For three years, #ReadaPlayaWeek was a, well, weekly feature of our blog. Starting out as a way to familiarise myself more with the canon, long-established and establishment writers were a regular feature.
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.
Text of the Day: Ear for Eye at the Royal Court Theatre
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Mark Shenton rounds up news, reviews, interviews & controversies from London, New York & beyond
Mark Shenton offers reviews, news, interviews and tweets of the week from the West End, Broadway and beyond.
‘A conscience-pricking, outrage-provoking piece of work’: EAR FOR EYE – Royal Court Theatre ★★★★
There is no one quite like debbie tucker green and her new play ear for eye, no one writing with the same urgency, disquiet and plain brilliance for adjusting and changing forms.
‘Searing, breathtaking work’: EAR FOR EYE – Royal Court Theatre
debbie tucker green’s Ear For Eye at the Royal Court Theatre is masterfully showing us one of the most astonishing accounts of the modern black experience that I have ever seen.
‘Feels like an instant classic’: EAR FOR EYE – Royal Court Theatre
Covering both contemporary experience and historical background, debbie tucker green’s Ear for Eye at the Royal Court feels like an instant classic. But it’s not an easy watch.
‘Quite often breathtaking’: EAR FOR EYE – Royal Court Theatre
Ear for eye, Debbie Tucker Green’s new play for the Royal Court, is ferocious and uncompromising and challenging and quite often breath-taking.
‘As theatre there are several memorable moments’: MISTY – Bush Theatre
At the centre of the show is Arinzé Kene himself. Having just finished his part in Conor McPherson’s Girl from the North Country in the West End, he devotes all of his considerable charisma to this meditation on the race politics of storytelling.
NEWS: Richard Hawley, Dan Gillespie Sells & Kiss Me Kate feature in new Sheffield season
Sheffield Theatres’ new season includes Standing at the Sky’s Edge by Michael Wynne, with music and lyrics by Richard Hawley; A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Robert Hastie with music by Dan Gillespie Sells; and this year’s Christmas musical Kiss Me, Kate.
Royal Court announces 10 premieres as part of 2018 season and reopening of Samuel French Bookshop in foyer
The new Royal Court season, announced today includes a total of tene world premieres – among them works by Mark Ravenhill, Debbie Tucker Green and Anthony Neilson, plus actress Ellie Kendrick’s writing debut.
Royal Court announces 10 premieres as part of 2018 season and reopening of Samuel French Bookshop in foyer
The new Royal Court season, announced today includes a total of tene world premieres – among them works by Mark Ravenhill, Debbie Tucker Green and Anthony Neilson, plus actress Ellie Kendrick’s writing debut.
Text of the Day: A Profoundly Affectionate, Passionate Devotion to Someone (–noun)
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
A PROFOUNDLY AFFECTIONATE, PASSIONATE DEVOTION TO SOMEONE (-NOUN) – Royal Court
First we’re ushered into what at first sight appears to be a variation on a classroom. We sit, like pupils, upright, on white stools.
A PROFOUNDLY AFFECTIONATE, PASSIONATE DEVOTION TO SOMEONE (-NOUN) – Royal Court Theatre
Calling the play “Love” would mean the horror of upper case, a masculine take on a universal. Why are we talking about gendered language? Because it’s the play’s structuring theme.
A PROFOUNDLY AFFECTIONATE, PASSIONATE DEVOTION TO SOMEONE (–NOUN) – Royal Court
Love, we know, will tear us apart again. And again. And yet again. It will shred our nerves and rip through our guts; it will fill us with anguish, and then douse us in regrets.
A PROFOUNDLY AFFECTIONATE, PASSIONATE DEVOTION TO SOMEONE (-NOUN) – Royal Court Theatre
debbie tucker green’s a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) comes with all the gnomic but still conversational energy of her best writing.
NEWS: Meera Syal stars in debbie tucker green’s latest Royal Court premiere
The Royal Court Theatre has announced that Gary Beadle, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Lashana Lynch, Shvorne Marks and Meera Syal have been cast in new play a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun).
NEWS: Sam Mendes directs Butterworth’s The Ferryman, Royal Court 2017 season announced
The Royal Court Theatre announces spring/summer season of work. The new season includes eight world premieres, four UK and international collaborations and the return of a seminal Royal Court play, Jim Cartwright’s Road.
Diary of a theatre addict: New York weddings, interviews, shows and (very) cloudy views from the WTC
I’m just back from a(nother) crazed addictive week in New York, built around the wedding on Thursday of my friend Vivien Goodwin — former managing director of Samuel French Ltd, and now MD at R&H Theatricals, managing the licensing of their musical theatre catalogue in London and Europe. It coincided with the third anniversary last Tuesday of my own wedding in New York three years earlier. And continuing the wedding theme, I also visited City Hall on Wednesday morning.
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