Monday, September 26, 2022
Identity 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 12:53AMTuesday, September 20, 2022
Britain 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 07:00AMSunday, September 11, 2022
In 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 07:00AMSaturday, August 20, 2022
In 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 07:00AMSunday, August 14, 2022
While 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 05:40PMThursday, August 11, 2022
If 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 05:00AMThursday, August 4, 2022
Yesterday 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 02:55AMSaturday, July 30, 2022
With 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 11:00AMSunday, July 24, 2022
I 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 04:44AMMonday, July 18, 2022
Is 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 01:54AMSaturday, July 2, 2022
With 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 07:00AMSaturday, June 25, 2022
Bangers 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.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
Theatre is slowly recovering from the effects of the pandemic, and many shows which were canceled because of the first lockdown are now finally getting a staging. The latest is Satinder Choh…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:12AMif you buy a ticket you will not see That Is Not Who I Am by Dave Davidson (who doesn’t exist), but instead you will experience Rapture by Lucy Kirkwood, who is an established playwright. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, June 18, 2022
In the past, most plays by black-British writers have been about the legacy of the Windrush generation, or occasionally about migrants from west Africa, and their main theme has been exposin…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:54AMMonday, June 6, 2022
Beru Tessema’s drama House of Ife, about an Ethiopian-British family facing a tragic loss, is deeply felt and emotional and marks a good start to this venue’s 50th anniversary season.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, May 30, 2022
Satinder Chohan’s Lotus Beauty at the Hampstead Theatre, a loving portrait of a Punjabi family-run beauty parlour in west London’s Southall, is an uneasy mix of comedy and tragedy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, May 9, 2022
David Eldridge’s trilogy about relationships, which started in 2017 with the hit show Beginning, now reaches its second part with Middle, which has opened at the National Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 4, 2022
Even 20th century drama is under threat. So can the National Theatre buck this trend with this rediscovery of The Corn Is Green, and some help from its star, Nicola Walker?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, May 1, 2022
Although the current government has blundered through both Brexit and the pandemic, and is now deliberately making life more difficult for both low-income families and the rest of us, theate…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:28PMMike Bartlett is very prolific, but this Restoration-style satire on society at London's Lyric Hammersmith is sadly timid and predictable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, April 26, 2022
What does it feel like to be British and black? Ryan Calais Cameron has recently emerged as the go-to guy for answers to this question. In February, the Soho Theatre revived Queens of Sheba,…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:00PMMonday, April 25, 2022
Ryan Calais Cameron does it again: he portrays the male black British experience with joy as well as pain.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, April 23, 2022
When do you have to take a stand? What compels you to do it? And what are the costs involved? These questions, which not only reflect the desire to protest against injustice in our increasin…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:28AMMonday, April 18, 2022
In 1987, Caryl Churchill — without doubt the best living playwright in Britain — premiered her Serious Money, a satire on financial capitalism written in the form of a scintillating Rest…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:51PMThursday, April 14, 2022
You can’t keep a great playwright down. Ron Hutchinson, whose award-winning stage plays, such as Rat in the Skull (1984) and Moonlight and Magnolias (2005), are contemporary classics, has …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:45AMTuesday, April 12, 2022
When theatres closed during the pandemic, the first reaction was shock. Then was born, at least among the more progressive spirits in the theatre community, a desire to build back better. To…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:44PMTuesday, April 5, 2022
Ruth Wilson delivers an acting masterclass in Jean Cocteau modernist classic adapted by Ivo van Hove.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, April 2, 2022
Is there really such a thing as an unmissable show? Depends on your taste of course, but for sheer hype this event takes some beating: two-time Olivier Award-winning star Ruth Wilson (last s…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:34AMTuesday, March 29, 2022
Mike Bartlett’s Cock invites suggestive comments, but the main thing about the play is that it has proved to be a magnet for star casting.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, March 23, 2022
Football stories are never just about a game — they are also about life and how to live it. In Tyrell Williams’s Red Pitch, his debut play now getting an enthusiastically energetic stag…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:09PM 
