In Complicité Theatre’s Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, Kathryn Hunter keeps the audience engaged as her confidante and our gateway into shining a light on the anti-ecological…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWritten and performed by Collette Cooper, Tomorrow May Be My Last is an unabashed love letter to Joplin, and her legacy as a performer and human being. Anyone who knows anything about Joplin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMUsing examples from the past 180 years, Four Poems From Ukraine oscillates between poems performed in English (by actors in London and Toronto), and Ukrainian actors performing in their nati…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe years following the 1929 Wall Street Crash left many Americans (and the rest of the world) facing economic hardship – a state of affairs that lasted right up until the Second World War…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIf you could meet your 15-year-old-self, what would you say? Would your point of view be any different from theirs? Or perhaps the only deviation would be time has honed your views with grea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMGiven the nature of the show and its subject matter, The Quality of Mercy is an ‘understated’ affair. However, this is not a criticism or back-handed compliment. Quite the opposite. Flay…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMLazarus Theatre Company’s latest production of Doctor Faustus (which is directed by Ricky Dukes), takes place with modern dress, but retains Christopher Marlowe’s original words (albeit …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDeveloped by Broken Silence Theatre for the digital segment of the Brighton Fringe Festival, Fragments is a triple bill of short audio plays celebrating playwrights from Sussex and the South…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWhile the title of Jasmine Lee-Jones’ play is provocative by anyone’s standards, there is more to it than meets the eye.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAsk anybody about the rights of disabled people, and most would say in principle that they should be given every opportunity to live life to the fullest. But given this assumption, why is it…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMDuring one’s formative years, it’s not uncommon to ‘fall in love’ with a pastime or something that inspires a lifelong ‘passion’. For some, it is Britney Spears.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFemale-led theatre covers every topic imaginable, but one subject that you would expect to be insightful is what’s motherhood REALLY like. The inception of The Good Enough Mums Club began …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMHalloween season is once more upon us and the London Horror Festival has plenty of macabre productions to satisfy the most dedicated aficionado. One show that stands out from the rest online…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMParodies of familiar tales are a well-loved staple of comedic storytelling. Everyone from the Carry On films to Spike Milligan and Mel Brooks have successfully employed this strategy, often …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMEvery person who has ever been diagnosed with cancer asks at some point “What do I do now?” and “How can I carry on?” While the ‘tropes’ of behaviour post-diagnosis are familiar …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMDuring the 20th century, absurdism and surrealism surfaced in literature to make pertinent points about human nature and ‘the real world’. Prime examples include Franz Kafka’s The Meta…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIn keeping with its nuanced writing, Colour shows how people of all backgrounds are susceptible to feigning civility, using acts of ‘kindness’, ‘politeness’ and even smiling to hide …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMOriginally conceived in 2018, the House of Blakewell’s Everything Is Absolutely Fine is a fitting show to usher in theatre for 2021 and prescient in the way it broaches mental health issue…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAn anthology of female-led black comedy, Obscenities (which is written by Venetia Twigg and Will Nash) is evidence of theatre’s ability to adapt to our current Covid restrictions. Split in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMAt the start of 2020, Southwark Playhouse commissioned five playwrights to pen brand new short plays for performance by the Elders Company, its weekly drama group for anyone aged 65 and over.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWritten by Lorna Wells and directed by Aisling Gallagher, Illusions of Liberty focuses on Liberty Jones (Corinne Walker) – a young cellist who has just had test results from doctors regard…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFirst performed on stage in 2015, (Fire) Embers (Ash) – which is written and directed by Hailey Mashburn – has been reimagined as an audio play for 2021.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAs part of the digital Living Record Festival Covert Firmament’s contribution includes 40 separate plays and films, which are written and directed by Dan Horrigan. These include three audi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTo all the artistic directors out there, let’s have more plays like S-27 at the Finborough Theatre that have something to say about the world today.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMOriginally performed in Edinburgh in 2019, Caroline Horton’s All Of Me returns in two different formats – as an interactive digital version hosted on gaming platform Twine and as an audi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWhile the play addresses the hopes and fears of those seeking to escape destitution (and achieve a better life), much like the fairy tale it mimics, Caperucita through its choreography and p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe Absence of Silence is a frank examination of the impact of long-term physical and emotional abuse on women in relationships.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMRather than veer down the road trod by films such as I, Daniel Blake, People Show’s Last Day addresses the ‘inconvenience’ of having a conscience if one is in middle management and the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIn OPEN Ealing’s Love Screens – three short plays that are written by Nicolas Ridley and directed by Anthony Shrubsall – relationships are placed under the microscope: those that have …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMCombining music and choreography with the spoken word, Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow is thoughtful in its conception and ambitious in its scope, looking at the ‘bigger picture’.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe second entry in Alchemist Theatre’s ‘Writers On Hold’ series, Blue Beneath My Skin continues to explore the themes of racial identity and femininity.
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