Sunday, July 2, 2017
The performers are framed by a false, red curtained, proscenium arch that forms, like the show itself a facade: a description of something without being either of itself or the thing it desc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, July 1, 2017
Backstage during three momentous Abbey Theatre productions, W.B Yeats’ Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), J.M Synge’s Playboy of the Western World (1907) and Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, June 30, 2017
What happens when two experimental performance artists join forces with a few kids to make a kids’ show? Utterly delightful, if messy, madness. 1990s Nickelodeon is a clear influence, as a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMDirect from rehab, Ashley’s Liza is suitably glittery, lispy and pant-suited. This is not a subtle impersonation, but the receptive London audience certainly don’t want that.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, June 26, 2017
Issac is returning home after a three-year stint as a US marine where his job was to pick up body parts after front line attacks. He longs for the peace and quiet of his nuclear family and t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, June 25, 2017
This 1983 show has some great numbers, but its frivolity and insubstantial book focusing on a personal journey rather than the larger political landscape is diminutive rather than powerfully…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, June 24, 2017
Anastasia Zinovieva is a motley clown who wants to reenact Hamlet, but it’s a big story to take on herself. She enlists seven people from the audience to fill the major roles and instructs…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, June 22, 2017
Unfortunately, it’s a pretty terrible piece of theatre. The primarily verbatim script is the worst of racist Brexit voters pontificating on political issues interspersed with extracts of s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
A father and a son. Two best friends. Immigration, refugees and global politics. It’s the mid-1970’s and Kabul is enjoying a time of peace and tranquillity. That is until a violent war e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, June 19, 2017
Paying homage to Shakespeare’s genius but not slavishly binding themselves to it, Golem! sticks up two fingers at Shakespeare purists who, with quivering voices, clutch their pearls and ga…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, June 18, 2017
Exchange Theatre sets The Misanthrope in a contemporary newsroom full of gossip, affairs, backstabbing and cocaine-fueled all-nighters. Alceste loathes the way his colleagues behave, but fan…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, June 16, 2017
Politics is a veritable pick n’ mix of source material for playwrights, and new works inspired by Trump and Brexit abound. No doubt we’ll soon see a wave of hot takes on the debacle that…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWe are serenaded by a virtuosic Roy Orbison cover, foreshadowing the production’s impeccable soundtrack, performed by a slick live band. What follows is a show that is silly, scrappy and h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMThursday, June 15, 2017
I Hear You And Rejoice is a tribute to the power of the single storyteller. Lighting, costume and staging are simple, revealing the power of the skilled actor. The result is a joyful play f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, June 13, 2017
Alice Birch’s new work, Anatomy of a Suicide, courageously investigates how the suicide of a mother affects the lives of a daughter and a granddaughter, haunts their own motherhood (or cau…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, June 12, 2017
This is a pretty piece of expressionistic theatre that pleases the eyes and ears, but its favouring of poetic ambiguity and metaphor over concrete details and characterisation creates emotio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, June 10, 2017
Trying to write about Chris Goode’s latest Ponyboy Curtis show vs. is like trying to fit a hurricane into a canning jar. The energy, love and freedom on the Yard’s stage is irrevocably a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, June 9, 2017
Deciding what is best is a tricky thing to do. It’s particularly difficult if you’re trying to do what is best for someone else. How do you know if you’re doing the right thing? Is you…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
The staff at this scuzzy, traditional American-style diner in Birmingham may not be best, but they’re happily set in their ways. Eddie, his daughter Chantal, her boyfriend PJ and part time…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, June 4, 2017
Sion Daniel Young is Davey, a fifteen-year-old tearaway who roams the streets looking for trouble. A traumatic incident several years before, severe poverty and a well-intentioned but cluele…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, June 2, 2017
Understated clowning, public failure and live music create a metatheatrical world of mediocrity that is meant to be challenged. A musician supports a showman that claims to know it all, but …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMCharlotte von Mahlsdorf was a collector and museum curator in East Berlin who survived WWII and the the Stasis, and murdered her abusive father when she was a teenager. More remarkably, she …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, May 31, 2017
A boy and his gran live in a lighthouse, high on a cliff. The town below them is a pile of houses where fisherfolk live who love tea and are wary of anyone from outside the town. Mythical cr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, May 30, 2017
There is always something unsettling and creepy about our memories of school. Almost everyone had “that” teacher who tends to reappear as a projection of our fears during stormy nights a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, May 28, 2017
James and Daniel are chalk and cheese, and very much in love. The unemployed photographer and Canary Wharf stockbroker are adorably domestic, but both are hiding secrets. When James’ uni m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, May 27, 2017
In Amici Dance Theatre Company’s revival of their 2015 show, over fifty performers – professional and amateur, disabled and non-disabled, child, adult and OAP – come together to captur…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, May 26, 2017
Originally from Quebec, Flip FabriQue deliver Attrape Moi; meaning Catch Me; in London as part of an international tour to Tenerife, Edinburgh, the USA and Quebec Canada. For seventy-five mi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 24, 2017
Thunderous applause from the audience welcomes the cast as they take their starting positions. It is evident that I am in the company of committed fans and, being a show that I have been ena…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMMonday, May 22, 2017
As the audience enters, Greg Hicks sits at a pub table on an otherwise bare stage. It’s impossible not to watch him until the house lights dim, and this opening sets the tone for the two a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, May 21, 2017
It’s the 1940s. Olivia Brown awaits the return of her 18-year-old son Michael, whom she has not seen for four years. Whilst he’s been away, his father has died and Olivia has found love …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, May 20, 2017
An anonymous woman frankly monologues about taboo sexual fantasies, abortion, orgasms and what turns her on. It’s honest, personal and as a fellow woman, easy to relate to. But rather than…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM 
