To the credit of Kwame Kwei-Armah and Idris Elba – and maybe Tori Allen-Martin and Sarah Henley – you can feel the urge to find a healing of all sides in a conflict between black and white South Africans that persists to this day.
WATCH: Meet the three women at the centre of new comedy MEGA
A royal. A witch. A popstar. They come from very different worlds, but are more alike than you might think, certainly in Alex Milne’s new all-female comedy MEGA, which runs at the Tristan Bates Theatre. Discover more in the trailer, then book your tickets!
NEWS: One Act Festival finalist MEGA bring dark comedy to the Tristan Bates Theatre
Written and directed by Alex Milne, all-female comedy about identity MEGA will play a short season at the Tristan Bates Theatre this month. Time to book your tickets!
VIDEO: What inspired British Chinese theatremaker Jennifer Tang to create Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹?
Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹 is a story that’s very personal to director/creator Jennifer Tang. Find out why in their interview below, and discover why the show’s cast is so excited to be part of the play that runs at Camden People’s Theatre until 9 February.
PHOTOS: Look at these new images of drama about identity & growing up British Chinese, Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹
What does it really mean to be British and Chinese in contemporary England? That’s the question posed by Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹, Jennifer Tang’s devised theatre piece which runs at Camden People’s Theatre from 22 January to 9 February.
NEWS: New devised drama Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹 explores growing up British Chinese at Camden People’s Theatre
What does it really mean to be British and Chinese in contemporary England? That’s the question posed by Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹, Jennifer Tang’s devised theatre piece which runs at Camden People’s Theatre from 22 January to 9 February.
DOUBLE TROUBLE – Intermission Youth Theatre
It can be tough to get kids to engage with Shakespeare. Many of them see the foreign-sounding language and old-fashioned stories as irrelevant to the issues they battle as growing up today.
CHILD OF THE DIVIDE – Polka Theatre & touring ★★★★
Child of the Divide launches Bhuchar’s Boulevard, a new development on from the company, Tamasha, she founded with Kristine Landon-Smith in 1989 and which premiered Child of the Divide originally in 2006.
AFTER THE REHEARSAL/PERSONA – Barbican Theatre ★★★
Having excavated Visconti (Ossessione), Ivo van Hove has now moved on to Ingmar Bergman. Much as I admire van Hove – and I do – I am a little perplexed as to why he’s involved himself quite so much in transferring the inscrutable into the literal.
Text of the Day: Max Stafford-Clark on British theatre
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
HEATHER – #EdFringe
Harry receives a children’s book manuscript from an unknown writer, Heather Eames. Impressed, he wants to discuss an advance, rights and making her book the Next Big Thing, but Heather’s based outside of London, heavily pregnant and ill.
CHANGELING – #EdFringe
Mowgli, a ferocious boy-child raised by wolves in the jungle, has been kicked out of the pack. He’s trying to figure out what to do next when he meets a mysterious creature from another world – or rather, another story.
ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE – Royal Court
And what an excruciating, yet devastatingly brilliant, two hours they are. The play shows episodes from the life of the women of one family spread over three time periods: one starts in the 1970s, the next in the 1990s and the third in the 2030s.
IDENTITY CRISIS – Ovalhouse
Phina Oruche has had an extraordinary career. Growing up in Liverpool to Nigerian parents and desperately wanting to see more of the world, she let her best friend Amy talk her into doing a modelling photoshoot as a teenager. Soon she found herself living and working in London, then New York and LA.
THE POETRY OF EXILE – White Bear Theatre
You can be who you want to be, right? Rob, a driving instructor in modern day Romford, believes himself to be an 8th century Chinese poet from the Tang Dynasty.
SWIFTIES – Theatre N16
The fetishism of absorbing someone else’s life and making it your own is the theme explored in Swifties, particularly how to give your world meaning when everything seems so dismal.
Text of the Day: Low Level Panic
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SEX WITH STRANGERS – Hampstead Theatre
New American drama about literary ambition is neat, but not nearly disturbing enough.
Owning our pronouns: He, she, they, it, I and we
Last term I sat in a rehearsal room led by one student as they began a “meet and greet”. A circle of chairs with a group of individuals who were gathered to get to know each other and then work on a play.
SCREENS – Theatre 503
New play about personal identity and the digital world is strongly felt, but a bit too short.
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