Saturday, February 17, 2018
The publicity for Abi Zakarian’s I Have A Mouth and I Will Scream at The Vaults puts it better than I ever could – it’s “a play-performance-art-protest-thing”.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMFriday, February 16, 2018
Es Devlin’s design for Girls and Boys, aided by Luke Halls’ video work, is simply stunning – the simplest of ideas realised with perfect execution.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWhether cheesecake really is more effective than counselling for grief remains unsure, but in Tiger (Vault Festival) Joe Eyre’s message of remembering those who love you is golden.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMWednesday, February 14, 2018
The production evokes the dark and brooding mystery of an unforgiving moorland and provides an ideal setting for the psychological thriller that is Catherine Lucie’s The Moor at the Old Re…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Hitting the Wall Productions’ contribution to the #MeToo debate is The Internet Was Made For Adults, exploring how the greater potential for connection facilitated by the internet has had …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMMonday, February 12, 2018
Ian Bonar’s consummate skill as a performer in Be Prepared at The Vaults means you’re deeply touched but the overall impact proves a little relentless, even if this is the intention.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00PMWith more clear-sighted and affecting work like this, Katie Arnstein’s Bicycles & Fish could well be a voice to add to the list of Oprah Winfrey and Jo Brand. Definitely recommended.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMLong Day’s Journey Into Night is a titanic piece of writing (and a production that is now even longer than it was in Bristol) but when it is of this quality, it really doesn’t matter.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMost families have a story or three, the kind of tales that go down in folklore, destined to be repeated at family events no matter embarrassing for the parent/sibling/etc involved.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, February 10, 2018
Think of England at The Vaults is impressive work from Anonymous is a Woman and a highlight of the festival so far for me.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, February 4, 2018
It takes a biographical slant on the novelist's life, focusing on the apparent sparseness of her romantic affairs and how, if at all, this impacted on the richness of her writing, concerned …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, February 2, 2018
It is rarely a play that moves you and so it is here, even though Nicholas Hytner’s production of Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre, London does provide moments of intellectual stimulus.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, January 29, 2018
"What kind of person isn't interested in politics"A black man, a woman and a young gay lad walk into an Ohio bar - it may sound like the set-up for a joke but as they start to talk about how…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, January 26, 2018
Austin Pendleton’s production of Woman Before a Glass, created here by Tom McClane-Williamson as the opening salvo in the Jermyn Street’s Scandal season, is a vibrant and fascinating del…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
On the one hand, that the VAULT Festival has expanded to over 300 shows running over eight weeks is fantastic news for the emerging theatremakers that it supports.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AMMonday, January 22, 2018
That this is Michael Longhurst's debut in this theatre makes it all the more impressive and I wouldn't be surprised if his name doesn't soon become one of the ones bandied around the round o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, January 19, 2018
It is always fascinating to revisit the early work of writers who have gone on to bigger things and Tiny Dynamite offers that chance with Abi Morgan, screenwriter of such hits as Shame, The …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSet in the East End of yore, Steven Berkoff uses his bastardised Shakespeare'n'slang prose style to depict the lives there with an extraordinary vigour.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, January 10, 2018
Well, we made it, just. 2017 passed by with just the 346 visits to the theatre, I don't really know why I do it to myself! Out of those, 33 were return visits to shows I'd already seen and I…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, January 9, 2018
It is great news indeed that this Orange Tree production will be gaining further life in 2018 with a transfer to the National Theatre in the summer. I really hope that as much of the origina…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:30PMHow to split these three? Why would you even want to. Their effortless grace, their ferociously detailed complexity, their heart-breaking connectivity, all three will live long in my mind.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMMonday, January 8, 2018
To pick someone out of this prodigiously talented ensemble almost feels unfair, but Ellams' narrative did repeatedly land on Peckham and the contested ownership of that salon was given blist…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMThinking about this most well-received of plays, it is the role of Aunt Maggie Faraway who lingers most in my mind, the elegiac beauty of her speeches an elegant way of folding in traditions…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSaturday, January 6, 2018
Behold the 2017 fosterIAN award nominations, recognising the acting performances that stood out for me, the ones that made me sit up, and sometimes stand up.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM"You want all my love and my devotion"... As Dreamgirls is now into its second year in the West End and has recently welcomed a new cast into the Savoy, what better time to revisit this most…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, January 5, 2018
The main reason for traveling to Birmingham Rep for The Hundred and One Dalmatians was to see Cruella De Vil played by Gloria Onitiri, an actress who I've enjoyed following since the Avenue …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, January 4, 2018
Proving that you don't need to win the reality show that you're in to set your career, and that it's your talent that matters, Rachel Tucker's success is testament to just how far hard work …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, January 1, 2018
There are all sorts of big productions arriving in the months to come (Long Day's Journey Into Night, the return of Amadeus, PATTI LUPONE!), but I'm using this spot to highlight some of the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, December 31, 2017
As ever, the wait for the end-of-year lists of favourite plays and performances has to continue until I've actually stopped seeing theatre in 2017. But in the meantime, here's a list of 11 o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, December 29, 2017
Released in time for Christmas, From The Top contains zero surprises. If you were thinking of getting for someone who likes him, then they are going to be satisfied.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAnne Washburn (she of the extraordinary Mr Burns) has fashioned this play out of eight of the stories told by The Twilight Zone and presents them as if shuffling a pack of cards.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM 
