Saturday, 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 10:00AMFriday, September 8, 2017
Why bother with the traditional press night if you’ve sold 80% plus of allocation? Critics are, over time, becoming less of a key marketing tool and I am strangely fine with it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, September 7, 2017
It would be almost impossible not to enjoy a show based on the wonderful music of Simon and Garfunkel. The melodic joy they brought the world is simply wonderful and so I was delighted to at…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Although written with a young audience in mind, I‘ll go ahead and admit I was laughing from start to finish. The slapstick action and well-timed gags ensured laughs throughout.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, September 4, 2017
Bite Your Tongue is bursting with ideas, energy, earnestness and enthusiasm. I admire the many views and ideas portrayed in the play. It covered so many issues including: what is black cultu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThirty years ago in the USA, the parents and grandparents of today’s Twitter trolls and YouTube conspiracy video makers had no choice but to call up their local talk radio station if they …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, September 3, 2017
Kenneth Branagh directs alumnus-turned-Hollywood superstar Tom Hiddleston as the Great Dane for three weeks only as a fundraiser for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Shanine Salmon…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMFriday, September 1, 2017
Another day, another Hamlet. Despite my initial cynicism, I dare anyone not to be cynical about a version of Hamlet starring a former Tory MP, his barrister son and his American actress daug…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, August 28, 2017
Windows, John Galsworthy's 1922 comment of interwar society, should have become a well-known classic, but beyond the argument of the point of war, there isn’t much point to this story.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, August 27, 2017
Antic Disposition’s Richard III presents a modern-dress version of the Elizabethan play staged in a medieval church, but the themes and bite are pure 21st century. This mixture combines to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, August 23, 2017
Louise Orwin, the writer, director and actor of A Girl and A Gun, is manipulating us, like all good play/screenwriters. We theatre and cinema-goers, sit in the dark, feeling: good, excited, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMWhishaw is brilliant as the Jesus-like character of Luke, capturing his unrelenting devotion to his quest to understand violence. Without Whishaw, it is hard to imagine the production would …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, August 19, 2017
The mood was set by the dark scenery of black brick, interspersed with flashes of light. Hywel John has written a tightly scripted tale, set in 1950s Edinburgh, it is as brutal and harsh as …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMWednesday, August 16, 2017
Pluto’s premise is ingenious. It dramatises the planet Pluto’s reaction to learning that he has been re-categorised – demoted, effectively – from planet to dwarf planet. Pluto throws…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMShanghai Dramatic Arts Centre’s ensemble and Gecko Theatre collaborated to produce and perform a modern play inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a story called The Peony Pavillion.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, August 14, 2017
Essentially, Jack Stanley’s Catastrophists is Abigail’s Party with survivalists for neighbours. Raf and Harry are the upwardly mobile young couple whose aspirational lifestyle encompasse…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, August 13, 2017
Pageant is a revival of a musical first performed off-Broadway in 1991, and it’s telling that this drag satire on the culture of women as decoration still feels biting 26 years later. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, August 12, 2017
‘I ran as fast as I could. I ran and I ran and I ran until I couldn’t run anymore…’ Lonesome Schoolboy return to Theatre N16, after He(art), with Olympiads. A tale ab…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
What a horrifying title but as Hair announces a one off ‘Clothes Optional’ performance on 11 November. Is there anything theatre won’t do to attract new and alternative aud…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, August 8, 2017
Boom is a play unsure of itself. Is it a story of Adam and Eve in the time of Craigslist? Is it a biting satire on cultural and biological heritage when everyone is ignorant about where they…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMHaving never read a David Walliams book before I did not know what to expect from the stage adaptation, so I took along a young person who had. Here is what they had to say.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, August 6, 2017
The Dark Side of Mime is an alarming prospect. I’ve always thought there was something slightly sinister about the traditional white-faced mime act, looking like some kind of anachronistic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, August 5, 2017
Where King Kong really impresses is in its creative staging, with resourceful use of stage space by director Owen Lewis and designer Simon Scullion.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMThe slow reveal of Sonia’s growing love for George is well played by Cressida Bonas, who by the end of this story seems like a woman who’d kill to protect her man. Peter Hamilton Dyer is…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, August 4, 2017
The Wasp is a play better plotted than it is written. The storyline kept me gripped and the acting was impressive, but the characterisation was far too broad and likely to fall into lazy ste…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, July 31, 2017
Walking into the tiny Finborough theatre for this revived Edwardian play is very much like stepping back in time. Music hall classics play as the audience assembles, and the pub’s own orna…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, July 30, 2017
Two strangers have met for an internet-arranged one-night stand in Belfast. Janet is dressed as a mouse. Declan is married. In those awkward moments after the sex they talk and argue, exposi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, July 29, 2017
Bechdel Theatre is looking at the Bechdel Test in life. The test is usually associated with the screen following Alison Bechdel’s 1985 comic strip looking at the failure of women to find a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, July 28, 2017
Leaf is hard to categorise – part comedy play, part sketch show, part mess. Its publicity tag-line likens it to “the bastard child of Monty Python and the Mighty Boosh”, which proved s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMI think like many British people of a certain age I know Lucy but lack of constant re-runs in the UK means I don’t love her. I do know she paved the way for many female comics and was a gr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, July 26, 2017
Taking the form of a series of briefings to the US troops – that’s us, the audience – and including cross dressing, slapstick and audience interaction, Instructions for American Servic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
