Business and boxing collide in this revival of Yasir Senna’s play by Razor Sharp Productions. Alisha Harper-Gill is on the ropes, fighting for her career.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThe first thing you’ll notice when you enter the auditorium is the incredible set design which brings you right into Beverley and Laurence Moss’s decadent lounge.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMYou gather in an unassuming office reception to start – looking much like any of the thousands of office receptions in the surrounding part of the city.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMA young woman listens to pop music on headphones. The people around her can’t hear it. We, the audience, can – a bit. But it’s a solitary experience; unshared. Something universal is a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMI like Six because it is short, the costumes look amazing, it focuses on female talent from the six leading queens to the backing band and it has a range of songs and talent rarely seen in m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFans will no doubt revel in recognition of their favourite songs during this rock opera based upon the epic power ballads of Meatloaf and Jim Steinman.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMLucy Bailey’s site-specific production of Agatha Christie’s courtroom drama has returned to London County Hall, after a lengthy, if unplanned adjournment, and remains one of the most eff…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIn this one-woman show, writer and performer Beth Burrows fascinates her audience even as she exposes some of the flaws of her famous male subjects: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMGod, teenagers. Don’t you just want to shake them sometimes? Scream at them that their lives are a marathon, not a sprint.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe intimate and interactive nature of the setting meant that we, the audience, were completely immersed in the performance of The Scottish Play.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIn Alyssa: Memoirs of a Queen, primped, preened and double vaxxed, Alyssa not so much dominates the stage as blows it up entirely.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMJack Holden’s Cruise is a timely look at LGBT history, for fans of Russell T Davies’ It’s a Sin it touches on similar themes of 80s London in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It is…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWith no audience to see for themselves, how do you believe in the magic? I was intrigued then to find out more about The Secret Connection who recently started doing online magic shows.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTestament places some of the Bible’s most interesting bit part players in a modern setting and gives them centre stage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIt’s fitting that Next Thing You Know revolves around four young people searching for moments that are rare and precious in a life that is achingly normal.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe big question is whether the big sound of Pippin translates to an outdoor space on the edge of the Vauxhall one way system. The answer is a resounding yes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIt is in the second half of Squad Goals where the play comes to life and comes into its own. The football tournament is depicted through two long, dance sequences that burst with a ferocious…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMOne amazing thing that has come out of Covid-19 theatre is more filmed theatre. My latest theatre experience from the comfort of my own couch was Moment of Grace by Bren Gosling, presented b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMNow if you think that The House That Slipped is simply a well-meaning, worthy play, you would be wrong. The script, direction and the way Zoom is an essential part of the story, make it witt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMShakespeare. Theatre. Press Nights. These are all concepts we are familiar with, but in this unprecedented time of COVID-19 lockdown, for a moment we were unsure how theatre would survive.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMIn this world turned upside down, emergency legislation has been rushed through to do away with barristers. Now the accused in court have only you.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWe need to use this time wisely. As audience members, what do we want to see; as creatives, what can be made. If the expectations don’t match, then audiences won’t be back.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThis play, written especially for Zoom by John Knowles, looks at a group of people trying to make a seance work when they can't hold hands.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMA fascinating historical curio, Sasha Regan’s production Peace In Our Time is also a fine piece of speculative drama, imbued with Coward’s gift for eloquence and waspishness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMIn a world where – if the virus won’t kill us, Donald Trump will – we really, really need good, well delivered, confident silliness and The Importance of Being Earnest delivers.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWhat makes Not Quite Jerusalem such a vivid and enjoyable play, is the nuanced and recognisable characters – backed here by exemplary performances from a talented cast.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe Old Red Lion’s put together an interesting triptych of plays that, if you’re short for time, allow you to experience the gamut of human experience.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMVerbatim plays can often feel static with a view of just letting the words do the work, but the words really lift off the page in The Special Relationship.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe atmosphere created by the superb cast in Jekyll & Hyde as well as the challenge of the game is enormous fun and the time flew by.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMClearly something in Be More Chill has touched a chord with today’s youth, but catchy songs written by committee to hit the teen feelz doesn’t make up for a weak book and problematic pol…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBased on Simon Callow’s English translation, this version of La Cage aux Folles stays true to the original French text. Callow’s edits and new dialogue has given us a fresh interpretatio…
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