Monday, September 23, 2019
Black Chiffon is an interesting play, slowly building enough psychological intrigue and drama to keep you hooked.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, August 28, 2019
Appropriate isn't my favourite Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play but it has enough in it of what I love about his writing to enjoy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, August 25, 2019
The performances are superb in The Doctor at the Almeida Theatre, Juliet Stevenson is as formidable as her character and Ria Zmitrowicz's dry one-liners are a refreshing light relief particu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, August 14, 2019
Actually is a complex play that explores more than consent, it raises questions about attitudes towards sex and relationships, race, religion, upbringing and family.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, August 6, 2019
Harriet Madeley's The Colours is a verbatim play based on interviews with people with life-limiting illnesses and those working in palliative care.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, August 2, 2019
There is much to applaud in Tree but it feels like a play that is more about the spectacle and experience than a substantial exploration of meaty issues which is fine to a point.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, July 22, 2019
The Actor's Nightmare is six short plays, linked by themes of acting, theatre and performance and brought together for the first time at the Park Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, July 19, 2019
Equus is an intriguing play, part psychological thriller, part mirror to the human condition and this is an almost thoroughbred production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, July 15, 2019
The Illusionists are back in London for the summer season with their mix of illusion, thrilling feats, humour and family fun.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, July 12, 2019
London’s theatre scene is awash with productions which offer a ‘fresh’ take on classics but Jasmine Lee-Jones’ play Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner demonstrates exactly what re…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, June 30, 2019
Dark Sublime is a long play and while it contains some really good material it would benefit from being trimmed back to make it slicker and more focused.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, June 27, 2019
Actress and writer Tuyen Do’s first full length play Summer Rolls brings a story about a British Vietnamese family to a UK stage for the first time.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, June 25, 2019
Tuyen Do is no stranger to the London stage having appeared most recently in The Great Wave at the National Theatre and Pah-Na at the Royal Court, but next week she’ll be sitting in the au…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, June 20, 2019
Strange Fruit is an exposing and painful play but it feels like it distracts itself from its otherwise powerful key theme.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, June 17, 2019
The eccentric inventiveness of what Little Bulb has done is thoroughly entertaining.
Little Bulb Theatre: The Future, Battersea Arts Centre 2019. Photo: Adam Trigg
I loved Little Bul…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, June 16, 2019
Apphia Campbell gives a powerful and engaging performance in Woke at Battersea Arts Centre and the play's message about how much hasn't changed is firmly nailed to the mast.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, June 13, 2019
There is a delicious modern twist A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge Theatre, not only putting some power back into female hands in a play which traditionally treats women badly but a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, June 10, 2019
Riotous in tone, occasionally chaotic but with an inventive playfulness Education, Education, Education successfully captures the optimism of the time but it isn't just nostalgia.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 5, 2019
From fluid, floaty, tender, strong, angular and jovial to grace, strength and seamless instinctive precision, that’s BalletBoyz’s Them/Us at the Vaudeville Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, June 3, 2019
There is much to be gleaned from the subtlety of Country Music but it requires work and attention to seek it out.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, June 1, 2019
In The Starry Messenger writer Kenneth Lonergan has gifted Mark with a dry humour delivered by Matthew Broderick in such a deliciously understated way you can’t but admire his comic timing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 29, 2019
It’s not a joke waiting for a punchline, rather it’s something I’ve been puzzling over ever since I had my view and enjoyment of a play disturbed not once but twice by latecomers.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, May 24, 2019
Anna at the National Theatre is a taut thriller and an interesting and different play watching experience.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Small Island is an epic story straddling Jamaica and England before, during and after World War II and exploring colonialism, racism, love and identity.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Written and performed by Joana Nastari, F*ck You and Pay Me is described as a love letter to sex workers, it dispels some of the myths, is celebratory, humorous and witty but doesn't sugar c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, May 12, 2019
Class at the Bush Theatre layers marital tensions with social class tensions and the pressures of being a teacher and learning.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, May 2, 2019
In the same way that the Marvel Universe mixes superpowers with mortal flaws, the scope of The Half God of Rainfall stretches to another galaxy but all the time remains profoundly human.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Little Death Club is a cabaret of the late night variety, a kind of seductive circus of misfits and certainly not for the prudish.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, April 28, 2019
All My Sons is a gripping play, a slowly unravelling emotional thriller with masterclass performances.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, April 22, 2019
Emma Dennis-Edwards has created a character that gets under your skin in Funeral Flowers at The Bunker Theatre. You laugh with her, feel for her and desperately want someone to ask the right…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, April 15, 2019
Sounds Like Chaos is a youth theatre group co-founded by Roisin Feeny and Gemma Rowan and their latest piece, Wow Everything Is Amazing, imagines the digital world in 50 years time.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
