The Bridge Theatre’s most savvy decision is in teaming The Shrine with Bed Among the Lentils, placing together two of our finest actors who effortless and regularly transition between stage and screen – Monica Dolan and Lesley Manville.
‘Pushes the envelope of the monologue genre’: DECLAN – The Actors Centre (Online review)
Jimbo is 12 and on the cusp of young adulthood. Both his body and his mind are confused about its identity and the world around him is not much help.
‘Theatre is rarely so forceful or so urgent’: THE PROTEST – Bush Theatre
This venue’s urgent response to the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter campaign is powerfully realised.
‘A real gem’: Philip Ridley’s online series The Beast Will Rise is ‘sublime storytelling’
The problem with creating theatre in an era of lockdown is that the constraints of working online tend towards a uniformity of creativity
‘Philip Ridley’s masterly monologue explores the anxieties of our current culture of fear’: GATORS (Online review)
Gloriously surreal monologue about everyday anxieties in extraordinary circumstances: welcome back the glittering dark!
WATCH: Enter the world of Red Peter with the tense new trailer for the Vault Festival show
Meet Red Peter, the character at the heart of the award-nominated Camden Fringe Festival hit, which returns to London for a March run at the VAULT Festival. Time to book your tickets!
NEWS: Camden Fringe hit Red Peter returns to the London stage at Vault Festival
Grid Theatre’s acclaimed staging of Red Peter, an award-nominated hit at the 2019 Camden Fringe Festival, will head back to the capital later this spring for a short run at the VAULT Festival. Book your tickets now
‘Enormous passion & frightening intensity’: BABY REINDEER – Bush Theatre
Baby Reindeer at the Bush Theatre, stand-up comedian Richard Gadd’s provocative one-man show about a stalker and complicit victimhood, is darkly exciting.
WATCH: Get a taste for Grid Theatre’s Red Peter with an excerpt from the Kafka adaptation
“They are good people, despite everything that happened…” Have a sneak peek at what to expect from Red Peter, Grid Theatre’s adaptation of Kafka’s A Report to an Academy at Camden Fringe, then book your tickets.
CAMDEN FRINGE NEWS: Civilisation is put in the spotlight in Kafka adaptation Red Peter
Grid Theatre shines a spotlight on ideas of civilisation and humanity with Red Peter, the stage adaptation of Franz Kafka’s A Report To An Academy, which runs as part of Camden Fringe next month. Book your tickets now!
‘As a feminist reworking of Leigh’s original, this is just right’: ABI – Hornchurch
Atiha Sen Gupta’s Abi, a 60-minute monologue, performed with enormous zest and attractive energy by Safiyya Ingar, is a response to Mike Leigh’s play Abigail’s Party and looks at what happened to a couple of his peripheral characters.
‘Rather slender but well put together & fun, fun, fun’: SILK ROAD (How to Buy Drugs Online) – Trafalgar Studios
This West End revival of smart monologue about drug dealing on the Dark Web is well written if a bit slight.
Text of the Day: Misty
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
‘Moving without being hysterical’: A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW – Vault Festival
Hennessy is a strong writer, it would be difficult to ruin her work. In Lucy Jane Atkinson’s vision of A Hundred Words For Snow, it is a lot more scaled back than at the Arcola and I found this to be a positive.
‘Exceptional piece of work’: GOOD GIRL – Trafalgar Studios
Naomi Sheldon’s monologue Good Girl makes its way to West End after Fringe runs at the Old Red Lion and Vault Festival. It is an exceptional piece of work that has not only made me consider the power of monologue but what it feels like to be a woman.
‘Delivers the goods with a punch in the gut’: ANGRY – Southwark Playhouse
Watching Angry makes you feel as if you’ve downed several super-alcoholic drinks — and then rushed out into the freezing cold night, under the cold unfeeling stars. Yes, welcome to Ridleyland, a place of precarious uncertainty, full of comic missteps and grotesquerie.
‘The most moving play I’ve seen for years’: GIRLS & BOYS – Royal Court Theatre ★★★★★
With its almost unbearable ending, Dennis Kelly’s play is a wonderful mix of hilarity and horror. Carey Mulligan is simply brilliant, totally at home on stage in Lyndsey Turner’s well-paced, absorbing and finally utterly compelling production.
‘A raw yet classy performance’: WOMAN BEFORE A GLASS – Jermyn Street Theatre
Lanie Robertson’s 2005 bio-monologue about Peggy Guggenheim could be just another ‘poor rich girl’ tale, but in Guggenheim and in the performance from Judy Rosenblatt we see not only a tale of a woman who singlehandedly ensured modern art survived but also changed the way people looked at how art should be.
Text of the Day: My Mum’s a Twat
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
‘I was well entertained for every one of its 80 minutes’: MY MUM’S A TWAT – Royal Court Theatre
Brill! Lively, but also occasionally moving, account of growing up while your Mum becomes a cult member.