Saturday, October 1, 2022
Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett meet in a cricket pavilion and end up as trapped as some of the characters in their plays
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, September 23, 2022
September 2020 and the pandemic was quietly raging. So too was Maureen Lipman in Hope Mill Theatre’s online production of Martin Sherman’s intense monologue Rose; her performance was rou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 7, 2022
Three Women & Shakespeare’s Will comes from the pen of Joan Greening who has made something of a speciality of writing about historical figures connected to the arts, albeit in imagina…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, August 19, 2022
So, it was with a sense of keen anticipation that I approached Dante Or Die’s latest piece entitled Odds On which is currently on a “digital tour”. It’s a piece about the world of on…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, August 6, 2022
A real life adventure told with wit, flair and some stunning movement sequences
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, July 30, 2022
It’s third time lucky for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and 101 Dalmatians which is billed as a new musical. Given that it should have premiered two years ago – and then one year ago …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, July 26, 2022
Ambreen Razia’s play Favour looks into the lives of a trio of women from the same family but of rather different generations. It does so with a vigour that is at times quite intoxicating a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, July 16, 2022
The Edinburgh Festival is not far away now and, as often happens at this time of year, there are a number of shows playing themselves in before transferring in a northerly direction for thei…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, July 11, 2022
August Strindberg’s The Dance Of Death from 1900 has been credited with prefiguring the works of Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter and most notably provided a template for Edward Albee’s Who’s …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, July 9, 2022
Cultural appropriation doesn't just take place across different nations
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, July 6, 2022
The second pair of plays from #FinboroughFrontier’s quartet of pieces #VoicesFromUkraine reflecting on the situation in the war torn nation is now available. They join the first couple to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, June 24, 2022
In The Machine Stops E. M. Forster unusually abandons his general milieu of the genteel classes and takes a look at a supposed future – the theme of connection, however, is still very much…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, June 18, 2022
Broadcast on the fifth anniversary, one cannot but conclude that Grenfell, Scenes From The Enquiry is a devastating critique of a system which put money before people and allowed a tragedy w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 15, 2022
Voted back into power three times, Tony Blair left office with the accusations of being a manipulative liar ringing in his ears – not that that has ever slowed down the current incumbent. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, June 6, 2022
Based on a true story Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan concentrates on the period in the early 2000s when the Taliban in Afghanistan had been pushed back following Western libera…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, June 1, 2022
Certainly a powerfully realised piece of drama, Mission at The Big House is all defiantly obscure, though it clicks into place eventually, and you cannot help but admire the skill that goes …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, May 29, 2022
What do you do when the artistic muse has deserted you? Or when it has never really arrived?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, May 17, 2022
Harold Pinter’s The Dwarfs is a fascinating glimpse into the development of one of the major playwrights of the 20th century and this production does it full credit.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, May 6, 2022
All three of the short plays that feature in Fizzy Sherbet’s audio series centre on writer/performers who, not unnaturally, bring a depth of emotion to their own work.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, April 23, 2022
I’m not sure whether I’ve actually been to Woking. It’s that sort of place – although how I’d know that if I’ve never actually been there, I really couldn’t say. I suppose it…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, April 19, 2022
One of Sondheim's earliest works Anyone Can Whistle has just opened at Southwark Playhouse. Notoriously a flop back in 1964, many have tried but few have succeeded in reviving its fortunes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, April 8, 2022
Diary Of A Somebody is credited to John Lahr, though technically he might be said to be the arranger/editor. For the actual words are those of Joe Orton as recorded in a journal that he deci…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, April 7, 2022
After a trying day (don’t ask), it was particularly pleasing therefore to unwind with Sasha Regan’s All-Male HMS Pinafore at Wilton’s Music Hall in the East End.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, April 2, 2022
Having seen Marcus Brigstocke’s name attached to it, I instantly assumed this would be a broadly comic play that was strong on laughs and reasonably light on subject matter.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 18, 2022
Animal behaviour but within a human framework. This is a powerful new play from Ruby Thomas at Hampstead Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, February 12, 2022
Kipps – The New Half A Sixpence Musical is “new” in the sense that it’s an updated version of a musical first performed in the early 1960s to showcase the singing, dancing and banjo …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 20, 2022
East Is East is a recent addition to National Theatre's At Home catalogue and only appeared as a live production back in October.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 13, 2022
Ruth Wilson is strong casting in the central role with a, for once, restrained Ivo van Hove directing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, January 10, 2022
Light as a souffle but such a delight. It’s doubtful whether there has ever been a classier bit of froth than this Cole Porter show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, January 5, 2022
The Shrek franchise opts for a modern-day spin on the traditional form, undermining expectations and undercutting some of the more winsome aspects with one-liners and witty put-downs.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, December 30, 2021
The holidays have always been a time of rich pickings for dramatists, bringing together people (pre-Covid at least) who probably avoid each other for the rest of the year.
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