Friday, 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.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, December 20, 2017
It’s always been an ‘open secret’ that the ‘perfect family Christmas’ doesn’t exist and that in a post-letter society, writing about ‘picture-perfect’ lives has been supersed…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, December 17, 2017
ackling everything from class, race, gender, mental health and LGBT issues, the new writing nights arranged by Actor Awareness have been productive in terms of quality and quantity.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, December 15, 2017
Directed by Alice Hamilton, Thirty Christmases brings the external peculiarities of the holiday season to the fore, plus the bittersweet nature of spending time with family at the close of t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, December 11, 2017
Peter Pan has been long been a Yuletide favourite, but ever since its inception, the original production with its emphasis on the Darling family and flying has dominated the show’s focus. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00PMThursday, December 7, 2017
Focusing on three black inmates in Winson Green Prison, Shadows addresses the potentially sensitive subject of black identity in the 21st century and how ‘cultural heritage’ can be a dou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMSaturday, December 2, 2017
As plays go, Jean Genet’s The Balcony is brimming with metacritical ideas – a fusion of Brechtian intent with a Gallic sensibility. Directed by Velenzia Spearpoint, The Balcony is set in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, November 30, 2017
Collating the most scathing reviews in their respective careers, theatremakers Zoe Coombs Marr, Ursula Martinez and Adrienne Truscott fashion these into a postmodern show that deconstructs t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Directed by Audrey Sheffield, The Dark Room is a play that doesn’t like to disclose all its secrets at once. Just as one adjusts to the absence of light over time, so the essence of Angela…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, November 27, 2017
Taking inspiration from Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s quote that “Well-behaved women seldom make history,” theatre group Glass Splinters have recently devoted an evening to nine monologues …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, November 26, 2017
As for the musical numbers, they come when least expected, but when they do, they are are poignant and offer a brief time for reflection amidst the anecdotes, dancing and comedy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, November 22, 2017
The play subliminally hints at the insuperable attraction between men and women, that no conditioning can overcome. The non-verbal lure of the masculine ‘other’ calls to the women.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMEven though officially the oppressive Soviet regime ended at the end of 1992, under Vladimir Putin’s leadership the practises of the KGB era still endure and in terms of the sorts of civil…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Phoenix Rising isn’t your average play. Written by Andrew Day and directed by Maggie Norris, it takes place in an underground car park beneath Smithfield meat market and uses the whole are…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, November 18, 2017
Marking their third anniversary, the Bread & Roses Theatre in Clapham is currently running a poignant play that takes a familiar issue and turns it on its head. Written by Phil Charles …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, November 17, 2017
Given a non-custodial sentence, 17-year-old Becca (Holly Donovan) has to spend to her community service cleaning in a hospice. Initially getting off on the wrong foot, Becca ends up striking…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, November 16, 2017
Marking the inaugural show at the Playground Theatre in west London, Picasso by Terry d’Alfonso takes place in the Afterlife, where the artist is met by three of the many women in his life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAbsurdist: Like a Lynchian movie, Gregg Masuak's Flycatcher doesn’t spoonfeed answers, but it gives its audience plenty to think about.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Captain Agnes Bennett (Safron Beck) is very efficient at her job. As a Army Notification Officer, it is her duty to personally meet with relatives whose family have died while in active serv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMAsides from the contemporary setting, the one thing that sets the NYT production apart from others is the sheer energy that all the performers exhibit. While allusions to West Side Story may…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, November 9, 2017
Interweaving three monologues that take place in different countries and years, there is a thread that unites the respective experiences – not unlike The Hours or Fluff Productions’ Worl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, November 6, 2017
Hailing originally from Australia, Ladies Stories Productions has recently showcased a double bill of plays at Matthew’s Yard in Croydon. Written by Laura and Amy Toledano and directed by …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSunday, November 5, 2017
st as playwright James Graham has made a name with plays based on recent real events with a political dimension, similarly, a recurring theme within Terry Johnson’s oeuvre is the untold st…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, November 3, 2017
Without a doubt, Scott James’ Between A Man And A Woman is an ambitious play. Addressing domestic abuse head on, the play spends as much time with the friends and family as the couple in q…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, October 23, 2017
Based on Dennis Glover’s poem The Magpies, Gary Henderson’s Skin Tight has its own lyrical quality, with certain lines and references alluding to larger ideas and themes. Set in New Zeal…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, October 21, 2017
In Howard Barker’s play The Castle, like after the Second World War, a group of men return from the Crusades to find their home ‘unrecognisible’. Unfettered by formal hierarchies, a ma…
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