Thursday, April 6, 2017
After being away for two years Sophie hasn’t come to make amends for abandoning Sam but needs a couple of heists to make up for the £800k she lost in a job gone wrong. To complicate matte…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFor limited run in May, Ugly Duck, a company known primarily for the use of abandoned and disused spaces host ProxC Productions Disconnect, A play asking the audience to vote on the fate of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMTuesday, April 4, 2017
The best play I’ve seen so far this year is the Orange Tree’s revival of 80s all-female comedy-drama Low Level Panic, so I had tentative high hopes for Lottery of Love, an adaptation of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, April 2, 2017
A byword for licentiousness and excess, re-imagining this iconic figure for the 21st century is ambitious task. In his first non-Shakespeare stage role since 2004’s the Pillowman, David Te…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, April 1, 2017
Arthur Miller’s ‘forgotten’ play is timely revived by Phil Willmott. Set in a detention room in 1942 Miller’s 1964 play is the story of hope, rumour and sheer disbelief that anyone c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMhe show follows 3 actors who are trying to stage, as the title suggests, an abridge version William Shakespeare’s (fictitious) long lost first play, an unwieldy manuscript telling a convol…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, March 31, 2017
This story of race, religion and purpose after the death of a young man in police custody, seen through the eyes of his loved ones is an example of idea over story, where a concept engulfs t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 30, 2017
You know those badly translated Chinese signs you see on the internet, where something inoffensive in Chinese turns out to mean “Fuck Vegetables” in English? That’s the starting point …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
Going on holiday? Moving to a completely different country? This map is a user-generated look at what is going on in theatres across the world.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMMonday, March 27, 2017
5 Pounds Theatre’s presentation of Leon Fleming’s drama about two siblings manoeuvring the benefits system is a story that needs to be told but Fleming’s poor story means the issues ge…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, March 26, 2017
I love theatre but I already question if it is getting enough of my money. Will donating for shows we haven’t seen yet become the norm? Will Audience/Producer become a new title?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, March 25, 2017
Bringing the memoir of Hollywood Legend Robert Evans to the stage was always going to be a challenge. How to do justice to the sweep of the story, from lowly women’s clothing salesman to t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, March 24, 2017
It is a very out of sorts piece. Strengths, weaknesses, timelines and locations are all explored by this one character in 80 minutes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMOn 20 March, Network of Independent Critics launched the second year of their Edinburgh Festival scheme, inviting independent critics to spend a few days covering shows at minimal costs. I s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMSaturday, March 18, 2017
It feels like Newport wrote one play involving Aoife and her ability to get whatever she wanted and clumsily turned it into a storyline about domestic violence. Why did the reality-bending a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, March 17, 2017
Metalmouth Theatre’s monologue is very hot take on being a woman, a feminist and wondering if there is more to life. Alex Critoph plays a young woman hiding from the world.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMI had high hopes heading into the Garrick; a comic classic by Molière with updated swipes at contemporary life, brought to life by a cast filled to bursting with comedic talent, some of it …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, March 16, 2017
Good sound along with good lighting can save even the most budget stricken production. I recently attending An American in Paris and the sound suffered problems in the second number, I am no…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
Former nurse Gina couldn’t help it, she just had to help Gideon when she found him dazed and wounded on her Dalston doorstep. And he just had to stay in her flat when it turned dark becaus…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, March 13, 2017
Stripping off isn’t generally the first thing you do when you get to work but for naked house cleaner Ethan Mechare that was the point. As to what happened next, well, it could be just abo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSunday, March 12, 2017
Like the title suggests, Diary of a Teenage Girl is told from the point of view of Minnie Goetze. A 15-year-old girl living in 70’s San Francisco whose sexuality doesn’t so much blossom …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThis devised production from director Lilac Yosiphon and Althea Theatre’s cast of 8 has some excellent source material in the form of letters about love and conflict but it feels like an e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, March 11, 2017
The story at the heart of the show, at first seems quite simple but as she unpacks (sometimes quite literally), the varying aspects of it, the intricate and complex nature of the subject mat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe production’s prologue of shuffling music is a glimpse into the format of this play. We rarely stay in one place long, whether it is Katie telling us about her parents’ erratic relati…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:07AMFriday, March 10, 2017
He’s an entertainer remembered with great affection, perhaps by none more than Jack Lane, who’s built a one-man show around the great man; a whistle-stop tour of his life and career.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, March 9, 2017
Calling the play “Love” would mean the horror of upper case, a masculine take on a universal. Why are we talking about gendered language? Because it’s the play’s structuring theme.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, March 8, 2017
Another year, another Hamlet. In recent times Benedict, David, Jude and Rory have joined the many actors who want to show us their Dane.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, March 7, 2017
This Stylish thriller, from Rusted Dust, isn’t so much a whodunit but whydunnit. When the body of a young woman is found on the train tracks of a Northern town in post-war Britain...
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIonesco’s work finds the absurd in the mundane and highlights it. This dinner party with no dinner (but generous and replenished helpings of wine) certainly fit the bill.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThere’s intimate, then there’s The Hope Theatre. With a capacity of just 50 seats, the audience at this small North London venue find themselves physically emerged in whichever narrative…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, March 4, 2017
Puppy is the story of lesbianism, feminism and porn in a patriarchal world. Naomi Westerman’s piece, produced by Little But Fierce, is unashamedly open about sex and sexuality.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM 
