Sunday, January 15, 2017
The 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, January 14, 2017
Amongst the vocal campaigns fighting domestic violence against women and male rights’ activists misogynist responses, the fact that at least 4% of men are victims themselves is often overl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, January 13, 2017
Running at just over an hour, writer Andrew Maddock fits in the nature of art and its criticism, public health, social class, poverty and loyalty across two very different sets of characters…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, January 10, 2017
ith existentialism one of the cruxes of the story, this Three Sisters is a bleak echo of present day narcissism and hopelessness. Phil Willmott’s staging of a new, pared back translation d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:11AMMonday, January 9, 2017
In the programme notes for Steven Dykes’ Glockenspiel, we are told that 40% of current personnel have been deployed more than once, and 27% of those veterans deployed to Iraq and Afghanist…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, January 6, 2017
In the first part of Tony Harrison’s The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, Victorian archaeologist Grenfell struts and frets around a group of silent Egyptians sifting through scraps of papyrus.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:15AMTuesday, January 3, 2017
An industry making resolutions? Now that’s something I can get behind – people working together for a common goal is what theatre is about, on a microcosmic level anyway, and more unity …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMSunday, January 1, 2017
After 20 years running the Rosemary Branch, Cecilia Darker and Cleo Sylvestre moved on to pastures new in June this year. Unattended Items, a company with a focus on interactive theatre and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, December 27, 2016
Though 2016 has been far from kind, seeing roughly 250 productions mostly in Fringe and Off-West End venues has made for a fruitful year in theatre. Choosing ten hasn’t been easy, but thes…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMMonday, December 26, 2016
Coming of age, grief, overcoming prejudice and the creation of myth are dominant themes in Danyah Miller’s solo adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel for young people.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, December 23, 2016
The current production of A Christmas Carol – The Musical captures LOST’s ethos and the spirt of Christmas in all of its joyful, communal and tacky glory with a cast composed of both ama…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, December 22, 2016
Sideshow/cabaret Dr Carnesky’s Incredible Bleeding Woman is a wonderfully quirky manifestation of sisterhood, womanhood and the wonders of the female body.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, December 21, 2016
Performed by three actors who enthusiastically embrace physical comedy and metatheatre, this surprisingly faithful adaptation is spunky and fun with a few scares, but the performance quality…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, December 20, 2016
By guest critic Rebecca Nice, @rebeccajsnice In Stuck, four women alternate telling a story, reciting a monologue or presenting a speech. The work is loaded with satire that d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, December 19, 2016
It’s doubly ironic that in post-referendum, post-truth Brexit Britain, we’ve spent the last few months being told that you simply cannot call people stupid or racist. We don’t actually…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, December 18, 2016
No doubt many of us feel like this as some point in the run up to the holidays, but there are those that find this time of year particularly hard. Simon Stephens immortalises a ragtag collec…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:31AMFriday, December 16, 2016
Ruth Wilson’s work is stunning, though – her performance is up there with Denise Gough’s in People, Places and Things. She successfully grapples with Hedda’s emotional changeability …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, December 15, 2016
There are several versions of Dickens’ classic story on stage at the moment including two at the same venue, but I’m pretty sure that Flanagan Collective’s is the only one that involve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, December 13, 2016
Shakespeare’s original performances wouldn’t have had rehearsals or a director, and the actors never received full scripts – it was too expensive and time consuming to copy…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMNo mirrored spiegeltent or purple cow, but Blue Rivers Elephant's rough-and-ready simplicity and grit approaches the edge of minimalist cool. Their debut show, the circus/cabaret Santa’s S…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:15AMMonday, December 12, 2016
It’s not a big, showy American musical, but one that is distinctly and quietly British. With more development and dramaturgical support, Muted will really shine.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, December 10, 2016
When repressed middle class couple Mr Phillip and Mrs Margaret Waverton and their friend Roger get lost in rural Wales in a horrific downpour, they head to the nearest house for shelter.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMTuesday, December 6, 2016
The Salon:Collective’s Monorogue is back again, this time with a Christmas edition. The monologue showcase is now in Santa’s workshop, where perky elf Gingersparkles is interviewing huma…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMMaking devised work for the past 50 years, People Show are nothing less than prolific. Their multidisciplinary works are numbered as part of the title; the company’s works now number 132. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:15AMMonday, December 5, 2016
By guest critic Rebecca Nice @rebeccajsnice NoFit State Circus takes London by storm with a big show in a big top with grand ideas and huge audiences. A must-see on the London tourist and ar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:32AMBryony Lavery’s Victorian send-up Her Aching Heart has all the OTT melodrama and silliness of a pantomime, but this two-character, lesbian love story is decidedly not a panto. Full of innu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMFriday, December 2, 2016
Being an immigrant is hard. Sure, it gets easier but it’s never easy. You are always an outsider, the Other, or that loaded word – FOREIGN.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMThursday, December 1, 2016
Millennials blame baby boomers for a lot. As a millennial, albeit one born in the boundary year (if I were 6 months older I would not fall in this much-maligned generation), I very much alig…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
Girls with guns are everywhere in pop culture – films, video games, porn, telly – and they’re always highly sexualised and conventionally stunning. What is it about a fit girl armed wi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, November 27, 2016
Boys, Ella Hickson’s play, alludes to a teenage girl patronisingly rolling her eyes at the clumsy and emotionally immature endeavours of her male school mates.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:30PMSaturday, November 26, 2016
Luna is a proper East London geezer. Busy with one-night stands, spitting rhymes and doing shots, she’s also a mum in a long term relationship on the prowl for fleeting moments that remind…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AM 
