This latest star-studded digital offering from Henry Filloux-Bennett and the Lawrence Batley Theatre is a pleasing comedy about the tribulations of putting on a post-pandemic production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMI remember a student I was once trying to get to read more saying “What’s the point, there are just too many books”. Perhaps I’m beginning to have the same reaction to digital theatr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMNew online theatre material keeps popping up all the time – or at least it eventually comes to my attention which amounts to much the same thing; this latest one did so by a somewhat circu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIt’s been a while since I’ve reviewed one of the many shows which youth theatre Chickenshed put out during the pandemic. In fact, their last released piece came out in May so apologies t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIt is not with a little sense of surprise that I found myself yesterday experiencing my 800th online production which is the subject of this review. Back in April 2020 I, probably along with…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMOne of the huge advantages of online theatre over the last eighteen months or so has been being able to catch up with plays that any self-respecting reviewer should have seen but for whateve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe Greek myths have endured across the centuries partly because they are timeless stories that can be endlessly updated and reinvented.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMAlthough I always have the best of intentions about promoting and reviewing online young people’s theatre, I’d be the first to admit that it has often taken a back seat. I’ve now tackl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAs it’s a recorded stream, you’re at liberty to choose your own encore moments and replay any numbers which particularly take your fancy – and there are bound to be several of those.*
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe twin themes of social justice and climate activism are explored in this piece from Fehinti Balogun/Complicité.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMDo these two pieces push the idea of audio theatre to its limits? Probably and the results are highly pleasing
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe first tranche of Young Vic Digital consists of pieces written in response to a main house production. Here they are in chronological order of the time the original plays were written.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSiobhan Bremer’s A Theatrical Life is very much a piece which will more readily appeal to members of the profession and those interested in the mechanics of the business called show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSite specific theatre hasn’t been easy over the last eighteen months – in fact you can take out the first two words of that statement. It’s been tricky enough getting regular venues op…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAnd so, to a piece which has long been on my “to see” list but which has kept getting bumped as a whole host of other stuff claimed my attention. As Meet Me At The Edge is a filmed accou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIt was just about a month ago that I observed that considering the dominant story of all our lives for the last 18 months has been the pandemic, there haven’t really been all that many di…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAlthough I’d still give a best company name prize to recent Edinburgh appearees (??!) Expial Atrocious, running them a close second is Smoking Apples – though I’d be hard pressed to id…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAround The World In 80 Days is best known for the iconic 1956 David Niven film rather than the original novel by the prolific French writer Jules Verne; this version seeks to restore the ori…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMArthur Smith pays homage to his (extra) ordinary Dad in Syd which premiered at 2018’s Fringe and is now an online show recorded at Falmouth and being streamed via the Pleasance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThe real life figure of Ed Gein looms large in horror films and literature. Most famously he was the direct inspiration for Norman Bates in Psycho and his terrible influence can also be foun…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMA warm and entertaining solo play, Lila Clements’ Look, No Hands has some distinctive features which marks it out from many other confessional shows of a similar type.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTwo well known tales with a twist: The Little Glass Slipper As Performed By The Queen of France And Her Friends and Metamorphosis. The second piece now tops my personal Edinburgh Fringe onli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWithout much more than a two line description in the Camden Fringe brochure, I plunged headlong into two wildly different but experimental pieces, Murmur and Wild Waxflower.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMI set off for Hollywood, California via Edinburgh, Scotland and Adelaide, Australia. No, I haven’t finally lost it, this was my online trip in both time and place courtesy of the Edinburgh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThough the big guns which are at the Edinburgh Fringe have now been rolled out, it’s taking some time to pin down what to aim for there. Meanwhile its somewhat smaller sibling is continui…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMJam Tart and Lemon Kurd are two accomplished monologues written by Rhiannon Owens and Nick Maynard which fit together neatly having complementary subject matter and a not dissimilar tone at …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMGigglemug Murder Mysteries borrow their titles, if not their characters and plots, from the works of Agatha Christie. The first of these is the recently released and enticingly titled Murder…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThis is Masks And Faces (full title: Masks And Faces or Before And Behind The Curtain) his 1852 play set in the world of the theatrical profession which the Finborough rediscovered and produ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMViper Squad writer James Dillon’s new show Siren takes the tropes of the sci-fi horror genre (there’s a heavy debt to Alien here) and throws the audience into the middle of the action.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe fourth and final Cultural Recovery Fund funded show from production company Seabright has been, like its predecessors, filmed at Wilton’s Music Hall before a live audience and is being…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIn what I think may be a first, Original Theatre Company has released a filmed-as-live, onstage rehearsed reading in the shape of A Cold Supper Behind Harrods.
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