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Monday, April 9, 2018

NEWS: 91-year-old makes playwriting debut with Happy Warriors at Gatehouse by Featured Content

Why is so much of the focus on young, up-and-coming writers? Happy Warriors is a brand-new play by 91-year-old, journalist-turned-debut playwright JamesHugh Macdonald, based on a real, war…

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FEATURED SHOW: Faceless announces major talkback series on faith, radicalisation & social media + rehearsal photos by Featured Content

Selena Fillinger's 2017 American play Faceless, inspired by a true court case about a 19-year-old Denver court case who tried to fly to Syria to join Isis in 2014, gets its European premiere…

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PHOTOS: A 58-strong company prepare for Pensive Federation’s Significant Other, Inc premiere at The Vaults by Featured Content

As the great and good of the West End and Broadway were focused on the Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall this weekend, pioneering Fringe innovators The Pensive Federation gathered more…

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Sunday, April 8, 2018

NEWS: American play Faceless, about a suburban teenaged girl who tries to join Isis, gets European premiere by Featured Content

Selena Fillinger's 2017 American play Faceless, inspired by a true court case about a 19-year-old Denver court case who tried to fly to Syria to join Isis in 2014, gets its European premiere…

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Saturday, April 7, 2018

PHOTOS: Drifting away on a boat in The Gulf rehearsals at Tristan Bates Theatre by Featured Content

We want a fishing boat! We're dreaming of lazy sunny afternoons on the water after scrolling through the rehearsal room gallery for the upcoming European premiere of Audrey Cefaly's award-wi…

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Friday, April 6, 2018

‘Kindness & compassion towards each other is fundamental’: Interview with… Rasheeda Speaking director Jonathan O’Boyle by Featured Content

Ahead of the UK premiere this month at the West End's Trafalgar Studios, Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon catches up with director Jonathan O’Boyle, whose other recent work includ…

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PHOTOS: In the Shadow of the Mountain rehearsals with writer-actor Felicity Huxley-Miners by Featured Content

Got your tickets yet for In the Shadow of the Mountain, a new mental health play by Felicity Huxley-Miners? This new play has been specially selected for this month's Who Runs the World? sea…

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New post-show Q&A: Come to The Secret Garden with Terri in the Cotswolds by Featured Content

As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Saturday 14 April 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is heading back to Cirencester to the new Barn Theatre to chair a post-show Q&…

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Thursday, April 5, 2018

NEWS: Barn Theatre extends The Secret Garden, announces revival of Simon Stephens’ One Minute by Featured Content

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester triumphantly flung open its doors this week with its inaugural production of The Secret Garden. Dominic Shaw's fresh new actor-musician, folk-influence take o…

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WATCH: Meet lovers Betty & Kendra, The Gulf’s ‘two strong, feisty women’ by Featured Content

Got your tickets yet for the European premiere of Audrey Cefaly's award-winning American two-hander THE GULF at London's Tristan Bates Theatre. Watch these fantastic videos with stars Anna A…

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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Before Brief Encounter: Watch Miranda Foster on Laura in Still Life by Featured Content

Before Brief Encounter, there was Still Life. Audiences now have a chance to see Noel Coward’s one-act play, which spawned David Lean’s classic film, as part of Jermyn Street Theatre’s…

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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

‘It’s futile to attempt a parody of Wodehouse’: Writer & producer Benjamin Alborough on Cream Tea & Incest by Featured Content

How much does new Edwardian spoof comedy Cream Tea and Incest, with its aristo Eddie Spangler and his servant Jeffrey, owe to PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster? Writer and star Benjamin Albo…

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NEWS: Edward Snowden-inspired new play The Old Room gets world premiere at White Bear by Featured Content

With data thefts and cyber attacks dominating the news headlines, William Stanton’s highly topical new play THE OLD ROOM gets its world premiere at London’s White Bear Theatre, w…

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9 short plays make up Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8.30: Here they are by Featured Content

Final casting has been announced for the first complete London revival of Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8.30 since 1936, being staged by Jermyn Street Theatre as part of its The Reaction Seaso…

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Monday, April 2, 2018

New post-show Q&A: Join Terri to quiz Katy Brand about making her playwriting debut with 3Women by Featured Content

As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 17 May 2018 at the West End's Trafalgar Studios, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to comic Katy Brand about making her pl…

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

New post-show Q&A: Join Terri, writer, director & cast for the UK premiere of Rasheeda Speaking by Featured Content

As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 25 April 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the American playwright Joel Drake Johnson - as well as director and…

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‘The cast are enjoying the discovery of their inner Alabamian’: Director Matthew Gould on the European premiere of The Gulf by Featured Content

Got your tickets yet for the European premiere of Audrey Cefaly's The Gulf, starring Louisa Lytton and Anna Actor next month at London's Tristan Bates Theatre? Director Matthew Gould spoke t…

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

WATCH: Tanya Moodie, Elizabeth Berrington & Jonathan O’Boyle on Rasheeda Speaking’s UK premiere by Featured Content

Full casting has now been announced for the upcoming UK premiere of American playwright Joel Drake Johnson's four-hander Rasheeda Speaking, presented by Troupe at the West End's Trafalgar St…

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FEATURED SHOW: 12 quotes from & about Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, now live at The Vaults by Featured Content

What did Irvine Welsh say when he saw Trainspotting Live? "I was shocked and I wrote the fucking thing." Catch up on other Irvine Welsh quotes - from and about Trainspotting - below. And the…

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

NEWS: In the Shadow of the Mountain moves to Old Red Lion after King’s Head’s Who Runs the World? season by Featured Content

Following its showcase as part of next month’s Who Runs the World? season of up-and-coming female playwrights, Felicity Huxley-Miners’ new play In the Shadow of the Mountain wil…

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REHEARSAL PHOTOS: Behind the scenes of new knockabout comedy Cream Tea & Incest by Featured Content

Got your tickets yet for Cream Tea and Incest? This spoof Edwardian comedy - billed as "The Play That Goes Wrong meets Jeeves and Wooster meets Diary of a Nobody… with a little bit of Amer…

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Monday, March 26, 2018

Significant Other, Inc: Tracing the managed decline of British industry by Featured Content

Greed is good? That was one of the mantras of the 1980s when, under Margaret Thatcher's government in the UK, British industry began a period of sustained, managed decline. The Pensive Feder…

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Friday, March 23, 2018

FEATURED SHOW: The Secret Garden at the Barn Theatre, ★★★★★ reviews are in! (Plus, new videos!) by Featured Content

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester triumphantly flung open its doors this week with its inaugural production of The Secret Garden. Dominic Shaw's fresh new actor-musician, folk-influence take o…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:11PM

Significant Other, Inc: Director Neil J Byden recalls the factory that shaped his family’s story by Featured Content

Fringe innovators The Pensive Federation return to The Vaults with their annual new writing event, The Significant Other Festival, running from 17 to 21 April 2018. Ten new 10-minute plays w…

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