Abigail Thorn’s new play The Prince takes inspiration from Shakespeare and time travel to deliver a funny and deeply original take on gender norms and expectations.
Q&A video: Why is it so important to know your history in The Time Of Our Lies?
A quick show of hands at this week’s Q&A at the Park Theatre confirmed my suspicion: most people, even left-leaning people, have not heard of Howard Zinn. Like those in the audience, before this show, I counted myself amongst them. So by that measure alone, Bianca Bagatourian’s The Time Of Our Lies is a success.
‘A battle cry against those who govern the USA’: The Time Of Our Lies – Park Theatre ★★★★
In Ché Walker’s dynamic, scarlet splashed, viscerally staged production, The Time of Our Lies is nothing if not a battle cry against those who govern the USA and its militaristic and foreign policies.
‘Has the spirit of Zinn’: THE TIME OF OUR LIES – Park Theatre
Bianca Bagatourian’s script adapts the life and work of Howard Zinn (who passed away in 2010) into this 65-minute long play.
New post-show Q&As: Join Terri at The Time Of Our Lies & learn more about anti-war hero Howard Zinn
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will chair two events at the London premiere of The Time Of Our Lies at the Park Theatre. How much do you know about Howard Zinn? You should know more!
Intra Muros Q&A video: What compelled director Ché Walker to take to the stage himself for the first time in 11 years?
What does theatre mean to you? How do actors marry up the dual emotional demands of their chosen profession? How many ‘characters’ or versions of ourselves to the rest of us play in our own lives?
NEWS: Miriam Margolyes, Tracy-Ann Oberman & Meaghan Martin line up for new Park Theatre season
Park Theatre has announced its new July to December 2019 season. Featuring four world premiere productions, two UK and London premieres and a range of revivals from Broadway and the West End and featuring Miriam Margolyes, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Meaghan Martin.
‘Expect to be amused, scared, shocked & moved’: Summer Strallen stars in Intra Muros at the Park Theatre
Summer Strallen chatted to Love London Love Culture’s Emma Clarendon about swapping musicals for her latest role in the UK premiere of multi-award-winning French writer Alexis Michalik’s play Intra Muros at the Park Theatre.
Text of the Day: Time Is Love / Tiempo Es Amore
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
FEATURED SHOW: Why are critics & Offies judges so captivated by Sheila Atim in Time Is Love?
Sheila Atim has ‘aced’ another performance and made her musical mark at the Finborough. Reviews are in for her and the European premiere of writer-director Ché Walker’s Time Is Love / Tiempo es Amor, now running at London’s Finborough Theatre til 26 January 2019. We’ve rounded up the highlights. Time to get booking!
‘The cast is electric’: TIME IS LOVE / TIEMPO ES AMORE – Finborough Theatre
By the last ten minutes, the energy of the language and the characters’ burning need for meaningful relationships in Time is Love has set the place alight.
‘It’s hot, hot, hot’: TIME IS LOVE / TIEMPO ES AMORE – Finborough Theatre
Welcome back Ché Walker; your verbally dexterous LA story Time Is Love really sings with passion and tragedy.
PHOTOS: First look at Sheila Atim, Jessica Ledon, Gabriel Akuwudike & co in Time Is Love’s European premiere
The European premiere of writer-director Ché Walker’s Time Is Love / Tiempo es Amor officially opens tonight at London’s Finborough Theatre, where it’s running for a strictly limited season to 26 January 2019. Check out our bumper gallery of gorgeous, multimedia-infused production shots – and then get booking!
Twenty shows to look forward to in 2019
So many of the recommendations for shows to see next year focus on the West End. And for sure, I’m excited to catch big ticket numbers like All About Eve, Come From Away and Waitress, but I wanted to cast my eye a little further afield.
‘Both aspects of my creativity were running side by side my whole life’: Sheila Atim on composing & appearing in Ché Walker’s Time Is Love
Olivier Award winner Sheila Atim returns to the Finborough Theatre and reunites with writer-director Ché Walker, who gave her early career breaks as both an actor and a composer. In our featured interview, Sheila discusses how the different aspects of her creativity feed off one another, her two-fold contribution to the European premiere of Walker’s Time Is Love / Tiempo es Amor and why it’s an ideal follow-on from her Emilia at The Globe. Time to get booking!
‘What if Desdemona was guilty? The story kept popping into my head’: Writer-director Ché Walker on Time Is Love’s European premiere
After relocating to Los Angeles, writer-director Chè Walker returns to London, and the Finborough Theatre, with the European premiere of his latest stage play, Time Is Love / Tiempo es Amor, which also marks a reunion with Olivier Awards winner Sheila Atim. Find out more about his inspirations, city comparisons and Netflix success – and then get booking!
PHOTOS: Sheila Atim, Ché Walker & Time Is Love cast visit Finborough ahead of Euro premiere
Writer-director Che Walker, Olivier Awards winner Sheila Atim and the company of Time Is Love / Tiempo es Amor paid a special visit to the Finborough Theatre this month ahead of their European premiere run in January. Check out these stunning behind-the-scenes photos – and then get booking!
NEWS: Ché Walker follows Been So Long on Netflix with the Euro premiere of Time Is Love, featuring Sheila Atim
Fresh from his Netflix success with stage-to-screen hit Been So Long, writer and director Chè Walker returns from Los Angeles to direct the European premiere of his own new play Time Is Love / Tiempo es Amor, which will feature original music by Olivier Awards winner Sheila Atim, who also appears in the production. Time to get booking!
Guilty or innocent: Who’s made their minds up about Father Flynn in Doubt?
Shanley’s script doesn’t specify Flynn’s guilt or innocence, of course. And much of the power of this Pulitzer Prize-winning piece is its ability to keep you wondering – and arguing about it. I was interested to learn that that extends beyond audience reactions too.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Doubt, A Parable at Southwark Playhouse
John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt is being revived at the Southwark Playhouse in a limited season running to 30 September 2017. Here is what critics have been saying about the production directed by Ché Walker…
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