Thursday, November 5, 2015
FLOUNCES AND FLIRTS, Â INSULTS AND INNUENDOES…A RESTORATION ROUTÂ There's a bustle of backstage larking before the curtain, cast dashing around in shirtsleeves, manoeuvring a hamp…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:48AM[SHARE]There's a bustle of backstage larking before the curtain, cast dashing around in shirtsleeves, manoeuvring a hamper , getting stuck in ropes and tripping over a life-size model crocodile. So…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:34AM[SHARE]MEERA SYAL’S MEENA…A MEMORY OF THE 70s, THOUGHTFUL FOR TODAY Any show playing Slade and T. Rex standards before the curtain has me well softened up So does the wide, generous vis…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 4, 2015
CHOPPER BIKES AND CHANGE, Â TEENS IN THE DAYS OF TIE-DYE… Any show playing Slade and T. Rex standards before the curtain has me well softened up So does the wide, generous vision of …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 3, 2015
A MAGICAL GLADE OF OFFICE FURNITURE…
Of all Shakespeare's comedies, this is the one which most combines memorable lines " the seven ages of man, Rosalind's quickfire epigrams about love…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2015
FROM THE FIRES BELOW, Â O”NEILL’S Â ACCUSING VOICEÂ From the opening moments of Richard Jones' stunning, nightmarish production of Eugene O'Neill's early play we have both…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 28, 2015
OINK! SWIPE! SNOG! STAB! "Ohhh Tim, you beautiful filthy boy!" cries Tina the pig-farmer's discontented wife, succumbing drunkenly to some pan-banging draining-board sex. Filthy he is indeed…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2015
THE PEOPLE OF THE PITS Tender, fierce, intelligent and humane, this superb production reminds us that D.H.Lawrence was at his best a great interpreter of 20th century change. Years before th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:46PM[SHARE]THE PRESIDENT OR THE POP STAR? CHOOSE YOUR ROLE MODEL, GIRL! It's a portmanteau of Theodore Roosevelt and Elvis Presley. And, one must sorrowfully surmise, was lit upon by The Team, a col…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:32PM[SHARE]Friday, October 23, 2015
‘I MUST CLING TO MY HUSBAND!” OH NO YOU MUSTN’T… HE’S IN THE ATTIC… James Dacre’s leadership of this twin theatre is certainly lively: a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
CELEBRITY CULTURE DECODED – FURIOUSLY I’m a bit late on the curve catching this, but it runs all week with two more matinees, so Roll up! Shudder as you savour the freakish world…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 18, 2015
TOURING NEAR YOU; RICH DARK OOZING EVIL AND FEMINIST DEFIANCE A fierce bleak play, this. Set in 1712 but, taking the wider world as it is, not un-topical: hangings, tortures, religion …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2015
SINS OF A PREACHER-MANÂ Admit it, ladies. Within the most modestly-clothed and lipstickless of us pale white matrons, there lurks a sneaky wish to be – just for an hour or two ̵…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:40AM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2015
EUGENE O’NEILL, Â EARLY AND IMPASSIONED… Well, God bless the little Jermyn. Director and AD Antony Biggs, an unwearying ferret of lost drama, has dug up another barnstorming ea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2015
GUEST REVIEWER LUKE JONES FEELS THE NEED FOR A SCRUB Sex is at this play's core. But it's not sexy in the slightest. It's a means of leverage, abuse, it's a crime, a threat. Each of the 50 o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2015
QUEER ON CAMPUS, THE 21c BLUES Welcome to our college! Meet the students, America’s future. Or, as depicted in Christopher Shinn’s new play, a selection of the most sexuall…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:50PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
A FROLIC… This is an artful wheeze. Take the story from the sunniest of films, a 1957 cheer-up British Lion starring Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford and Bernard Miles. Bolt on some …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:12PM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2015
THE GREATNESS OF SMALL LIVES We are in a pub garden in rural Hampshire, where landlord John is gathering logs for the fire (in high summer, “it’s part of what people come fo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2015
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORIÂ FINDS ANCIENT TRUTH INÂ A GLORIOUSLY DARKÂ DIVORCE "I can unmake you the same way I made you. I write the story, remember?" Rachel Cusk's brilliant vis…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:53PM[SHARE]MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO SOUR The setting is excellent . Terrible flashing screens of numbers, alerts, currencies; sometimes becoming a glass window onto a London scene made of banknot…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:19PM[SHARE]JOLLY HOCKEYSTICKS! “Put on your navy knicks, pick up your hockey sticks – and bully-up, bully-up..” Jeepers. I had completely forgotten that ritual “bul…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2015
UNIMPROVABLE IMPROV… You won’t see this show again, nor the other Showstoppers’ evenings I have loved in Edinburgh. If you weren’t there tonight you’ve missed a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:19PM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2015
A SMILE, A SONG, AND SAPPHIC SOCIALISM At last. The question tormenting many a fretful middle-aged man – what do lesbians actually DO? – is answered. Aerialism! When the giddy mo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 26, 2015
THE PROTESTANT WHORE RETURNS IN TRIUMPH Charles II came to the throne (in a fabulous wig, surrounded by fabulous spaniels), with England in a mood to throw aside Puritanism and party. The th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:25PM[SHARE]Friday, September 25, 2015
A KIND OF HORRIFIC GRACE.. We are having a spate of grisly classicana at the moment, brutal old tales of curses and murders and doom spinning down the unforgiving generations. A brace of sta…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2015
THE HOLLOW CROWN : A CIRCLE COMPLETED This is the crown, the final flourish of Gregory Doran’s magnificently rendered history cycle. We have seen preening emotional Richard…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
THE WORST GUEST EVER…FARCE AND FEAR It’s the least likely setting imaginable for a farce, even a black one. We are in Baghdad, in the Alawai family’s kitchen and dinin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:58PM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2015
A FINE PLUM-PUDDING OF ACTS AND IDEAS "Sex and the 18th century" said Brigid Brophy, quoted by the playwright Sam Kelly, "are the two most interesting things in the world". The fiery, subver…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:47PM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2015
EXECUTION STREET… Grotesque. Morbid. Hilarious. Dark, absurd, evocative. Start with the last one. This is a period-conscious piece, even more than Martin McDonagh’s Irish-set wor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:55PM[SHARE]YOUTHFUL YEARNINGS A CONTAINER PORT CAN’T CONTAIN… You grow up with your mates in a dead-end town, and you're a solid gang – five a side footie team, in and out of each oth…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2015
A WINNER AND A LOSER Human beings sometimes – disastrously – get erotically fixated on one phase of their sexual history. In the case of Patrick (Nick Sidi) it is a teenage momen…
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