Sunday, 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 …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:38PMThursday, November 5, 2015
Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass is less about the devil and more about devilment, and Mercurius bring this farcical, Jacobean world to life with a snappy edit, good energy and some excell…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
Romeo and Juliet gets a modern, interspecies remix by Rita Kalnejais in the south London-set First Love is the Revolution. Awkward, lonely Basti (James Tarpey) is trying to make the best of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:23PMMonday, November 2, 2015
Invisible Treasure has no script and no actors. It’s not a play, but a playspace. For this hour long part-video game, part-puzzle, the audience/participants must work together to interpret…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:15AMSunday, November 1, 2015
“Netflix and chill” takes on new meaning in Five Guys Chillin’. Well, the “chill” part does, and is also substituted with “chill out”. Rather than a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:58AMFriday, October 30, 2015
Elyese Dukie is going to die tomorrow. Though she needs to get through tonight first, at least she’s not alone. We’re in there with her, in her cell on Texas’ Death Row in 1959, as is …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:26PMWednesday, October 28, 2015
Knickers, bras and other vintage undergarments (oh my!) dangle from the Hope Theatre ceiling in dim light, the discarded ghosts of sexual encounters long past. Arthur Schnitzler’s 1897 Rei…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:27AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Any theatre festival programme is hit or miss if you aren’t familiar with individual shows or participating companies. So far, the productions I’ve seen at the London Horror Festival hav…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:28AMThere’s nothing quite like sibling rivalry, and the hatred you feel for your brother or sister is only matched by one thing. The hatred you often feel for your flatmates. It doesn’t matt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:02AMMonday, October 26, 2015
This adaptation of The Tempest by Kelly Hunter was a one-off performance as part of the Bloomsbury Festival at the Bloomsbury Studio Theatre. Hunter specifically designed this piece to enabl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:39PMSunday, October 25, 2015
In 1998, Thatcher introduced controversial Section 28 that banned promotion of homosexuality, publishing materials that supported it and teaching its acceptability in schools. Playwright Chr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:03PMSam, Dominique and Will don’t always get on with each other. It doesn’t help that they’re under a lot of stress due to a zombie-alien invasion, and can’t work out if any other people…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:59PMThursday, October 22, 2015
A lot of firsts are happening in Balham theatre at the moment. Theatre N16 has moved from N16 to a new home in SW12, The Bedford Pub. There is little theatre in the immediate area – Tootin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:54AMWednesday, October 21, 2015
I’m watching Ben Whitehead play a socially inept Victorian playing a half-walrus/half-man creature, indicated by the wearing of a hooded grey sleeping bag, blue swimming flippers on his ha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:22PMSiblings Joanna and Lawrence live in 1950s New York City, a place brimming with promise and excitement for its younger residents. They don’t take advantage of it, though. Lawrence never le…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:49AMSaturday, October 17, 2015
We never meet Joanne. We do however, meet four women who encounter her at different points over a crucial 24-hour period of her life, and one that remembers her as a child. We learn that she…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:45AMThursday, October 15, 2015
Hiding in a room above a pub in Camden, John is on the run from an archdemon that he initially believed was the angel Madimi, with whom he did a dodgy deal for his soul. This archdemon is so…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:32PMThe sandman doesn’t throw sand in your eyes to help you sleep, oh no. That’s just what parents want children to believe so they aren’t scared of the real sandman. The real sandman is h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:43PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Way up in Manhattan, so far north that it’s nearly the Bronx, is Washington Heights. You take the A or the 1 train to 181 Street to find this primarily Hispanic neighbourhood that’s not …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:25PMSunday, October 11, 2015
Most Shakespeare I see is performed with the actors’ genders matching that of the characters they play. Sometimes I see token cross-gender or gender-blind casting within an own-gender …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:24PM 
