The biggest pleasure in Glenn Chandler and Charles Miller’s new musical, inspired by the hedonistic history of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, is the beautiful set and video projections.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMRosemary Ashe's high-energy singing and delivery drive the action in this playful revival of Irving Berlin's 1950 Broadway comedy, directed by Mark Giesser.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:59AMCallum and Alison are instantly drawn to each other when they meet at school. Or it could be university. We never know. We’re in Shithole-on-Sea and our sense of place is, fittingly, all a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:14PMThis play won’t give you sleepless nights. It does give you rich historical detail. I imagine anyone who enjoys ghost stories went rushing home to Google Guernsey’s dark history.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMental illness is no fun. The portents aren’t good in A Rat, A Rat, yet this lively short play by Chloe Yates finds humour and possibility in every exchange.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:36AMAt a time when headlines reduce the debate around racism to good or bad, black or white, Drip Drip Drip is a masterly exercise in exploring the grey... It's theatre at its best.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:23AMFrom the wicked Queen who can’t let go of her stupidly innocent son, from the dumbstruck King to the spunky swamp Princess who swims the moat and swashbuckles her way into favour, this is …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIt’s amazing how entertaining deportation can be. We laughed our way through the stories of crime and punishment collated in the glorious confection that is Hassan Abdulrazzak’s The Spec…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:12AMJimmy Porter is the Heathcliff of kitchen sink drama. Dark, sexy, harsh, demanding, cruel; his vicious turns of phrase delivered in poetic flourishes, excite and repel in equal measure.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:39AMNetflix & Chill bristles with promise from the off. Ben’s a working-class boy who’s been to university and is saving for a masters by working as a chef in the local pub. He’s gentl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:47AMStrangely wonderful and wonderfully strange. That’s the only way to sum up People Show 137. Basically, two old blokes, aided and abetted by some other old blokes, a chanteuse puppet, and t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:46AMOver the years, I have come to the conclusion that the litmus test of a good Christmas show is not whether the grown-ups are enjoying the writing or the acting or the storyline, but how the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:13AMAfter a cinematic start with the characters caught in spotlights mid-activity, we tumble into The House of the Spirits with a series of brutal scenes – rape, bullying, exploitation, pain.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMAnupama Chandrasekhar’s tense and searching new play When the Crows Visit is a theatrical response to the 2012 Delhi gang rape of a young woman on a bus. These men walk among us, protected…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:45AMTrafalgar Studios, London – until 23 November 2019 We can only judge the dead through the narratives of others. When those narratives contain a level of both culpability and finger-pointin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:55AMThere are some really interesting ideas in Dissociated, from the exploration of a woman’s psyche during continuous nights of conscious sleep to the fact that the traumas she unearths are p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:28AMHow deep are the internal divisions in British society post-Brexit, and is it possible that the anger erupting on the streets around Westminster every day could escalate to the point of civi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:04AMIt is interesting that Camden People’s Theatre is running two, unconnected, shorts each evening, both exploring issues around women and the grief many experience when love goes wrong.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:04PMMichael Morpurgo’s story, The Mozart Question, is essentially about the solace and joy great music gifts us. For Paola’s parents, however, beautiful music presages pain and shame and gui…
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