Monday, December 23, 2019
It’s that time of year again... here’s View From the Circle’s Top Ten shows of 2019.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, December 20, 2019
Inua Ellams’ writing is always so multifaceted and beautiful and this interpretation of Three Sisters is no exception, whether you have strong feelings on Chekhov or not.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, November 10, 2019
The Antipodes is certainly not the play for you if you want an easy, purely entertaining night at the theatre. However, if you’re willing to put in the effort and have something to chew ov…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, October 25, 2019
You’d be hard pressed to see a better version of Sam Shepard’s play Ages Of The Moon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, July 11, 2019
Peter Gynt, a new adaptation of Ibsen’s apparently unstageable Peer Gynt by David Hare, is a great success as a piece of writing and so much fun.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, June 27, 2019
I really can’t recommend Sweat highly enough. It’s not just a great play, and a great production, it’s an actually important one.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, June 13, 2019
The writing is brilliant, the production is brilliant and it is brilliantly performed. I would love it if Hedgehog at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre were picked up a venue like The Bush and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 4, 2019
Small Island is an absolute joy and an overdue, no reservations at all, win for Rufus Norris at the NT. There’s nothing else to say. Well except this: you must see it, immediately.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, June 2, 2019
ANNA is such a great little show. It’s a curiosity, certainly, and it is worth seeing for the technical bravado alone. But it’s also an absolute belter of a thriller too, something which…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Rutherford and Son is not my cup of tea. No cup of tea has ever been as boring as this play is for one thing. The acting does just about salvage it, or at least stop it from being a complete…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, May 25, 2019
Directed by Marianne (actual genius) Elliott and Miranda Cromwell and featuring an African American Loman family, this Death of a Salesman is the clearest, most moving and profound vision of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, May 23, 2019
First things first, how good a title for a play is Sad About The Cows? Pretty bloody good I would argue. It’s also a pretty bloody good play, as it happens.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
All My Sons may not be my favourite Arthur Miller play but The Old Vic’s production of it is undeniably brilliant, especially the heavyweight and stunningly good cast.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, April 18, 2019
Downstate at the National Theatre is a remarkable thing. An absolute masterpiece of writing, performed so sensitively and with such bravery.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
Overall Going Through is just a beautiful thing. Gorgeous writing, a stonkingly good production and a brilliant cast. Seventy-five minutes of humanity and joy. Highly recommended.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, March 26, 2019
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s script for Emilia at the Vaudeville Theatre is spectacularly good: funny, poignant, angry and inspiring. It’s an amazing piece of theatre, yes, but it’s also som…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 14, 2019
I’m genuinely not sure Admissions could be done much better than it’s done here. If you come expecting an entertaining comedy that will make you occasionally go ‘oh actually that’s a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Look, as a piece of drama Alys, Always isn't the best thing you'll ever see. It's unlikely to be troubling the Olivier nominations next year I wouldn't think. But, actually, I sort of don't …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, February 18, 2019
I really enjoyed and was really technically impressed with The American Clock. A decent play, in an amazing production by a truly visionary director, brought to life by a brilliant cast.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
There's a line in Trial By Laughter, the new touring production of Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s play about freedom of the press, where one of the main characters says to the other: “But …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, January 25, 2019
The way that the story of Violet is told elevates it to something really quite lovely, with huge emotional impact and a surprising timeliness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, January 12, 2019
Anomaly is a really exciting play. For all that it’s hard to watch and challenging to process, it is immensely rewarding and a great hour of theatre all round. It’s also an amazing showc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, January 10, 2019
Somehow, despite the fact it’s been around for about a billion years, it’s taken me until 2019 to finally see War Horse on stage. Weird right? It’s done the National Theatre, it’s do…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, December 24, 2018
Normally I do two of these – Top Ten Shows and Top Ten Performances – but this year I’m combining the two – plus some sundry other awards.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, December 20, 2018
Currently my favourite partnership of Simon Russell Beale and Shakespeare is at work in The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (or Richard II if you prefer, and as the person typing this I v…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, November 22, 2018
Summer & Smoke, the latest Almeida Theatre West End transfer, is the first thing I’ve experienced in a while where the theatre audience is really, properly engaged in a play. It’s l…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
Like ripping off a dramatic plaster, now that I’ve done one show’s worth of Harold Pinter it’s time to plunge headfirst into another. Pinter Three down, Pinter Four to go.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, November 12, 2018
Overall, I really rated Pinter Three. Whether you know your Pinter or not, I’d wager there’s something new for you here. Funny, touching, and staged and performed with real class. Solidl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, November 9, 2018
If you like your theatre more experimental than I do, then Lands it’s definitely worth your time. And, as ever, you can’t fault The Bush’s bravery in commissioning it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, November 5, 2018
Yet another pat on the back is due for the Bush Theatre who has knocked things out of the park once again with its latest main house show. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, written by Luke …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, October 31, 2018
I’m Not Running is, for my money, the sort of political theatre that gives both politics and theatre a bad name.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM 
