Willy Hudson is a writer and performer from Exeter — his Willy Hudson Ltd theatre company advertises itself as making “fabulous queer theatrical extravaganzas to make you go ooh, argh an…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:46AMEver been to a queer club? You know, drag cabaret night at Madame Jojo’s, or the Black Cap or Her Upstairs. No? Well, not to worry — the Royal Court’s latest provides a fabulously extr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMBilled as an examination of gentrification, Kerry Jackson at the National Theatre has disappointingly little to say about this subject. Its main characters have clichéd opinions and stereot…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMHow many plays pass the Bechdel Test? Originally featured in a comic strip, and popularised in film criticism, it simply states that to pass this test your story has to have: 1) at least two…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIn his award-winning play, which premiered in Boston in 2011, American playwright Stephen Karam examines the issues in a thoroughly original, brilliantly constructed and thematically compell…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWhat is the best way of talking about the Middle East? Should plays take a documentary or verbatim approach, all the better to educate and inform, or is there another path, which includes en…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:20AMJulia Pascal is a resourceful theatre-maker who is unafraid of controversy. Her interest in the relationship between the personal and the political, and sympathy with both the victims of the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMJulia Pascal is a resourceful theatre-maker who is unafraid of being controversial. Her interest in the relationship between the personal and the political, and sympathy with both the victim…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:15PMIn his latest, Blackout Songs, a powerful 95-minute two-hander, Joe White uses a flexible structure to represent some excruciating emotional material, and the result gives an almost overwhel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMJoe White is great at staging fraught emotions. His Mayfly in 2018 vividly showed a family whose members were at the end of their tethers; it also had an intriguingly intelligent form. In hi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:14PMAt best Baghdaddy at the Royal Court Theatre is a surreal trip into traumatic memory, at its worst it’s a self-indulgent mess. If you think that American crime are worse than Saddam’s yo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMLast night, at the Arcola, I witnessed the return of The Poltergeist, Philip Ridley’s blazing one-man show from 2020. It is a terrific piece of writing, a text which is a masterpiece of st…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:58PMMartin Crimp’s Not One of These People at the Royal Court: radical investigation of presence and absence in fiction
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:14PMSudha Bhuchar’s Evening Conversations at the Soho Theatre: a calmly intelligent exploration of family identity
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:24AMNica Burns’ choice of an opening production for @sohoplace is Marvellous, a celebratory bio-drama about Newcastle-under-Lyme’s local legend, the irrepressible Neil “Nello” Baldwin, w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTherapy is inherently dramatic. After all, it’s all about character — and it has the aim of producing a recognizable change. But who is most affected by the process: client or therapist?…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:10AMTherapy is inherently dramatic. After all, it’s all about character – and it has the aim of producing a recognisable change. But who is most affected by the process: client or therapist?…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIf you accept the documentary verbatim style of Jews. In Their Own Words at the Royal Court, and don’t mind the lack of any real drama, this is an intelligently crafted and committed piece…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIdentity is the sum of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of these are personal, and some political. Sometimes they blend, sometimes clash. In Aaron Kilercioglu and Bilal Hasna’s excellen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIdentity is the sum of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of these are personal, and some political. Sometimes they blend, sometimes clash. In Aaron Kilercioglu and Bilal Hasna’s excellen…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:53AMBritain is a divided nation, but one of the divisions that we don’t hear that much about is that between Pakistani gay men. Written by Waleed Akhtar (who also stars in this impressively he…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIn Silence at the Donmar Warehouse four British playwrights have adapted Kavita Puri’s book Partition Voices: Untold British Stories in a joint production between Donmar Warehouse and Tara…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIn developing The Trials, the Donmar worked with more than 1,300 young people plus a further 200 in workshops at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and National Youth Theatre. Director…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWhile Britain is experiencing a “summer of discontent”, with inflation, strikes and other conflicts, it is odd that so few plays are as overtly political, and as overtly resonant as Sona…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:40PMIf the plotting is predictable, and the story arc unremarkable, the image of life represented is both strongly compassionate and often very pleasurable. In true welfare state style, comedian…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMYesterday evening I went to see Dog/Actor at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. Written by Steven Berkoff, in his instantly recognizable snarling voice, these two short monologues are brillia…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:55AMWith its energetic arguments, moments of great charm, gritty humour, and mix of filth and idealism, Sonali Bhattacharyya’s Chasing Hares at the Young Vic is both relevant and contemporary.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMI live in Brixton, south London. A few days ago, the borough’s aptly named Windrush Square hosted events which celebrated the contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:44AMIs gig theater the latest sugar rush? Okay, it ups the brain’s serotonin levels and charges around your body like a crazy electric current, but amid the joyous nerve reactions does the mus…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:54AMWith Windrush Day being 22 June, last week was originally going to be the opening night of Roy Williams’ new Hampstead Theatre play, The Fellowship, until plans had to be changed because L…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMBangers at the Soho Theatre has a fine buzz of the contemporary and a real sympathy for sexual confusion and other experiences such as the loss of a parent.
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