Saturday, September 10, 2022
A Flashbang is a type of grenade that goes off very loudly and suddenly, upsetting everything. It takes everything you think you know and shakes it all up in a blinding flash of light and no…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMSaturday, February 15, 2020
Crongton Knights is a winner... up there with the best, for the range and breadth, depth and richness of drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:13AMFriday, February 14, 2020
Alex Wheatle’s popular YA novel Crongton Knights is brought to vibrant life in this irresistible adaptation by Emteaz Hussain. An uplifting, impressive show that delivers its social commen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:23AMWednesday, January 22, 2020
This complex play covers a vast but nourishing soup of issues that impact relationships between cultures, races and people in the modern world.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:46AMSaturday, May 12, 2018
Tom Mack, currently studying for an MA in Creative Producing at Mountview, shared this piece with the Mates on why, as a young gay man, it’s so gratifying to see out-and-proud stories …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:16PMTackroom Theatre, with the help of Barnardo's, interviewed 10,000 6- to 22-year-olds on what they think love is and the effect of online pornography on their lives. Why is the Sky Blue? (or …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:39AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:30PMAfter a successful run at the White Bear Theatre, Mark Giesser’s 1920s-set, Anglicised adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s 1899 short story The Lady with a Dog transfers across town …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMSunday, March 11, 2018
ShyGirl, a 30-something delving into the uncharted world of vlogging for the first time (and a.k.a. writer and performer Siobhan McMillan), brings her new show MIRRORS to London’s Lei…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:15AMTuesday, January 9, 2018
"I am on a mission to get a younger audience to the theatre. In January 2017, I founded Fabricate Theatre, a company dedicated to producing theatre which is relevant to a younger audience."
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:57AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
The Crystal Egg Live director Elif Knight looks back on how a lack of 'connections' has impacted her career to date - and makes a strong case for all of us to put a stronger focus on diversi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMWednesday, August 30, 2017
Philip Correia explains how his debut play HYEM is inspired by society's craving for comfort and belonging in a time of anger, inequality and growing uncertainty.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, August 24, 2017
New Vic artistic director Theresa Heskins has attracted critical acclaim for the globe-trotting zeal of her hit production of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, currently at London's…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:56PMDirector Hannah Boland Moore explains why she chose to revive The Provoked Wife - and how she's adapted it for a young cast of eight and set it at a modern music festival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, August 21, 2017
As the first major London revival of Barnum is announced today, American director and choreographer Shanda Sawyer talks about her own experience helming numerous circus productions for Ringl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:53AMThursday, August 17, 2017
American theatremaker Richard Foreman's King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe, in which a ruddy-faced Trump-like figure takes the title role, is currently receiving its UK premiere at the Lon…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:15AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
Radio classic Round the Horne returns to the London stage with a brand-new show Horne A'Plenty have a limited try-out season at the White Bear Theatre this month. Writer Brian Cooke explains…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:19AMMonday, August 14, 2017
After success at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, 'poetic economist' Serafina Salvador's Don’t Blame the Bankers…$toopid is now running for six performances only at London's Camden Fringe. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:14AMThursday, August 3, 2017
A Spoonful of Sherman celebrates a century of Sherman family music, including the childhood hits of Disney favourites The Sherman Brothers. Robert J Sherman, the son of 'brother' Robert B Sh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:21AMMonday, July 31, 2017
San Francisco-based playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s hit Off-Broadway black comedy BOOM, the most produced play in the US in 2009 and 2010, receives its UK premiere at London’s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Attila Theatre's devised piece SKIN DEEP comes to Camden Fringe next week. Christopher Montague, co-artistic director of Attila and co-director of the production, flies the flag for collabor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:16AMThursday, July 20, 2017
What have two twenty-something actors learned from starting their own theatre company? What advice would they give to others considering it
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe inaugural Opera in the City Festival runs from 1 to 12 August 2017 at the Bridewell Theatre. Artistic director Pamela Schermann talks about the aims behind London’s new summer oper…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, June 1, 2017
Eschewing the path of development workshops and showcases, producer Hannah Elsy has built her original rock musical The Quentin Dentin Show into an ever-expanding, cult phenomenon in full vi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
The European premiere of Late Company, running at London's Finborough Theatre until this Saturday 20 May 2017, has attracted a lot of Mates' attention. Here, director Michael Yale explains w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:59AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Directing a world, a future dystopian world, was one of the major challenges and highlights about directing Still I See My Baby. I’ve never done anything like it before, especially in such…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, April 21, 2017
The Pulverised is a deep-dive into a comfortingly familiar world - our jobs and our working lives, but suddenly rendered strange, frightening and comical. As a story it was inspired by a now…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMMonday, April 10, 2017
Quarter Life Crisis presents an upbeat take on the millennial phenomenon of big dreams, no cash, going viral, YouTube tutorials, having numerous zero-hour contracts, and surrendering the 16-…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:14AMThursday, February 16, 2017
Peter Taylor directs Lucy Burke's new two-hander Glitter Punch, which is now premiering at the King's Head Theatre after first being performed as a scratch night in October. He explains the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMMonday, February 13, 2017
Monty Python comedy legend John Cleese has adapted George Feydeau’s 1892 French farce BANG BANG for a brand-new staging which opens this month at Mercury Theatre Colchester… Tell…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, February 10, 2017
"Over three months, I trawled through London interviewing everyone from sex workers, adulterers, fetishists, lovers to the desperately bored and married, asking them about their sex lives."
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AM 
