Friday, April 30, 2021
The vibrant culture of the Notting Hill Carnival is celebrated and examined in Yasmin Joseph's play about three young women, J'Ouvert.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Adam by Frances Poet was originally commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland and is now showing as part of the BBC Lights Up Festival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 25, 2021
Both Benedict Salter and Joshua Oakes-Rogers have created complex characters and handle the cut and thrust of Barry McStay's dialogue with aplomb in Vespertilio.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 24, 2021
Having missed the National Theatre production of Medea in the theatre I was pleased to catch up with it and, especially, Helen McCrory's performance for she was on blistering form.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 22, 2021
On World Earth Day today this new piece from the creative collective GymJam, Anthropocene: The Human Era, makes its points in an unusual way.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 18, 2021
Harm by Phoebe Eclair-Powell was due to run at London's Bush Theatre last spring but has now been remade for the small screen.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 17, 2021
Writer/performer Jack Holden's full on powerhouse performance in Cruise will hold you in awe for 90 minutes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Directors Sid Phoenix and David Alwyn have delivered the goods once again for CtrlAltRepeat with The Temporal Society providing a mind-blowing evening which more than stimulates "the little …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 12, 2021
Written skilfully by Katherine Parkinson, Sitting thankfully mixes up the monologue format a little to provoke interest and show that there's life in the formula yet.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 8, 2021
Lights Up has performed a valuable service in rescuing David Ireland's latest piece Sadie from oblivion.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Julia Grogan's Playfight, the winner of the 2020 ETPEP Award, is given a rehearsed reading online directed by Blanche McIntyre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Thirty-eight Shakespeare plays in a year, that was the aim, and the project is completed by The Two Noble Kinsmen as performed at the Globe Theatre in a 2018 production helmed by Barrie Rutt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 28, 2021
Two horror based audio plays/experiences, Monster and Hairy Hands FM, use sound to full effect to creep you out.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Half Moon Theatre in the east end of London can usually be relied on for quality product and they are just in the middle of streaming a trilogy of filmed plays so I settled down to watch a p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 22, 2021
Assembly is a new piece in a livestream experiment that mixes live action, animation and sound. Initially planned to play live at the venue last July, it has now been reconfigured as an onli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 19, 2021
Despite the general negativity inherent in John Webster's work, Creation Theatre has managed to give us something which is full of positive creativity in the company's production of The Duch…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 16, 2021
A theatrical phenomenon in a recorded stream from a converted shed " unusual? Well, you could say that of White Rabbit Red Rabbit.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 15, 2021
Chatroom, a play about being online from Northern Comedy Theatre, is an uncomfortable but riveting watch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 11, 2021
Following the release of two compilation "best of" videos earlier in the year, the Letters Live project returns for another outing in celebration of International Women's Day.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Three monologues from the Old Vic for International Women's Day cover a range of issues.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 8, 2021
Marking International Women's Day, the Old Vic is streaming One Hand Tied Behind Us, a collection of short plays originally staged in 2018 to mark 100 years since women were given the right …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 5, 2021
Theater In Quarantine has now established itself at the forefront of innovative technique and have found some surprising ways to utilise the limited performance space at their disposal.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 3, 2021
If you're in search of something a bit left field and quirky and that deconstructs some of the tropes of fairy tale telling, you should find Lem 'n' Ginge: The Princess Of Kakos a tonic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Late Night Staring At High Res Pixels is a dense and intense piece of work which examines the interplay of relationships but leaves the audience to come to its own conclusions about the moti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 1, 2021
A past event recreated from a contemporary perspective makes for an interesting history lesson in Cato Street 1820.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 26, 2021
Calling their collection Grimm Tales For Fragile Times And Broken People, Creation have woven together five of the Grimm brothers' stories which have resonances with the current lockdown sit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2021
Ancient Myth clashes with modern Myth in a powerful rock musical about fame and mental health.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2021
The RSC's stirring production of the not often seen Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida with canny casting and a thrilling percussive score.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 21, 2021
If you're a whodunnit devotee and you like plenty of (frozen) red herring then you'll love Sherlock In Homes 2: Murder On Ice.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2021
A pandemic sweeps the land and the government introduces new quarantine rules - yes, that is the plot of The White Plague, not the news headlines.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 14, 2021
