Thursday, February 16, 2017
As a concept, it’s a sound one – both time periods are troubled by populism, poverty and fundamentalism. The production is, unfortunately, hugely disappointing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMWednesday, February 15, 2017
The Yorkshire town where Ash is set loves smoking, and the residents aren’t set to quit anytime soon – George Crozier certainly isn’t planning to.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWunderkammer works by having a professional make a speech in front of the audience and performers, and from that the ensemble and musicians take ideas, stories and characters and make a seri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMasurca Fogo, the show appearing this week at Sadler’s Wells, is a piece from 1998 when Bausch and the company were making a series of works inspired by cities. This work is inspired by Li…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMTuesday, February 14, 2017
Developed in collaboration with director/dramaturg Donnacadh O’Briain, My World Has Exploded a Little Bit is Bella Heesom’s response to her parents’ deaths occurring within a few years…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWriter Sophie Leuner clearly has plenty of great character ideas that work well on stage and an innate sense for narrative storytelling, but choosing to put these people within the same fram…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, February 12, 2017
David Byrne’s lyrics to ‘This Must Be the Place’, one of the biggest hits from Talking Heads, can be easily seen as the inspiration for the production of This Must Be the Place
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMRichard Marsh and Katie Bonna have the sort of falling-in-love story you see in movies. The two years that it took them to get together are a ridiculous mashup of drunken disorder, absurd co…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, February 11, 2017
Hearing Things is a show that sets out to show how these issues are played out at ground level and how they affect those that manage and use mental health services on a day-to-day basis.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, February 10, 2017
by guest critic Jo Trainor It’s pouring rain and three strangers are waiting. An endless wait that is made unbearable by the constant cellist in the corner of the room. Matei Visniec&#…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, February 9, 2017
Diagnosis, dread, death, devotion, Patrick Cash has written five interlocking, thoughtful monologues that explore HIV from the most human perspective.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMMonday, February 6, 2017
What follows is nearly an hour of tremendous fun in the most ridiculous, discombobulating but ultimately touching and life affirming way possible. The show is built around an interview by a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, February 5, 2017
Language. Love. Since time immemorial, human beings have been trying to capture in words the essence of this most nuanced of emotions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, February 1, 2017
In recent years, tales of space travel have been making more of an appearance in theatre. Space Play looks at the aftermath of orbital collision with space debris, inspired by the events of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Prison dramas are practically a genre in their own right on television and the silver screen, but for the stage they are not so common. Daddy’s Girl, which is directed by Alice Malin, focu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, January 30, 2017
Lip-synced verbatim is a new experience for this reviewer, and if you’re not used to it there is a brief moment where you need to get on board with the style. Luckily Red Belly Black are s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, January 29, 2017
Housed in the studio space at the Vault Festival, which exudes graffiti-chic and pulls hip, supportive and discerning audiences, Bruised Sky productions presents Worlds, written and directed…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMA calcification called Danny Dyer, porn, truffle oil and guitar guns – PLAY Theatre company are back at the VAULT Festival after winning the People’s Choice Award last year. The Subterra…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, January 28, 2017
Cat Loud enters rather awkwardly down stairs from behind the audience, exclaiming nervously, ‘oh, it’s starting’ before bemoaning her choice of footwear. These moments of informal mono…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAlison Mead’s Politic Man chronicles the lives of Alfred and Ada Salter, an activist and political couple living and working in the Bermondsey slums of the early 1900s – I’d never enco…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
Short and sweet, classic and comical. Thomas Monckton performs a solo piece glued to his spot, centre stage beneath a low hanging lamp, which obscures his body from the shoulders up for at l…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Tim Conigrave and John Caleo’s decade-spanning relationship was undoubtedly a gorgeous thing to behold. Meeting as school boys in 1970s Melbourne and staying together into the 1990s, their…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, January 23, 2017
When the British army arrived in Northern Ireland, beleaguered Catholics came onto the streets offering them tea, biscuits and cake. How long did it take for the story to change to the one t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMKevin Spacey’s House of Cards character Frank Underwood has clear parallels with Shakespeare’s Richard III what with the former’s ruthless climb to the US presidency.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIt’s uncomfortable to watch a play that conflicts with your politics or world view, and Liz Carr’s Assisted Suicide: The Musical does just that. The gay actor and comedian aligns with cu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, January 22, 2017
By an anonymous guest critic If you’re a Marx Brothers fan like myself, you might go to this production by the company JUST SOME THEATRE with some trepidation. Are these four performer…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, January 21, 2017
Nineteen year old Tamsin wants to be a normal teenager. She wants to go to college, flirt with cute boys and go down the pub. She doesn’t want to be stuck in a cycle of poverty that dictat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, January 17, 2017
As The Print Room's controversially cast production of Howard Barker's In the Depths of Love opens this week, here's a guest contribution from Daniel York.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, January 16, 2017
German physical theatre company Teatro Delusio perform a silent comedy accompanied by an array of canonical scores from ballet to opera to a bit of pop. The international show that crosses l…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, January 15, 2017
The premise of an airliner exploding over Fulham after being hit with a Russian man-portable infrared surface-to- air missile, or as intense Londoner, Graham, who was caught up in the afterm…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe Wild Party, a simple and to-the-point title, perfectly describes the show as well as the evening I experienced. There was so much to like about this performance. Adapted into a performan…
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