Monday, 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 11:00AMFriday, January 5, 2018
Although it was built in the 16th century, Middle Temple Hall is a very appropriate setting for Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, particularly as Dickens was a student at Middle Temple from 1839…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, December 23, 2017
There are too many joys in the show to list them all. Be sure to look out for the arrival of Jefferson after the interval. Just try to get a ticket to the room where it happens and be ready …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:04AMThursday, December 21, 2017
Jethro Compton, the accomplished writer and director of White Fang, has created this gritty and magical adaptation of Jack London’s novel of the same name. It is exceptional.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
Over the last few years, the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond has put itself back on the map for a younger generation of theatregoer, with an eclectic and unpredictable programme of events th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, December 16, 2017
Rapunzel’s fantastic cast of children and young adults represent a cross-section of 21st Century Britain. The inclusive cast of Rapunzel are genuinely diverse: from physically disabled to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, December 14, 2017
An international cabaret phenomenon, La Soirée has been seen for the last few years in places like the Spiegeltent at London Wonderground, but it makes the leap across the river to the West…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Daisy Pulls It Off only works if the performers get the tone right. In Park Theatre's production, they do it perfectly - it's hilarious... If you’re after a ripping laughing this Christmas…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, December 8, 2017
You don't have to be a wild boar (or a critic) to enjoy Wild Bore... Oh man, the sheer fucking horror of it; the burden that comes with being a straight white male critic who’s sexually re…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, December 7, 2017
A world of potential conflict here, and the casting works well. At times the production does engage deeply, particularly in the bruising encounter of all three together for the first time in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, December 4, 2017
The Finborough revival of Jerome K Jerome's 1908 chamber piece continues the fringe venue’s glorious taste for dusting off forgotten works; a production that reproduces the original’s ma…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMBad Roads by Natal’ya Vorozhbit is a much-needed reminder of what's happening in the Ukraine and how the war is affecting its willing and unwilling participants.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, December 1, 2017
The Old Vic's Christmas Carol is enough to make a merry man out of the worst seasonal curmudgeon. It boasts an effervescent Scrooge in Rhys Ifans – all wild hair and projectile spittle, an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, November 30, 2017
Designed to challenge our misconceptions about sex workers and their industry, Sex Worker's Opera is a campaign, a celebration, a cabaret by and about sex workers. The show offers us an affe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 24, 2017
We Apologise For The Inconvenience takes place during a fraught episode when Douglas Adams’ agent locked him in a hotel room and refused to let him leave until he had finished The Hitchhik…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
The Cervantes Theatre’s current staging of Lorca's classic, alternating between English and Spanish, is a powerful and deeply humane examination of the effects of ruling through oppression…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMvo van Hove’s production, starring Bryan Cranston in the iconic Peter Finch role, makes the case for itself by inviting audience identification with Beale’s angry, uncensored, unedited, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMSunday, November 19, 2017
We are promised a “choreography with words”, dozens of mini-scenes showing different experiences in making that one step, across a border, taken from myriad film and TV, familiar and unk…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSaturday, November 18, 2017
Fiona Skinner played a blinder as Emma, the uncomfortably pregnant, disillusioned mum-to-be, challenging the usual stereotypes of what pregnancy is meant to feel like. She’d have been welc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWhen I mentioned to friends the concept behind tonight’s production – thirty plays are performed within the space of an hour, with the audience deciding which order they’re acted in �…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, November 17, 2017
Matthew Campling, a former counsellor, has crafted a psychologically dense and often intense dialogue between broken people; pain catalysed by an allegation of sexual assault.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMEven putting your coat and bag in the cloakroom feels like a scary Soviet Union policy. But without spoiling too much, you don’t want to be weighed down by all your life crap in your bag b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 10, 2017
Martin McNamara’s follow up to Your Ever Loving is a very different tale. The focus is on Agnes (Safron Beck) who gives Joan “the Freak” Ferguson from Prisoner Cell Block H vibes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIn many ways football and the theatre are similar. Both have intervals, both provide an entertaining evening or matinee performance and it isn’t particularly original or insightful to comp…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Federico Garcia Lorca’s play, The House of Bernarda Alba, offers an interesting insight into the world of upper-middle-class Spanish women in the 1930s, living in a small village where eve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, November 5, 2017
Matilda Velevitch’s superb writing, skilfully interpreted by these fantastic actors, have created exquisitely observed characters, about three individual women who have the resilience to s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMOverall, the production was brilliant fun. The children will love it and there is enough there to keep the adults amused for an hour!
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, November 4, 2017
This three-hander by Keith Bunin is a look at not so much the impact of religion and belief but the shield it provides for other issues.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, November 2, 2017
60 years on, Roger Gellert's tale of repressed homosexuality at an English public school remains a damning social critique.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 31, 2017
Mendoza takes the most Scottish of plays to 19th century, which seems a risky and bizarre move but Los Colochos fast-paced and gory production makes Shakespeare accessible and brings passion…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMSunday, October 29, 2017
Tea Break Theatre’s play begins with a ‘National Trust tour guide’ announcing we will be given a tour of the property prior to the play. It soon became apparent the ‘tour guide’ wa…
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