Friday, September 24, 2021
Although I always have the best of intentions about promoting and reviewing online young people’s theatre, I’d be the first to admit that it has often taken a back seat. I’ve now tackl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, September 23, 2021
As it’s a recorded stream, you’re at liberty to choose your own encore moments and replay any numbers which particularly take your fancy – and there are bound to be several of those.*
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, September 19, 2021
The twin themes of social justice and climate activism are explored in this piece from Fehinti Balogun/Complicité.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
Do these two pieces push the idea of audio theatre to its limits? Probably and the results are highly pleasing
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe first tranche of Young Vic Digital consists of pieces written in response to a main house production. Here they are in chronological order of the time the original plays were written.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, September 12, 2021
Siobhan Bremer’s A Theatrical Life is very much a piece which will more readily appeal to members of the profession and those interested in the mechanics of the business called show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, September 10, 2021
Site specific theatre hasn’t been easy over the last eighteen months – in fact you can take out the first two words of that statement. It’s been tricky enough getting regular venues op…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, September 9, 2021
And so, to a piece which has long been on my “to see” list but which has kept getting bumped as a whole host of other stuff claimed my attention. As Meet Me At The Edge is a filmed accou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 8, 2021
It was just about a month ago that I observed that considering the dominant story of all our lives for the last 18 months has been the pandemic, there haven’t really been all that many di…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, September 7, 2021
Although I’d still give a best company name prize to recent Edinburgh appearees (??!) Expial Atrocious, running them a close second is Smoking Apples – though I’d be hard pressed to id…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, September 1, 2021
Around The World In 80 Days is best known for the iconic 1956 David Niven film rather than the original novel by the prolific French writer Jules Verne; this version seeks to restore the ori…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, August 30, 2021
Arthur Smith pays homage to his (extra) ordinary Dad in Syd which premiered at 2018’s Fringe and is now an online show recorded at Falmouth and being streamed via the Pleasance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, August 29, 2021
The real life figure of Ed Gein looms large in horror films and literature. Most famously he was the direct inspiration for Norman Bates in Psycho and his terrible influence can also be foun…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, August 25, 2021
A warm and entertaining solo play, Lila Clements’ Look, No Hands has some distinctive features which marks it out from many other confessional shows of a similar type.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, August 23, 2021
Two well known tales with a twist: The Little Glass Slipper As Performed By The Queen of France And Her Friends and Metamorphosis. The second piece now tops my personal Edinburgh Fringe onli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, August 21, 2021
Without much more than a two line description in the Camden Fringe brochure, I plunged headlong into two wildly different but experimental pieces, Murmur and Wild Waxflower.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, August 20, 2021
I set off for Hollywood, California via Edinburgh, Scotland and Adelaide, Australia. No, I haven’t finally lost it, this was my online trip in both time and place courtesy of the Edinburgh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, August 19, 2021
Though the big guns which are at the Edinburgh Fringe have now been rolled out, it’s taking some time to pin down what to aim for there. Meanwhile its somewhat smaller sibling is continui…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, August 7, 2021
Jam Tart and Lemon Kurd are two accomplished monologues written by Rhiannon Owens and Nick Maynard which fit together neatly having complementary subject matter and a not dissimilar tone at …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, July 30, 2021
Gigglemug Murder Mysteries borrow their titles, if not their characters and plots, from the works of Agatha Christie. The first of these is the recently released and enticingly titled Murder…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, July 29, 2021
This is Masks And Faces (full title: Masks And Faces or Before And Behind The Curtain) his 1852 play set in the world of the theatrical profession which the Finborough rediscovered and produ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, July 25, 2021
Viper Squad writer James Dillon’s new show Siren takes the tropes of the sci-fi horror genre (there’s a heavy debt to Alien here) and throws the audience into the middle of the action.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, July 23, 2021
The fourth and final Cultural Recovery Fund funded show from production company Seabright has been, like its predecessors, filmed at Wilton’s Music Hall before a live audience and is being…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, July 22, 2021
In what I think may be a first, Original Theatre Company has released a filmed-as-live, onstage rehearsed reading in the shape of A Cold Supper Behind Harrods.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, July 19, 2021
The first new piece for Queers references a moment in history while the second takes a broader more contemporary sweep of recent events but what unites them is that they present the experien…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, July 8, 2021
What makes Black Is The Color Of My Voice stand out from the crowd is Apphia Campbell’s performance which is multi-layered, dynamic and assured and, when she’s singing, spine-tingling.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, July 6, 2021
Silent Uproar’s cabaret style show A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) is a highly sensitive and nuanced performance which nails the debilitating effects of what is still a misun…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, July 3, 2021
The piece in question is Alan Ayckbourn’s The Girl Next Door which harks back to earlier plays such as Whenever, Miss Yesterday, Surprises and especially Communicating Doors in its central…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, June 28, 2021
The Finborough Theatre’s latest show to hit the ether is Leather which is now available on demand. It is a play which isn’t for the faint hearted and comes trailing clouds of notoriety a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, June 24, 2021
Simply called Knot, this is a three-part play which requires the listener to be at a specified (though general) location at a certain time, then to connect to an app and let Darkfield do the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, June 23, 2021
Footprints Festival at Jermyn Street celebrates female empowerment
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
