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 02:00PMAs Black Friday and New Year bashes grow exponentially, child poverty in the UK is on the rise. The Little Match Girl may have her origins in the Victorian era and snow flecked tales of Hans…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIf Christmas shows are measured by the smile it puts on our faces and the gales of laughter elicited from the younger ones, then this is a stone-iron smash.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFunny how some plays can disappear completely and take a while to be found. When Fin Kennedy won the John Whiting award for this work, not one theatre had responded to its open submission.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMNever let it be said that Cornish theatre company Kneehigh lack in ambition. Gunter Grass’ The Tin Drum has accrued significant cultural acclaim since its publication in 1959, gaining its …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMOnly the British could have produced as flamboyant and controversial a character as Henry Cyril Paget, the Fifth Marquis of Anglesey who lost his family fortune to a blitz of frocks and jewe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIf we were playing A Desert Island of theatre than Wardrobe Ensemble's Education, Education, Education would be what I would ask for. It ticks all the boxes I most love.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMEmma is a role to stand shoulder to shoulder with Rooster from Jerusalem. It wouldn’t surprise me in years to come if female actors mention the role in conversations about dream roles in t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMPremiered in 1953 in France and 1955 in London Waiting for Godot was immediately dismissed by a majority of the London intelligentsia as a work of pretentious twaddle. After Harold Hobson an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe crème of Bristol artistic talent has come together for Ice Road, an immersive work at a former Victorian bathing house near the centre of town, that places its audience directly into th…
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