Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
Philip Ridley’s Angry is a series of gender-neutral monologues which vary in length and intensity, but most importantly all feature moments of anger (or anger-based incidents integral to t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIn Bump, directed by Michael Woodwood at The Vaults, the collision of two individuals one fateful day forever changes their respective lives.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMMonday, February 19, 2018
Volvas’ The Vagina Dialogues is often humorous with a broad appeal, but there also is a weight to the more serious topics, like an iron fist within a velvet glove.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMImagine you could take a pill that could bestow prolonged periods of effortless intense concentration. Written and directed by Alex Benjamin, Cotton looks at this hypothesis through the angl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSaturday, February 17, 2018
With laughs, wit and social commentary in abundance, Elsa – at The Vaults – will surely put Isobel Rogers on the map.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, February 16, 2018
True to form, Ron Elisha’s play The Soul of Wittgenstein is set during the Second World War, but while one of the protagonists is steeped in profound thoughts, the play is so much more tha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, February 15, 2018
With other classic karaoke hymns such as ‘I Will Survive’ punctuating the show, Tempest Rose’s La Revue en Rose sends its audience out not with a heavy heart, but with a reminder that …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Katie Arnstein’s Bicycles and Fish at The Vaults really is fun – guaranteed to put a smile on everyone’s face, while also having something of substance to say.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMImagine a domestic black comedy written by Martin McDonagh. It’s a bit of an over-simplification, but that’s kind of the flavour of Erica Murray’s debut play The Cat’s Mother at The …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00AMMonday, February 12, 2018
With scientists speculating that advances in computing will lead to artificial intelligence, it’s not so hard to believe that in the near future, there will be an attempt to create ‘arti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWriter/performer Ian Bonar enters with a portable keyboard/organ. This immediately makes me think of James Rowland’s 100 Different Words For Love, which was performed at The Vaults last ye…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMSunday, February 11, 2018
Written by Madeline Gould and directed by Tilly Branson, Anonymous is a Woman’s Think of England at the Vault Festival takes an unexplored perspective of women in wartime Britain.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMFriday, February 9, 2018
From one perspective, the path that Aanesah endures in Little Did I Know can be seen to be a microcosm of women over thousands of years, always hoping for a better tomorrow, but enduring har…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMIn Brad Birch’s Black Mountain, we meet Pau and Rebecca who have taken a trip to the countryside. It’s soon apparent this ‘retreat’ isn’t for a rest or holiday, but a chance to tal…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, February 7, 2018
Medea Electronica bridges the gap between being a theatre company and a band; at the Ovalhouse Pecho Mama has crafted a compelling, contemporary take on the Medea legend.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMOn the strength of Pennyworth Productions’ latest offering, it won’t be long before it is as well-known as the more seasoned theatre companies working in the UK today.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 6, 2018
Double Infemnity at the Vault Festival explores, amongst other things, a woman working in law enforcement in a virtually all-male environment – much like Marvel’s Agent Carter.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, February 5, 2018
In Jen Silverman’s play Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties, staged at the Southwark Playhouse, there are five characters who all have the same name, but are different as can be.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMImagining a time in the near future when mankind’s environmental misdeeds catch up with ‘him’, that’s the focus of Cat Loud: To The End Of The World at the Vault Festival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMSaturday, February 3, 2018
Much like Stanley Kubrick’s oeuvre, the importance of humanity in A Lesson From Auschwitz is emphasised by the negation of it. The play, understandably, can’t be said to be ‘enjoyable�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, January 30, 2018
As a story, The People’s Rock: A Musical at the Vault Festival is both intimate and ‘large’ in its scope, using the tools of Avenue Q and social satire to say something about the value…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, January 29, 2018
Man chooses every day (or not) to yield to the behaviour of his more bestial ancestors or devils, Joe Sellman-Leava’s Monster explores this conundrum as part of the VAULT Festival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, January 26, 2018
Touring show Austen The Musical follows Jane from the beginning of her writing career and throws a spotlight on the potential suitors who informed her later work.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMLast year, Trashed earned rave reviews for David William Bryan at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play returns this month – this time at the Vault Festival in London – and strong word…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, January 22, 2018
Theatre company Kandinsky has created a play in Still Ill that not only shows what it’s like to experience a neurological disorder, but also the rigmarole one faces when trying to get answ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, January 21, 2018
Catherine Lamb gives an energetic performance, making full use of the performance space. She is able to take the story of one particular young woman in a small British town and give it a uni…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, January 17, 2018
What distinguishes a ‘miracle’ from a freak accident? Are miracles by definition the impossible made possible? If, however, the definition is widened to the improbable happening when it'…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
One Festival's Programme A is replete with tales of celebrity, scandal and topiary. While there are moments of levity throughout, it is apparent in the first two plays that the initial humou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, January 7, 2018
The Charing Cross Theatre has been home to a number of musicals in recent years, but this marks the first time a show by Andrew Lloyd Webber has performed there.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, December 22, 2017
The beginning of the play is immediately evocative of John Masefield’s The Box of Delights and Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, with Sylvia having an eerie and memorable train journey.
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