Friday, 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 08:22AMThursday, September 29, 2016
All praise Emma Rice! Under Dominic Dromgoole’s artistic directorship, The Globe’s commitment to innovation in Shakespeare production first established during Mark Rylance’s reign fell…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:39AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
American, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks doesn’t shy away from epic projects. Six years ago, she wrote a play a day to create 365 Days/365 Plays, then went on to write …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:33AMFriday, September 23, 2016
Layla is fifteen years old. She’s the cleverest girl in her year, writes poetry, and has a supportive mum. The trouble is, her best friend Monica’s got with a proper rude boy who launche…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:05PMMonday, September 19, 2016
Politicians and members of the press are hardly the best of bedfellows. Unrestrained and violent, Ross Sutherland’s Party Trap explodes this relationship in a dystopian TV interview betwee…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:45AMRejoice! If you are the sort of theatregoer who has signed the Theatre Charter, and is regularly outraged by the appalling behaviour from other audience members who may not have the same hig…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:10AMThursday, September 15, 2016
August Strindberg’s expressionistic A Dream Play has inspired theatre makers since it’s debut in 1901. In the otherworldly Vaults, BAZ Productions reinvents the innovative work for a mod…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:08AMWednesday, September 14, 2016
I’ve always been most interested in telling stories I haven’t heard before. I get so bored and frustrated when I see a show that’s beautifully produced/designed/directed/written/perfor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:40AMMonday, September 12, 2016
Johannes, a young man with pronounced learning difficulties, is in solitary confinement for raping and murdering a young girl. The prison captain Agnes, seeing goodness in the boy, introduce…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:04AMFriday, September 9, 2016
I can’t imagine living in a country where theatre is censored for criticising the government, and theatre makers who create politically subversive work risk arrest, torture and death. But …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:20AMTuesday, September 6, 2016
For better or worse so much of our life, personality and choices are shaped by relationships with family. A stable, loving upbringing can equip an individual with the same traits, and the op…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:36PMTuesday, August 30, 2016
First loves: awkward, hormonal milestones of young adulthood that make you feel like you’re on top of the world in a bubble that’s just the two of you. That is, unless you’re a trans o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00PMImagine the world if the entire human population disappeared suddenly, without a trace. What would it look like after a day, a month, a century, an era? A lone performer from Belgian company…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:54AMMonday, August 29, 2016
Tommy Eden, a pensioner with a love for street performing since he retired, is dead. Local entrepreneur Alexander Sheldon’s security guards are responsible. Sheldon didn’t like Tommy per…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:58PMSunday, August 28, 2016
Orla and her sister are close. Even when Orla decided to move from their small Irish town to Ibiza for a summer of working and partying, they still texted everyday. After a sudden cessation …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:40PMSaturday, August 27, 2016
When I was a teenager, I discovered the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). My love for Shakespeare had already started to grow, and I thoug…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:02PMFriday, August 26, 2016
This year, four companies are receiving support from Underbelly to produce and market their latest work. Two of those are Milk Presents and Corner Shop Events, both offering solo performance…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:39PMLucy Grace, long feeling a strong kinship with the book’s protagonist Lucy Pevensie, clung onto the belief in Narnia well into adulthood. When she was 26, the dawning realisation that she …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:47AMElizabeth has two daughters. Her youngest is “fine”. Her eldest has profound hearing loss. This diagnosis, in our able-bodied world with all its bias and privilege for those that are “…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:40AMWednesday, August 24, 2016
Just over two years ago, a revolution in Kiev ushered in the downfall of the Ukranian government. Protests against the government’s refusal to sign pro-EU legislation lasting months had se…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:37PMLike their debut production The Beanfield, Breach Theatre’s second show Tank recreates a contentious historical event in a distinctive meta-theatrical mashup up forms and styles. In the 19…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:49AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
RashDash are angry. Like, fucking furious level of angry. They’re fed up of patriarchal language and gender stereotypes that limit both men and women from expressing themselves honestly
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:38AMWhat happened to King Lear’s wife? The woman who birthed the three daughters that he loves so dearly is never mentioned in his title play. Back in the ’80s, the Women’s Theatre Group a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:05AMMonday, August 22, 2016
There is hardly any Shakespeare at the fringe that isn’t dramatically altered in some way or another. Re-contextualisations abound, as does new work that’s derivative from a story or cha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:47PMTwo women, in two different shows set on opposite sides of the world, swim as if their lives depend on it. One is training for an ironman-length triathlon, the other never learnt to swim and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:25AMEveryone has a relationship with food. For some its straightforward, for others it’s complex. Food in terms of nourishment isn’t just that which we eat, either. Love, security, and all s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:40AMSunday, August 21, 2016
Shakespeare without words. What’s left? In Ludens Ensemble’s Macbeth: without words, plenty. Drawing on the aesthetic of silent films and Victorian gothic with the near-constant use of l…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:54AMSaturday, August 20, 2016
Things have never been easy for Abby. She doesn’t get on with her mum, she’s didn’t do well in school, she drifts from one shitty job to another without any purpose or goals. She misse…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:01PMPlaywright Alice Birch wants to start a revolution. Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. seeks to challenge the patriarchal language and social structures that hold woman second place to men.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:27AMFriday, August 19, 2016
When fourteen-year-old boy Red starts at a new school after his parents’ divorce, his mum anxiously worries about him making friends. Soon, his mobile is constantly buzzing with texts and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:57PMOn 1 September 2004, a group of terrorists stormed a school in Beslan, holding over a thousand people hostage on the first day back after summer holidays. Most of them were children. When th…
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