With its comment on the burden of expectation placed on women, class struggle, race and sexuality, more than six decades on A Taste Of Honey has lost none of its bite.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMReimagined for the modern stage with a contemporary cast led by James McAvoy, Jamie Lloyd’s production of Cyrano de Bergerac feels at every moment like theatre at its most exciting, libera…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMelly Still’s reworking of April De Angelis’ adaptation of My Brilliant Friend gives the show both a flowing and episodic quality as the interior monologue of the protagonist in the book…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe skill with which this production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane has been developed clearly demonstrates a theatre company with a revitalised energy.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIf this inaugural show, Ghost Quartet, means the new Boulevard Theatre is setting out its stall for a programme of unusually staged and challenging productions in the future then there is ev…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWhile the descent into a kind of collective insanity may seem strange in lieu of a plot in Annie Baker’s Antipodes at the National Theatre, as with all her work you find your thoughts retu…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMPart of the success of Lungs is that it is not the uber-liberal, finger-wagging climate change play you expect it to be, plus both the production’s stars are superb and entirely believable…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIt has been a long time since the West End saw a truly great Macbeth so perhaps this is a chance for Simm and Kirwan to buck the trend with impressive performances that offer a different per…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMarina Carr’s coherent vision for Blood Wedding delivers a production that is unforgiving, creating a portentous world in which notions of love and freedom will always be trampled by the s…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIn A Very Expensive Poison Lucy Prebble has serious arguments to outlay about the relationship between international governments and narrative misdirection, but the broadly comic approach to…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMHansard is a great political play, one that tells us everything about the society we have become and why the impasse of the last three years cannot be easily broken.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMJacobs-Jenkins explores how even fairly recent national history can be sanitised and reduced when examined from only one perspective in Appropriate at the Donmar Warehouse.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMLike its predecessors, 2019’s Les Misérables: The Staged Concert will be long remembered as another notable event in the musical’s performance history, heralding the return of Michael B…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMActually has its issues as a drama and the heavily discursive competing narratives approach limits how the play is staged that can feel repetitive at times, but Ziegler has created a scenari…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWith plenty to say about the shallow foundations of political leaders hiding behind their PR machines, Jamie Lloyd’s triumphant Evita is raw, fresh and intense – “oh what a show!”
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMAs the conclusion to a strong season of unusual Williams revivals, Southern Belles proves valuable and illuminating, concluding with an important moment of solidarity that leaves the audienc…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMax Vernon’s musical The View UpStairs making its European debut at the Soho Theatre and running for just five weeks, commemorates the 1973 arson attack on a gay bar in New Orleans which w…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMGripping performances from Clive Owen and Lia Williams, and James Macdonald’s slow-burn direction allows Tennessee Williams’ writing in The Night Of The Iguana to cast its spell.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThe staging and orchestration of the Palladium’s new version of Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat looks to the future, as a whole new set of children fall in love with this pe…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIn The End of History Thorne shuffles various perspectives within the family, examining their different experiences of the same events from multiple angles, and while these differences drive…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMBitter Wheat is not only frustratingly irresponsible in its treatment of the events that led to the #MeToo movement, it is also a poorly constructed drama.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIt is the slight rearrangement of the text and its implication for the female characters that is Nicholas Hytner’s most notable achievement here in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridg…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMHowever light its frame, ultimately Education, Education, Education has serious points to make about the short-termist approaches to education funding used cynically as a political tool to w…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFemi Elufowoju Jr’s production of The Glass Menagerie is fascinating with the tense and vibrant second half in particular proving both gripping and illuminating
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThornton Wilder’s writing in Our Town feels as fresh and innovative as it must have done in the 1930s and taking an early season risk on a less conventional play ultimately pays off.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMEven a middling Tennessee Williams play – Orpheus Descending – is better than most, and this one still has plenty to say about sacrifice and suffocation in small-town America
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIt’s Marianne Elliott’s impressionistic approach that yields considerable insight into the themes of Death of a Salesman, the characters’ attachment to material possessions as indicato…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWith compelling performances from the four leads this production of All My Sons fulfils its promise, a gripping Miller tragedy that concludes with a lasting sense of devastation.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIt is a vibrant and meaningful interpretation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters that reaps rewards. Keep on an eye on this new theatre partnership, it could be around for many years to come.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMGrief on stage and in popular culture is rarely considered as a psychological state of its own but as a means or driver for other behaviour.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIn just six months, Jamie Lloyd’s creative team and ever-changing company of actors has utterly transformed our perspective on Harold Pinter.
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