REVIEW: The Watching, White Bear Theatre ✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews Nicholas Limm’s play The Watching at the White Bear Theatre.
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Michael McManus’s An Honourable Man come to White Bear Theatre
The world premiere of Michael McManus’s An Honourable Man, a disquieting, funny and touching play about the rise of a new populist party in the UK premieres at the White Bear Theatre in November 2018.
Political Drama By Rib Davis Comes To White Bear Theatre
The Sword Of Alex by award-winning playwright Rib Davis comes to the White Bear Theatre this September. In the clash between the political and the personal, The Sword of Alex by award-winning playwright Rib Davis examines how identity fares in the struggle, coming to the White Bear Theatre in Autumn 2018, starring Kate Terence, Georgia Winters, Patrick Regis and DK Ugonna. You’d never defeat me in politics, not in the politics of left and right. But it’s a hell of a lot easier to get people to fight over identity than it is over ideas. Isn’t that right? A country on the verge of civil war as a region attempts to break away from the state. Two versions of nationalism clash head-on. Two leaders and their nations pitted against each other. Each must destroy the others’ version of history. But families are no less tribal than nations. As the great … Read more
REVIEW: Love Bites, White Bear Theatre ✭✭✭
Love Bites at the White Bear Theatre is a well managed and pleasant debut for this enterprising new company, who have made so many right choices with this production that one looks ahead to their future ventures with keen anticipation.
Full casting announced for 25th Anniversary production of The Tailor-Made Man
Final casting is announced today for 25th anniversary production in London of The Tailor-Made Man at the White Bear Theatre
White Bear Theatre Re-Opens with Bright Lucifer
Following a £1.3 million redevelopment, The White Bear Theatre has recently re-opened. It’s first production Brice Stratford’s professional world premiere production of Orson Welles’ first play, Bright Lucifer.
Inigo Transfers to Pleasance Theatre
Following a sell-out season at the White Bear Theatre, and with the play about to be published, Inigo transfers to the main house at the Pleasance Theatre for a limited three-week run. It’s 16th Century Europe – Christianity is at war, counter-reformation follows reformation and the founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius of Loyola, enters Rome as a radical reformer. The play follows the life of the Christian Revolutionary and Basque-born nobleman from ambitious, hotheaded hedonist to his conversion and adherence to the values of poverty, chastity and obedience. It charts the founding of the Jesuit movement, which set him on a collision course with the church and the establishment which lasts through to the present day. Ignatious’ ideas had influence on Shakespeare, modern psychotherapy, meditation and the Twelve Step programme and the Jesuit movement educated people as diverse as Descartes, Voltaire, Castro, Peter O’Toole, James Joyce, Conan Doyle, Freddie Mercury, … Read more
REVIEW: Inigo, White Bear Theatre ✭✭
Inigo is an ambitious biographical play, recounting the life of the saint who would one day be known throughout the Western Christian world as Ignatius of Loyola. It is a complicated story that writer and director Jonathan Moore nearly succeeds at telling. Unfortunately, aspects of the staging, script, and design let Inigo down.
