Sunday, 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, October 28, 2017
Ali is a respected wife and counsellor. But her harmonious life is torn apart when a young male ex-client make allegations of sexual misconduct against her. These allegations go to an Ethica…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMHis new play, produced by Eastlake Productions, written entirely in verse is a candid one-man show switches seamlessly between the innocence of childhood and the very real struggle of being…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, October 25, 2017
Insignificance should be the perfect Terry Johnson play; characters based on real people based on a slightly surreal concept such as Hysteria, his play about Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dali …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, October 22, 2017
In the opening scene of Jay, it’s Jay (Flora Nisbet-Dawson) who’s keeping it together. Her girlfriend Alex (Eleonora Fusco) is curled up on the floor, severely depressed and barely funct…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, October 21, 2017
Elizabeth Kuti’s Fishskin Trousers is an ambitious play, a story of loss, grief and mythology spanning eight centuries, featuring only three characters.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, October 18, 2017
A new arrival disrupts the daily routine and questions convention in this wonderful, comical and hard-hitting stage adaption of Ken Kesey’s classic portrayal of life on a psychiatric ward …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMIn this production of Dr Faustus the cast of 10 showcase their quintuple talents; not only do they act, they sing, dance, perform puppetry and magic. Joseph Morton, the director, pulls us r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMHoward Barker’s play The Castle opens with the men returning from the crusades to find their fields neglected and their women astray. The men aren’t happy with their loss of authority an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Complete with contemporary regional accents, Front Foot Theatre make Richard III fresh, realistic and easy to understand. What they do is transform it into a 21st-century political action th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, October 16, 2017
This transgressive tale of two hungry children, performed in German, is paired with witty paraphrasing on the screen behind: ‘A treat? Could you be more specific?’ It was a little unsett…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, October 15, 2017
Ian McKellen will feature in the West End premiere of The Exorcist as the voice of the Demon. From 20 October at the Phoenix Theatre, the stage adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s iconic …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, October 14, 2017
What’s Going On? A key theme of Victory Condition is how disconnected human beings (in industrialised countries) have become.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, October 11, 2017
James Graham’s latest play covers twenty-seven years of the life of a small town Labour MP across two-and-a-half hours, but it’s frustratingly a middling affair. As a satirical comedy, i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, October 9, 2017
In 2015, in response to the lack of transformation in South Africa following colonialism and apartheid, a group of students at the University of Cape Town began a protest, the focal point of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, October 8, 2017
A new adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde adds melodrama to the formula, diluting its potency.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, October 7, 2017
Chris Hannah’s What Shadows, making its London debut after a critically acclaimed run at the Birmingham Repetory in 2016, looks at the ever-changing United Kingdom by focusing on Enoch Po…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, October 6, 2017
Kathy Burke is not a woman you'll often see on the red carpet of a West End press night. She doesn’t enjoy the photographs and expectations that come with it, and she'd much rather see her…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 3, 2017
Finally, the version of the Tempest you've always wanted - name the one with Native Chichewa speakers.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, October 2, 2017
Am Dram is more than a group of amateurs putting on shows for families and friends. It allows audiences to see shows not commonly found in professional settings, it builds confidence, it giv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWritten by Spanish playwright, Guillem Clua, The Swallow is a tightly written, brilliantly directed and acted rollercoaster of anger, heartache, hatred, humour, recriminations, guilt and sor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, October 1, 2017
Turkey is a play about playing with nature and playing with emotions. All three characters are people who haven’t met their full potential, particularly Madeline who despite her skill with…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, September 29, 2017
Grace McKenzie discusses Island Song, the launch production for Polyphony Performances, her new company founded with Poppy Brooks. It's performed for one night only this Saturday 30 Septembe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, September 28, 2017
Nicole Espinoza and Jaime Lorca aided by puppetry put on this abridged, Spanish language version of Othello. It focuses on Act 4 onwards where Iago plots the demise of Cassio.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, September 27, 2017
Pete Gibson is an actor based in the North West. He will be playing Douglas Adams in Mark Griffiths' new play We Apologise for the Inconvenience.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, September 21, 2017
Remember when you were a little kid coming off a particularly exhilarating fairground ride, screaming “again, again!”. That’s how Photographer O – the latest immersive experience fro…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, September 19, 2017
Finborough Theatre, London – until 30 September 2017 Guest reviewer: Melinda Haunton The signs are excellent when you enter the Finborough’s latest set. It’s instantly, vividly a c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, September 18, 2017
The Autumn Season at Ovalhouse explores the ‘unseen’ people in our communities: children in care, whistle-blowers, sex-workers, transgender people and asylum seekers.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, September 14, 2017
The beauty of theatre is there are many ways to tell a tale. Thebes Land by Sergio Blanco (Blanco is from Uruguay, who also lived in Paris), is, on one hand, a tale of a man (Martin, played …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, September 10, 2017
I loved the pre-recorded classical Punjabi songs and much of the live singing. The choreography, performed by an enthusiastic cast, was an entertaining mixture of classical and contemporary …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, September 9, 2017
Just because the play wasn’t written to be “about” anything doesn’t mean it has no meaning to the players and the audience. It just has a different and personal meaning depending on …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM 
