Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Tristan Bernays’ final scene is simple and heartbreaking – the whole room burst into tears at the exact same moment. Suddenly all of the bits that don’t work tremendously well don’t …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, March 19, 2018
Big Bad is a polished, complete play with a confrontational viscerality necessary in the world today. With greater emotional range applied to the performance, this would be a really fantasti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, March 18, 2018
Boxed Up is a beautifully surreal and dark take on the ridiculousness that is advertising culture, deftly delivered. If you’re after something off-beat and tongue-in-cheek, you’d be hard…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMBrazilian choreographer and performer Ella Mesma uses a wide range of dance styles, such as rumba, rock and South American ritual dances in Ladylike.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, March 16, 2018
Br’er Cotton is an exemplary play that both honours the memories of those murdered by the state without repercussions, and presents the issues at hand with a care that respects their compl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
There are really moving moments and confessions in Boots, especially relevant in a time like ours, where more and more people are speaking up about sexual abuse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMMonday, March 12, 2018
Equally endearing and moving with light touches of comedy, Tatty Hennessy’s A Hundred Words For Snow coming-of-age monologue is well-crafted, staged simply and performed with an easy vulne…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMForeign Body is a brave and abstract way of presenting a horrific act that leaves the stories wide open to the audience’s individual interpretation without coming across as preachy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, March 11, 2018
PlayList offers a musical twist to the scratch night formula. Write a play inspired by your favourite song, which is the exact same length as that song. It’s a smart invitation and one tha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMFollow Suit is a slick, dark comedy of the absurd which satirises the dry routine and empty pointlessness of office life. The four main cast members barely utter a word from start to finish,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, March 9, 2018
Part of why I love Vault Festival so much is the range of work programmed. Established performers run alongside brand new companies. Some work is polished, some are in progress, and the rest…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMThough a great opportunity to see/hear Beckett’s Not I in performance, the additional aspects of the event make this a rich experience of acceptance, learning and critical discourse. If on…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, March 8, 2018
I want to like the fantasy and the colours of Pippin, to totally give in to the world of the play, but its problems are too many. Though I’m likely to be the humming the opening number for…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 7, 2018
In Nest, Katy Warner sets up the characters with such detail and ease, it’s difficult to not be pulled into their world and left wanting to know more when the intense 60 minutes is over.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMOverall, Words Words Words is an accomplished piece of writing about a very personal subject but it wants more. With more time or some fresh eyes on it, this piece could really fly.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
Blackboard Theatre’s Stardust is a truly extraordinary piece of theatre which made me want to talk, to evoke change, to make people see that cocaine is not worth any feel-good factor if it…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIn Trust, the attack on capitalist structures that have ruined the lives and livelihoods of an entire generation is sharp and well-staged, with striking imagery and conflict that lingers to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 5, 2018
At the end of Ian Done a Bad Thing one of the actors asks us a question about what has challenged our ethical beliefs. This makes you feel involved and further activates the production. I wi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, March 4, 2018
The narrative arc of Foul Pages at the Hope Theatre is woolly and lacks clear authorial intent, making for a frustrating experience of unfulfilled potential.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, March 3, 2018
Kathryn Gardner’s script for Treading Water at The Vaults is beautifully paced and observed, drawing nice humour as well as poignancy from the three characters, each of whom variously find…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMTestosterone is an extraordinary piece of theatre – thought-provoking, powerful, emotional, and a highly enjoyable one too. Not to be missed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 1, 2018
Maybe this Harold & Maude isn’t a show for fans of the movie – it doesn’t match up, but that’s ok. It does still do a pretty good job in delivering a desperately needed dose of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMBut for the most part, this is a beautiful story of the relationship between a child and the story of The Rain God at The Vaults.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMWednesday, February 28, 2018
It is impossible to predict the kind of show you’re going to see when walking into the space, but The Very Important Child is totally entertaining, hilarious and loads of fun. By the end I…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMTuesday, February 27, 2018
Completely honest, Ad Libido breaks the taboo around female sexuality and the way in which more often than not, it is swept under the rug and deemed unimportant.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMAmy Conway’s Super Awesome World is an interactive whirlwind full of games, quests and phone calls, but there are deeper issues bubbling under the surface.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PM“Dance, dance, dance, otherwise we are dead!” Pina Bausch was the person who opened my heart to dance. And this seems to be the case for most of the performers on stage in Still We Dream…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIf you can remember being a teenager in the 90s, you will enjoy The Quantum Physics of My Heart. Or if you can just remember being a teenager, you will enjoy this show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMMonday, February 26, 2018
Overall, it turns out in Criminal that a murder mystery in a small village is just the right setting for an improv show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:10PMSunday, February 25, 2018
But as a nuanced discussion of the political and emotional minefield facing young women today, a witty takedown of some of the hypocrisies and contradictions of modern feminism, a celebratio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:10AMSaturday, February 24, 2018
by Laura Kressly Alice and her husband moved house from a bustling city to sleepy Berkhamsted just 6 weeks ago. She can’t wait to make new friends and get stuck into all that village l…
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