five-week season to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. Writer/di…

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Sunday, August 26, 2018

PHOTOS: Sneak-peek into the (gorgeous) rehearsal room for Square Rounds by Featured Content

Square Rounds is the seventh production from Proud Haddock, founded in 2014, and the first of its two this autumn to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. Founder and artisti…

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Saturday, August 25, 2018

NEWS: The Sword of Alex, about competing versions of nationalism, premieres at White Bear by Featured Content

Hot on the heels of EROS comes another topical, and highly political, new play at London's White Bear Theatre. Rib Davis' The Sword of Alex, which presents two competing versions of national…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AM
Thursday, August 23, 2018

‘The smartphone has effectively become a body part’: EROS author Kevin Mandry on screen addiction & his favourite playwrights by Featured Content

What would you do if you lost your smartphone? Are we all in need of a digital detox? In our interview with EROS author Kevin Mandry, he discusses screen addiction, Herbert Lom onstage, his …

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‘With one click, anything becomes an image’: Behind the scenes photos from EROS rehearsals by Featured Content

We're counting down to the world premiere of Kevin Mandry's EROS, running at the White Bear Theatre from 28 August to 15 September 2018. This brand-new play is set in a photographers' studio…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AM
Monday, August 20, 2018

WATCH: Did WB Yeats predict the internet addiction depicted in new play EROS? by Featured Content

Are we all now addicted to the internet? How has this shaped our body images? And the boundaries between fantasy and reality? What's any of that got to do with the Irish poet WB Yeats? In th…

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FIRST LOOK: Japanese company tarinainanika prepares for Tokyo Fugue’s Camden Fringe premiere by Featured Content

The poetic, comical and sometimes unsettling Tokyo Fugue makes its Camden Fringe debut 23 to 26 August 2018 at the Cockpit Theatre. Take a look at these mesmerising production photos and bra…

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‘Turning my back on it would have killed my soul’: tarinainanika’s Tania Coke on corporeal mime & coming full circle with Tokyo Fugue by Featured Content

Tokyo-based physical theatre company tarinainanika are preparing for their Camden Fringe debut of Tokyo Fugue, a mesmerising piece of physical theatre about feeling lost, set in the maze-lik…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:03AM

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