Thursday, December 13, 2018
It is appropriate that Park Theatre is staging Jacky Ivimy’s Dialektikon at this time of year. Theatres are full of pantomimes, humorous re-workings of classic fairy tales, so why not a le…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Arriving at the Trafalgar Studios after a wave of critical acclaim at its National Theatre run earlier this year, Nine Night already bears the acclaim and intense scrutiny that comes with be…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, December 7, 2018
Director and performer Sofi Lee-Henson on what keeps audiences coming back to Neural Enhancement with Dr Leon, running at a secret location in SE1.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Little Women is a flawed but ultimately charming production. An edit in the first half and a better familiarity with the performance space and it would be even better. But as it is, I would …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, December 3, 2018
A Christmas Carol with a supporting cast of 200? A Christmas Carol with four alternating casts of 200, involving as many in making Christmas as possible, with the maximum social benefit? I c…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, November 30, 2018
It’s such a wonderful idea to re-create a Dickens reading. With John O’Connor’s skill, this proves to be a magical evening of storytelling. A thoroughly fun Victorian Christmas experie…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, November 29, 2018
Seussical the Musical is so utterly and completely charming I’m not ashamed to say it brought me to happy tears of joy at the end. Fast-paced – frenetic even – the action never stops, …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, November 26, 2018
In short, Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales is a fine Christmas show for all the family – but don’t be surprised if you have some questions to answer afterwards!
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 23, 2018
Described as a ‘treasure hunt’ through a library, Marie Klimis’ The Paper Traveller is an individual, immersive experience which combines storytelling with handcrafted pop-up books, in…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, November 21, 2018
Untrustworthy sailors, stolen treasure, plentiful rum and boat with a captain named Jack – find these and you will be at the ‘x’ that marks the spot for your standard pirate tale. Inve…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, November 19, 2018
Motherlode has been touring this short four-hander, written and directed by Rachael Boulton, round venues in Wales for its premiere. It’s London’s luck that it has rocked up at the Finbo…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, November 17, 2018
The main character in Gilded Butterflies, in a superb performance by Francesca McCrohon, is a hyperactive chatterbox confined to a solitary cell on death row, willing to spill out her though…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, November 16, 2018
Acting Gymnasium’s talented cast excel with their superb timing and tremendous energy in this acrobatically verbal and physical comedy, A Flea in Her Ear at Theatro Technis.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
In Yerma, Lorca’s enduring “tragic poem”, director Jorge de Juan has seamlessly transposed the action to an Afro-Cuban setting where the unhurried pace of life highlights how empty Yer…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, November 11, 2018
Jesse Briton’s A Pupil asks whether genius can be taught. The real question is what is genius and is it genius if it can be so easily mimicked.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, November 8, 2018
Off the back of a two-year Edinburgh Fringe tenure and a tidal wave of rapturous reviews, Hull playwright Luke Barnes’ gig theatre opus All We Ever Wanted Was Everything arrives at Shepher…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
Sadly Shotgun Carousel’s Divine Proportions, which markets itself as an immersive dining experience, is neither immersive or very interesting.
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The story of Jane Eyre is a gothic, romantic tale of conflicted emotions and repressed passions. Sadly this production from the Watermill lacks these and is treated as more of a story-tellin…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, November 5, 2018
Bury the Dead at Finborough Theatre is a unique and engaging story which captures the sense of unjust, premature death at the mercy of someone else’s agenda.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, November 2, 2018
Martin McDonagh is a good writer. I have to state this because based on this production of A Very Very Very Dark Matter at the Bridge Theatre audiences may not be so convinced.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, November 1, 2018
In a time when jobs are hard to find, morale is down and hope seems far away, The Full Monty presents the tale of Gaz and his hilarious journey to keep seeing his son.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, October 28, 2018
Spotlight on writer, producer, actor and Fennikusu Productions founder Hadesa Sonné…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMThursday, October 25, 2018
As the centenary commemorations of World War I draw to a close it seems fitting that Nick Newman and Ian Hislop’s The Wipers Times returns to the Arts Theatre.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
Les Enfant Terribles’ The Trench follows the story of Bert, an older man wanting to serve his country during WWI, and is assigned the task of digging for explosives under No Man’s Land.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, October 22, 2018
Arrows and Traps make a triumphant return following their adaptation of The White Rose in this atmospheric adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, October 21, 2018
“Small details, carefully recorded” is the instruction a beloved tutor gives to the young Charles Darwin early in this play, and just as Darwin eventually produces something transcendent…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, October 18, 2018
The Incident is a timely one-act play about structural racism in Sweden but this tale of a relationship between Swedish Jan and Zimbabwean Monica could be about any mixed-race couple in the …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, October 15, 2018
Over the course of 30 scenes in 90 minutes decked with imagery and metaphors, Dipuka Guha’s intricate script for The Art of Gaman takes us through Tomomi’s journey through the decades.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, October 13, 2018
The Torch Theatre’s in-house team has brought cracking choreographed chaos to the stage in One Man, Two Guvnors, a modern adaptation of a 350-year-old Italian comedy spectacular that was u…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, October 11, 2018
I feel I should announce something many have missed from Jane Robins and Julie Burchill’s debut play People Like Us; it is broad, very very broad, and all the better for it.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
I’m the last person on earth to utilise a football metaphor, but the recent Pinter at the Pinter press day (showcasing the first two of six productions of the prolific playwright’s one-a…
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