Sarah Rutherford’s new play The Girl Who Fell, about teenage death, mourning, coincidence and healing, is sensitive and heartfelt.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWinner of this venue’s 2018 International Playwriting Award, Out Of Sorts is a movingly-written and deeply felt drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAlice Birch’s experimental new play [Blank] prioritises form over content and is at heart depressingly reactionary.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSabrina Mahfouz’s feminist account of British imperialism in A History of Water in the Middle East is energetic and passionate but also turns out to be a very slender piece of theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMephisto [A Rhapsody], a French meta-theatrical update of Klaus Mann’s classic novel, has some brilliant moments but lacks metaphorical force.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMBaby Reindeer at the Bush Theatre, stand-up comedian Richard Gadd’s provocative one-man show about a stalker and complicit victimhood, is darkly exciting.
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMRuby Thomas’ experimental debut play Either is an intriguing questioning of gender identity that retains an air of politeness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThis sharp and starry revival of Peter Nichols’ taboo-busting fantasia A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is pretty magnificent.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMCaryl Churchill’s Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. at the Royal Court is wonderfully bright and incisively perceptive.
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMScrupulous revival of Black Chiffon, an almost forgotten psychological thriller about class and unconscious desire.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThere’s excellent acting in Two Ladies, a play that tickles the senses and the intellect by playfully morphing from one genre to another.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMNew Israeli play Amsterdam about the effect of the past on the present is an open text which owes much too much to Martin Crimp.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTanika Gupta’s superb reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s modern classic A Doll’s House is both entertaining and deep.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMNew docu-drama The King of Hell’s Palace about the Chinese blood-contamination scandal of 1990s is about corruption and cover-up.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMLucy Prebble’s latest tells the story of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in A Very Expensive Poison, but prefers buffoonery over analysis.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk. Favourite stage direction: “There are two printed versions …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMLively gig theatre revival of Jackie Kay’s Chiaroscuroa, a 1980s account of the black lesbian experience doesn’t quite work.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTim Crouch returns! And Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation at the Royal Court, his experimental exploration of belief and determinism, is touched by genius.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSimon Woods’ debut play Hansard, about the parliamentary ruling class is timely, and amusingly preceptive, but ultimately unsatisfying.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play Appropriate is a brilliantly acute and entertaining, if a bit depressing, deconstruction of the great American family drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMOne from the archives: In 1988, excavations began on the site of Shakespeare’s Globe and the occasion called for a symbolic moment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIn The Doctor at the Almeida Theatre Juliet Stevenson is mesmerising in a brilliantly written ethical debate that is both thrilling and challenging.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWarheads, a new play about PTSD, features its co-author on stage in a powerful production which is basically a medical case study.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMRare Philip King play tries to turn a farcical situation into a serious drama - and it doesn't quite work.
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