Theatre comment, reviews and recommendations Navigation
  • Home
  • News, Reviews and Features
    • Featured Content
    • All Our Mates’ Posts
  • Promote Your Show
    • Testimonials
  • Meet the Mates
  • About Us
  • Search
  • Home
  • News, Reviews and Features
    • Featured Content
    • All Our Mates’ Posts
  • Promote Your Show
    • Testimonials
  • Meet the Mates
  • About Us
  • Search
dystopia

Tag Archive

View Post

‘Philip Ridley’s masterly monologue explores the anxieties of our current culture of fear’: GATORS (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz12th April 2020Leave a Comment

Gloriously surreal monologue about everyday anxieties in extraordinary circumstances: welcome back the glittering dark!

View Post

GALLERY: Discover the dystopian world of The Empire Has Fallen

In Comedy, London theatre, Native, Photos, Plays, Sticky by Featured Content23rd January 2019Leave a Comment

Dark, stern uniforms, bright haired TV hosts and ominous aprons – they’re all perfectly placed in the dystopia of The Empire Has Fallen, as you can see from these newly released production shots.

View Post

PHOTOS: Take a peek at the aftermath of comedy revolution in rehearsals for The Empire Has Fallen

In Comedy, London theatre, Native, Photos, Plays, Sticky by Featured Content18th January 2019Leave a Comment

Come the revolution, there will be lots of boxes and tiny toy soldier… certainly if rehearsals for new dystopian comedy The Empire Has Fallen is anything to go by. Check out these candid behind the scenes snaps, then book your tickets for this hilarious new play!

View Post

‘What’s the point of telling a story if it’s not exciting?’ Writer David Fenne tells us about dark dystopian comedy The Empire Has Fallen

In Comedy, Features, Interviews, London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Sticky by Featured Content3rd January 2019Leave a Comment

How does a YouTube video inspire a stage production about a broken world and how important is graphic design to the continuation of humanity? David Fenne tells us all about his debut play The Empire Has Fallen.

View Post

NEWS: Umbra Theatre creates comic dystopia as The Empire Has Fallen comes to White Bear Theatre

In Comedy, London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Sticky by Featured Content14th December 2018Leave a Comment

With the real world feeling like it is constantly on the brink, the White Bear Theatre kicks off the new year with a show set in a world entirely in chaos. Umbra Theatre’s dark comedy The Empire Has Fallen, which runs at the Kennington venue from 22 to 26 January 2019, is set in a dystopia that needs rebuilding.

View Post

‘All futuristic dystopias are commentaries on the present’: #TheDivide @oldvictheatre

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews by Aleks Sierz9th February 2018Leave a Comment

Alan Ayckbourn’s epic, very, very long satire on religion and sexual segregation prefers comedy to tragedy.

View Post

On Broadway: What did an American theatrical anglophile make of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children?

In Broadway, International, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly10th January 2018Leave a Comment

American dramaphiles tend to view Britain as a hotbed of hyper-verbal and hyper-intellectual plays, especially in comparison to our home-bred musicals that often lack the same resonant depth.

View Post

Text of the Day: The Handmaid’s Tale

In Features by Aleks Sierz2nd July 2017Leave a Comment

Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.

View Post

TEXT OF THE DAY: The Pitchfork Disney

In Features, London theatre, Plays by Aleks Sierz25th February 2017Leave a Comment

Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.

View Post

TEXT OF THE DAY: A Clockwork Orange

In Features, London theatre, Native, Plays by Aleks Sierz22nd February 2017Leave a Comment

.Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.

View Post

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE – Park Theatre

In Edinburgh Festival, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz18th February 2017Leave a Comment

Stage version of dystopian classic returns — it’s lively and fun, but also cartoon-like and unmoving.

View Post

SONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD – Battersea Arts Centre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly17th October 2016Leave a Comment

Jim Walters is the first person sent to colonise Mars. But when a global apocalypse occurs, trapping him in the Earth’s orbit and running out of oxygen, he and his guitar are left to broadcast music to the devastation below. Can anyone hear him? Are there any survivors? Will he ever know?

View Post

Edinburgh Fringe: Generation Zero

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Laura Kressly7th August 2016Leave a Comment

A nameless couple meet online, fall in love and build a life together. Their lives are comfortably boring, with day jobs, road trips to the beach, holidays in a Yorkshire cottage and lazy weekends snuggling in bed, listening to records.

Edinburgh Fringe: Generation Zero

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Laura Kressly7th August 2016Leave a Comment

A nameless couple meet online, fall in love and build a life together. Their lives are comfortably boring, with day jobs, road trips to the beach, holidays in a Yorkshire cottage and lazy weekends snuggling in bed, listening to records.

View Post

CARGO – Arcola Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz22nd July 2016Leave a Comment

New immersive experience tells its story of people trafficking with considerable power and imagination.

View Post

KARAGULA – Styx

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz17th June 2016Leave a Comment

Philip Ridley’s latest is an ambitious fantasy epic whose scope and majesty will blow you clean away.

View Post

Text of the Day: Escaped Alone

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz7th February 2016Leave a Comment

Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.

View Post

EVENING AT THE TALK HOUSE – National Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz22nd December 2015Leave a Comment

Latest play by Wallace Shawn stars the playwright and is brilliantly satirical, but not much fun as an experience

Get Monthly Mates Mail

Follow @MyTheatreMates Tweets by https://twitter.com/MyTheatreMates/

Recent articles

  • ‘There is an incredible energy that is infectious’: DIRTY DANCING – Dominion Theatre ★★★★
  • ‘A great foundation to an unconventional story’: PROJECT ATOM BOI – Vault Festival
  • ‘Exhilarating & exciting’: OTHELLO – Lyric Hammersmith ★★★★
  • ‘Frayn’s play has still got it’: NOISES OFF – Phoenix Theatre
  • ‘Filled with warmth & passion’: LIZA PULMAN: THE HEART OF IT – The Other Palace ★★★★★
  • ‘It lingers in your mind’: THE ELEPHANT SONG – Park Theatre ★★★★
  • ‘A rare dark delight’: We Didn’t Come To Hell For The Croissants – Riverside Studios ★★★★
  • ‘Can leave the listener wanting & needing more’: OUR VOICES – Small Truth Theatre (Online show)
  • ‘You’ll be mesmerised from beginning to end’: KURIOS – Royal Albert Hall ★★★★★
  • REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Unfriend at the Criterion Theatre

Buy Theatre Tickets Here!

A GRAPHIC DESIGN LONDON WEBSITE
  • Home
  • News, Reviews and Features
  • Promote Your Show
  • Meet the Mates
  • About Us

Get Monthly Mates Mail






Full Name
Email *
Post code