Monday, April 9, 2018
In 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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One of the things I love about the Glass Splinters evenings is the variety of hitherto ‘unknown’ stories that are unearthed. Far from being recent participants in world events, Glass Spl…
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Acclaimed author and playwright Jaki McCarrick has achieved notable success with her award-winning play Leopoldville. I caught up with her recently to talk about Belfast Girls, which is curr…
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Ross McGregor’s latest adaptation is faithful to the source material, though there is the inclusion of music at various junctures to accentuate the ‘scenes of merriment’.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, April 1, 2018
Philip Ridley's Vincent River, directed by Robert Chevara, is in many ways a contemporary retelling of Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, March 31, 2018
As their first play for Frigg Theatre, Disa Andersen and Julie Våpenstad Holm have created in Is This Thing On? a succinct and pertinent show that addresses the emotional mindfield that is …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, March 30, 2018
Based on Anneliese Kohlmann’s Belsen trial transcript and Holocaust survivors’ testimonies, Under The Skin tells the story of a Jewish ballet dancer who attracts the patronage of an SS g…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMTuesday, March 27, 2018
While the play is set 13 years ago, many of the issues that Our Big Love Story raises are very pertinent today, as they have never really gone away. It offers a sombre and timely perspective…
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A female-led venture, The Glorious Tour distinguishes itself by broaching subjects of adolescence and motherhood, and the range of emotions that accompany them.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMWednesday, March 21, 2018
Suffice to say, Mark Arends and Frances Arends deliver sterling performances in Old Fools, rooting the lives of Tom and Viv in very relatable emotions and circumstances.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, March 19, 2018
Most people know Jean-Luc Godard’s famous maxim: “All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.” Theatremaker Louise Orwin uses this quote as a jumping-off point to explore this dy…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00PMSaturday, March 17, 2018
Straddled between the personal and the political, Things That Do Not C(o)unt at the Waterloo East Theatre as part of the Vault Festival examines the arbitrary and concrete criteria for woman…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, March 15, 2018
Tennessee Williams’ Summer & Smoke is undergoing a revival at the Almeida Theatre and makes for an interesting comparison with the playwright’s other mature work.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, March 11, 2018
But if Unburied leaves us with one message, it’s not that the past isn’t an unfathomable place. Rather, it’s that knowledge always has a price and that the ignorance of what one knows …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00PMWith its unique approach to addressing stressful, life-changing events, Ok Bye stands apart from conventional theatre, balancing mature content with a sense of fun.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, March 9, 2018
What’s The Story? is as informative as it is entertaining, and does justice to the likes of Mary Fleming, Aileen Turner and the other Irish nurses who worked during the Second World War an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIn a world that’s more reliant than ever on smartphones and up-to-date information, it’s amazing, as this play shows, how people are still susceptible to miscommunication and obstacles t…
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This particular production of Frankenstein at The Space Arts Centre utilises a primarily female cast to re-tell the story from a feminine perspective.
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As a show, The Shape Of The Pain is meticulously crafted, with Hannah McPake vividly conveying how fatiguing – mentally and emotionally – living with CRPS is.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, March 5, 2018
Initially, Foul Pages has a surfeit of innuendo, as the actors revel in saucy banter. However, once things settle down, Foul Pages reveals itself to be about the love of acting and what it w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, March 4, 2018
What makes Glitter Punch so compelling is the detail of the respective lives and how amidst life’s slings and arrows, there are moments of beauty and solace that make it seem all bearable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSaturday, March 3, 2018
Some plays are great for most of their duration, but they’re let down by their ending. The Wedding Room is solid entertainment throughout, with a twist at the end that satisfies.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, March 1, 2018
Patricia Rodríguez and Mercè Ribo’s show Derailed is an amalgam of improvisation, personal anecdotes and music, it fuses these disparate elements to create a wholly original show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMWednesday, February 28, 2018
Christina Baston gives a heart-felt performance in Tales From Star City as the communications prodigy who becomes the conscience of the Soviet space program.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMVersion 2.0 at the Leicester Square Theatre is a thematically dense play, that takes an unusual route to working out one’s emotional baggage in public
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, February 27, 2018
Exploring the hypothesis that another person took Bonaparte’s place on the island of Elba, Napolean Disrobed (which is directed by Kathryn Hunter) has a premise that is inspired by likes o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, February 26, 2018
What Goes On In Front of Closed Doors subtly highlights how intelligence and former economic status have no bearing on the susceptibility of homelessness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, February 25, 2018
In Ad Libido Fran Bushe not finding a ‘cure’ in the end for her Female Sexual Dysfunction gives the rest of us permission to have less-than-stellar sex lives. In the end, finding a speci…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMRecalling the minutiae of one’s teens, Amy Tobias taps into the heightened emotions from that period and obliquely shows how growing up is full of doubt and questioning – a perfect attit…
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Having the power to change how one is treated by men – that is at the centre of Conquest. And while the impetus to shake things up in the play begins at a personal level, it later sets its…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, February 22, 2018
There’s no one quite like Witt ’n Camp. ‘Singing’ classic rap songs in the style of opera, Charlie Howitt (Witt) and Holly Campbell (Camp) have subtlely dispensed with the distinctio…
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