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 Willia…
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 the O…
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, for a start). It…
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 will make y…
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 acti…
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’s told he …
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 not had such a visceral…
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 Hollyoaks? Have you…
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 
