Tuesday, 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…
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2017 marks fifty years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexual ‘behaviour’ between consenting adults in the UK, and sixty years since the Wolfenden Report recommended this as t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, November 17, 2017
France 1944. A young French girl Elodike runs to meet her lover, a German soldier Otto. Their love is innocent and pure, the exact opposite of the world around them.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
It can be tough to get kids to engage with Shakespeare. Many of them see the foreign-sounding language and old-fashioned stories as irrelevant to the issues they battle as growing up today.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, November 10, 2017
Zoe’s back at her commuter belt town’s refuge after her husband beat her up again. This time it’s because Palace lost. Last time, it was because she was nagging to much.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, November 9, 2017
The tempestuous story of two ideologically opposed, minor league football men and the young player caught between them has little to do with the actual game and has a compelling, emotional n…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, November 7, 2017
In Nanette, Gadsby breaks down this joke structure as she expertly plays the audience, slowly lengthening the time delay between tension and release.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, November 4, 2017
Director Paul Tomlinson employs a post-apocalyptic, urban landscape of crumbling buildings and waste more akin to The Walking Dead than Dunsinane.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, November 1, 2017
Joy, in which learning disabled characters are played by trained actors with learning disabilities, is a play and a directorial choice commendably at the forefront of diversity and accessibi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 31, 2017
Think about your parents, or a parental figure. How have they impacted who you are now? Whether positive or negative some mark will inevitably and irrevocably remain.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, October 30, 2017
Mexican company Los Colochos Teatro not only knows how to utilize Shakespeare’s Scottish Play in order to tell a story of the here and now, but also uses human imagination in a simple, yet…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMIIn light of recent reports of abuse, it has become apparent that many of us have failed to engage with the dark truths that hide beneath the surface of of the theatre industry. Action needs…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, October 29, 2017
As we enter the Arcola main stage, we are presented with a hotel room in midtown Manhattan circa 1954. Albert Einstein sits on the bed going over some notes on his legal pad.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, October 26, 2017
Skin Tight declares that all good things must end and heartbreak is inevitable – but these are the secrets to a fulfilling life. Gary Henderson’s modern classic is reflective and moving,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, October 23, 2017
My time at drama school was otherwise wonderful. It was everything it should have been: fun, stressful, empowering, confusing and thrilling. But it was also something it absolutely shouldn�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, October 21, 2017
Hear Me Raw was perhaps the poshest theatrical experience I have ever had (and that really is saying something). It was a glowing auditorium of bad hair, good genes, and plastic prosecco, fo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, October 19, 2017
Two walls of Marshall amps sit either side of gleaming trusses. A DJ booth manned by a black-clad figure sports a banner for a place called Heorot. Smoke seeps through vents in the floor and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, October 18, 2017
Since 2013, Natasha Langridge has watched her neighbourhood become unrecognisable. As the developers and their machinery creep ever closer with every passing month, she documents their journ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
In world of Harvey Weinsteins, Bill Cosbys, MRAs and other own-brand misogynists in and out of the arts, A mini-festival of feminist theatre should be a soothing balm to the wounds wrought b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMYou only find round beds with pink satin sheets in particular places or owned by particular people. But it’s safe to say that a woman wearing a full, fur-suited mouse costume complete with…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, October 16, 2017
Hilarious and heart-breaking in equal measure, Jane Upton’s work is a darkly realistic shock to the system.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMGerman physicist Werner Heisenberg talks of pairs and duality. The one thing against the other. The one in terms of the other. Directed by Marianne Elliott and written by Simon Stephens, thi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, October 15, 2017
In the expansive hall and gift shop of the V&A’s Museum of Childhood, one corner has been set up as a playing space for Popup Opera’s Hansel & Gretel. Director James Hurley doe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, October 14, 2017
Imagine a world where our inner monologues are voiced at all times. Sure, it would make the world a much louder place and we’d probably always have sore throats. But think of the thing…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
Erin Markey is a darling of the New York performance art, comedy and cabaret scenes. With an established, devoted fan base, her work has been lauded by publications such as the New York Time…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSami and his mum are preparing for her to go to Mars for years and years and years. Both obsessed with space, Sami’s proud of her but worried that he might never see her again.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, October 9, 2017
Frankie Meredith’s script has a solid, viable core, but the short, episodic scenes spanning a long time period make for a skeletal whole that feels like the first act of a longer play.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMI’ve seen sexist theatre. I’ve seen ableist theatre. But it’s rare to come across a show that is so openly and unashamedly both of these things.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, October 8, 2017
Chile has suffered regular bombings since 2005. Unlike the current spate of terrorism the UK is experiencing, more than 80 disparate, domestic anarchist groups have claimed responsibility fo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, October 5, 2017
Atir is a young boy living in Egypt, working as a servant to The Pasha. When the ruler wants to send a gift of a baby giraffe to the King of France, he asks Atir to take her.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, October 4, 2017
Oh Dionysus, as someone who grew up in Poland, I really do miss political theatre. The real thing, you know? The thing that grabs you, makes you stand up and cheer for the performers. The th…
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