Thursday, January 21, 2016
The Civil Rights movement in America was a time of turbulence and violence, but both black and white activists retaliated with their passion for equality. The issue divided individual famili…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:55PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Nearly twenty years ago, I went to my first Cirque du Soleil show in New York. A young teenager and already obsessed with theatre and performance, I was blown away by the colour and spectacl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:03AMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Shakespeare’s history plays are some of his best. Epic tales with tragedy and comedy, love and war, politics and history are brought to life on stage, with the storyline of some characters…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:27AMFriday, January 1, 2016
Improbable Theatre’s Devoted and Disgruntled (D&D) events bring to mind this poem, Invitation, by American poet Shel Silverstein. They’re open to absolutely anyone with an interest …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:53PMThursday, December 24, 2015
Meggie (Katherine Carlton) and her bookbinder father Mo (Paul McEwan) love books. They also share a fantastical gift that’s causing them to be chased all over the world (or Europe, at leas…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:12PMTuesday, December 22, 2015
Carmen Disruption This Simon Stephens deconstruction bore little resemblance to the opera. Instead, we had a cast of dysfunctional, damaged characters unable to connect with the world …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:58AMMonday, December 21, 2015
What makes the story of Red Riding Hood so enduring? Is it the clever heroine? Is it the metaphor for growing up? Is it the violence and gore? Horse & Bamboo choose to focus on the colou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:28AMThursday, December 17, 2015
An invitation to review this different kind of theatrical experience landed in my inbox:
Different Breed Theatre invite you to come down to Gary’s Warehouse in Bermondsey and watch an e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:34PMThe WWII image of dejected, scrappy children with brown tags around their necks, clutching their most precious belongings as they are re-homed with strangers in the countryside is a powerful…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:43PMTuesday, December 15, 2015
Dominic Cavendish thinks this year’s theatre lacks relevance to current affairs. He’s probably been working under a commercial and subsidized theatre-shaped rock (as mainstream c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:38PMSunday, December 13, 2015
Hampstead Theatre does it again with another powerful, thought-provoking transfer after last month’s Four Minutes Twelve Seconds. Heather and Carla went to secondary school together about …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:29PMFriday, December 11, 2015
There’s usually good reason why renowned writers have known but unpublished early works. They hone their craft by writing, usually badly at first, and then have a major breakthrough after …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:02PMAs it’s the run up to Christmas, pantos are saturating our stages. There are the traditional ones and plenty that give themselves another label in the hope of getting attention: boutique, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:49AMThursday, December 10, 2015
Schnitzler’s La Ronde has been remade dozens of times and might be coming back into fashion again, what with the recent Hope Theatre production of Hello Again. Joe DiPietro’s Fucking Men…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:29AMWednesday, December 9, 2015
They are new to the King’s Head, but Charles Court Opera aren’t new to pantomime. This year’s Mirror Mirror: A Snow White Pantomime is their ninth “boutique” panto. Though an opera…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:48PMTuesday, December 8, 2015
Near the end of his two-year imprisonment for gross indecency, Oscar Wilde was a man broken from hard labour, isolation and social disgrace. Until a sympathetic warden at Reading Gaol allowe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:12PMSaturday, December 5, 2015
Icon Edith Piaf inspired numerous films and plays, including 1978 play with music, Piaf. The four foot, 8 inches tall chanteuse from a broken home died at just 47, but left a songbook often …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:33PMFriday, December 4, 2015
The first generation of immersive theatre fans are growing up. The twenty-somethings who discovered Punchdrunk in their early days are 30-somethings. Now immersed in nappies and temper tantr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:18PMThursday, December 3, 2015
Cold, dark days make me want to see feel-good theatre, especially in the run up to the holidays. Bonus points if it’s colourful, has some depth and at least some non-formulaic elements, ev…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:07PMWill Adamsdale’s standup/solo performance creation Chris Jackson is a motivational speaker and life coach, and the audience is at his seminar to learn his life changing methods. Jackson’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:23AMTuesday, December 1, 2015
Love is one of the best things in the world, or the worst. It feels like floating, butterflies, warmth and fuzziness, or being trapped in a cage with no way out. Everyone wants to love and b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:28PMMonday, November 30, 2015
It’s panto season, and our stages are filled with villains, heroes and dames. Playwright David Bottomley’s new work-in-progress has some passing resemblance to the characters in Britain�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:22AMFriday, November 27, 2015
Austerity sucks. People all over the country have had their benefits cut, work opportunities reduced and wages frozen. Austerity has badly affected young people at the onset of their careers…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:44PMSunday, November 22, 2015
Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film Romeo + Juliet transformed a young generation into Shakespeare fans. Dan Poole and Giles Terera were training at Mountview at the time of the film’s release. The…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:39PMSaturday, November 21, 2015
I imagine getting stuck in a lift is pretty high on the list of “Worst Things Ever.” Well, it’s obviously not as horrible as the death of a loved one, terrorism, cancer and a host of o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:06PMWednesday, November 18, 2015
We’ve seen “Mad Men,” or at least heard the clichés about cutthroat ad agency types. Competition for clients, drug and drink fueled late nights, ruthless bidding for commissions regar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:14PMTuesday, November 17, 2015
On Sunday night, theatre people ( and hopefully others) up and down the country tuned in to BBC Four to watch Battersea Arts Centre and Arts Council England take over the former BBC Televisi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:22PMFriday, November 13, 2015
What do you do if your teenaged son’s ex-girlfriend accuses him of sexual assault? What if her family refuses to go to the police and takes justice into their own hands instead? Di (Kate M…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:53PMThursday, November 12, 2015
Southbank Centre has a spiegeltent in residence under the Hungerford Bridge; it’s a sexy, glam, velvet and mirrored thing miles away from shabby travelling circuses with tired acts. It’s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:59AMTuesday, November 10, 2015
Nearly everyday we see news of refugees fleeing war torn lands in search of safety abroad. No matter how the press spins objective facts to suit their own agenda and their readers’ opinion…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:04PMSunday, November 8, 2015
If a play includes the BBC, lesbians and emotional instability within the arts, it would be fair to assume it’s a contemporary text. The Killing of Sister George, written in 1964 by Frank …
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