Sunday, March 8, 2020
Visit Bethlehem is a short, sharp, site-specific show which imaginatively blends fun into a personal tale about the brutal reality of living under military occupation.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, March 5, 2020
As a child of an immigrant mother, the double-bill is Lòng Mẹ like a beloved jumper that’s scratchy but warm, you embrace the small pains because the comfort and love is so much stronge…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, February 28, 2020
Writer Gillian Greer confidently addresses nuances and problems around sex and consent in Meat at Theatre 503 and director Lucy Jane Atkinson ensures tensions consistently run high.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSaturday, February 22, 2020
This is certainly something different to the majority of the festival’s shows: rather than a traditional show, it is a scavenger hunt/immersive promenade show, put on by established compan…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, February 13, 2020
Breffni Holahan delivers Margaret Perry’s script for Collapsible with an unrelenting energy that starts high and reaches stratospheric levels.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, February 6, 2020
Dad’s Army Radio Show is every bit as quaint as Godfrey’s sister’s cucumber sandwiches and every bit as cosy and comfortable as one of Pike’s scarves.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMJodie Irvine poignantly uses a great deal of humour to address the social awkwardness and loneliness of 21st-century living in Gobby.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, February 4, 2020
Through movement, moments of perfect clowning, and almost-unending feasting, the Drop Dead Gorgeous ensemble transpose the female experience and made it a tangible thing that you feel you co…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, February 2, 2020
Push is a one-woman show centred on one woman’s story, and its sense of universality will be welcome to those who experience the pressure to have, or not have, children.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, February 1, 2020
If a piercing performance of the mind is something you are after, you will not be disappointed with VOiD at the Vault Festival, London.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, January 31, 2020
Full Disclosure has created an ensemble piece in Body Talk that weaves the characters’ lives together with the sensitivity and playfulness that these subjects require.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, January 29, 2020
Amantha Edmead is a marvel to watch in Sold, a piece that embraces it all, packing this story of family separation, numerous masters & a quest for freedom into an hour.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Female friendship is such a fickle, flighty thing so difficult to get right, and Miriam Battye nails both its positives and negatives in Scenes With Girls.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, January 24, 2020
Whilst the script for Faces In The Crowd demands unwavering focus and attention in order to not get lost, women’s individuality, voice and their suppression by patriarchal systems are prof…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Oily Cart, the creators of All Wrapped Up, makes gently immersive, highly sensory performances for people under five years old, and people with complex needs.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, January 20, 2020
Despite the issues, the script’s range of influences and forms, combined with great performances, result in a generally strong production of Fix at the Pleasance Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, January 16, 2020
The melancholic, Irish music performed by actor-musicians and the almost-love story set Once apart from the bold, brash showiness of musicals that stick more closely to traditional forms.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, December 18, 2019
I Wanna Be Yours at the Bush Theatre speaks to younger and older people navigating an unjust world, and reminds the privileged among us of the constant learning we have to do.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
With the stalls audience standing and the performers clamouring through the crowd and onto the stage, Kneehigh’s staging of Ubu! evokes a gig, a party and a political rally all in one.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, December 9, 2019
Comedy and vulgarity join forces as Lucy McCormick chronicles history’s strong women in Post Popular at the Soho Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, December 7, 2019
Stories swirl around each other in Midnight Movie at the Royal Court, growing and fading like variations on a theme in a piece of classical music. It’s heady and disorientating, like a sur…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, November 6, 2019
There is a disconnect between the direction and the script that permeates this production of Dirty Crusty at The Yard Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, November 4, 2019
On Bear Ridge, Ed Thomas’ story of being left behind and trying to hold onto the memories that give us a sense of self, is crafted at the Royal Court Theatre with care and sensitivity.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, October 29, 2019
There’s a lot to process in For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad, and it requires active listening and embracing the unfamiliar, but it is visually striking, intimate and reflective.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, October 17, 2019
The Ice Cream Boys is an informative glimpse into South African politics and racial issues but it’s not clear what message the audience is meant to take away.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 16, 2019
Combined with the big questions it raises on compromising one’s beliefs, Mephisto [A Rhapsody] confronts classism, racism and lack of political action in the UK today, both in the arts and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, October 13, 2019
Seeing a group of trans and non-binary people claim space like this in We Dig at Ovalhouse and openly share and reflect on the lives of trans people past and present is beautiful and importa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, October 8, 2019
Before Jonathan Larson’s iconic musical Rent took the world by storm, there was the autobiographical show, Tick, Tick…Boom!
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, September 29, 2019
As a body of work, Caryl Churchill’s four plays Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp complement each other well and offer a bold social commentary that is dark, foreboding and surreal.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 25, 2019
Chiaroscuro is a relevant, moving production, addressing issues of sexuality and identity & focusing on characters that are often left out of theatrical narratives. It is a vital and vib…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, September 20, 2019
Though the design is superb, the kids are both adorable and excellent performers, and McGuiness’s work is solid, the appalling storyline of Big and its tone-deafness can get in the bin.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM 
