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Tuesday, February 12, 2019

‘Family dynamics don’t change from one era to the next’: Andy de la Tour on starring in My Brother’s Keeper? at Playground Theatre by Featured Content

As Nigel Williams' tale of a troubled sibling relationship, My Brother's Keeper?, receives its first major London revival since its 1985 premiere, Andy de la Tour tells us about how the play…

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Monday, February 11, 2019

GALLERY: Take a look inside the rehearsal room for Two’s Company’s revival of relationship comedy, Bodies by Featured Content

Markers, tea and possibly a cracking clue about the design of the show - that, and more, is what we discover by looking at these rehearsal images for Two's Company's revival of James Saunder…

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‘All that focus on the individual started with him’: Michael Barry on how Michel de Montaigne inspired him to write The First Modern Man by Featured Content

Have you 'met' the sixteenth-century French philosopher and essayist Michel de Montaigne yet? Reading Sarah Bakewell’s book How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Atte…

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Friday, February 8, 2019

WATCH: How many of 1927 Productions’ hybrid animated hits have you seen? by Featured Content

1927 Productions have won awards around the world for their dark, otherworldly shows that synchronise hand-made animation with performance, music and song. How many have you seen? Watch our …

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Thursday, February 7, 2019

‘This is true love, you think this happens every day?’ Scott Kettner on staging his long-distance romance in Americat by Featured Content

It's a twelve-hour flight from California to London. How can you make a relationship work when time, distance and cultural differences separate you? American Scott Kettner has flown back to …

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:29AM

‘The ignorance & lack of empathy towards the working class is unacceptable’: Lee Lomas tells us about bringing working class story Sunrise for by Featured Content

Lee Lomas comes from the growing breed of performers who is not content to wait for auditions to come around. He's taken it on himself to step up and create the work he wants to star in and …

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:59AM

‘I’m a romantic, the thought of sacrificing everything for love appealed to me’: Ruby Bentall on The Rubenstein Kiss by Featured Content

Poldark star Ruby Bentall stars in the first London revival of James Phillips' award-winning espionage drama The Rubenstein Kiss. We talk to her about playing a Soviet spy and sacrificing ev…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AM
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

‘Our attention is now the greatest commodity’: Theatre Témoin director Ailin Conant on Feed at VAULT Festival by Featured Content

One month to go until Theatre Témoin's latest devised show FEED arrives at London's VAULT Festival. We hear from artistic director Ailin Conant about clickbait capitalism and round up revie…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AM

‘As an out, gay, character actor, this opportunity is rare’: Tom Lenk tells us about starring in Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist by Featured Content

Find out why former Buffy The Vampire Slayer star and fashion-recreating icon Tom Lenk is ecstatic to be playing the eponymous star of Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist, what drew hi…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:54AM
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

PHOTOS: Enter the giant graphic novel world of The Animals & Children took to the Streets by Featured Content

Have you experienced the hybrid work of 1927 Productions yet? Peek into the creepy graphic world brought to life in their dystopian hit The Animals and Children took to the Streets. The show…

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GALLERY: Peek into the rehearsal room for aerial show, Flight Paths by Featured Content

You would probably expect to find crash mats, silks and a host of technical-looking people in the rehearsal room for new show Flight Paths, which combines aerial performance, music, narrativ…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:21AM

‘We laugh & cry together, I couldn’t do this without her’: Sisters Stacey & Nicola Bland on co-writing, producing & performing in Ca by Featured Content

Sibling rivalry isn't nearly as fun as sibling collaboration. We caught up with sisters Nicola and Stacey Bland about their debut play Call Me Vicky, which they've co-written, co-produced an…

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Ibsen, Osborne, Pinter & Martin Crimp: The First Modern Man’s Michael Barry pays tribute to his influences by Featured Content

We hope Mate Aleks Sierz adds some of these top quotes to his Text of the Day series! Sixteenth-century thinker Michel de Montaigne certainly had a way with words. How many of these pithy ap…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AM
Monday, February 4, 2019

NEWS: Partner-swapping comedy Bodies receives first revival in almost 40 years at Southwark Playhouse by Featured Content

James Saunders' play about love, marriage and sex, Bodies, will be staged for the first time since 1979, when it is revived by Two's Company later this month. The production, directed by Tri…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:09PM

VIDEO: What inspired British Chinese theatremaker Jennifer Tang to create Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹? by Featured Content

Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹 is a story that's very personal to director/creator Jennifer Tang. Find out why in their interview below, and discover why the show's cast is so excited to be …

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‘We romanticise a lot of tough situations’: WATCH All in a Row rehearsal room interviews by Featured Content

All in Row is set on the eve of a couple's non-verbal autistic son being taken into care. The child is portrayed by a puppet. What was the thinking behind this and other choices in the play?…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AM

PHOTOS: Things got a little Wilde Yorkshire-style in Bein’ Earnest rehearsals by Featured Content

Oscar Wilde's classic comedy is coming to Yorkshire... via London's Drayton Arms Theatre this week. Th'Importance of Bein' Earnest had its get-in yesterday. What did the company get up to in…

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Saturday, February 2, 2019

PHOTOS: Behind the scenes with Charlie Brooks & Simon Lipkin in All in a Row rehearsals by Featured Content

Less than two weeks until Alex Oates' new play All in Row premieres at London's Southwark Playhouse. Sneak a peek inside the rehearsal room with stars Charlie Brooks, Simon Lipkin and the co…

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NEWS: Pentire premiere Tom Powell’s Little Echoes, partnering with Beyond the Streets by Featured Content

Pentire Productions follows success with Rubber and Spiders with the world premiere of Tom Powell's Little Echoes, which runs at London's Hope Theatre from 19 February to 9 March 2019, with …

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Friday, February 1, 2019

‘The pressure of creating our second show weighed heavy’: 1927’s Suzanne Andrade on The Animals & Children took to the Streets by Featured Content

How do you recover from a 'totally unexpected success'? 1927 Productions' writer and director Suzanne Andrade recalls how the company learned not to throw the baby out with the bathwater, an…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PM

NEWS: Andy de la Tour stars in first London revival of My Brother’s Keeper at Playground Theatre by Featured Content

First seen at Greenwich Theatre in 1985, Nigel Williams’ incisive, funny and affecting play about broken sibling relationships, My Brother's Keeper, receives its first major revival at Lon…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:59AM

NEWS: Following acclaim in Manchester, Lee Lomas’ Sunrise for the Blind comes to London’s Tristan Bates Theatre by Featured Content

Described by audiences as "unapologetically honest" and "Shane Meadows-esque" Lee Lomas' new play, Sunrise for the Blind returns to London at the Tristan Bates Theatre this month. The workin…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:45AM
Thursday, January 31, 2019

NEWS: Tom Lenk brings Tilda Swinton play to VAULT Festival 2019 by Featured Content

Buffy The Vampire Slayer star and Instagram sensation Tom Lenk will be one of the biggest stars at this year's VAULT Festival when he stars in the hit comedy Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on C…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:22AM

The First Modern Man: 17 quotable quotes by Michel de Montaigne, now coming to the stage by Featured Content

We hope Mate Aleks Sierz adds some of these top quotes to his Text of the Day series! Sixteenth-century thinker Michel de Montaigne certainly had a way with words. How many of these pithy ap…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:59AM

‘We wanted to create a piece of work that would grow the company’: Proforca director David Brady on the evolution of Feel, Feel More & Beyond by Featured Content

How has a piece for four actors expanded into a universe of new writing and performing opportunities? We catch up with Proforça Theatre Company artistic director David Brady as he prepares …

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AM
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

‘We thought we had it sorted when Bill Clinton turned on the Christmas lights’: Alice Malseed on her view of Belfast in Jade City by Featured Content

Jade City may be set in Belfast, but don't go expecting a play about the Troubles or any other northern Irish cliche. Playwright Alice Malseed talks about her hometown and the characters who…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:15PM

NEWS: Real-life couple premieres Americat, their transatlantic love story, for Valentine’s Day by Featured Content

Have you ever faced the challenges of a long-distance love affair? Transatlantic partners Scott Kettner and Amy Elliott know exactly what it's like. Just in time for Valentine's Day, they sh…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:37PM

NEWS: Yellow Earth and Extant combine to create new production inspired by Japanese Goze, Flight Paths. by Featured Content

Aerial, music, narrative and creative audio description will combine in Flight Paths, the new production from Yellow Earth and Extant that embarks on a UK tour this spring. The ground-breaki…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:24AM

PHOTOS: Look at these new images of drama about identity & growing up British Chinese, Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹 by Featured Content

What does it really mean to be British and Chinese in contemporary England? That's the question posed by Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹, Jennifer Tang's devised theatre piece which runs at Ca…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:52AM

‘It’s what it means to be a Londoner’: The company explain why you need to see #AllTheFeels at The Space by Featured Content

What does it mean to be a Londoner? How has the city inspired a unique collaboration between writers and actors under the guidance of Proforça Theatre Company? In a series of top tweets, #T…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AM
Monday, January 28, 2019

NEWS: Multimedia music experience Balaklava Blues plays alongside Counting Sheep at VAULT Festival by Featured Content

Balaklava Blues, a music and multimedia experience exploring post-traumatic stress and attempts to move forward, is playing alongside its immersive predecessor Counting Sheep at this year's …

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:12PM

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