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 01:00PMShirley’s script, with its echoes of Hamlet, Othello and The Spanish Tragedy, is less philosophical and more action. Whilst this makes it easy to follow and immediately engaging, the chara…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMImagine a production of Waiting for Godot with more characters, set in space, where the audience chooses the outcome of the story. What you are picturing is probably gloriously weird and kit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIn Dominoes, History teacher Leila and her fiancé Andy share the same last name – McKinnon. Andy’s white and Scottish, Leila’s half black-Caribbean. When curiosity gets the better of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMOriginally a novel by Emma Donoghue that swept up the award nominations last year after being made into a film, Room is now a play. Adapted by the writer for the stage, it stays true to the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMPhina Oruche has had an extraordinary career. Growing up in Liverpool to Nigerian parents and desperately wanting to see more of the world, she let her best friend Amy talk her into doing a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThe Courtyard’s revival of Roy Mitchell’s Care, last produced in 1983 at the Royal Court Upstairs and now presented by the Angus McKay Foundation, interrogates a fraught young couple liv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe King’s Head Theatre has been turned into a South American jungle, and we are invited to go along with the intrigued explorer Tamino, as he embarks on his journey to discover a world fu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMThe commandant is holding a party for his wife. She desires champagne, but what she gets instead is a ballet dancer from the nearby concentration camp. A breath-taking narrative of uncontrol…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMScarlet and Olive were left behind when the evacuation transport left their town without them. A dust storm has rendered their home a foreign landscape. They have five days until the transpo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMDoes anyone really win under capitalism? Alexandra Badea’s The Pulverised doesn’t think so. Even though those near the top of the pyramid living jetsetting lifestyles and rolling in cash…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMCoulrophobia – Two Clowns Trapped In A Cardboard World is performed by Dik Downey (company director) and Adam Blake. The tragic twosome pull out a series of cardboard puppets as they froli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMEx-IRA member Quinn Carney and his family have gathered to bring in the harvest. The celebration stretches back centuries and brings the extended family together, so Quinn’s house is crowd…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThe curation by Jacek Ludwig Scarso seemed solely to take every student’s unedited writing and plonk them in their own room. The show was twice the length it needed to be, and the audience…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe spectators are cast as the TV studio audience; a flashing sign above our head encourages us to applaud. Unfortunately there isn’t much to celebrate in this production set around two-ou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMBecoming Mohammed, in its story of a young white man’s conversion to Islam and the subsequent familial negotiations of his journey, not only adds to the diversity on the London fringe but …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMVictor is a paediatric physician and the head of an institute for disabled people under the age of 25 in 1941 Cologne. The Nazis have taken over the facility’s operations and it has been d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMLouise Orwin is asking big questions about female sexuality and desire, but she doesn’t have the answers. There are no definitive answers anyway, just individual experiences. To make Oh Ye…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWhatever your thoughts are about the inevitable march towards death, The Lounge is likely to touch on them in some way or another. Set in the lounge of a care home with characters ranging fr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMWhat with the prominent use of music in Twelfth Night, an actor-muso production is certainly a reasonable concept. Original Impact also sets the play in modern-day summertime, playing up the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTaking a cabaret-style approach lends itself to the wonderfully disparate stories – Korean Culture camp as a child, hanging out in Seattle’s cafes, a layover in Korea, and internet datin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSebastien Lancrenon and Jean-Baptiste Sauray’s musical, newly translated from French by Ranjit Bolt, is a devoted tribute to the french hero. It focuses the conflict between pro- and anti-…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIn his introduction to the Nuclear War text, Simon Stephens explains that as a playwright, he does not want directors and performers to revere him. Rather, he wants them to see his scripts a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMNick Cassenbaum grew up in London’s Jewish community and experienced all the cultural mores that go with it – Spurs games, dubious summer camps, trips to Israel and discovering his willy…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMA self-described modern rep company, Merely Theatre is addressing Shakespeare’s gender problem with 50/50 casting. Five male/female pairs each learn a set of characters in two plays, then…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThere’s a lighthouse on a barren stretch of America’s east coast that has seen more than it’s fair share of tragedy. It’s now the height of WWII and the building is inhabited by the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMEpitomising opposing political viewpoints, the war between practical and aesthetic, emotional versus intellectual, and the disparity between social classes, the two characters each represent…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMShort and sweet, this half hour lunchtime show feeds feisty and giggly kiddies with a banquet of characters performing a range of tricks. A bearded ring master charms a female acrobat snake …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWith a record breaking six Tony Awards to her name, Audra McDonald is one of Broadway’s living legends. This series of intimate concerts at Leicester Square Theatre reflects upon her ongoi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMOneohone – a company specialising in interactive pieces – showcase a series of six shows, and I can only imagine that the other pieces were more successful than the piece that I see, whi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMCompagnie XY live and work together, sharing each other’s rhythms and routines. The work they make as a collective captures this ebb and flow of human energy and emotion within a larger gr…
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