Exploring what it is to be young in Ireland today, Lisa Carroll’s debut play Cuckoo comes roaring to life at Soho Theatre, leading us without preamble into the world of best friends – an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMIn Irwin Shaw’s Bury the Dead, written in 1935, six fallen American soldiers stand up in their graves and courteously ask not to be buried.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe Fire Raisers was written by Swiss playwright Max Frisch in 1948, reportedly as a response to the Communist takeover in Prague – though the play never specifically references that event.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMDebates about the death penalty tend to focus, unsurprisingly, on the moral rights and wrongs of taking a life for a life. Less, perhaps, is known about the dehumanising conditions in which …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMEkata Theatre is an international theatre company based in London and Helsinki. Most recently seen in London with physical theatre piece On Mother’s Day, in November they’ll be back at t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMarking the centenary of the Armistice that brought World War I to an end, Proud Haddock’s excellent revival of Billy Bishop Goes to War is a fitting tribute to all those who risked – an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMPowerful, polished and utterly absorbing, Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu’s Sweet Like Chocolate Boy explores the changing face of Black British identity and protest over the last three decades, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMScary Little Girls’ two-hander “literary cabaret” The Full Brontë is a joyously chaotic homage to the famous writing family, which features song, dance, storytelling, Kate Bush, Black…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAn enjoyable romantic comedy, Baby makes for an entertaining evening, in the company of a polished and talented cast.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIn Maddie Rice’s one-woman play Pickle Jar, Miss is a young English teacher struggling to find her footing both in and out of the classroom
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMiriam Gould and Judita Vivas, also known as Double Trouble, tackle the theme of displacement as the creators and performers of Adventures in Black & White.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFollowing a warm reception in Edinburgh, Chalk Line Theatres brings their show Testament to The Hope Theatre for a limited run, and one thing is instantly clear: this is not a company who be…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMNot quite a musical, but somewhat more than a concert, song cycle The Distance You Have Come brings together some of the greatest hits from Scott Alan’s star-spangled songwriting career, p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWritten by Lilac Yosiphon, who also directs along with Mike Cole and Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster, Jericho’s Rose is a moving and intriguing exploration of the true meaning of “home”, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMurder, She Didn’t Write from Bristol-based improv company Degrees of Error is, by its very nature, different every time. It’s also extremely silly, slightly nonsensical and very, very f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMNatural history comes alive in spectacular fashion in The Wider Earth – and appropriately enough, it does so in a custom-built theatre at London’s Natural History Museum.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFor fans who want to see the beloved film Dirty Dancing re-created faithfully on the stage, this is certainly the right performance to come and watch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWith this production of Jekyll & Hyde, Chickenshed proves once again that it knows how to entertain audiences with a good story. But the show also asks us to consider some pertinent and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe cast of five does a decent enough job with the material in People Like Us, but there’s no hiding the fact that this is essentially one big, self-congratulatory dig at the Remain camp a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThere’s a lot we can learn from her – so to celebrate the show’s (almost) eighth birthday, here are eight ways we can all #BeMoreMatilda…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIn La Tragédie de Carmen, Peter Brook, in collaboration with composer Marius Constant and writer Jean-Claude Carrière, condenses Bizet’s four-act original – and all its greatest hits �…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMA sensitive portrayal of devastating real events, Lifeboat is undoubtedly another triumph for the Brockley Jack team. Go and see it while you can.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThere’s plenty of humour in the one-woman show Hear Me Howl which is beautifully performed at the Old Red Lion Theatre with energy and unflinching conviction by Alice Pitt-Carter.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMArabian Nights is highly recommended for an evening of high-quality escapism and entertainment, presented by a talented and incredibly hard-working cast – with a little help from some seri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFederico García Lorca’s rural tragedy Blood Wedding gets a distinctly urban makeover in George Richmond-Scott’s powerful new adaptation.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAnd Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank doesn’t allow us to shrug it off so easily, though – in no small part because the production was personally requested by Ho…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWritten by and starring Hatty Jones, That Girl is the story of a young woman who still hasn’t quite figured out who she is or where her life is going.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMHamilton (Lewis) by Fiona English and David Eaton, freshly returned from Edinburgh to the King’s Head, tells the somewhat less epic story of – you guessed it, British Formula 1 star Lewi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMLong before the Inbetweeners movie was even thought of, there was Summer Holiday, the classic 1963 film in which Cliff Richard and The Shadows enjoyed a far more innocent – but apparently …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSet in the 90s, Kevin Mandry’s Eros takes us back to the early days of the internet, and into the studio of Ross Black (Stephen Riddle).
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWritten and directed by Stephanie Silver, How To Save A Life is the story of Melissa (Heather Wilkins), who’s just learned she’s got cervical cancer after going to the doctor with an emb…
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