Monday, 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.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:33AMFriday, July 29, 2016
Every second of Pauline’s journey of self-discovery from her pub in Oldham to Brazil in Two Little Dickie Birds is fraught with either ridiculous catastrophe or mundane daily life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:40AMSunday, July 24, 2016
Tiffany’s mum just died. Hugh’s wife just died. Together, this father and grown daughter that barely know each other anymore need to arrange a funeral. In the midst of their nonfunctiona…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:14AMFriday, July 22, 2016
British history is peppered with truly remarkable people. Kings, queens, writers, actors, scientists, athletes and military generals pepper school history books and cultural subconscious. Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:02PMThe Salon: Collective are a grassroots group of artists that offer classes, workshops and produce work. United by American practitioner Sanford Meisner’s post-Stanislavskian technique, the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:40PMThursday, July 21, 2016
Tate and Max live in Tate’s nan’s flat above The Bedford pub in Balham. They’re awkward, posh boys with little life experience, though they’d like to believe otherwise. When Tate bri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:20AMTuesday, July 19, 2016
“War has changed, but it’s effect on generations of women hasn’t,” writes Sarah Berger, founder and artistic director of So & So Arts Club. Military history is mostly dominated …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:43AMMonday, July 18, 2016
Founded in 1989, dark cabaret act The Tiger Lillies are still going strong. For their current show, in conjunction with Opera North, two of the current members reinterpret Cole Porter songs …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:39AMSaturday, July 16, 2016
Three young women, three short solo performance pieces, three stories of vulnerability make bare., a thematically linked evening of new writing. Each of the three mini-plays has a distinct s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:45PMThursday, July 14, 2016
Civil war is raging in the formerly united, newly named Kingdom. Loyalists and rebels have divided up the charred, frightened remains. Religious fundamentalism and capital punishment are the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:40AMTuesday, July 12, 2016
Anthony Neilson didn’t come into Unreachable rehearsals with a script, but an idea – a director obsessed with finding the perfect light. From this starting point, the cast sculpted a mod…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:10AMMonday, July 11, 2016
In this discourse on social class, parenting and gaslighting, playwright Phoebe Eclair-Powell incorporates Greek tragedy and a commentating chorus to expose the perils of growing up with no …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:20AMSunday, July 10, 2016
Shakespeare often seems to come in cycles, with several productions of the same play on at once in different venues. At the moment, it’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream though it’s a common …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:11AMSaturday, July 9, 2016
We don’t often see Antipodean theatre on the London fringe, but when we do, it’s certainly a bit different from British progressive performance. CUT, a cinematic, fragmented solo perform…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:46AMTuesday, July 5, 2016
Ugly Lovely snapshots down-at-heel but aspirational Swansea with well-rounded characters who are excellently performed within a promising script, but it has a somewhat unsatisfying resolutio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:11AMMonday, July 4, 2016
Denmark in the mid-1930s was a great place to be if you were gay. Homosexuality was legalized in 1933 and a thriving club scene allowed gay men to meet and socialize publicly. But as the dar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:20AMSunday, July 3, 2016
Kathryn O’Reilly’s debut play Screwed admirably endows women with stereotypically laddish behaviours, but there’s an uncomfortably judgemental tone taken on the lack of goodness within…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:45AMTuesday, June 28, 2016
It’s easy to see why Justin Trudeau is one of the darlings of world politics these days. This charming former teacher, actor and advocate, turning to politics after his father’s death, i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:32PMMonday, June 27, 2016
When the abusive, drunken woodcutter Sganarelle beats his wife one time too many, she takes advantage of passing strangers looking for a doctor to cure a young woman’s mysterious illness. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:40AMFriday, June 24, 2016
Though The Alchemist can be considered Ben Jonson’s best play, it doesn’t get staged often. The slapstick comedy satirising a cross section of Jacobean society is swift, easy to follow a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:03AMSunday, June 19, 2016
In a former ambulance depot in Tottenham Hale, Philip Ridley’s latest creation comes to life. This epic parallel world of wholly isolated nation states resembles the worst dystopias imagin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:26PMThursday, June 16, 2016
Monday, June 13, 2016
Discovering sex is probably one of the most definitive moments of a young life. Good, bad or indifferent, everyone remembers their sexual awakening. Masturbation, losing your virginity, rape…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:36PMSunday, June 12, 2016
I always think life in a British seaside town must be idyllic. Quaint and friendly, with the smell of chips, ice cream and salt in the air, the sun always shines and people share a friendly …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:18AMProtagonist Elizabeth lives in London with her husband Harry, who she met whilst feeding the residents of her local duck pond. Their romance is a proper fairytale, until the war starts. Writ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:32AMMonday, May 30, 2016
It can absolutely be said Edward Bond was a revolutionary of 1960s British theatre with his seminal play, Saved, that a pivotal role in abolishing censorship. It can also not be doubted that…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:57AMSunday, May 29, 2016
Stef Smith’s frantic, apocalyptic story captures society’s instinctive, “Must. Destroy. Everything.” response to the natural world threatening contemporary human sovereignty.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:08AMThursday, May 26, 2016
Jamie Muscato does a fantastic job with Holyoake, particularly in the courtroom scenes, and the rest of the cast are a smooth ensemble of devout resistance against him. Muscato’s flawless …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:10AMTuesday, May 17, 2016
Both – my favourite thing about this play is how it was written to empower an underwritten female character, and yet does such a piss-poor job of doing so. Or maybe it doesn’t – maybe …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:09AMMonday, May 16, 2016
Chicago, 1998. Harrison and Katherine are both struggling. Harrison’s wife recently left him and he gave up a challenging career choice for a safer one as a Math teacher. Fourteen-year-old…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMPolitical conflict, local gossip and an unstable economy threaten the foundations of family life in Better Together, the winner of the Brockley Jack’s annual new writing competition and fe…
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