Theatre comment, reviews and recommendations Navigation
  • Home
  • News, Reviews and Features
    • Featured Content
  • All Our Mates’ Posts
  • Meet the Mates
  • Search
  • Home
  • News, Reviews and Features
    • Featured Content
  • All Our Mates’ Posts
  • Meet the Mates
  • Search
identity

Tag Archive

View Post

‘Inventive & thoughtful’: IDENTITY – CTC Dance Company (Online review) ★★★★

In Dance, Online shows, Opinion, Reviews by Emma Clarendon7th February 2021Leave a Comment

Inventive and thoughtful dance piece Identity explores what we see if we take our ‘masks’ off and allows ourselves to be us and not what society expects.

View Post

NEWS: The Turbine Theatre announces 2020 spring season

In London theatre, Musicals, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Sticky by Press Releases20th December 2019

The Turbine Theatre has announced its spring 2020 season which includes the programming of a variety of new work and emerging talent from visiting companies, as well as the transfer of one of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s 2019 hit shows, #HonestAmy.

View Post

‘A spectacle that only the most hard-nosed sceptic would be unable to completely resist’: TREE – Young Vic Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Carole Woddis12th August 2019Leave a Comment

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.

View Post

WATCH: Meet the three women at the centre of new comedy MEGA

In London theatre, Native, Photos, Plays, Video by Featured Content8th July 2019

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!

View Post

NEWS: One Act Festival finalist MEGA bring dark comedy to the Tristan Bates Theatre

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Sticky by Featured Content5th July 2019

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!

View Post

VIDEO: What inspired British Chinese theatremaker Jennifer Tang to create Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹?

In Festivals, Films, International, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Plays, Video by Featured Content4th February 2019Leave a Comment

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.

View Post

PHOTOS: Look at these new images of drama about identity & growing up British Chinese, Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹

In Festivals, International, London theatre, Native, Photos, Plays, Video by Featured Content30th January 2019Leave a Comment

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.

View Post

NEWS: New devised drama Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹 explores growing up British Chinese at Camden People’s Theatre

In Festivals, International, London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Sticky by Featured Content21st January 2019Leave a Comment

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.

View Post

DOUBLE TROUBLE – Intermission Youth Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly15th November 2017Leave a Comment

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.

View Post

CHILD OF THE DIVIDE – Polka Theatre & touring ★★★★

In Children's theatre, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by Carole Woddis11th October 2017Leave a Comment

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.

View Post

AFTER THE REHEARSAL/PERSONA – Barbican Theatre ★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Carole Woddis30th September 2017Leave a Comment

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.

View Post

Text of the Day: Max Stafford-Clark on British theatre

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz6th September 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

HEATHER – #EdFringe

In Books, Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Laura Kressly26th August 2017Leave a Comment

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.

View Post

CHANGELING – #EdFringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Laura Kressly20th August 2017Leave a Comment

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

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz13th June 2017Leave a Comment

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.

View Post

IDENTITY CRISIS – Ovalhouse

In Comedy, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly12th May 2017Leave a Comment

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.

View Post

THE POETRY OF EXILE – White Bear Theatre

In Comedy, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly3rd April 2017Leave a Comment

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

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly4th March 2017Leave a Comment

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.

View Post

Text of the Day: Low Level Panic

In Comedy, Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz28th 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

SEX WITH STRANGERS – Hampstead Theatre

In Comedy, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz6th February 2017Leave a Comment

New American drama about literary ambition is neat, but not nearly disturbing enough.

  • Page 1 of 2
  • 1
  • 2
  • →

Get Monthly Mates Mail

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

Recent articles

  • REVIEW ROUND-UP: Vardy V Rooney at the Ambassadors Theatre
  • ‘It’s a compelling concept’: SNOWFLAKES – Park Theatre
  • ‘Pretty essential viewing’: THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO – Touring
  • ‘You leave it thinking hard’: RETROGRADE – Kiln Theatre ★★★★
  • ‘A razor-sharp satire on all things ableism’: IT’S A MOTHERF**KING PLEASURE – Soho Theatre
  • ’An exploration of love & friendship’: JULES & JIM – Jermyn Street Theatre
  • VIDEOS & PHOTOS: Disability, sexuality & dating, Terri Paddock has plenty to discuss in the Animal post-show Q&A at the Park Theatre
  • REVIEW ROUND-UP: Dixon & Daughters at the National Theatre
  • ‘Appealingly done’: AIN’T TOO PROUD – Prince Edward Theatre
  • ’It’s grand in its scope, telling stories within stories’: Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead – Touring

Buy Theatre Tickets Here!

A GRAPHIC DESIGN LONDON WEBSITE
  • Home
  • News, Reviews and Features
  • All Our Mates’ Posts
  • Meet the Mates

Get Monthly Mates Mail






Full Name
Email *
Post code