Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Two one act plays – For Quality Purposes and The Ockenden Witch – have a great deal to say about modern life – even if one is set in 1564!
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, September 1, 2020
Daniel Bye’s The Price Of Everything is first and foremost a theatrical piece which examines the function of narrative and makes us question the veracity of what we hear.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, August 26, 2020
Though the Playboy of The Western World may have been written in 1907 it still has clear resonances for the world today.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, August 25, 2020
Both At Home With The Brontës and Wasted have their plus points and it is interesting to see how the same subject matter can be treated in radically different ways.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, August 22, 2020
For my first Edinburgh Festival “visit” last week, I found myself following a theme (more by accident than design) but this week I thought I’d freeform it a bit more. After all that’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, August 21, 2020
Small Truth Theatre have reimagined their unique site as an online digital space and are currently presenting a season of three audio dramas of around 15 minutes each under the general title…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, August 19, 2020
If anything, the resonances in Mike Bartlett’s Albion have grown and strengthened as countrywide divisions have hardened.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, August 18, 2020
The series of monologues under the collective title The Greatest Wealth was first performed at The Old Vic Theatre in 2018 as part of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the foundin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, August 15, 2020
While an online Edinburgh Festival Fringe can hardly claim to have anything like the same degree of atmosphere, various organisers are to be congratulated with getting a variety of material …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, August 8, 2020
This is Measure For Measure in a production by RSC supremo Greg Doran and set in turn of the 20th century Vienna. It is and remains a difficult play to pin down but the contemporary resonanc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, August 7, 2020
The first piece Moment Of Grace by Bren Gosling takes us back to the 1980s and the last time the country faced a crisis over a virus.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, August 4, 2020
One of the early entries into the lockdown theatre world was Breach Theatre’s It’s True. It’s True. It’s True: Artemisia On Trial. After some time on furlough it’s now back online …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, August 3, 2020
Place Prints is a fascinating audio series from writer David Rudkin about places in the UK. There are certain locations where that sense of the past is much stronger than in others. These pl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, July 31, 2020
Jane Clegg falls into the category of a well-made play of three acts and is none the worse for that. Its elegant structure and growing sense of tension make it an absolute pleasure to watch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, July 25, 2020
In Approaching Empty writer Ishy Din proves himself an authentic voice, telling tales we have not heard before in a muscular and engaging style.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, July 24, 2020
So, bravo National Theatre. Others may have joined in the home streaming trend but nobody else did it bigger or better. Time to look for yet another new normal for Thursday evenings.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, July 23, 2020
Young writers and performers take a long hard look at climate change with entertaining results in Almeida Theatre’s digital season Shifting Tides.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, July 20, 2020
The Tell-Tale Heart and Within from Threedumb Theatre are to be applauded for their innovation and their ability to show us that there’s life left in the old (drama) dog yet.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, July 18, 2020
Sixteen weeks ago the National Theatre At Home season was launched and this week the final show began its one week run. In Amadeus they may just have saved the best until last.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, July 16, 2020
Great Apes, originally written by Will Self and adapted for the stage by Patrick Marmion, played at east London’s Arcola Theatre in 2018 and is now available to stream online.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, July 15, 2020
I noticed that there were a pair of Half Moon Theatre productions – Guantanamo Boy and her – which involved Brolly, a collaboration between designer/illustrator Rachana Jadhav and writer…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, July 14, 2020
The Tailor-Made Man was turned into a musical in 2013. This current iteration was filmed in 2017 at the White Bear Theatre when a 25th anniversary production was mounted.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, July 13, 2020
In the case of The Deep Blue Sea I find myself firmly sitting on the fence. Good performances? Mostly. Fine production? Mainly. Great play? The jury’s still out.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, July 11, 2020
Mood Music is a timely piece of writing highlighting, as it does, questions of creativity, control, ownership, capitalism and personal well-being.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, July 10, 2020
Like the virus, Spymonkey’s brand of comedy in shows like Oedipussy has proved highly infectious over the last couple of months but at the same time it has also become a regular weekly vac…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, July 7, 2020
This was the production of Lungs live streamed from the actual stage of the Old Vic with real actors in real time as part of its In Camera project.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, July 1, 2020
The current circumstances mean that there are questions about whether there will even be a usual theatre awards season next winter/spring, especially as there may, ostensibly, be little to g…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, June 30, 2020
The Mikvah Project by Josh Azouz had originally got quite a way into its run at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond before lockdown took place.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, June 26, 2020
BBC Radio’s Lockdown Theatre Festival, curated by Bertie Carvel, highlights productions cut short by broadcasting them with the original casts, albeit in an audio format only.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, June 25, 2020
Jimbo is 12 and on the cusp of young adulthood. Both his body and his mind are confused about its identity and the world around him is not much help.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, June 24, 2020
A terrific and epic play about the Windrush generation: Andrea Levy’s sprawling novel Small Island has been turned into a glorious staged adaptation by writer Helen Edmundson.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM 
