Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Celebrating over 50 years since its initial publication, Judith Kerr’s Mog the Forgetful Cat is now an institution for families all across the UK, as they settle down to a bedtime story to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, February 4, 2023
A Complicite show is event theatre. Previous works such as A Disappearing Number, An Encounter and The Master and Margarita are locked in a pantheon of the great works of my lifetime. So, it…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Daniel J Carver’s Revealed at Bristol’s Tobacco Factory has been heralded as the most important work the space has ever presented. Perhaps the pitch pushes this conceit a little far, but…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, August 23, 2021
Taking aim at capitalism, The Wardrobe Ensemble’s Winners rushes through the history of man, big ideas and systems designed to make the ‘special ones’ rich at the expense of all others…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, February 27, 2020
David Mercatali’s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf though long finds layer after layer in the lashings of marital discord.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, February 18, 2020
There is a sadness behind the sitcom-like deadpan of Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses that keeps its audience gripped while still holding it one step removed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, December 5, 2019
An always fascinating piece, Wild Goose Dreams detours constantly down different alleys to tell its story and gets overwhelmed by all the work’s devices.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, November 18, 2019
In tackling Homer’s The Odyssey, Bristol favourites Living Spit, known for their anarchic, slapstick takes on history’s great and infamous figures, ascend to the next level of ambition.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, November 3, 2019
Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory’s Much Ado About Nothing hits a higher level of excellence again, producing a work that will appeals to both Bard newbies and connoisseurs.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, October 25, 2019
It’s only when the location moves to the battlefield and the production is allowed to breathe and the poetry to sing that this production of Cyrano finally begins to come into its own.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, September 16, 2019
Much like Six, that pushes King Henry to the sidelines to place the spotlight on his long-suffering wives, here the Bennett sisters get to take complete ownership of the stage and the story …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, September 5, 2019
It may not be a piece that shakes you, but in bringing the words of Keith Douglas to its audience, Sheers has proved a willing literary executor.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, August 21, 2019
A sold-out Pleasance Grand suggests that Fishbowl may be one of the hits of the summer.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, August 19, 2019
You can’t accuse upcoming composer Finn Anderson of resting on his laurels. His fingerprints are all over this year’s Fringe, from the buzz-worthy Islanders over at Summerhall, to this, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSaturday, August 17, 2019
Who needs that double espresso shot when shows like Meghan Tyler’s Crocodile Fever exist?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, August 15, 2019
Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical is unlikely to go down as a musical theatre classic but you’re guaranteed a good night out, even if you can’t quite believe what you’re watching.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
It may not be the company hitting their absolute heights, but it knows what its audience wants having been versed over the past few years and plays all the hits. Like your favourite festival…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, August 2, 2019
Rupert Everett’s fascinating performance hides some of the deficiencies inherent in this production of Uncle Vanya which never gets to the heart of this transcendent play.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, July 26, 2019
The Malory Towers company deserves great plaudits for putting their all into such a high-intensity show; it’s a charming piece but one that undoubtedly feels like minor-key Rice.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, July 19, 2019
What may have worked as a leisurely memoir, consumed over a period of a few weeks, fails to ignite in Vanessa Redgrave’s Vienna 1934-Munich 1938.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, June 21, 2019
It’s is not going to change your life but for a chance to see a national treasure and to wallow away from the pressures of the real world for a couple of hours, Blithe Spirit ticks all the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, June 13, 2019
Jonathan Church has a showman’s eye for the popular and it’s a relief to report that Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike provides a strong start to another Bath summer season.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, June 1, 2019
Who could have predicted that Kenneth Grahame’s genteel Edwardian tale about riverbanks and hot buttered toast would translate so well to Metta Theatre’s grime infused retelling? I went …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSaturday, May 11, 2019
Theatre is tackling a constant diversity issue, a key component being how to attract an audience that rarely feels the theatre is open to them. Barber Shop Chronicles is the kind of work tha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, April 28, 2019
Our Country’s Good still grips, it would take a very poor production indeed to ruin that, but you can’t help feeling that Anna Girvan hasn’t fully got to grips with this one. Theatre d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, April 22, 2019
Arousing and disturbing in equal measures, English Touring Theatre’s production of Equus stirs the senses as much as engages the brain.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, April 21, 2019
In Dougie Blaxland’s fascinating new play, The Long Walk Back, currently on a national tour, we see former England cricket international Chris Lewis (Martin Edwards) contemplating his life…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, April 8, 2019
The Ustinov studio concludes its season of premieres from the Americas with a slow-burning gem from Argentina, The Omission of The Family Coleman, Claudio Tolcachir’s cult Buenos Aries hit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, March 31, 2019
Many of us will be all too aware of the 9-to-5 drudge that office life can encompass. Yet in Gecko’s Institute, the office becomes a place of both dream and nightmare.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, March 26, 2019
Intronauts, the new co-production from Green Ginger and the Nordland Visual Theatre is a work badly in need of a writer.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, March 20, 2019
Trainspotting Live is a theatrical experience like little else. It may not hit the heart like it does the gut but most will be far too caught up in the ride to care.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM 
