Saturday, 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 01:00PMFriday, March 3, 2017
The play adapts Jenet's The Maids as it takes the obsession with a rich employer to an obsession with celebrity, which is relevant at a time where it feels like we know a celebrity’s every…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMSunday, February 26, 2017
“Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her father forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, gave her father forty-one.” These words, taken from a popular folk rhyme, are the first that we …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, February 25, 2017
Whilst I am not the biggest dance fan (I went to a Great Gatsby ballet once though and I LOVED Some Like It Hip Hop) I am a bit of politics geek and End of Dance seemed like it was going to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
Toby Boutall’s play recreates this psychic prison with such fidelity that one can almost touch the walls and smell the faeces smeared thereon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 21, 2017
Naomi Westerman’s one-woman play looks at life after being kidnapped and held captive, not only whether you can live a fully normal life but the world’s expectations and preconceptions a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, February 20, 2017
If the material in Robyn Paterson’s one-woman play feels quaint, then her performance is anything but. It’s an impressive act of virtuosity and memory that flits between each half of a p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMSunday, February 19, 2017
Does Adam Scott-Rowley need to be naked for the duration of this absurdist monologue, as he shapeshifts between comic grotesques for a state of the nation dickaround? Is it a patron baiting …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:30PMThe main issue I had with Summer Nights in Space was how incomplete and earnest it felt. It fails to generate laughs and is too lo-fi to become a camp classic, a la Rocky Horror Show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMFriday, February 17, 2017
‘Wheel of Fortune’ gimmick and great performances distract the audience from the pedestrian storylines. This play must have been bold and daring in its 1920 premiere but for a 21st centu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, February 15, 2017
Blackeyed Theatre’s production strips away any added features from adapted movies, shows and other projects about Victor Frankenstein and simply tells the tale as Mary Shelly originally wr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 14, 2017
Denzel Washington stars in and directs the film adaptation, bringing with him the majority of the theatrical cast of the 2010 New York production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, February 10, 2017
Shunning chemotherapy for Rioja and her beloved Brahms for endless TV boxsets, Hester (Bridget Forsyth) is a woman ageing disgracefully.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, February 9, 2017
Throughout the night, the famous story of The Great Gatsby is told. However, how you see the tale is entirely up to you.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
Hyper-conceptual fringe theatre can be a fascinating brand of performance art, filled with new ideas that push boundaries and challenge our notions of what theatre can be. Yet, sometimes it …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMWhich mammal makes the creepiest sound? If you guessed the fox, you’d be right. Playwright Titas Halder seems to have picked the perfect animal to represent his protagonist’s psychologic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMThere’s no need to flirt with the critics on this one. The show’s charming all on its own.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Julian Fellowes has defended the all-white casting on Half a Sixpence by stating “It is in keeping with period”. Whilst Fellowes justification may make sense to him, it sounds ridiculous…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:05AMSunday, February 5, 2017
In art, marketing is often used as a metaphor for a sense that we all inhabit a meaningless, shallow culture. And so it is in Focus Group where the audience are less immersed than they are o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, February 4, 2017
The Vaults on Leake Street is the right venue for a show about squatting in a dead woman’s house and life. Beneath Waterloo Station, in a subterranean space - theatre’s squatting in it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, February 2, 2017
Unicorn Theatre’s magical production of The Iron Man is simply oozing with creativity. Adapted from the Ted Hughes novel of the same name, the simple story follows an iron giant who befrie…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIn a world of people singing along to musical theatre and drunkenly shouting to actors in passive productions (I’ve been to Rocky Horror so I am saying nothing) it is nice that there is an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, January 31, 2017
After a sell-out run at the 2016 Edinburgh Comedy Festival, Britney comes to London as the part of the Vaults Festival. It is a sketch show with a difference, all the sketchs are about Britn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMBased on a true story this has been marketed as a look at British prison life, the issue is that Brown’s two-hander, with Mark Wingett (Jim Carver in The Bill) as her jailbird father Terry…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMMonday, January 30, 2017
Almost five years after its award-winning run at Soho Theatre, Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna’s autobiographical two-hander returns to London, now at the Arts Theatre on the West End. The p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, January 27, 2017
Adrian Lukis and Jill Winternitz star in the UK premiere of Halley Feiffer's I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard, opening at London's Finborough Theatre in February.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWriting about sex is never easy, staging sex harder still (no pun intended), and I’m not sure if trying to make all this sex comedic makes it better or worse. Sex is inherently funny (and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, January 22, 2017
First published in 1928 (having been banned and rejected for its sheer filth) this adaptation embraces the rhythm of the Joseph Moncure March narrative poem and of the time but whilst Anna C…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, January 21, 2017
Some theatre leaves an indelible mark on you, changes your perspective on life, art, politics or philosophy, or challenges your innermost perceptions of yourself and the world you live in. O…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, January 19, 2017
Raising Martha is a production that has been hit by various casting changes, firstly Morgana Robinson was replaced by Game of Throne’s Gwyneth Keyworth and in a less high profile change Ja…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Andrew Maddock is one of my favourite new writers. He seems to focus on people, rather than characters and stories over storylines. His new play He(art), produced by Lonesome Schoolboy, is a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM 
