Monday, August 21, 2023
Success always opens doors. Ever since the HBO drama Succession was lauded as a huge international hit, one of its writers and producers, Lucy Prebble, has been a hot property. Although I pe…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:54AMFriday, August 4, 2023
Trauma is the source of identity politics. In the case of African-Americans, the experience of brutal slavery, exploitative colonialism and violent racism are defining experiences in their h…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:28AMThursday, July 6, 2023
Climate-change activist Greta Thunberg is great at doing two things: irritating complacent adults and inspiring idealistic teens. In Sarah Middleton’s debut comedy, Shewolves, which was fi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:55PMMonday, July 3, 2023
James Graham’s Dear England at the National Theatre: Joseph Fiennes plays a mesmerizing soccer manager in this sport-of-the-nation drama
The full version of the article James Graham’s �…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:50AMSunday, June 11, 2023
Peter Morgan’s Patriots at the Noël Coward Theatre: award-winning story of Putin’s triumph is vivid but unreal
The full version of the article Peter Morgan’s Patriots At The Noël Co…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:11PMMonday, June 5, 2023
Can you enjoy a ghost story during summer? Usually the idea of a haunted house suggests images of dark winter nights, thunder and lightning, and howling wolves. These atmospheric factors are…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:04AMWednesday, May 3, 2023
Imagine yourself in a remote place: it could be a mountaintop, or a lost village, or the Amazon. These are the locations that Simon McBurney and his Complicité theater company take us to wi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:06AMMonday, May 1, 2023
We are watching history being made: after decades of being in the shadows, queer drama is now singing and dancing into the mainstream. Theatre after theatre is staging stories about queer, t…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:10PMFriday, April 28, 2023
Is it possible to successfully challenge naturalism in British theatre today? At a time when audiences crave feelgood dramas, uplifting musicals and classic well-made plays, there is very li…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:44PMThursday, April 27, 2023
Brian Friel’s classic play about the blending of Paganism and Christianity in 1930s Ireland is more than 30 years old — and I remember seeing the original production from Dublin’s Abbe…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:23AMFriday, April 21, 2023
The popularity of plays that feature trauma is certainly a trend in British theatre today. But is this a good thing? On the one hand, staging stories of sexual assault might offer consolatio…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:06AMMonday, April 17, 2023
little scratch (deliberately styled in lower case) is adapted by Miriam Battye from Rebecca Watson’s 2020 debut novel, and was first staged at the Hampstead Theatre in 2021. It now transfe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, April 12, 2023
The Downstairs studio space of the Hampstead Theatre manages to continue to offer an opportunity to go beyond the usual naturalism of traditional storytelling, and this is exemplified by Cor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, April 7, 2023
Wow! James Norton naked! Wow! New play by Ivo van Hove. Wow! It’s four hours long. Wow! Wow! Wow! The much anticipated play of the year, an adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s 700-page best…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
In Olivier Award-nominated actor and activist Danny Lee Wynter’s Royal Court debut, the attractively titled Black Superhero, the ambitious theme of black queerness is explored through the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, March 23, 2023
Empathetic revival of Zinnie Harris’s 2000 play about a lost world and small island longings
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, March 13, 2023
The memory play is a theatrical genre which allows the playwright to locate their characters in the here and now while at the same time travelling back in time. It is the form adopted by Bj�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMBjørg Vik’s The Journey to Venice at the Finborough Theatre: Norwegian memory play is tender if slight
The full version of the article Bjørg Vik’s “The Journey To Venice” At the Fi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:50AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
Is anyone still nostalgic about their teen years? The coming-of-age drama is a staple of contemporary British theatre, but surely there is something just a bit too predictable about stories …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:18AMSaturday, March 4, 2023
Has theatre’s time passed? In Tim Crouch’s latest 70-minute show, Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel, first staged at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh last year and now at Battersea Art…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, February 24, 2023
Donmar Warehouse, London – until 25 March 2023 With the fast-approaching anniversary of the latest war in Europe, our culture’s continued fascination with the second world war gets a con…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, February 20, 2023
Is new writing becoming increasingly literary? Recently, some of the language being used by younger playwrights seems to me to be becoming too subtle, something to be savoured on the page ra…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, February 16, 2023
The female monologue is a well-established contemporary theatre form, but often the content is predictable and sometimes clichéd. No such doubts come to mind with Laura Horton’s latest pl…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:27AMMonday, February 13, 2023
With the total loss of its Arts Council funding, Hampstead Theatre’s future as a specialist new writing venue is in doubt. But before anything drastically changes, the playwrights and play…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, February 5, 2023
Culture which arrives from the margins to the mainstream is a classic phenomenon. In the case of Sam Steiner’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons it has taken almost a decade for this two-…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWilly 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 05:46AMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Ever 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 07:00AMFriday, December 30, 2022
Billed 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 07:00AMFriday, December 23, 2022
How 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 07:00AMSunday, December 18, 2022
In 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 11:00AMSaturday, December 17, 2022
What 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 07:20AM 
