Friday, November 30, 2018
The PappyShow’s Boys is introduced as a ‘celebration of manhood’ which is then swiftly followed by a fight. In hindsight, it isn’t ironic, rather it’s getting a misconception or co…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, November 26, 2018
Playwright Jennifer Cerys’ new play Dandelion at the King’s Head Theatre explores queer history through a lesbian relationship in the time of Clause 28. Here she talks about why queer hi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, November 25, 2018
Nick Makoha’s play The Dark tells his own story when, as a child, his mother smuggled him out of Idi Amin's Uganda in search of a better life in the UK.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 20, 2018
Set in Crumlin, a suburb of Dublin, writer Lisa Carroll’s play Cuckoo follows Iona and Pingu over a couple of fateful days when they announce that they are moving to London. It is a decisi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, November 16, 2018
I go to the theatre is to be amused or moved or challenged or interested and sadly this collection of Pinter didn't really reach out across the dark auditorium to me.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, November 12, 2018
It’s taken two years for the RSC’s hit Don Quixote to make it to the West End with David Threlfall and Rufus Hound reprising their roles as the hapless knight errant and his squire.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, October 27, 2018
Is it ironic that the most emotionally powerful scene of the RSC’s Macbeth at the Barbican comes in a rare moment of silence and stillness, a scene when the Macbeths are nowhere to be seen?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, October 26, 2018
Nina Raine’s new play Stories is back to familiar territory: A woman desperately wants a kid. Unlike Yerma (Billie Piper was cracking in the Young Vic production two years ago) it’s not …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, October 25, 2018
Martin McDonagh’s new play is a (very) dark fairytale with colonial undertones. Who else’s imagination could put Hans Christian Andersen (Jim Broadbent), a one-legged black pigmy woman c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, October 19, 2018
Nina Raine’s new play Stories is back to familiar territory: A woman desperately wants a kid. Unlike Yerma, it's not a physical problem, more of a partner problem.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, October 8, 2018
A play about female genital mutilation is never going to be an easy watch but I particularly was drawn to Bullet Hole to better understand the culture and tradition that supports it, particu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, September 27, 2018
Karen Archer plays Juliana in The Other Place, a scientist in pharmaceuticals who is trying to arrange a meeting with her estranged daughter and divorcing her philandering husband Ian (Neil …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, September 23, 2018
Meaningful debate, clever thought and persuasiveness get overshadowed by ego manifested as sneering, sarcasm and physical violence.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 21, 2018
Written by Lydia Rynne, Hear Me Howl is peppered with references to culture contemporary to the 30-somethings and bubbles with witty lines and observation while handling issues such as pregn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, September 18, 2018
Getting its first staging for three decades, Tony Harrison's World War I-set play Square Rounds is based on true events and explores the devastating impact of chemical warfare and weapons of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, September 16, 2018
Arinzé Kene’s play Misty has transferred to the Trafalgar Studios from a sell-out run at the Bush Theatre giving more people the opportunity to see a play that is unlike anything else you…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, September 13, 2018
The Donmar has set about making this production of Conor McPherson’s monologue St Nicholas an exclusive, intimate and atmospheric experience.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, September 11, 2018
Writer Ed Edwards, who has based The Political History of Smack and Crack on his own experiences with narcotics dependency, has his protagonists speak in the third person, telling their own …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, September 9, 2018
That Girl is Hatty (Hatty Jones) plucked from obscurity to play the lead in what would become a cult children's film. Now grown up she works in advertising and we find her struggling with ad…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, September 7, 2018
Clare Barron’s play Dance Nation at the Almeida not only sees life through the female lens, it touches on subjects that are generally treated as taboo.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, September 6, 2018
Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, The Political History of Smack and Crack draws on writer Ed Edwards’ own experience of narcotics dependency to examine how the politics of the 1980s trappe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, September 5, 2018
My problem with Aristocrats is that there is often a lot happening and sometimes it too easily diverts attention from the central narrative.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, September 2, 2018
August was dominated by Edinburgh for me but the London theatre wheels were still turning; here’s my round up of my favourite bits of news, my theatre hits and misses and few celeb spots...
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, August 31, 2018
New York playwright Philip Holt’s new play The Peregrine is a thriller set in Argentina where protagonist Paul (Christopher Sherwood) is a fixer of the gun-toting kind.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, August 28, 2018
Hatty Jones draws on her own experience as a child actor (in Madeline), plucked from obscurity to star in a big budget film, for her debut play That Girl which explores growing up and female…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, August 27, 2018
Theatre is supposed to reflect society, challenge and change but how can it do that when its programming doesn't fully embrace the full gamut of ethnicity, sexual orientation and balance of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSunday, August 26, 2018
I booked my ticket for Penelope Skinner’s new play, Angry Alan, before the Fringe started and it has subsequently won a Fringe First Award which raised expectations – and it didn't disap…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, August 24, 2018
I walked out of Queens of Sheba feeling a bit teary in a kind of happy/sad/exhilarated way. It’s the first Fringe play I’ve seen that has evoked such a strong emotional response.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, August 23, 2018
Part exploration of love and relationships in extraordinary circumstances, part tutorial in creative ego clashes (or how not to write a play) You Only Live Forever is a new comedy by Viscera…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, August 22, 2018
It's a story that sweeps you up in a mixture of warmth, humour and tragedy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSu Pollard’s Birdie, like the play Harpy, isn't the persona she presents. The wit and humour give way to something that feels like an emotional punch in the gut.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM 
