Wednesday, July 18, 2018
The Finborough specialises in producing neglected plays and they don’t get more neglected than Robert Graves’ But It Still Goes On: written in 1929 but never previously performed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, July 16, 2018
Alkaline is a tale of friendship, love and change, looking at what happens when relationships cling on by a thread and if they are worth fighting for.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, July 15, 2018
Barry Humphries appears in this tribute to Weimar era composers in his most daring character yet – himself – along fellow Melbournian Meow Meow for the ride along with Aurora Chamber Orc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, July 9, 2018
Knights of the Rose comes from a female team of director and choreographer Racky Plews and writer Jennifer Marsden but it is a masculine tale of Knights of the realm and their fair maidens.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, July 4, 2018
The life of an extraordinary man living through an extraordinary age is too large for one play, and here the latter two novels of Robert Harris’ Cicero trilogy are adapted into two separat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, July 2, 2018
This is an enjoyable production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for those who know the play. A light and frothy interpretation heavy on the laughs, less so on the love.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, July 1, 2018
Beth Burrows is certainly one to watch for the future, and this fascinating, entertaining show deserves to get bigger audiences.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, June 28, 2018
In choosing to restore rather than rejuvenate, Opera North has created a genuinely fascinating and faithful window into a bygone era. In doing so, however, they’ve chosen to celebrate the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, June 14, 2018
I Am of Ireland, a new play from Seamus Finnegan, aims to explore what it is to be Irish in 2018. Perhaps the timing couldn’t be any more apt, with the Irish attempting to deal once again …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, June 9, 2018
Set in my home turf Newham, it’s nice to see the area being portrayed with a bit of heart that doesn’t revolve around violent crime. Although, Shadow Kingdoms does centre around the act …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, June 7, 2018
She’s glam, she’s fun and 55 years young. Jane McDonald is the singer and presenter that everyone wants to be friends with and we got to catch up with her ahead of her sold-out show taki…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, June 6, 2018
This Into the Woods is a fun and entertaining production dealing with serious issues which provide an underlying commentary about society in 21st century Britain.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
The timeless classic, Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock, revived at the Bush Theatre is a marriage of captivating performance and unapologetic text, at a time when it couldn’t be more releva…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, June 4, 2018
To whittle down a 500-plus page book into nearly two and a half hours of theatre is an epic task. Adaptor Ken Bentley manages to do the job succinctly, nothing feeling particularly rushed or…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
The Biograph Girl, directed by Jenny Eastop is a surprisingly progressive look at the silent film industry, focusing on the women who lead the way.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, May 24, 2018
I really enjoyed Schism, for the socio-political and psychological issues it raises. I also loved the depiction of how an unlikely relationship develops and how the couple destroys their rel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, May 22, 2018
The whole production of Kary Brand’s 3Women is a delight from start to finish. This beautiful display of talent deserves to be seen.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, May 21, 2018
Nightfall is peppered with amusing lines, which are like pithy sayings providing us with observations about a range of topics. Certainly, Nightfall could be perceived as giving us a social c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, May 20, 2018
Sarah Kendall’s gift for finding the cosmic coincidence within near misses, loss and the everyday mundane comes to the fore here.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, May 18, 2018
Whatever happens, or unhappens, whatever nuttiness and confusion you’re in for, you’ll experience something special in the Spike Milligan-inspired A Sockful of Custard from Jeremy Stockw…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, May 17, 2018
Great British Mysteries? is a real audience pleaser, which keeps audiences mostly amused throughout. It’s an example of a great parody that harms nobody, except maybe Noel Edmonds.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, May 14, 2018
The Land of Nod is as immersive as it gets, you may not get 100% of the story but what you do see shapes your entire attitude to young people and inner-city life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, May 12, 2018
This may not be Shakespeare or Ibsen but Tonight At 8.30 it is a hell of an entertainment. Whether it is effective in reappraising Coward is a moot point but it is unquestionably a worthwhil…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, May 11, 2018
The joy of Matilda is not just that it celebrates cleverness, not just that it delights in naughtiness, but that it sees each as the essence of the other. All the joy in life is in bringing …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, May 10, 2018
It will be important for dramatists like the author Robert Schenkkan to keep asking the questions raised in Building the Wall. The role of art is not simply in holding a mirror up to a disto…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Theatre has recently taken on more female queer stories with Turkey, Lobster, The Gulf and now Grotty featuring prominently in fringe theatre seasons.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, May 6, 2018
Chess is also a musical about love, about honour, about freedom and about hard choices. It is when these come to the fore that the musical really shines.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
I was thrilled to find that going back to For King and Country was just as rewarding as visiting for the first time. What was particularly interesting was how challenging it was to revisit t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, April 29, 2018
Not even an authentic and stylised production and strong performances can cover up a meaningful but messy look at women in society. With some editing, Masterpieces could be improved immensel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, April 27, 2018
Simply brilliant. Strangely breath-taking. Strictly Ballroom The Musical was everything I hoped it would be and worried it wouldn’t deliver.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, April 26, 2018
Under the tenure of Paul Miller, the Orange Tree Theatre has shown a fierce commitment to new writing, but Joe White’s Mayfly is the first debut play to be staged there since Miller’s as…
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