Wednesday, 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 11:00AMKevin Elyot could quite possibly be a national treasure now, had he not died three years ago. His plays are instantly accessible, entertainingly written and have lots of lovely wordplay. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, July 22, 2017
Pig and Runt were born within minutes of each other in the same Cork hospital ward. They grew up closer than siblings, closer that twins, an incestuous blood pact made amongst the sweat and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, July 21, 2017
The Witch’s Mark, written and directed by Timothy N. Evers, draws inspiration from historical and contemporary accounts of the Scottish witch trials. Edinburgh in 1591, is in the middle of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, July 20, 2017
Written as a response to George W Bush’s Republican Party’s war on terror following the attacks in September 2001 only 12 years after this play’s premiere America seems to be run by a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, July 17, 2017
Guardian critic Michael Billington recently brought back his bizarre alter-ego, a young woman named Helena, for his review of Fatherland at the Manchester International Festival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, July 14, 2017
Helen Edmundson’s play is a study in humanity’s need for dominance, especially as much as it is a historical romp.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, July 13, 2017
What sets Yank! apart is that this is more than a campy boy meets boy tale amongst the khakis and star and stripes but a no holds barred look at LGBT history, it even includes a bit of L.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, July 10, 2017
The warnings of full frontal nudity shouldn’t deter people from seeing this but nor should it be the only reason to see this (Naked Attraction is on All 4, everyone) because this play, abo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, July 9, 2017
Theatre N16’s small space isn’t easy to navigate. Set design options are limited and plays with may locations and scenes should probably avoid this space but Monkhead Theatre have found …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, July 6, 2017
In The Passion of the Playboy Riots, writer/director Neil Weatherall imagines a meeting in the early 20th Century between W.B. Yeats (Loclann O’Grady) and Lady Gregory (Cath Humphrys), two…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, July 3, 2017
Diversity, or lack of it, in the elite is often talked about. The lack of BME representation in industries such as medicine, politics, judiciary and of course theatre and the arts dominates …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, July 2, 2017
f a close relative’s dying wish makes you physically sick, are you still obliged to carry it out? Sarah Kosar’s play Mumburger explores how far familial obligation can go in the days and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSeeing Bat Out of Hell the musical is not something you forget quickly. The tunes have been earworming their way around me ever since the opening night.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThick and Thin’s debut Brains showed a lot of promise as a satire of privatised healthcare and their new effort, Suckers is very similar except instead of zombies and privatisation we get …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, July 1, 2017
In the world of journalism, the story is everything. This lesson is drilled into us time and time again over the course of Ink, James Graham’s latest play, which charts Rupert Murdoch’s …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, June 29, 2017
William Gillie (Andy Secombe) is a charismatic and inspirational teacher running the only school in the Scottish mining village of Crult in 1950. Being a learned, professional man he has a c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 28, 2017
Is Food a southern Gothic? There’s sufficient bitterness, sex, abuse, plotting and stifled secrets to see it as such. Its themes are plenty dark enough, and warrant warnings for disordered…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWeiss is an experienced theatre and dance critic for the Chicago Sun Times. As a female theatre professional in an ethnically diverse city such as Chicago, her comments seem even more shocki…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, June 26, 2017
I am very late to Herstory party, now in its 4th incarnation, Nastazja Somers (soon to be appear in Hope Theatre’s revival of BJ McNeil’s Torn Apart) curated a thought provoking, emotion…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, June 22, 2017
Guest Review by Jake Laverde Originally produced at Hampstead theatre, Richard Bean’s Kiss Me is making its west end debut. Kiss Me is a two hander set entirely in one London bedroom 1…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
Time crashes into each other. Linear time ceases to exist. Past present and future elide. A triptych of female pain. Generations of hurt reach across the decades but can’t quite cross thos…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, June 18, 2017
The play is wholly rooted in humanity—even as it outlines the consequences that can occur when humanity gets forgotten. In the primary narrative strand of The Enchanted, a prisoner tells u…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWestman and Jibson are not big names but both are very experienced actors; Westman was recently in Torn at the Royal Court, London and Jibson has many stage and screen credits behind him. Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, June 16, 2017
Two minutes into Emma Rice and Knee High’s Tristan and Yseult at the Globe and two men are dancing together, miming falsetto. One of them is a sexy-camp bad boy. We know he’s a sexy-camp…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMThursday, June 15, 2017
In the opening scene, the titular character’s no-holds-barred description of her life as the forced wife of a man three times her age leaves the audience of Aisha in stunned shock. This in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMatthew Campling’s work is set during Brexit and just before the 2017 election (presumably so we can all have a night off from wondering if Theresa May will still be Prime Minister tomorro…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
Following the previous sold out and highly acclaimed three editions, HerStory FEMINIST THEATRE FESTIVAL returns to Theatre N16 on the 18th and 19th of June.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM"I discovered I preferred my own words to interpreting the words of others, so I started writing plays. I had five produced in SA. When I came to England I needed to make money so I went int…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, June 5, 2017
Twitstorm pitches itself as the ‘hilarious exploration of what can happen when the self-righteousness of social media gets out of hand.’ As a regular on Twitter, my interest was piqued i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, June 3, 2017
Ordinary Days is a one-act musical in which four young New Yorkers who aren’t quite happy with their lives sing out their troubles in just 70 minutes. The plot could be right out of Sex &#…
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