The BBC film version of a Renaissance rape trial is powerfully resonant, relevant and a riveting watch.
Decade Round-Up: The Plays
This isn’t a ‘best of’ list it’s my best-of list, these are the plays that shaped me this decade and will stay with me well into the next.
Madrid is a Female Name: Cervantes Theatre’s monologue cycle concludes with Virginia Woolf
Throughout March, the Cervantes Theatre, London’s home of Spanish drama, is celebrating Madrid with Madrid is a Female Name, its mini-season of monologues imported from the Spanish capital. The programme continues this Saturday 9 March 2019 with Descarriadas.
Madrid is a Female Name: Cervantes Theatre’s monologue cycle continues with Gloria, inspired by Spanish poet
Throughout March, the Cervantes Theatre, London’s home of Spanish drama, is celebrating Madrid with Madrid is a Female Name, its mini-season of monologues imported from the Spanish capital. The programme continues this Saturday 16 March 2019 with Gloria, inspired by legendary Spanish poet and children’s author Gloria Fuertes García.
Madrid is a Female Name: Cervantes Theatre’s monologue cycle continues with Descarriadas
Throughout March, the Cervantes Theatre, London’s home of Spanish drama, is celebrating Madrid with Madrid is a Female Name, its mini-season of monologues imported from the Spanish capital. The programme continues this Saturday 9 March 2019 with Descarriadas.
Madrid is a Female Name: Anahi Beholi opens Cervantes’ monologue season with La Blanca
Throughout March, the Cervantes Theatre, London’s home of Spanish drama, is celebrating Madrid with Madrid is a Female Name, its mini-season monologues imported from the Spanish capital. The programme begins this Saturday 2 March 2019 with La Blanca.
Madrid is a Female Name: Cervantes mounts mini-season of monologues from Madrid
Have you been to Madrid? You’ll certainly want to once you’ve dipped into some of the theatrical tapas being served up at London’s home of Spanish drama, the Cervantes Theatre in March. In March, the Cervantes Theatre presents a mini-season of imports from the Spanish capital under the title Madrid is a Female Name, sponsored by Madrid Destino. Over the next …
MInd the Blog’s most popular 2017 reviews
I get rather drawn to the stats page of the blog at times. But it’s always interesting to see the search terms that bring people here – and which posts get the most hits!
Text of the Day: Gloria
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Gloria at Hampstead Theatre
Discover what critics have been saying about Michael Longhurst’s production starring Colin Morgan and Bo Poraj here.
GLORIA – Hampstead Theatre
The thing that swung this production, aside from the fantastic writer that is Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, and a great cast including Colin Morgan, was the news that the Hampstead had sealed bits of their programme to protect spoilers.
Text of the Day: Gloria
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
GLORIA – Hampstead
This play’s subject is alienation, at work and in the home. (But mainly at work.) In contemporary society, office work seems to symbolize a life of modern drudgery.
GLORIA – Hampstead Theatre
There are three acts: the first long, expressing an enervatingly pointless world and ending in a sharp shock. The second is competitively cynical and rises to another kind of shock, the sort with disgust in it. The last is shorter still, offering a nicely vicious resolution.
GLORIA – Hampstead Theatre
There are three acts: the first long, expressing an enervatingly pointless world and ending in a sharp shock. The second is competitively cynical and rises to another kind of shock, the sort with disgust in it. The last is shorter still, offering a nicely vicious resolution.
GLORIA – Hampstead Theatre
Truth be told I hadn’t intended to see Gloria, my own little act of protest at the Hampstead’s continuing gender imbalance – six shows straight on their main stage both written and directed by men. But the delights of An Octoroon introduced me to the writing of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and he definitely feels like a playwright with a lot to say.
NEWS: Colin Morgan & Ellie Kendrick star in Gloria premiere, TICKETS ONSALE
Colin Morgan and Ellie Kendrick will make their Hampstead Theatre debuts in the UK premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Gloria in June.
NEWS: MP Rory Stewart’s Occupational Hazards memoir staged at Hampstead Theatre, One of three premieres
London’s Hampstead Theatre has announced its 2017 spring season, which will comprise three premiere plays.