Wednesday, November 13, 2019
When The Crows Visit is a powerful new play, and Indhu Rubasingham's production is a notable success for the Kiln Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 20, 2019
Brian Friel's Translations is a rich and complex play and, in Ian Rickson's production which returns for a second run in the Olivier, its layers are drawn out through the performances of a h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Bartholomew Fair is full of energy and highly entertaining throughout, while making no attempt to glamorise the city's underbelly.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2019
Robert Icke's final production for the Almeida, after spectacular successes including Mary Stuart, Andrew Scott's Hamlet and The Wild Duck, is a complete reworking of a play by Arthur Schnit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 24, 2019
In Sea Sick Alana Mitchell tells, in an engaging lecture, the story of how she, as a journalist, came to be investigating this little known, devastating climate change phenomenon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 14, 2019
A fierce indictment of cuts and callous indifference, Who Cares? comes straight from the mouths of young carers in Salford.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2019
Ned Bennett has created an entirely compelling evening, which reveals new layers to Peter Shaffer's play Equus that we can now only see because we have changed as a society since it was firs…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Samuel Adamson's take on A Doll's House is an ambitious play, sometimes overly so, which delivers fascinating moments but has a tendency to fall short.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Freeman is a startling and exceptional piece of theatre and its run in Streatham was a coup for the still relatively new Streatham Space Project theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Human Jam is precisely the type of show Camden People's Theatre should be producing: fully engaged with its community, angry but imaginative, chaotic and messy, and shining a strong, searchi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Rebecca Frecknall's rich production of Three Sisters takes place in a bubble of unreality, both alluring and doomed to burst.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Ridiculusmus is at the top of their game and Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!, complete with fart jokes, is an absolute must-see for anyone who wants to be awed by what two men on a small stag…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2019
Cyprus Avenue uses shock tactics to show us the horror within, but it is a comedy with depth, perceptiveness and a touch of genius.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2019
It is easy to see why a film set mainly in a recording studio is so suited to the stage and Tom Scutt has created a beautifully balanced and unusual piece of theatre in Berberian Sound Studi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2019
Annie Washburn's new play Shipwreck is intended as a reckoning with Trump. The show pitches itself as a invitation to dinner with the 45th President, but unfortunately would be better descri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2019
The publicity for Martin Crimp's new play, gleefully stoked by the National Theatre, has been all about Cate Blanchett and 'bondage' scenes
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 29, 2019
David Thame has created a neat drama in Kompromat, but its explicit relationship to such a complex story, with real consequences for people who are very much alive, leaves a lingering sense …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 20, 2019
The revival of David Grieg's 2002 play, Outlying Islands, at the King's Head Theatre reintroduces a play of wonderful, haunting poetry and complexity, a flawed but brilliant piece of writing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Joe Hill-Gibbins' of The Tragedy of King Richard the Second is inherently divisive, and the critics have obliged but, only three days into the year, it is very hard to imagine a more excitin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 28, 2018
Anthony Neilson's adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart for the National Theatre updates the original, adding slasher film shocks while retaining the intense strangeness of the original.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2018
The Merry Wives of Windsor is often looked-down-upon as a casual piece of throwaway entertainment lacking substance or serious intent, with little for scholars to get their teeth into. Howev…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2018
Doctor Faustus at Shakespeare's Globe certainly provides an entertaining evening and, if it raises questions as well as providing answers, its approach is fresh, important and fascinating.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell's 'folk opera', Hadestown, is based on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, the ultimate ancient story about music.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2018
The fourth instalment in Jamie Lloyd's consistently enjoyable season of Harold Pinter's short plays contrasts plays from either end of the writer's career.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 18, 2018
Project 2 " Katy Schutte and Chris Mead " are improvising 13 shows, a different one for every night of their run at the Rosemary Branch Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 10, 2018
Robert Icke's new production of The Wild Duck is bold and controversial but delivers an interpretation that strikes home very hard indeed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 6, 2018
The story of It's True, It's True, It's True at the Diorama Theatre is in itself fascinating and highly relevant to current concerns, but director Billy Barrett and dramaturg Dorothy Allen-P…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2018
A Very Very Very Dark Matter is perhaps the least complete of his works for the stage, but its fierce anger and gleeful South Park-style offensiveness makes it unlike anything else on a stag…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Tamburlaine at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon brings the wonder and the terror of Marlowe's shepherd emperor to life in a production that gives an almost faultless account of a defect…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2018
In contrast to Rufus Norris' Macbeth at the National, with Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff, the RSC's current production is focused and direct. This ensures that it is more of a success, bu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2018
David Suchet, image copyright Marc Brenner The Lover / The Collection by Harold Pinter – Pinter Theatre, London Both these plays, part of Jamie Lloyd’s ingenious idea for a compl…
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