Friday, April 14, 2017
Compagnie 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMMonday, April 10, 2017
With the glorious sunshine and packed building, it’s a great day to see some of the outdoor work. Sexcentenary, a collective of older women addressing issues around gender, feminism and ag…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, April 9, 2017
Part of the reason I wanted to come to Buzzcut is that I find it hard to write about live art. I don’t dislike it, far from it – I have a broad but uninformed appreciation of it. But my …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, April 8, 2017
The DIY/anarchist vibe is strong – a hand painted banner stretches across the front of the building and the ornate hall used as a the cafe/bar/community hub/place for announcements is simi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, April 7, 2017
Fly to the front line. Sing some songs. Win the war. Live happily ever after. Sounds easy, right? That’s the idyllic goal that two queers, an unmarried mother and an unborn child feel in M…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSam and Clara live the ordinary, domestic life of a young professional couple, until Sam’s sister Sophie turns up unannounced. The playful, carefree young woman eventually chameleons into …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Cressida Carré’s clever direction effectively demonstrates the pack mentality that is in place in this environment, investigating how far people are willing to go to keep the tribe strong…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, April 3, 2017
You can be who you want to be, right? Rob, a driving instructor in modern day Romford, believes himself to be an 8th century Chinese poet from the Tang Dynasty.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe American dream is a tantalising thing. Even the grubbiest kid from New York, the son of a nobody dentist, can become a film star and producer. This is Robert Evans’ story, the man resp…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, April 2, 2017
Luke Wright’s jovial demeanour and impressive word hoard sit at odds with his smudged eyeliner and black leather jacket. The unassuming performance poet skulks to the mic, breathes, then u…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, April 1, 2017
How do we cope when we don’t get what we want? How do we beat a system that is set up to make you fail? Custody asks just these questions, as we are taken on a two-year journey of a family…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMContemporary pop culture is awash with true crime stories: NPR’s Serial, HBO’s The Jinx and Netflix’s Making of a Murder are just a few titles that have recently gripped public imagina…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, March 31, 2017
Equally devastating and hilarious, Hwang makes his characters vibrant and alive rather than fully relying on stereotypes and shallow humour to generate laughs. Though the script is over-conv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
Grace and Marcus are a picture perfect, upper-middle class married couple, even with their opposing politics.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, March 27, 2017
Do social media and violence against women go hand in hand? Are we all rendered voyeurs or exhibitionists by the internet? Is the web the downfall of society?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, March 25, 2017
Andrea isn’t very well. In solitary confinement at some sort of secure facility, she has no one to talk to other than those who briefly visit and those who live in her head.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, March 24, 2017
There are loads of jokes and stereotypes about life within a heterosexual relationship – women talk too much, men don’t understand the difficulties of pregnancy, LTRs feel like a burden,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, March 22, 2017
Stylistically revolutionary as it was when first written, Marlowe’s Tamburlaine is still a clumsy brute of a play (not unlike Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus) that has plen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMRoy lies in a hospital bed suffering from depression and unable to move. When he meets little Alexandria he sees an opportunity to escape, but must first gain her trust.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, March 20, 2017
We are Dr Bailey’s freshman class in Draper Hall, a housing estate community space in Elephant & Castle newly doubling as a performance venue run by veteran Italian polymath Stefania …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, March 19, 2017
Rhoda is the picture-perfect 1950s American child. Obedient, clever and helpful, she is a dream for any parent. But after the death of a classmate who won the penmanship medal Rhoda coveted,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSaturday, March 18, 2017
Hartleby, Ooglemore and Jeramee are at the beach. It’s a beautiful, sunny day and the three are having a grand time, even though they can only use three words. The beach is full of potenti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, March 17, 2017
The all-female play looks at the complex and controversial landscape of commercial surrogacy in India through the microcosmic relationship between three parties – the surrogate, the doctor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, March 13, 2017
Laura and Dave are hosting a housewarming party at their newly-bought fixer-upper in Peckham. The young couple invite the audience in groups assigned to a character, facilitating a quick ent…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFamilies separated by war and conflict have kept in touch one way or another for time immemorial. Recently giving way to skype, texts and emails, letter writing is now largely neglected – …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, March 12, 2017
Katie is a fairly average eighteen-year-old living a life busy with A-levels, uni applications and her older boyfriend, Abe. She’s not sure what she wants to do with the rest of her life, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, March 10, 2017
You could easily classify this production as “the one with the robot” but there is more to Spillikin, currently on tour throughout the UK. Despite the high level of artificial intelligen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMJohn Stanley’s dark comedy could easily descend into poverty porn, but he avoids this pitfall with a focus on detailed characterisation and the consequences of drug addiction, both of whic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, March 8, 2017
It’s St Patrick’s Day at an Irish pub in London. We’ve been there for awhile, but the night is young. There’s a five-strong band more focused on arguing the facts of Irish history th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, March 7, 2017
As the Welsh part of Celtic Trilogy at the VAULT Festival, Over The Limit Theatre with Siren has arguably saved the best to last.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMShows incorporating technology have become more and more common recently. This experimental show, Celebration, Florida, features two unrehearsed performers wearing headphones.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AM 
