Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Shows incorporating technology have become more and more common recently. This experimental show, Celebration, Florida, features two unrehearsed performers wearing headphones.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMMonday, March 6, 2017
On arriving at the front door of Latvian House I am met by a very smart, besuited Italian butler who refuses to let me in and won’t really give me a clear reason as to why. Had the perform…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIn 2012, The RSC drew ire for its Orphan of Zhao casting in which there were a whole three East Asian actors. Though the production went ahead, RSC artistic director Greg Doran showed willin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, March 5, 2017
Nonsense. Complete and utter, glorious, nonsense. This was Brendan Murphy’s very first outing of Bagmanimous and it was an hour of brilliantly silly joy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe stage set consists of a table littered with various paraphernalia: bottles of alcohol, drugs, a teddy bear and a mounted dildo. The action takes place in this space over the period of a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTheatre company Rusted Dust have done a Columbo with the title – there’s Nazis, there’s murder, there’s the station’s first female Detective Constable. Buried in The Many Crimes of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMSaturday, March 4, 2017
Ebi, Bess and Hannah are homeless, living in tents in Archway. The three have a mutually beneficial relationship – nineteen-year-old Hannah has older and wiser people looking after her, an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe fetishism of absorbing someone else’s life and making it your own is the theme explored in Swifties, particularly how to give your world meaning when everything seems so dismal.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMFriday, March 3, 2017
Tristan is the stuff of Cornish legends. The Robin Hood-esque figure who lives along the Helford River gives much needed gifts to local people the moment they reach utter despair – or so p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:45PMStill very much finding its feet and theatricality, Freak is an engaging lecture with a charming, historical bent.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, March 2, 2017
Rob and Paul are best mates, albeit total polar opposites. They share a cozy bachelor pad where they engage in typical mid-20s, male behaviour – drinking, weight lifting, discussing women …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, February 28, 2017
A couple of miles along the Essex coast from Clacton, is the village of Jaywick. Jaywick has the distinction of being the most deprived area of Britain.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMMonday, February 27, 2017
It’s evident that there are great intentions and thorough research behind the piece. It’s also clear that the creators have much skill and experience in making theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMDominic Cavendish can rest assured: he will not lose the opportunity to see his favourite (white) male actors in leading Shakespearean roles.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMSunday, February 26, 2017
As populism rises and fascists are tightening national borders with physical walls and stricter immigration regulations, the revolution is gaining speed. Theatre isn’t standing by, either.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSaturday, February 25, 2017
A long lost Kafka play is having its premiere on Broadway. Two big Hollywood action stars are playing the leads, but the fickle nature of unseen Bruce means they’ve had to cast Harry as an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, February 24, 2017
This revival of Michael John LaChiusa’s musical The Wild Party unfortunately lives up to its original reception. Dripping with sex, booze and jazz, there are some great tunes but little su…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, February 23, 2017
This type of act would work better on the screen, however I feel like I’ve definitely seen it before. The jokes seem too similar to ‘The Catherine Tate Show’, and the concept of the pi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMAlice spent most of her teen years locked in a second floor spare bedroom, kidnapped by a man she never names. Deprived of her adolescence, the young woman is largely left to figure out how …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
Boy Stroke Girl offers a thought-provoking concept: can you fall in love with someone without knowing their gender? What a brilliant idea to discuss on stage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMInspired by familial memory and grief, Whitehill and five other theatre makers draw on their own histories to create a playful homage to the endurance of family stories.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, February 21, 2017
It’s fair to say that watching Jerry Sadowitz is not for the fainthearted. There is no topic that this infamous comedian/magician won’t attempt to mine comedy material from.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, February 20, 2017
Adam Scott-Rowley packs an almighty punch with his one man show This is Not Culturally Significant. Twelve characters struggling with the every day, are pieced together in this brutal, beaut…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMNo words, no set, one man and one chair. Using soundscape, lighting and actor James Cross’ elastic limbs, Theatre Imaginers have created an innovative physical performance of a man’s dis…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, February 19, 2017
Since he was little, John Spartan has been obsessed with outer space. His whole existence revolves around being an astronaut so as a young man, he enrolls in Space Base in order to fulfill h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:30PMDrolls (director Brice Stratford explains) were short, raucous, illegal plays from the 17th Century. Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan interregnum banned theatre from 1642, but drolls were per…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMSaturday, February 18, 2017
Locked away in a convent in Calais, a mad Beau Brummel and his valet bide their time until the visiting Prince of Wales passes. Disgraced by debts acquired from living well beyond his means,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:30PMA political satire, blended with sexualised humour, with a sprinkle of fertiliser-addicted plants that just want to have fun with their mates – what more could you ask for on a Wednesday n…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, February 17, 2017
The Bunker, London – until 11 March 2017 Last year, Elon Musk suggested it’s likely that our entire existence is a computer simulation made by some highly evolved species. The simula…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, February 16, 2017
Is there a choice you wouldn’t have made, if you had known how that decision would have turned out? That is the question asked in Villain.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAs a concept, it’s a sound one – both time periods are troubled by populism, poverty and fundamentalism. The production is, unfortunately, hugely disappointing.
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