Mattt D
@madmattt.bsky.social
Dr MAD. know-it-all, analytical chemist👨🔬 travel the 🌍 installing stuff. gay. 🏳️🌈. Theatre lover🎭 opinions=mine. he/him
The Wanderers @ Marylebone🎭 follows 2 Jewish couples in New York. One orthodox & struggling with social expectations & restrictions. The other non-religious but struggling in a v confusing way. Brilliant staging with a simple set - snow, a glass wall & some creative use of white pen.
(59 of 2025)
(59 of 2025)
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The Wanderers @ Marylebone🎭 follows 2 Jewish couples in New York. One orthodox & struggling with social expectations & restrictions. The other non-religious but struggling in a v confusing way. Brilliant staging with a simple set - snow, a glass wall & some creative use of white pen.
(59 of 2025)
(59 of 2025)
#daddysfirstgaydate was a light-hearted, somewhat silly take on a newly-out bi man finding his feet in an unfamiliar world.
Good performances but a little disjointed and over-long. Trimming back to a 1h play would make it a tight fringe play.
(58 of 2025)
Good performances but a little disjointed and over-long. Trimming back to a 1h play would make it a tight fringe play.
(58 of 2025)
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
#daddysfirstgaydate was a light-hearted, somewhat silly take on a newly-out bi man finding his feet in an unfamiliar world.
Good performances but a little disjointed and over-long. Trimming back to a 1h play would make it a tight fringe play.
(58 of 2025)
Good performances but a little disjointed and over-long. Trimming back to a 1h play would make it a tight fringe play.
(58 of 2025)
The Producers s glorious - spectacular performances, very silly and featuring the campest n*zis ever...
Bialystock & Bloom did very right
(57 of 2025)
Bialystock & Bloom did very right
(57 of 2025)
October 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The Producers s glorious - spectacular performances, very silly and featuring the campest n*zis ever...
Bialystock & Bloom did very right
(57 of 2025)
Bialystock & Bloom did very right
(57 of 2025)
#Hercules proved to me that the big Disney musicals really aren't my thing...
Really strong performances, especially the solo numbers in the huge Theatre Royal but left me feeling cold - over produced, verging on pantomime at times & badly sound mixed in the big ensemble numbers.
(56 of 2025)
Really strong performances, especially the solo numbers in the huge Theatre Royal but left me feeling cold - over produced, verging on pantomime at times & badly sound mixed in the big ensemble numbers.
(56 of 2025)
October 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
#Hercules proved to me that the big Disney musicals really aren't my thing...
Really strong performances, especially the solo numbers in the huge Theatre Royal but left me feeling cold - over produced, verging on pantomime at times & badly sound mixed in the big ensemble numbers.
(56 of 2025)
Really strong performances, especially the solo numbers in the huge Theatre Royal but left me feeling cold - over produced, verging on pantomime at times & badly sound mixed in the big ensemble numbers.
(56 of 2025)
Happy Ending @waterlooeasttheatre is great fun - cheeky and camp with some brilliant plot twists. Jimmy Walker & Billy Essex were wonderful as a gay masseuse & his nervous client. They handled the set breaking at a key moment well & managed not to corpse at the odd blocking thereafter.
(55 of 2025)
(55 of 2025)
October 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Happy Ending @waterlooeasttheatre is great fun - cheeky and camp with some brilliant plot twists. Jimmy Walker & Billy Essex were wonderful as a gay masseuse & his nervous client. They handled the set breaking at a key moment well & managed not to corpse at the odd blocking thereafter.
(55 of 2025)
(55 of 2025)
"An Adequate Abridgement of Life as a Boarding School Homo" @ Theatre503 was clever engaging fringe theatre. The trials & tribulations of Johnny (Ned Blackburn) wittily played out against his lover/bully/teacher/headmaster/grandfather/former-pupil-who-left-suddenly (Harvey Weed)
(54 of 2025)
(54 of 2025)
October 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"An Adequate Abridgement of Life as a Boarding School Homo" @ Theatre503 was clever engaging fringe theatre. The trials & tribulations of Johnny (Ned Blackburn) wittily played out against his lover/bully/teacher/headmaster/grandfather/former-pupil-who-left-suddenly (Harvey Weed)
(54 of 2025)
(54 of 2025)
Parody of the Rings @ Wiltons
was great fun yesterday. Equipment failure means a 12h screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy can't go ahead so the ushers "Peter" & "Jackson" hilariously perform a very abridged version complete with hobbits, elves, dwarfs, men & a giant spider...
(53 of 2025)
was great fun yesterday. Equipment failure means a 12h screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy can't go ahead so the ushers "Peter" & "Jackson" hilariously perform a very abridged version complete with hobbits, elves, dwarfs, men & a giant spider...
(53 of 2025)
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Parody of the Rings @ Wiltons
was great fun yesterday. Equipment failure means a 12h screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy can't go ahead so the ushers "Peter" & "Jackson" hilariously perform a very abridged version complete with hobbits, elves, dwarfs, men & a giant spider...
(53 of 2025)
was great fun yesterday. Equipment failure means a 12h screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy can't go ahead so the ushers "Peter" & "Jackson" hilariously perform a very abridged version complete with hobbits, elves, dwarfs, men & a giant spider...
(53 of 2025)
Hamlet @nationaltheatre
I've seen a lot of Shakespeare but somehow not Hamlet before today...
Hiren Abeysekera was brilliant as Hamlet. Fransesca Mills' Ophelia was something else - utterly show stealing in her madness.
Clever staging & a big cast as you'd expect from the National.
(52 of 2025)
I've seen a lot of Shakespeare but somehow not Hamlet before today...
Hiren Abeysekera was brilliant as Hamlet. Fransesca Mills' Ophelia was something else - utterly show stealing in her madness.
Clever staging & a big cast as you'd expect from the National.
(52 of 2025)
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Hamlet @nationaltheatre
I've seen a lot of Shakespeare but somehow not Hamlet before today...
Hiren Abeysekera was brilliant as Hamlet. Fransesca Mills' Ophelia was something else - utterly show stealing in her madness.
Clever staging & a big cast as you'd expect from the National.
(52 of 2025)
I've seen a lot of Shakespeare but somehow not Hamlet before today...
Hiren Abeysekera was brilliant as Hamlet. Fransesca Mills' Ophelia was something else - utterly show stealing in her madness.
Clever staging & a big cast as you'd expect from the National.
(52 of 2025)
#Clarkston is a challenging play. Two young men find friendship and attraction working nights at a Costco and dealing with (very different) challenges. Locke & Mollica make a compelling duo.
(51 of 2025)
(51 of 2025)
September 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
#Clarkston is a challenging play. Two young men find friendship and attraction working nights at a Costco and dealing with (very different) challenges. Locke & Mollica make a compelling duo.
(51 of 2025)
(51 of 2025)
Entertaining Mr Sloane @ young vic
A solid performance of Joe Orton's play, especially Jordan Stevens as the alternately mock-innocent, raunchy & menacing Sloane and Tamzin Outhwaite as the not-so-naive Kath. A little lacking in subtly at the start, but with an impressively strong end.
(50 of 2025)
A solid performance of Joe Orton's play, especially Jordan Stevens as the alternately mock-innocent, raunchy & menacing Sloane and Tamzin Outhwaite as the not-so-naive Kath. A little lacking in subtly at the start, but with an impressively strong end.
(50 of 2025)
September 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Entertaining Mr Sloane @ young vic
A solid performance of Joe Orton's play, especially Jordan Stevens as the alternately mock-innocent, raunchy & menacing Sloane and Tamzin Outhwaite as the not-so-naive Kath. A little lacking in subtly at the start, but with an impressively strong end.
(50 of 2025)
A solid performance of Joe Orton's play, especially Jordan Stevens as the alternately mock-innocent, raunchy & menacing Sloane and Tamzin Outhwaite as the not-so-naive Kath. A little lacking in subtly at the start, but with an impressively strong end.
(50 of 2025)
@kitkatclubldn for a magical 4th time.
Plunging into the seedy Berlin nightclub atmosphere at 1 pm was interesting....
Rob Madge as the MC, makes the role his own with wonderful timing, looks & jokes.
The ominous ending felt too real, especially with a protest march audible outside.
(49 of 2025)
Plunging into the seedy Berlin nightclub atmosphere at 1 pm was interesting....
Rob Madge as the MC, makes the role his own with wonderful timing, looks & jokes.
The ominous ending felt too real, especially with a protest march audible outside.
(49 of 2025)
September 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
@kitkatclubldn for a magical 4th time.
Plunging into the seedy Berlin nightclub atmosphere at 1 pm was interesting....
Rob Madge as the MC, makes the role his own with wonderful timing, looks & jokes.
The ominous ending felt too real, especially with a protest march audible outside.
(49 of 2025)
Plunging into the seedy Berlin nightclub atmosphere at 1 pm was interesting....
Rob Madge as the MC, makes the role his own with wonderful timing, looks & jokes.
The ominous ending felt too real, especially with a protest march audible outside.
(49 of 2025)
#BornWithTeeth is exceptional theatre. Marlowe at the height of fame taunts Shakespeare as they collaborate. The tension and erotic ties between them grow more intense whilst Cecil's spy network confounds.
Gatwa is magnificent, his best work yet. A brilliant foil to Bluemel's Marlowe.
(48 of 2025)
Gatwa is magnificent, his best work yet. A brilliant foil to Bluemel's Marlowe.
(48 of 2025)
September 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
#BornWithTeeth is exceptional theatre. Marlowe at the height of fame taunts Shakespeare as they collaborate. The tension and erotic ties between them grow more intense whilst Cecil's spy network confounds.
Gatwa is magnificent, his best work yet. A brilliant foil to Bluemel's Marlowe.
(48 of 2025)
Gatwa is magnificent, his best work yet. A brilliant foil to Bluemel's Marlowe.
(48 of 2025)
Brigadoon @ Regents Park OAT was creatively staged with atmospheric use of bagpipes & classic musical theatre choreography. Louis Gaunt as Tommy Albright stole the show with a beautiful voice, hunky swagger. Great costuming invoked Scotland with tweed and subdued tartans
(47 of 2025)
(47 of 2025)
September 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Brigadoon @ Regents Park OAT was creatively staged with atmospheric use of bagpipes & classic musical theatre choreography. Louis Gaunt as Tommy Albright stole the show with a beautiful voice, hunky swagger. Great costuming invoked Scotland with tweed and subdued tartans
(47 of 2025)
(47 of 2025)
One of the weirdest and creepiest plays I've ever seen. *The Pitchfork Disney* @kingsheadtheatre builds from two troubled siblings to four truly bizarre characters in an almost indescribably weird one-room world. Wonderful performances of almost manic characters all round.
(46 of 2025)
(46 of 2025)
August 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
One of the weirdest and creepiest plays I've ever seen. *The Pitchfork Disney* @kingsheadtheatre builds from two troubled siblings to four truly bizarre characters in an almost indescribably weird one-room world. Wonderful performances of almost manic characters all round.
(46 of 2025)
(46 of 2025)
The Gathered Leaves @parktheatrelondon
Easter 1997, a family gathers for the 1st time in 17y for the overbearing patriarch's 75th birthday. Intertwined stories, pain & relationships are revealed, focussing on a brother's love & protective feelings for his autistic brother.
(45 of 2025)
Easter 1997, a family gathers for the 1st time in 17y for the overbearing patriarch's 75th birthday. Intertwined stories, pain & relationships are revealed, focussing on a brother's love & protective feelings for his autistic brother.
(45 of 2025)
August 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The Gathered Leaves @parktheatrelondon
Easter 1997, a family gathers for the 1st time in 17y for the overbearing patriarch's 75th birthday. Intertwined stories, pain & relationships are revealed, focussing on a brother's love & protective feelings for his autistic brother.
(45 of 2025)
Easter 1997, a family gathers for the 1st time in 17y for the overbearing patriarch's 75th birthday. Intertwined stories, pain & relationships are revealed, focussing on a brother's love & protective feelings for his autistic brother.
(45 of 2025)
The Daughter of Time was a clever, intriguing premise and story. A bed-ridden detective investigates one of the ultimate cold cases - the real Richard III before Tudor propaganda made him the evil hunchback. Well performed and enjoyable but very pedestrian staging.
(44 of 2025)
(44 of 2025)
August 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The Daughter of Time was a clever, intriguing premise and story. A bed-ridden detective investigates one of the ultimate cold cases - the real Richard III before Tudor propaganda made him the evil hunchback. Well performed and enjoyable but very pedestrian staging.
(44 of 2025)
(44 of 2025)
A gloriously silly, queer version of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Lovers get very confused and Oberon shares a bath with an ass. The Mechanicals' play is as truly bonkers as they come.
I somehow stayed wide awake and interested despite an early start and >35,000 steps.
(43 of 2025)
Lovers get very confused and Oberon shares a bath with an ass. The Mechanicals' play is as truly bonkers as they come.
I somehow stayed wide awake and interested despite an early start and >35,000 steps.
(43 of 2025)
August 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A gloriously silly, queer version of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Lovers get very confused and Oberon shares a bath with an ass. The Mechanicals' play is as truly bonkers as they come.
I somehow stayed wide awake and interested despite an early start and >35,000 steps.
(43 of 2025)
Lovers get very confused and Oberon shares a bath with an ass. The Mechanicals' play is as truly bonkers as they come.
I somehow stayed wide awake and interested despite an early start and >35,000 steps.
(43 of 2025)
Sean Hayes is absolutely spectacular as Oscar Levant - a fabulous wit and composer/pianist appearing on a talk show while commited to a mental hospital. (Based on a real event in Levant's life.) A exceptional play and performance that both definitely warranted the standing ovation.
(42 of 2025)
(42 of 2025)
August 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Sean Hayes is absolutely spectacular as Oscar Levant - a fabulous wit and composer/pianist appearing on a talk show while commited to a mental hospital. (Based on a real event in Levant's life.) A exceptional play and performance that both definitely warranted the standing ovation.
(42 of 2025)
(42 of 2025)
Extraordinary Women @jermynstreettheatre is a beautifully performed musical based on Compton Mackenzie's novel.
The dramas of a group of sapphic lovers are causing chaos in Sirene & the Sirens are worried.
The novel was contemporary w Woolf's Orlando & somehow that explains a lot...
(41 of 2025)
The dramas of a group of sapphic lovers are causing chaos in Sirene & the Sirens are worried.
The novel was contemporary w Woolf's Orlando & somehow that explains a lot...
(41 of 2025)
July 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Extraordinary Women @jermynstreettheatre is a beautifully performed musical based on Compton Mackenzie's novel.
The dramas of a group of sapphic lovers are causing chaos in Sirene & the Sirens are worried.
The novel was contemporary w Woolf's Orlando & somehow that explains a lot...
(41 of 2025)
The dramas of a group of sapphic lovers are causing chaos in Sirene & the Sirens are worried.
The novel was contemporary w Woolf's Orlando & somehow that explains a lot...
(41 of 2025)
#Nye
The @nationaltheatre at its best. Beautiful, powerful theatre. Michael Sheen & Sharon Small are brilliant as Nye Bevan & Jennie Lee. Bevan's mind on his death bed revisits key moments in his life as a miner, people's champion, politician and founder of the amazing NHS.
(40 of 2025)
The @nationaltheatre at its best. Beautiful, powerful theatre. Michael Sheen & Sharon Small are brilliant as Nye Bevan & Jennie Lee. Bevan's mind on his death bed revisits key moments in his life as a miner, people's champion, politician and founder of the amazing NHS.
(40 of 2025)
July 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
#Nye
The @nationaltheatre at its best. Beautiful, powerful theatre. Michael Sheen & Sharon Small are brilliant as Nye Bevan & Jennie Lee. Bevan's mind on his death bed revisits key moments in his life as a miner, people's champion, politician and founder of the amazing NHS.
(40 of 2025)
The @nationaltheatre at its best. Beautiful, powerful theatre. Michael Sheen & Sharon Small are brilliant as Nye Bevan & Jennie Lee. Bevan's mind on his death bed revisits key moments in his life as a miner, people's champion, politician and founder of the amazing NHS.
(40 of 2025)
A couple open up their relationship for one time experiences with a beautiful friend. What could possibly go wrong?
A clever play well performed, concentrating on exploring emotions and repercussions not unnecessary titillation.
#FourPlay @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social
(39 of 2025)
A clever play well performed, concentrating on exploring emotions and repercussions not unnecessary titillation.
#FourPlay @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social
(39 of 2025)
July 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A couple open up their relationship for one time experiences with a beautiful friend. What could possibly go wrong?
A clever play well performed, concentrating on exploring emotions and repercussions not unnecessary titillation.
#FourPlay @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social
(39 of 2025)
A clever play well performed, concentrating on exploring emotions and repercussions not unnecessary titillation.
#FourPlay @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social
(39 of 2025)
Clueless @ Trafalgar Theatre.
Very well adapted and performed but nothing special - another adaptation of a 90s American highschool film.
(38 of 2025)
Very well adapted and performed but nothing special - another adaptation of a 90s American highschool film.
(38 of 2025)
July 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Clueless @ Trafalgar Theatre.
Very well adapted and performed but nothing special - another adaptation of a 90s American highschool film.
(38 of 2025)
Very well adapted and performed but nothing special - another adaptation of a 90s American highschool film.
(38 of 2025)
Kings of Pangea @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social
An intriguing musical with a wonderful premise but a slow start. A young boy/man dealing with hope & bereavement through allegory that's revealed to be a tale he built with his mother.
(37 of 2025)
An intriguing musical with a wonderful premise but a slow start. A young boy/man dealing with hope & bereavement through allegory that's revealed to be a tale he built with his mother.
(37 of 2025)
June 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Kings of Pangea @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social
An intriguing musical with a wonderful premise but a slow start. A young boy/man dealing with hope & bereavement through allegory that's revealed to be a tale he built with his mother.
(37 of 2025)
An intriguing musical with a wonderful premise but a slow start. A young boy/man dealing with hope & bereavement through allegory that's revealed to be a tale he built with his mother.
(37 of 2025)
Mrs Warren's Profession is a clever George Bernard Shaw play about morality, money and social mores tied up in the strained relationship between mother and daughter. Imelda Staunton & Bessie Carter make a magnificent pair playing two powerful women living by unusual principles.
(36 of 2025)
(36 of 2025)
June 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Mrs Warren's Profession is a clever George Bernard Shaw play about morality, money and social mores tied up in the strained relationship between mother and daughter. Imelda Staunton & Bessie Carter make a magnificent pair playing two powerful women living by unusual principles.
(36 of 2025)
(36 of 2025)
Godz by headfirstacrobats was gloriously silly, homoerotic acrobatics by some stunning A̶u̶s̶t̶r̶a̶l̶i̶a̶n̶ Greek gods. Excellent athletic performances tied together with cheesy acting.
(35 of 2025)
(35 of 2025)
June 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Godz by headfirstacrobats was gloriously silly, homoerotic acrobatics by some stunning A̶u̶s̶t̶r̶a̶l̶i̶a̶n̶ Greek gods. Excellent athletic performances tied together with cheesy acting.
(35 of 2025)
(35 of 2025)