Friday, August 19, 2016
On 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:55AMThursday, August 18, 2016
It must be rather dull hanging out on a Scottish Heath with your sisters, waiting for some poor soul to come along to manipulate to the point of ruin. Fire Burn: The Tragedy of Macbeth tries…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:38AMSarah wants to know everything. She’s inquisitive, gregarious and energetic, the life and soul of any party. But now that she’s in her thirties and wants to start a family, she needs to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMWednesday, August 17, 2016
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, the US and Mexico came into effect on 1 January, 1994. I was eleven years old. The agreement ushered in a degree of national p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:42AMMichael, a typical New York City lost soul, is obsessed with Hamlet. He knows the play inside out and pours over every bit of scholarship he can find on it. His neighbourhood secondhand book…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:20AMTuesday, August 16, 2016
What would Hamlet have been like as a child? Ophelia? Were they close? Did they squabble or were they the best of friends? Shakespearian Lovers, a new female-led company from Italy, attempt …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:16PMMonday, August 15, 2016
Jack, feeble in body and mind, wiles away the days watching news broadcasts from operation Desert Storm. The former WWII soldier, now safe and looked after in a care home, vividly recounts m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:03PMThere’s a good amount of Shakespeare-based work for children and young people at the fringe, which is a great way to introduce children to his work as well as give theatre makers a chance …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:34PMA cultural relic of its time, the bible is hardly pro-women. Lucy McCormick, here incarnated as one of those vapid pop stars who evangelically (and often inappropriately) rallies for the cau…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00PMI was gutted when I found out Janet Adler and Margaret Gibb aren’t real. The portrait Tim Crouch paints of this fictional couple and their anti-capitalist approach to their art, in strikin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:40AMSaturday, August 13, 2016
A Tale of Two Cities: Blood for Blood is a rather different beast from Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. This choppy, convoluted adaptation lacks the detail and finesse of the novel, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:25PMThough there was likely to have been a level of improvisation in Shakespeare, Impromptu Shakespeare creates a whole new, short play every performance inspired by Shakespeare’s style and la…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:38AMOn 16th June 2009, the body of a man was found dead on a beach near Sligo, Ireland. He had given his name as Peter Bergmann at his hotel, but postmortem investigations determined that was an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:51AMFriday, August 12, 2016
The self-deprecating, all-female company of players from Baltimore boot that myth out of the theatre with relish. Having learnt 45 scenes, speeches and moments from Shakespeare’s cannon, t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:35AMThursday, August 11, 2016
Author Hector Hugh Munro, otherwise known as Saki, is in WWI’s trenches. He and his men been out there for nearly a year, and they are long fed up with life on the front. To entertain his …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:51PMThough climate change has long been a problem, political theatre often ignores it. DugOut’s Swansong faces the issue head on, placing four survivors of a global flood in a swan pedalo.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:25PMA woman sings behind a gauzy white curtain. We cannot see her face, but in her soaring cries we hear her passion. This is Tahirih, born in what is now Iran in the early 1800’s (we don’t …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:48AMWednesday, August 10, 2016
Whilst there’s plenty of Shakespeare at the fringe, it doesn’t get much coverage. It’s understandable – the Bard doesn’t count as a potential Next Big Thing, and he’s favoured by…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:03PMTuesday, August 9, 2016
It’s a big day at Bleach for the Stars. The Welsh salon has been nominated salon of the year by Clip Advisor, and dim-but-enthusiastic manageress Sabrina has a lot to do to prepare, like f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:24AMMonday, August 8, 2016
Charlotte Josephine’s BLUSH tells the stories of five unrelated individuals effected by revenge porn, trolling and the proliferation of easily accessible online pornography
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:37PMLady Pamela More covers fashion and socialites for The Times and she has no interest in any other topic. As Britain’s involvement in the war becomes certain, her disinterest in politics an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:50PMEvery Londoner has strong feelings about the tube. They love it, hate it, love to hate it, depend on it, avoid it, sometimes all at once. In Lines, Rose Bruford students pay homage to the un…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:20PMSolo performances are popular at the Fringe, and there are some good ones this year. So far, the best production I’ve seen this year is one-woman show Torch, celebrating womenhood in all o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:45AMOli Forsyth has a great script on his hands, despite a hint of judgmental condescension towards millennials. The script states they waste their lives on jobs they hate, have no cultural or c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:50AMSunday, August 7, 2016
We’re in a club toilet. Not a nice one, either – there’s no loo roll, lipstick and graffiti pepper the cubicle walls and door. Jess Mabel Jones is an unnamed woman out with a friend, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:39PMA nameless couple meet online, fall in love and build a life together. Their lives are comfortably boring, with day jobs, road trips to the beach, holidays in a Yorkshire cottage and lazy we…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:20PMThe Wildean young poet Rupert Brooke revels in the self-absorbed, upper classes of Edwardian Oxford and London at the turn of the twentieth century. He finds virtue in beauty, love, poetry a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:51AMSaturday, August 6, 2016
Science and Mathematics. Vaccinations, space travel, electricity. Nuclear weapons, lethal injections, pollution. Poena 5×1 and No Horizon. One is a new play showing the dark potential of sc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMThursday, August 4, 2016
Gavin Plimsole is a good enough guy. A bit geeky and nervous but well-meaning, maybe even a bit endearing if you like that sort of thing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:17PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
The resourcefulness, determination and camaraderie of theatre people pulled together to reopen Battersea Arts Centre and raise funds. Now, a bit more than a year later, parts of the building…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:44AMMonday, August 1, 2016
Though this isn’t an “awareness” piece per se, the humanity and insight into transgender transition Rotterdam provides is hugely important and valuable.
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