Wednesday, October 31, 2018
I’m Not Running is, for my money, the sort of political theatre that gives both politics and theatre a bad name.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, October 28, 2018
Marianne Elliott’s new and updated production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company is so utterly necessary. And I use the word necessary very deliberately.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, October 27, 2018
Having seen the Bridge Theatre’s latest, Martin McDonagh’s A Very Very Very Dark Matter, my bonkers quota is through the roof.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Hogarth’s Progress consists of two plays by Nick Dear: The Art of Success, 30 years old, and a new companion piece, The Taste of the Town, set 30 years later. Both tell the story of W…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, October 12, 2018
Cock is by no means classic Mike Bartlett but it is still great fun and, for connoisseurs of supreme social awkwardness in particular, a decently entertaining hour and a half.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, October 1, 2018
There is really very little to fault in this Antony and Cleopatra. It is lush, epic and a piece of sheer class. Better than that, it’s that rare theatrical beast: a god production in …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, September 26, 2018
An Adventure is a really lovely thing. Great writing, beautifully performed, artfully directed and an excuse to bop around to Brimful of Asha in the interval. Who needs more?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, September 21, 2018
Sylvia is one of the best shows I’ve seen this year. So therefore what follows isn’t a review, not really (I’m not going to tell you what the very evident issues were, f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, September 13, 2018
Dust was very much worth the wait for me. It’s a supremely powerful piece, undoubtedly not an easy watch but a necessary one nonetheless.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, August 29, 2018
I know I say ‘you should see this’ about quite a lot of shows. But honestly, you need to see The Jungle. You just need to. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry and it wi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, August 18, 2018
I thoroughly enjoyed the RSC’s Imperium. Great writing, clever production, brilliantly acted. Overall, a great day out in Ancient Rome.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, August 16, 2018
However implausible its set up may be, I really enjoyed Pressure. It’s so much more engaging and fun and gripping than it has any right to be and is a case study in just really superb…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, August 13, 2018
Adapted from Eugene Ionesco’s French absurdist comedy by Patrick Marber (who also directs), Exit the King, in a nutshell, tells the story of the death of the titular King, who’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, August 11, 2018
I don’t use the word ‘hate’ often in this blog, because let’s be real I never truly hate being in a theatre, but I came very close to hating Allelujah! I’ve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, August 7, 2018
Fun Home is a great show: touching, unique and deeply humane in a way that feels so needed at the moment. I just wish it had been longer.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMYou know those ‘if you’ve been affected by the issues in this programme...’ messages you get sometimes after particularly traumatic documentaries and/or episodes of Holly…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, August 5, 2018
The financial crash of 2008 has much to answer for, I think. Top of the list? Brexit and President Trump. One thing it has yet to really produce though, for my money (pun intended), is any r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, December 19, 2013
Rachel Williams was inside the London theatre watching The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time when 'chaos erupted'It was meant to be an early Christmas treat; a family trip to the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:40PM 
