Saturday, 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 09:30AMWednesday, November 23, 2016
Nailing that first job after drama school can be daunting. You are no longer competing for roles with a small collection of peers, you are bidding for work in an environment where literally …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 22, 2016
Pentameters Theatre, tucked above a Hampstead gastropub, feels more like a community theatre than a professional fringe theatre. Many of the audience know each other, and the theatre staff f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, November 21, 2016
It’s so easy to brush aside a production of Romeo and Juliet – it’s overdone, every one knows it, it’s not innovative. But when it’s staged with energy, passion and commitment, the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, November 16, 2016
Donny Stixx is a teenaged magician with boundless dedication to his craft and desperation for fame. Rather than doing things that boys his age normally do, he spends hours honing his skills …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Seventy years ago, J B Priestley’s thriller An Inspector Calls was first staged in the UK. Twenty-five years ago, Stephen Daldry’s acclaimed, progressive production opened at the Nationa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, November 13, 2016
London in 1728 was a dark and dangerous place. Highwaymen, hangmen and harlots roamed the streets and life was hard. John Gay’s satirical musical The Beggar’s Opera steps away from the t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, November 12, 2016
For time immemorial we have sat in cosy circles sharing tales of gods, monsters and everyday heroes with those we love and those we have just met. Everyone has stories in their hearts –…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:42PMFriday, November 11, 2016
Terry Johnson’s 1994 play functions both as a cleverly interwoven tribute to old school British comedy and a domestic drama, with a good balance of comedic and serious moments. But even th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:03AMThursday, November 10, 2016
Adrian Edmondson portrays William as articulate and sensitive, but the rambling, stream-of-conscious script moves at a brisk pace with little variation in rhythm or tone.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:15AMTuesday, November 8, 2016
The advertising calls this is a ‘shamanic rave’ – perhaps that is the best description of this hour of shambolic, low-budget hedonism. But there’s a lot to be said for Follow the Fau…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:35AMMonday, November 7, 2016
Even the most moving performances are often largely removed from our day-to-day lives. But every so often you come across a piece of theatre that, whilst it may not be the objective best thi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMSaturday, November 5, 2016
Glenda Jackson’s return to the stage after more than two decades serving as an MP certainly should be a momentous occasion, and in one of the great roles. At age 80, in a time where audien…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMFriday, October 28, 2016
You are eighteen years old. Ready to leap from the cusp of adulthood, the world is at your fingertips and the rest of your life unfurls before you.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:26AMThursday, October 27, 2016
Do we need another theatre awards ceremony? Independent critic Lucy Basaba, founder and editor of theatrefullstop, thinks so. Earlier this year, she launched the Theatre & Technology Awa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:47AMTuesday, October 25, 2016
The school play has no budget, so PE equipment gets a starring role as set and props, and their uniforms are costume with a few accessories. The line between the school girl characters and t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AMMonday, October 24, 2016
Inspired by 1973 cult horror film The Wicker Man and his love for comedy, young writer Ed Hartland tries to take a humorous approach to 1970s horror films in self-referential, metatheatrical…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:21PMSchizophrenia is regarded as an incurable disease – once diagnosed, even if a person is able to lead a normal life, the medical community always considers them ill. Norwegian psychologist …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:20AMSaturday, October 22, 2016
The ‘immersive’ staging spreads the actors amongst sections of the audience in Monk’s Bar, making the characters’ volatility all the more threatening to those in the midst of their f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:10AMThursday, October 20, 2016
What if your life has endless parallel possibilities? What if Sliding Doors is true? What if every choice you make leads to your timeline fracturing into endless paths that just keeps multip…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:24AMThe BSC’s ethos takes a character-led approach inspired by Ron Moody and Stephen Berkoff. The company’s aims are to bring individual, characterful actors to the classics in the style of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMTuesday, October 18, 2016
The London Horror Festival is bigger than ever, new scare attractions appear all over the country every year and independent events like Frissonic’s Howl expand the otherworldly and terrif…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMMonday, October 17, 2016
Jim Walters is the first person sent to colonise Mars. But when a global apocalypse occurs, trapping him in the Earth’s orbit and running out of oxygen, he and his guitar are left to broad…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:18AMFriday, October 14, 2016
Theatre is well and truly a product of the left, with mainstream and commercial work often comfortably centrist at the most. It’s rare to come across right wing work, particularly somethin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:15AMTuesday, October 11, 2016
Along with tickets, we are handed earplugs. Considering Christopher Brett Bailey’s first work This Is How We Die, I’m not surprised.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:15AMMonday, October 10, 2016
Persephone and Eurydice’s myths are defined by men. What happens when these men are removed and the characters plunged into a modern dreamscape? Maud Dromgoole’s Acorn brings these women…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:50AMFriday, October 7, 2016
Louise is a successful actor and singer with numerous, impressive credits to her name, a gorgeous family, and a plenty of auditions. But when a cold turns out to be a sign of something worse…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:42AMThursday, October 6, 2016
Professor Ashborn is on a mission to disprove Shakespeare’s existence, but the academics with leather patches on their elbows are trying to stop him. Following Ashborn’s lecture and an i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:20AMTuesday, October 4, 2016
A man goes on a solo holiday after a difficult breakup. A woman fights through day-to-day life to find a job. These two little, globally insignificant stories are monumentally spotlighted in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:38AMMonday, October 3, 2016
Haleema, Ruhab and Tisana have been friends for their whole lives. Like other girls, they enjoy chatting about celebrities, boys, and their future plans whilst doing each others’ hair.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:04AMFriday, September 30, 2016
In 1986, Arthur Miller was in his 70s. He still had more plays and screenplays to come, but his most well-known works were already created and he was starting to slow his output. Danger: Mem…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:22AM 
