Saturday, February 24, 2018
As a work in progress, Conquest has so much potential, but right now the piece feels like a race against the clock rather than a thoughtful and considered piece on feminism, consent and what…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMWednesday, February 21, 2018
Mainly, Told by an Idiot’s Napoleon Disrobed is an evening of absurd fun; enjoyable, clever and performed with tongue-in-cheek gusto.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, February 18, 2018
Immercity’s The Silhouette in the Smoke takes the interactivity even further. Not only do you get to question the actors, but along with your fellow audience members work together to solve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, February 17, 2018
Monica Dolan’s writing debut The B*easts at the Bush Theatre is a provocative monologue performed by Dolan herself, tackling the sexualisation of children and nudging us into a hypothetica…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, February 15, 2018
Hosted by Will Young, who will be starring in Strictly Ballroom The Musical at the Piccadilly Theatre from 29 March, the launch of the production offered all the sequinned glamour you would …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMWednesday, February 14, 2018
Monolog at the Chickenshed Theatre presents several different monologues written by well-known and new writers, showcasing monologues in a variety of formats.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Monorogue’s new show The Morning After provides us with an opportunity to eavesdrop on the comings and goings of ‘The Love Clinic’ on the day after Valentine’s Day.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00PMCatherine Lucie’s’s new play – The Moor at the Red Lion Theatre – pulls off the excellent trick, of giving the audience a denouement that resolves the mystery, while still maintainin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, February 12, 2018
Mad as Hell‘s greatest insight and piece of biographical excavation is that Peter Finch needed to feel his wife Eletha Barrett’s absence to hit the mark of the tortured mad preacher of P…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, February 11, 2018
For a variety of all too female reasons, I wasn’t much looking forward to going out to the theatre to see Bicycles & Fish at The Vaults. But I did. And I laughed, I cried, and at the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMThink of England at the Vault Festival isn’t a hopeless play, but it isn’t ready yet. At present, it doesn’t know what it wants to be. To succeed, the company needs to take it beyond t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, February 10, 2018
It’s a bad idea, if your play’s called The Boring Room (at The Vaults), to draw attention to how boring it is. It’s an even worse mistake to bookend your play with the word “bullshit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, February 8, 2018
NeverLand at the Vault Festival is admirably ambitious, but it’s hard not to feel that a narrower focus would have stopped its reach from exceeding its grasp.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMA charming and funny evening, then. We’re indebted to the Finborough for plucking Cyril’s Success from obscurity. See it while you can.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, February 7, 2018
The problem is, this was a play as light and frothy as Lydia Bennet, while what I want is a Lizzie.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, February 6, 2018
Brad Birch’s Black Mountain and Sarah McDonald-Hughes’ How To Be a Kid are two new plays being performed by Paines Plough at the Orange Tree Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, February 5, 2018
There is no option of falling asleep because if you aren’t being shoved around as if on a rush hour tube then gunfire is constantly going off. Being in the pit is an intensely exciting and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, February 3, 2018
Terry Johnson’s Ken serves as a nice introduction to Ken Campbell or for those that knew him it’s a reminder of the impact his work had on many performers, writers and directors, but he …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, February 2, 2018
But you’ll have heard – Naomi Westerman’s one-woman show Double Infemnity, at The Vaults, is more than a pun, it’s a feminist take on a male genre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
Revolution is a Blockbusters-inspired game played in a suitably austere, bare brick environment; the kind of locale suited to an underground gathering of would-be revolutionaries.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, January 29, 2018
Jennifer Maisel’s play There or Here, at the Park Theatre, is a multi-layered narrative shot through with humour, some of it scathing, including a lot of witty one-liners.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMLanie Robertson’s 2005 bio-monologue about Peggy Guggenheim could be just another ‘poor rich girl’ tale, but in Guggenheim and in the performance from Judy Rosenblatt we see not only a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, January 22, 2018
What is bizarre is that a lot of online bloggers found themselves on this ‘banned’ list despite having three press nights, with ample standing room.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBunny at the Tristan Bates Theatre is a clever, ambitious, funny and scary piece of theatre, delivered with grit and integrity by a superb actor.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, January 19, 2018
Overall, this play has a timely and well-delivered message particularly in the second half of the drama which held my attention throughout and brought new meaning to the phrase “death by P…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
East is arguably a Hobbesian perspective of some white working-class East Enders whose lives are “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” due to being marginalised from mainstream soci…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, January 15, 2018
I’ve never been to an immersive production that brings the audience into the drama quite as much as Keep Calm and Carry On.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, January 11, 2018
Lobster is a tale of what happens when opposites attract and the compromises couples make to ensure the relationship survives. This looks rather sadly at what happens when those compromises …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:45PMTuesday, January 9, 2018
Elizabeth Chan’s performance as Iris Chang in Into the Numbers is a convincing portrayal of mental illness but the lack of background to her story doesn’t give the gravitas this producti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIt’s a tale about obsession, madness and paranoia. Charley comes to believe the egg is, in fact, a Martian surveillance device, with the ‘canals’ observed on Mars actually being the sh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, January 8, 2018
It was ultimately a year about women, with Herstory Festival and Bechdel Testing proving that there was plenty of excellent new writing from women, despite Hampstead Theatre claiming otherwi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
