Wednesday, 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 12:00PMThursday, June 18, 2020
Life as it is currently lived in 14 playlets: Most of the plays are about ten minutes in duration and punch well above their weight featuring writing by the likes of James Graham and April d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, June 15, 2020
Knowing that some 600 people had applied the week previous to that, I had no great expectation that I would be selected but, to my amazement, I was offered the part of Costard.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, June 14, 2020
An excellent production of a modern classic with a towering central performance: Alan Bennett’s early 1990s play examines public versus private monarchical concerns at the end of the 18th …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, June 8, 2020
Life on the lowest rung of the theatrical ladder. There are lots of in-jokes with digs at actors, directors, the rehearsal process, theatrical agents, critics and the site-specific trend.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, June 7, 2020
There are some staggering contemporary references to draw from this staging of a lesser-known Shakespeare, starring Tom Hiddleston.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, May 31, 2020
The plotline of James Graham play covers several years during a period when majorities were slim and politics was a brutal business.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Simon McBurney performs this stupendous and extraordinary solo show from Complicite. Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin’s soundscape is nothing short of a triumph.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, May 26, 2020
When poetry of the First World War is mentioned, the names which tend spring to mind are Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Graves, Blunden and so on. Then there’s Charles Sorley.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, May 21, 2020
After the 75th anniversary weekend of VE Day, the musical Only The Brave drew my attention as a perfect way to spend an afternoon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, May 11, 2020
I’ve always found Antony and Cleopatra a bit of a slog. There, I’ve said it. Too many scenes which flit about all over the place, too many minor inconsequential characters, deaths which …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, May 7, 2020
A life distilled to its essentials: 30 Million Minutes indicates the rough length of time that Dawn French had been alive at the time of her solo show recorded in its final incarnation in 20…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, April 22, 2020
When DryWrite co-Artistic Director Phoebe Waller-Bridge wrote Fleabag back in 2013, it needed to be crowdfunded in order for it to be premiered at that year’s Edinburgh Festival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, April 10, 2020
The problem with staging a classic novel is that everyone has a slightly different view of how it should be done – many have tried and few have fully succeeded.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, April 7, 2020
This production of Lady Windermere’s Fan is mostly a strong account of a play that will always be overshadowed by Earnest and a very pleasant way to spend a locked down afternoon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, April 5, 2020
Are you fed up with not being able to go out to the theatre? Don’t be. There’s a wealth of stuff to watch online. Here’s a handy list of current opportunities. OK, so it’s not quite …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, January 30, 2020
While I can fully imagine Persona working on film – indeed it seems to be generally hailed as a masterpiece – on stage I fear it fares less well.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, January 22, 2020
A review of Ten Times Table by Alan Ayckbourn currently at Richmond Theatre . Still has resonance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, January 21, 2020
A man sitting behind a table, a man sitting on the edge of an unmade bed, two men sitting on a park bench. These are the settings in the Samuel Beckett Triple Bill currently at the tiny Jerm…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, January 12, 2020
If I have understood the timeline correctly the latest incarnation of Kevin Elyot’s debut play Coming Clean is a revival of a revival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, August 27, 2019
“A meaningful play about a really important subject”. As I left the Park Theatre having watched Eugene O’Hare’s play The Weatherman, these were the sort of (overheard) comments I hea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, June 15, 2019
A revival of the play Brexit at the King’s Head Theatre, Islington is very much of the moment and stirs some classic sitcom memories.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, June 13, 2019
Last night I found myself both onstage and in the audience at the same time – neat trick if you can do it and I have done… on more than one occasion.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, May 31, 2019
Rob Ellis directs Ollie George Clark’s new play called Cuttings at London’s Hope Theatre which examines the hitherto unexplored backstage world of theatrical PR – a world that has beco…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, May 19, 2019
Inevitably writers will gravitate to the world they most often inhabit and about which they can speak with a degree of authority whether that be professionally, publically or privately.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM 
