The Young Vic is celebrating its 50th birthday and while I’ve only been visiting since 2007-ish, I’ve seen many fantastic and memorable plays there in that time.
Yerma Q&A video: Would Lorca have become the 20th-century’s greatest writer if he’d lived?
Federico Garcia Lorca spent three months in Cuba in 1930 – six years before he was assassinated (aged just 38) by Franco nationalists in his native Spain. He fell in love with the Caribbean island nation and it with him. And it’s this association that inspired Jorge de Juan in his new adaptation of Lorca classic Yerma.
’Will stay with you for some time’: YERMA – Cervantes Theatre
In Yerma, Lorca’s enduring “tragic poem”, director Jorge de Juan has seamlessly transposed the action to an Afro-Cuban setting where the unhurried pace of life highlights how empty Yerma’s days truly are.
New post-show Q&A: Join Terri for Lorca classic Yerma at London’s home of Spanish drama
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Friday 9 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will quiz the director and cast of the Spanish Theatre Company’s new production of Lorca classic Yerma. Got any questions?
Ay, Carmela! Q&A video: How much do you know about the Spanish Civil War?
How much do you know about the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)? Who fought on the side of the Republicans and who for the Nationalists? What happened to those who got caught in the middle, such as Paulino and Carmelo in Jose Sanchis Sinisterra’s Ay, Carmela!?
Blood Wedding Q&A podcast: The one where Terri went on instead of the play
At the Omnibus Theatre last Wednesday, Blood Wedding’s 7.30pm start time was delayed as one of the actors was trapped on a broken down overground train. I was already there to chair a post-show Q&A with adapter/director George Richmond-Scott so we decided to make it a pre-show Q&A.
New post-show Q&A: Join Terri for Spanish stage & screen hit Ay, Carmela!
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Friday 28 September 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to the Cervantes Theatre for a rare English-language outing of Jose Sanchis Sinsterra’s Spanish stage and screen hit Ay, Carmela! Got any questions?
NEWS: David Lan announced as Special Award winner at the Olivier Awards for his work at the Young Vic
Former artistic director of the Young Vic, director and playwright David Lan will be presented with the Special Award at the Olivier Awards 2018 ceremony on Sunday 8 April at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
VIDEO: Lorca classic The House Of Bernarda Alba comes to London’s home of Spanish theatre
Lorca classic The House of Bernarda Alba (La Casa de Bernarda Alba) gets a major new production – with performances in both Spanish and English – at the custom-built Cervantes Theatre, the new home for Spanish and Latin American drama in London. Have a look at our sneak-peek trailer and full casting news – then get booking! After the success of its opening …
After organising the Critics’ Circle Awards, I have a crush on Glenda Jackson
My personal highlight from this year’s Awards: Glenda Jackson. The real prize for me was meeting this woman, who first found her voice in the arts and then used it to such powerful effect in politics.
NEWS: Harry Potter & Glenda Jackson scoop Critics’ Circle Awards
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was the big winner at this year’s Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, taking home three prizes, while elsewhere Glenda Jackson, Billie Piper and Stephen Dillane all won acting prizes.
NEWS: Billie Piper’s Yerma returns to Young Vic, Joe Wright directs Life of Galileo, Juliet Stevenson takes Wings
Billie Piper’s reprises her award-winning performance in Yerma at the Young Vic, where other new shows in 2017 include Juliet Stevenson in Arthur Kopit’s Wings and Life of Galileo directed by Joe Wright.
14+ shows most likely to make critics’ #theatre2016 list of lists
I rounded up my personal choices in a recent blog and have enjoyed reading and publishing the scores of Year in Review blogs (nearly 30!) from My Theatre Mates colleagues in recent weeks. As an addendum, I’ve now rounded up critics’ round-ups in other publications.
Year in Review: Ian Foster’s top 10 shows of 2016 (out of 332 seen)
I started the year intending to see fewer shows than in 2015, when I made 304 visits to the theatre – but, somehow, I seem have crept up to 332 for 2016. The only consolation is that it is still some way off the high water mark of 2014… 383.
PHOTOS: Stars in their black-tie finery collecting #ESTheatreAwards
The 2016 Evening Standard Theatre Awards in pictures: Billie Piper, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen (in a fairy costume), Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tyrone Huntley, Noma Dumezweni and many more.
NEWS: Harry Potter wins best play at #ESTheatreAwards, full winners (& shortlists)
Winners of the 2016 Evening Standard Theatre Awards include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Billie Piper, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Kenneth Branagh. A star-studded ceremony indeed at the Old Vic Theatre.
NEWS: Harry Potter wins best play at #ESTheatreAwards, full winners (& shortlists)
Winners of the 2016 Evening Standard Theatre Awards include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Billie Piper, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Kenneth Branagh. A star-studded ceremony indeed at the Old Vic Theatre.
Theatre Podcast: Jesus Christ Superstar, Yerma, Faith Healer
This week the London theatre bloggers discuss Andrew Lloyd Webber musical revival Jesus Christ Superstar at the Open Air Theatre, Yerma starring Billie Piper at the Young Vic and the Donmar’s recent production of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Yerma at the Young Vic Theatre
Billie Piper plays the titular Yerma, a woman who is desperate for a child, in Simon Stone’s production of Lorca’s classic. It opened at the Young Vic Theatre last night (4 August) and continues until 24 September 2016. So what have critics made of it?
YERMA – Young Vic Theatre
“Allow for a three-gin recovery period” advised a tweeter during the previews of Simon Stone’s take on this perennial theme of baby-hunger leading to marital, mental and murderous disaster. Quite right. It is the most shattering night at the ever-intense Young Vic since the psychiatric-hospital Hamlet with Michael Sheen.
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