Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Trainspotting Live is a theatrical experience like little else. It may not hit the heart like it does the gut but most will be far too caught up in the ride to care.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Truly great acting is rare to see on stages these days, the type that elevates good work into a higher form of art. Yet right now at Bristol Old Vic, Tom Mothersdale’s Tricky Dicky, Richar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
There is plenty to like in Tobacco Factory Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a brisk, crisp and fully accessible take on the play that should provide perfect introductions to a Shakes…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, March 4, 2019
At an hour No Kids is perfectly paced, a constantly fascinating piece; one that articulates a liberal generation’s worries and desire in creating a familial unit in 21st century Britain.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, February 15, 2019
Tanya Barfield’s Blue Door is a dense, thoughtful 85-minute work that sometimes purrs in the Ustinov Studio.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, January 31, 2019
An adaptation of Angela Carter’s 1991 novel about a theatrical dynasty, spanning a century and loaded with Shakespeare, sex and song, Wise Children can exhaust in its constant frenzy of in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, December 27, 2018
The Wardrobe has done it again. Oedipuss In Boots is the best fun you can have with your clothes on this Christmas season, an adult festive delight that finds the specificity in silliness an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, December 22, 2018
There is greatness striding through the heart of Bristol Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol and it comes in the shape of Felix Hayes’ Ebenezer Scrooge.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, December 20, 2018
Tobacco Factory Theatres have well served Bristol festive audiences over the years, including one bona fide theatrical masterpiece in Sally Cookson’s Olivier Award-winning Cinderella. Alas…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, November 29, 2018
Donald Margulies’ The Model Apartment is a typical choice for the Ustinov, a work whose meaning and its overall effect will continue to burrow under the surface of its audience members for…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, October 30, 2018
If nothing else Wils Wilson has produced a rollicking evening of entertainment in Twelfth Night at Bristol Old Vic, even if it is only a surface level take on this most beguiling of masterpi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, October 29, 2018
Private passions are the overarching theme of the Welsh National Opera autumn 2018 season, and these passions are at the fore of Joan Font’s frothy 2007 production of Rossini’s La Cenere…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Twenty-five years after Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing premiered at the Bush Theatre, it’s clear that its writing still offers hope and enlightenment alongside a cracking yarn.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, August 5, 2018
Marking 100 years since women were first granted the vote, it’s a celebration of the women who dared to be different, and a call to arms to finally eradicate gender inequality for good.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMFriday, July 27, 2018
If Shakespeare promised his audience in the prologue of Romeo and Juliet two hours’ traffic of our stage’, Insane Root does one better and knocks out, probably the world’s most famous …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, July 26, 2018
It has been a heady time for Bristol’s The Wardrobe Ensemble, their last two Edinburgh shows have won public acclaim and Fringe Firsts and the company is now taking up residency this Augus…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 26, 2018
Thebes is an epic undertaking that starts slowly but eventually finds its drive. Thousands of years later the Greeks have lost none of their capacity to thrill and surprise.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, June 15, 2018
Patrick Ness’ novel slips perfectly into Sally Cookson’s fertile theatrical imagination. Its split-focused tale of cancer wards and midnight hour fairy tales suits Cookson’s gifts, for…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, May 6, 2018
If the production backs up a hunch that it is not quite a modern classic, it’s still a highly enjoyable take on a play that shows language is a right that shouldn’t be taken lightly.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMSaturday, May 5, 2018
The View From the Bridge is the show to proclaim loudly that Tobacco Factory Theatres is in safe hands and ready to sail into a golden future under its artistic director Mike Tweddle.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, April 15, 2018
Michael Blakemore’s production of Tosca plays out with a straight bat, period appropriate, detailed sets and clear delineation of character. He lets Puccini work his magic, each act buildi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, March 12, 2018
This Cherry Orchard is a production that showcases Michael Boyd, his ensemble, Chekhov and Bristol Old Vic at its very best. I love the theatre when it’s this good.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
I caught up actor Julius D’Silva one lunchtime at Bristol Old Vic on a break from rehearsal to discuss his work on The Cherry Orchard, reuniting with director Michael Boyd
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, March 3, 2018
Macbeth is an obvious box office draw for the theatre and the work is fundamentally solid, but it’s hard to shake the feeling it’s all a little safe, except for one performance that Bris…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, February 26, 2018
New Old Friends latest Crimes Under The Sun, opening at the Ustinov before embarking on a lengthy UK tour, is, at least so far, a night distinctly under-nourished, under-written and under-re…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, February 23, 2018
all in all, it’s a very solid take on a work that in an era of #MeToo has become ever more complex. Working with an accomplished director as Bill Alexander is obviously paying off.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMWednesday, February 14, 2018
It’s rare for a new production to be demonstrably better than its source text but this one by Frantic Assembly’s Things I Know To Be True by Geordie Brookman and Scott Graham shows it ca…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, January 14, 2018
The sixth form common room in Simon Stephens pulsating Punk Rock is an incendiary point ready to spark. The seven sixth formers the play introduces us too are standing on an edge of a precip…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:30PMSaturday, December 30, 2017
This was a year where the work touring into Bristol and the work I saw in Latitude, London, the cinema and New York dazzled.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, December 14, 2017
Writer Bea Roberts has subtly altered the tale within the overall framework, and as a result, you watch it not knowing exactly where it is going to end up. A happy ending is likely guarantee…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, December 11, 2017
For Kid Carpet’s latest show for the younger generation at BOV is packed full of questions like this. Children’s theatre may be seen as the poor relation to the more grown up stuff by so…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PM 
