In short, Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales is a fine Christmas show for all the family – but don’t be surprised if you have some questions to answer afterwards!
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMDescribed as a ‘treasure hunt’ through a library, Marie Klimis’ The Paper Traveller is an individual, immersive experience which combines storytelling with handcrafted pop-up books, in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMUntrustworthy sailors, stolen treasure, plentiful rum and boat with a captain named Jack – find these and you will be at the ‘x’ that marks the spot for your standard pirate tale. Inve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMotherlode has been touring this short four-hander, written and directed by Rachael Boulton, round venues in Wales for its premiere. It’s London’s luck that it has rocked up at the Finbo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe main character in Gilded Butterflies, in a superb performance by Francesca McCrohon, is a hyperactive chatterbox confined to a solitary cell on death row, willing to spill out her though…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMActing Gymnasium’s talented cast excel with their superb timing and tremendous energy in this acrobatically verbal and physical comedy, A Flea in Her Ear at Theatro Technis.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIn Yerma, Lorca’s enduring “tragic poem”, director Jorge de Juan has seamlessly transposed the action to an Afro-Cuban setting where the unhurried pace of life highlights how empty Yer…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMJesse Briton’s A Pupil asks whether genius can be taught. The real question is what is genius and is it genius if it can be so easily mimicked.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMOff the back of a two-year Edinburgh Fringe tenure and a tidal wave of rapturous reviews, Hull playwright Luke Barnes’ gig theatre opus All We Ever Wanted Was Everything arrives at Shepher…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSadly Shotgun Carousel’s Divine Proportions, which markets itself as an immersive dining experience, is neither immersive or very interesting.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe story of Jane Eyre is a gothic, romantic tale of conflicted emotions and repressed passions. Sadly this production from the Watermill lacks these and is treated as more of a story-tellin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMBury the Dead at Finborough Theatre is a unique and engaging story which captures the sense of unjust, premature death at the mercy of someone else’s agenda.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMartin McDonagh is a good writer. I have to state this because based on this production of A Very Very Very Dark Matter at the Bridge Theatre audiences may not be so convinced.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIn a time when jobs are hard to find, morale is down and hope seems far away, The Full Monty presents the tale of Gaz and his hilarious journey to keep seeing his son.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSpotlight on writer, producer, actor and Fennikusu Productions founder Hadesa Sonné…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMAs the centenary commemorations of World War I draw to a close it seems fitting that Nick Newman and Ian Hislop’s The Wipers Times returns to the Arts Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMLes Enfant Terribles’ The Trench follows the story of Bert, an older man wanting to serve his country during WWI, and is assigned the task of digging for explosives under No Man’s Land.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMArrows and Traps make a triumphant return following their adaptation of The White Rose in this atmospheric adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM“Small details, carefully recorded” is the instruction a beloved tutor gives to the young Charles Darwin early in this play, and just as Darwin eventually produces something transcendent…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe Incident is a timely one-act play about structural racism in Sweden but this tale of a relationship between Swedish Jan and Zimbabwean Monica could be about any mixed-race couple in the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMOver the course of 30 scenes in 90 minutes decked with imagery and metaphors, Dipuka Guha’s intricate script for The Art of Gaman takes us through Tomomi’s journey through the decades.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe Torch Theatre’s in-house team has brought cracking choreographed chaos to the stage in One Man, Two Guvnors, a modern adaptation of a 350-year-old Italian comedy spectacular that was u…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMI feel I should announce something many have missed from Jane Robins and Julie Burchill’s debut play People Like Us; it is broad, very very broad, and all the better for it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMI’m the last person on earth to utilise a football metaphor, but the recent Pinter at the Pinter press day (showcasing the first two of six productions of the prolific playwright’s one-a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThis new musical, Liberty Rides Forth, presented at the Waterloo East Theatre, is performed with gusto by the whole cast, all of whom are in fine voice. The problems start with the story. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMAntony & Cleopatra, clocking in at three hours and 30 minutes, is a tale of two halves (you really do only get one interval).
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMChicago must be praised for not pulling punches in exploring subtexts around gender politics and in integrating serious themes with a thoroughly entertaining show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIt’s a tribute to both playwright and this production that there are so many laughs along the way in Ay Carmela! and that the outcome is triumphant.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIan Hislop and Nick Newman’s script for Trial By Laughter at the Watermill is full of the characteristic satire you would expect and abounds with humour and wit.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMBonnie Langford makes her long-awaited musical theatre return in 42nd Street, a tale of financial depression, showbusiness and the uncertainty that comes with both.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMRib Davis is a keen proponent of large-scale, history-based plays. The Sword of Alex is an epic play in a small space. It deserves to be seen.
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