Monday, January 29, 2018
Kneehigh’s distinctive approach to storytelling in The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk at Wilton’s Music Hall turns the tale into a visual and emotional feast that pays homage to a great artist…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, January 28, 2018
Made up primarily of short vignettes, For a Black Girl at The Vaults pulls apart the constant micro-aggressions faced every day by black women, other women of colour, black men, white women�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, January 27, 2018
Fuck You Pay Me, as part of the VAULT Festival season is a fun, intelligent, and relatively well-paced piece of theatre, which truly has a heart of gold. And heels of gold. And nipple tassel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, January 26, 2018
From the creatives behind The Great Gatsby in the same venue last year, The Guild of Misrule and Theatre Deli is running NeverLand, its new musical adaptation of the Peter Pan story, as the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, January 25, 2018
Scintillating physical comedy and personal probing questions unite, divide and cross-examine the audience in Red Bastard: Lie with Me at The Vaults as part of the VAULT Festival 2018.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Mikhail Durnenkov presents a sample of vignettes addressing problematic aspects of modern life in The War Has Not Yet Started at Southwark Playhouse, London.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, January 22, 2018
This is a tender and beautiful play that, within moments, makes you question why it hasn’t been staged in over 15 years.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, January 20, 2018
The story is set in 1930’s America, where Blueberry the clown has just been left by his wife. He takes us on a journey of redemption, knitting his memories with an honest reflection of his…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, January 19, 2018
The sickly, yellow lights of a featureless meeting room are making Serge thirsty. He just wants some water, to tell his story and get back home to Streatham.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, January 17, 2018
As I walk to my seat, my feet sink in grey carpet. On stage, four people sit in what it looks like an office. One of the characters, a man in a suit, tells us how one day he didn’t go to w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
Breakups suck. Unexpectedly bumping into your ex sucks even more. For exes J and K, it’s even worse because they’re unknowingly about to be set up with each other.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, January 10, 2018
American dramaphiles tend to view Britain as a hotbed of hyper-verbal and hyper-intellectual plays, especially in comparison to our home-bred musicals that often lack the same resonant depth.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, January 4, 2018
One of Dicken’s masterpieces, A Christmas Carol is a natural classic for this time of the year, and contributed to creating the very notion of Christmas as we have known it for the past 17…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, December 29, 2017
After 250 or so shows across London and Edinburgh, these are 2017’s top ten (and a few runners up) from The Play’s the Thing UK’s founding editor.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, December 28, 2017
A second, transatlantic viewing proves just how thoroughly the production theatricalises addicts’ experiences in order to generate audience empathy with the struggle to overcome addiction.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
As a company specialising in making work with disabled people, it makes sense for the company to have chosen to adapt Hans Christian Andersen’s story as it’s one of the few children’s …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMRe-imagining a classic is a courageous act. Tom Crowley’s adaptation follows the journey of a young man struggling to find his place in modern day England and it’s pervasive class system.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, December 18, 2017
A young man waits impatiently for his little brother Matty to finish school. Alone on a football pitch amongst piles of dead leaves, he frets over his alcoholic mum, the state of their home …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, December 15, 2017
Initially How to Disappear seems to be a new addition to the classic, British State-of- the-Nation plays in its searing critique of the government’s welfare policy. But Morna Pearson has g…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
It doesn’t need to be as long as it is, but The Tin Drum is a lot of fun and a dark, prescient reminder that fascism lurks around the corner of Christmas this year.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, December 9, 2017
The Tradition versus Progress conflict sits along side the moral question of whether or not we should be perpetuating these attitudes in young children – who don’t know enough to see the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, December 8, 2017
There are some lovely set-piece scenes in this new play, but its plodding dramaturgy takes too long to develop, and the climactic ending is rushed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMPerhaps one of the biggest strengths of Fritz’s writing is his ambiguity and the fact that Parliament Square poses more questions than it answers. The stakes are high.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, December 7, 2017
You have goat to be kidding me: the Royal Court’s latest experiment is a tonally-confused take on the Syrian conflict, fake news, and livestock management.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
The overwritten script needs significant cutting and dramaturgical streamlining, but it has a dynamic premise that looks at an often-ignored demographic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMCombining their woman-led, political ethos with the use of live music, RashDash reclaims femininity and appropriates the traditionally patriarchal adventure of fairytales in this spirited sh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, December 3, 2017
How do you cope with anxiety when you’re too young to know what it is? This initially appears to be what Good Girl is going to be about – how as children it is so instilled in us to plea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Whilst war rages in the Ukraine, a journalist goes to the front lines and falls in love. Girls sit on a park bench, waiting for their soldier boyfriends.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, November 28, 2017
It’s rare that I’m intimidated by a show. But as three bare bottoms on the edge of a trestle table ridicule the negative reviews the attached bodies have received, I can’t help but fee…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, November 25, 2017
There is the glorious Deb. A semi-neurotic slice of contemporary crisis. Nora Perone completely nails the role with her excellent vocals and comic timing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:04AMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Les Enfants Terrible, a company now synonymous with this experience-based immersive theatre, take us through white-walled holding cells, to a cathedral with neon Donald Trump and Putin effig…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM 
