A new play written for lockdown by Martin Murray, Jury puts us into the jury room – or Zoom – as 12 people on furlough come together to consider a case against a high-profile white femal…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:22PMAlice: A Virtual Theme Park is ultimately a show of charm and occasional barbed wit, which is fun for both families or adults. You don’t have to switch your video on and join in, but it is…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMNot for the faint-hearted, Grip is worth a look to consider what it adds to a constant contemporary debate. It is available for free once you have registered for the Reading Fringe.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:10AMClaire Louise Amias’ pair of plays, The Masks of Aphra Behn and Oranges & Ink, resurrect Aphra Behn from a place of relative obscurity into sharp relief as a chatty, warm, and witty ra…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMAs an audio play for three rather than a stage monologue, Natalie Barney’s Last Salon is directed by Fiona Leonard and reimagined with the voices front and centre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMBy developing a language which is uniquely that of the theatre, the world in which Hot Coals Theatre’s film My Darling Christopher exists comes to life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMA bold initiative from Platform 4 comes to your computer screen with this new immersive digital film. Invisible Music starts from the point of considering the issues around hearing loss but …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMHarry Gabriel is one of those unsung heroes in theatreland: the stage door keeper. Part surrogate parent, part nurse, part firm friend, they are the conduit between front and back of house, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMRaising funds for her beloved Omnibus Theatre (a treasure based in a former public library on the edge of Clapham Common), Miriam Margolyes proves to be every inch the entertainer and racont…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIn advance of its inclusion in this year’s Hollywood Fringe (which is taking place virtually), Black Women Dating White Men has been made available as a Zoom recording put together during …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMHot on the heels of their starry audio version of The Understudy, Lawrence Batley Theatre has now released an audio version of Toast to the digital space following a successful tour last yea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMLove Letters At Home takes the well-worn Our Tune concept from the old days and uses it to develop a show where, no matter what’s going on and whether we are together and apart, it is alwa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAt just eleven and a half minutes, this satirical musical by Haddon Kime is a quick diversion on YouTube from the Atlanta-based company Out of Hand.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe Barn Theatre in Cirencester has built on its broadcast earlier in lockdown of Henry V to develop a sequence of thirty-five monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Series one begins…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMI'm sharing the message that I've sent to Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS). Large West End production compan...
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMUp to Manchester for this Zoom screening of 2011’s mix of movement and words from Quarantine, followed by a discussion with the creatives. Entitled is “a show about nothing” on …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMIn Praise of Love is a complex play which relies on a claustrophobic gathering of people in one place and the tensions which come from hiding their feelings. Over the past two weeks the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe government stance appears to be that the arts is on its own and needs to prove its worth. I think, and hope, theatre has over many years of serving towns, topics and communities. I want …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe Berliner Ensemble have located a jewel in their theatre history. Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage is a modern classic of the German theatre. Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage is …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMI wanted to try out something from The Yard Online’s day of fun, and chose No Show, a Zoom performance which sounded something a bit different. It’s ...
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM'For the first time in my life, I feel truly vulnerable when I am singing these songs. It’s terrifying and exhilarating at the same time.' West End performer Siobhan Dillon’s new …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIs it worth watching? If you like watching theatre or performance, yes. There are songs, monologues, poems, stand-up (or sit-down) routines, and a lot of charm and commitment. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMEdalia Day brings their mix of observational comedy, music, and Shakespearean interpretation to the video game space in the show Super Hamlet 64.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMOriginal Theatre’s touring production of The Habit of Art was one I missed in 2018. It was due to return this year, but circumstances being as they are, here is a streamed version availabl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMaking a dramatic property based on a book into a musical can sometimes be hit and miss, whatever the quality of the source material or the best intention of the adaptor.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMConor Mitchell’s provocative and high camp opera Abomination: a DUP Opera made its streaming debut on the new Queen’s Film Theatre online player, in a recording filmed at the Lyric Theat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMBubble looks at the issues of free speech, feminism, misogyny, the use of language, the misuse of technology, the moral minefield around reportage, and the rise of hate groups. Bubble…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThis show by political comedian Mark Thomas takes a long, hard look at our National Health Service in its seventieth year of operation. He shadowed medics and interviewed clinical experts, e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMOrangutan is presented by Cup of Brew, written by Toby King, directed by Fiona Kingwill, and performed by Louise Waller. We first meet Alice sitting on her messy bed, overflowing with cushio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThe Barn Theatre in Cirencester is not a venue I have been to in person, so I am happy to be able to go “once more into the breach” in the ultramodern version of Shakespeare’s Henry V.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMI am delighted that Teddy Lamb has decided to make this recording of Since U Been Gone at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year available for a limited time on YouTube.
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