In a week when the UK government doubled down on its harmful and divisive rhetoric with regard to refugees and immigrants, Chickenshed’s new spring show Rush feels depressingly timely. At …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMBack in 2009, when The Great British Bake Off first appeared on our TV screens, nobody could have predicted that a show about people making cakes in a tent would even get a second series, le…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM“Complicated, isn’t it?” says one of the characters early on in James Woolf’s The Play With Speeches – and they’re not wrong. As writer Anthony (Matthew Parker) sits down with di…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAs adaptations go, they don’t come a lot more ambitious than Simon Reade’s reimagining of David Copperfield at Riverside Studios. The semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens is kn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe subject of Aoife Kennan’s Scratches is a tough one for many reasons – one of which is that, for very good reasons, she can’t actually talk openly about it. And so a sort of code de…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThough it’s considered to be a Canadian classic, it’s somehow taken nearly 40 years for David French’s Salt-Water Moon to reach the UK, directed by Peter Kavanagh at the Finborough. Pa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThis is far from the only option for anyone wanting to see A Christmas Carol in London this year – but if you’re looking for a performance that’s intimate, funny, inventive and a littl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIt’s the festive season, and of all the Christmas shows on offer this year, I’m not sure they could possibly come much bigger than Chickenshed’s Jack! Playing is believing… As ever, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMLa Maupin is a folk punk musical celebrating this queer icon, written by Olivia Thompson and performed by a small cast of actor-musicians from female-led theatre company Fantastic Garlands. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBased on the novel by Christopher Isherwood and adapted by Simon Reade, A Single Man follows a day in the life of George (Theo Fraser Steele), a middle-aged British professor living in Los A…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAll I can really say about Apples in Winter at the Playground Theatre is that it’s really, really good, with an immensely powerful one-woman performance from Edie Campbell that will leave …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThere’s a lot to appreciate in Guinea Pigs at The Space. The central inspiration is a topic that’s been deliberately covered up and will therefore be news to many audience members, and E…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTheatre doesn’t get much more personal than this. The Quality of Mercy is the story of serial killer Harold Shipman, written and performed by Edwin Flay – a patient of Shipman’s as a c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMLandscape with Weapon asks some interesting and uncomfortable questions, and ultimately proves that when it comes to morality, right and wrong are not always as clear-cut as we might like th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMYou’ll like Blue at the White Bear Theatre if… The play is a dark comedy. You will laugh. You will think about the ‘human condition’. You will find some of it absurd because life is …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMInspired by the moment in April 1987 when the princess opened Britain’s first HIV/AIDS unit at London’s Middlesex Hospital and challenged public perceptions of the disease by shaking han…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMGoing in, it’s hard to know if the technical aspects of Douglas Baker’s production of Ten Days In A Madhouse at Jack Studio Theatre will feel gimmicky, but it quickly becomes evident tha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMBill Rosenfield’s Another America is not quite what I expected – which, it turns out, is the whole point. Inspired by the 1999 documentary film True Fans by Dan Austin, it’s not explic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMReturning to live performance for the first time in two years, Arrows & Traps prove they’ve lost none of their ambition as they bring to the stage not one but two inspiring real-life s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFemale-led theatre company Plain Heroines “make funny plays about difficult subjects”. That’s an apt description of Kate Reid’s The 4th Country.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWhat if you fancy a festive show but you’re not in the mood for Dickensian drama? Shitfaced Showtime is the answer.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMHow many of us theatre lovers, hand on heart, could name the wig designer working on our favourite productions?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMRose is a career woman who wants a baby but not a relationship. Adam’s a deadbeat musician who had a bad childhood and has zero interest in procreating.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMLike the 1989 movie on which it’s based, Heathers the Musical has gained an enthusiastic cult following since the UK production first opened at The Other Palace in 2018.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMNorthern Comedy Theatre return to the stage with Doing Shakespeare, a clever and joyously silly play celebrating Shakespeare in all his occasionally incomprehensible glory.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMBased on the true story of one of America’s most controversial trials, Tokyo Rose is a new musical written by Maryhee Yoon and Cara Baldwin, directed by Hannah Benson, and performed by an …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIn Other Words was inspired by writer and performer Matthew Seager’s experiences volunteering in a care home before the pandemic. First performed in 2017 (when Theatre Things reviewed it d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMBeautifully written and emotionally devastating, Cordelia O’Neill’s two-hander Anything Is Possible If You Think About It Hard Enough sensitively explores the impact of losing a child to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMProforça Theatre’s Lately doesn’t directly address the pandemic, but the emotions it portrays – loneliness, loss and a longing for escape – are feelings audiences will relate to per…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDon’t Send Flowers at the White Bear Theatre is a really thoughtful and enjoyable piece of new writing from My Theatre Mates’ Emily Garside, sensitively presented by a talented team.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe impossible “five years” question is posed to each of the characters in Ben Barrow and Lucy Ireland’s excellent new musical From Here – and each has a different answer.
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