Saturday, November 21, 2020
Playwright Philip Ridley has had a very productive lockdown. Despite the constraints of the pandemic he has been exceptionally creative. In March, when all theatres in Britain were closed, h…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Misfits, from the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, comprises four excellent fractured monologues, written by Kenny Emson, Sadie Hasler, Guleraana Mir and Anne Odeke, which focus on Essex,
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 5, 2020
There's plenty to enjoy in Little Wars' jokes, and then, later on, the final harrowing monologues about the genocide are both powerful and deeply moving.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Success smells sweet. The Bridge Theatre's pioneering season of one-person plays continues with sell-out performances of David Hare's Beat the Devil and Fuel's production of Inua Ellams's…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2020
Originally commissioned as part of The Power Plays produced by Theatre Uncut in 2018, A Coin in Someone Else's Pocket is a wonderfully thoughtful meditation on what it means to be a female M…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 11, 2020
When the history of British theatre's response to COVID-19 comes to be written, the names of two men will feature prominently: Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr. The "two Nicks" were the creati…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:14PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2020
Do you know the Urdu word for story? No? Well, look it up. Okay, this might prove a bit tricky, so let me suggest an easier route: buy a ticket to participate in We Are Shadows: Brick Lane, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:48AM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2020
Theatre is just different organisms in close proximity. It's a great image, and one of many that float gently to the surface in Ben Duke's In a Nutshell, a monologue which explores with a ma…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 27, 2020
This is a masterly revival of An Evening with an Immigrant, Inua Ellams' 2016 autobiographical one-man show which is both poetic and engaging.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 13, 2020
Although I have visited Brick Lane a number of times over the years, much of We Are Shadows: Brick Lane this was refreshingly new to me and the adventure was a delightful experience.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 22, 2020
During the current pandemic, stories about isolation have a particular resonance. Feelings of claustrophobia, loneliness, and frustration slide off the stage and echo in our subconscious " y…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 20, 2020
Simon Stephens and Juliet Stevenson create a perfectly beautiful and haunting installation for our times in The Blindness at the Donmar Warehouse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 8, 2020
The strength of the response to the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter campaign has encouraged some theatres to create provocative, new work. Often, the keynote is a personal feeling. On…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 5, 2020
The bright colours of the performance underline the surrealism of Scrounger's quest for justice, and Athena Stevens, the first actor in a wheelchair nominated for an Offie, performs her stor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Can the act of dusting be a metaphor? This is the all-too-obvious question that jumps into the mind while watching Spring Cleaning, a very site-specific immersive theatre production that …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2020
This is the age of marketing, not the age of criticism. To give an example, I'll start with a small incident that has a wider symbolic value. In November 2013, a new show called Gastronau…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 18, 2020
Lorraine Hansberry's debut, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first drama written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, where it opened in 1959. It is now an American classic, but it's …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 11, 2020
Edwardian dramatist St John Ervine was once, along with Arthur Wing Pinero, Henry Arthur Jones, Harley Granville Barker and George Bernard Shaw, hailed as a British Ibsen. They wrote problem…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2020
A rediscovered Edwardian problem play gives a clear picture of marriage and morals in a bygone era.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2020
Lockdown occasionally spawns some real delights. Like the surprise appearance of a strange creature from the most profound depths. One of these must be Andrew Scott's superb performance in S…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Yesterday, I took a break from my sunny local park and turned a room in my house into the Finborough fringe theatre. You know the kind of thing: very small, very dark, very hot and airless, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 21, 2020
In Continuity, Gerry Moynihan explores the men's fanaticism and the effects of their frustrated masculinity on their political beliefs.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 19, 2020
This venue's urgent response to the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter campaign is powerfully realised.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Alan Bennett writes that "I've always had a soft spot for George III", for no better reason than that he had studied the monarch's reign at secondary school and then again at uni.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 14, 2020
If any musical can attempt to live up to this title in these troubled times, it must be this show from Graeae, a theatre company whose mission is to champion the work of Deaf and disabled ar…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 13, 2020
We are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times. Maybe. But do weird times necessarily require weird art? Do bad times provoke bad art? Well, one of the most unusual response…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2020
The problem with creating theatre in an era of lockdown is that the constraints of working online tend towards a uniformity of creativity
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2020
We are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times. Maybe. But do weird times necessarily require weird art? Do bad times provoke bad art?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 7, 2020
In his wide-ranging, and widely read, survey of postwar British theatre, called State of the Nation, the Guardian critic Michael Billington sets out his stall: in the introduction t…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2020
This revival of a 2011 HighTide hit, reconceived for streaming, stars Diana Quick and is intimate and quietly moving.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2020
During the lockdown, the best online theatre, more or less, are shows that are specially created for this digital format. Much better than dull records of dramas that might have worked well …
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