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 06:30AMCrongton Knights is a winner... up there with the best, for the range and breadth, depth and richness of drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:13AMAlex 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 09:23AMThis 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 11:46AMTom 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 11:39AMFringe 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 08:30AMShyGirl, 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 09:15AM"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 10:57AMThe 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 12:30PMPhilip 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 06:00AMNew 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 05:00AMAs 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 07:53AMAmerican 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 07:15AMRadio 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 06:19AMAfter 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 06:14AMA 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 09:21AMSan 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 10:00AMAttila 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 08:16AMWhat 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 05:00AMEschewing 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 07:00AMThe 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 07:59AMDirecting 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 12:00PMThe 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 06:30AMQuarter 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 09:14AMPeter 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 08:30AMMonty 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 05:00AM"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."
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