Written by Steven Dietz and directed by Ian Brown, Lonely Planet is set in ‘Jody’s Maps’, a specialist store in the US, not unlike the shop in Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMDirected by Natalie Abrahami, Machinal is one of those rediscoveries that reflects the zeitgeist. Written in 1928 by Sophie Treadwell – eight years after all women in the US were allowed t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWritten by Ruby Lawrence and directed by Dave Spencer, The Yellow Wallpaper is a modern take on a short story from 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMLost Watch Productions has always been entertaining and had their finger on the pulse of today’s burning issues, but Left My Desk is something special.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMAs much a chronicle of the origins of the Glyndebourne Festival as a metaphor for the pursuit of any artistic enterprise, David Hare’s The Moderate Soprano (which is directed by Jeremy Hen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMConor McPherson is one of my all-time favourite playwrights. Having made his name with plays such as The Weir, Port Authority and St Nicholas, The Night Alive in some ways harks back to his …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMBeginning as a BBC radio play in 2009, Anthony Biggs’ production of Gregory Evans’ Shirleymander is a timely revival, and so on the nose in terms of topicality and relevance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIn Felicity Huxley-Miners’ In The Shadow Of The Mountain, we see how mental health affects one young couple and the difficulty of acknowledging ‘ the elephant in the room’.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTheatre company Danse Macabre has taken the original conceit of Sartre’s No Exit (three strangers who find themselves locked together in the afterlife) and turned it on its head. In their …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMHad Mindgame not been advertised as a psychological thriller, I dare say the surprises would have a greater impact. Even so, it’s enjoyable as a homage to true crime and the dark side of t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIn our post-#MeToo world, consent and the right to be free from harassment is all-important. However, in matters of cyber-crimes, the law is less prescript as it’s harder to enforce iron-c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIn Rachel Causer’s Lippy (which is directed by Georgie Staight), she traces her life-long admiration for female comics – for their unabashed way of looking at the world and not conformin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWhat begins as a satire-cum-family drama in The Buzz veers into Death and the Maiden territory with the past being brought into account.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSemi-autobiographical in nature, Grotty – which is written by Izzy Tennyson and directed by Hannah Hauer-King – looks at the Dalston lesbian subculture in east London.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIn Worth A Flutter, which is written by Michael Head and directed by Jonathon Carr, one man finds there what he thinks is the answer to his unhappy love life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMI’ve seen numerous productions of A Doll’s House over the years, but this is the first one that’s fleshed out what was hiding in plain sight – the overarching weight of the character…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe observations and insights that Bartlett injects in No Talking have an accumulative effect so that by the end of the play, we see the ‘magnitude’ of the absent conversation.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWritten by Grace Carroll and Bryony Cole, WET looks at two friends’ response to standard porn and how they would rectify it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMDom Coyote’s latest show We Can Time Travel is a personal odyssey that wears its influences on its sleeve.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIt’s no exaggeration to say that the in the round seating has brought an extra dimension to Tumble Tuck, allowing Sarah Milton to interact more readily with the audience and in keeping wit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMInspired by practitioners who climb rock faces without the aid of harnesses or other safety equipment, Free Solo tackles the subject of fear and whether one’s passions can sit side-by-side…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMExploring amongst other things the relationship between emotions, art and war, Moormaid is not easy to pigeonhole. Written by Marion Bott and directed by Zois Pigadas, at its heart is Meliss…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMPresented by Acting Gymnasium and updated for the 21st century, Molière’s The Misanthrope is directed by Gavin McAlinden and transposed to modern day London.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMInspired by a true court case in the US, Faceless – which is written by Selina Fillinger and directed by Prav Menon-Johansson – deftly tackles this conundrum with tact.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMWritten by Guleraana Mir and directed by Madelaine Moore, Coconut looks at Rumi (Kuran Dohil) a young woman in London and her efforts to find someone who truly complements her as a person an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMuch of what the Pensive Federation has achieved isn’t to do with the large numbers that take part (even though that is impressive) but because of the palpable sense of belonging that the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:20AMUnencumbered by ambition or expertise, Secret Life Of Humans – which is written and co-directed by David Byrne – straddles the political and the personal. It’s inspired by the true sto…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMErnest Hemingway was the figurehead for lean, masculine writing in the American novel, whose purpose was to be truthful… Written by Rolf Hochhuth and directed by Anthony Shrubsall, Death O…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWritten by John Fitzpatrick and directed by Sarah Davey-Hull, Reared focuses on three generations of women in the same home.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThe Other. The Outcast. The Overlooked. The Visionary. Those who don’t ‘fit in’ with everyone else aren’t always appreciated in their lifetimes, but their impact is felt in the long …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMIn Kevin Armento’s play Devil With The Blue Dress which is directed by Joshua McTaggart, we look at someone who has been on the world stage since the 1990s – Hillary Clinton.
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