press & PR about Playmate
(Sydsvenskan 2017)
April/September 2022
SUNDAY IN SODOM by Jordan Tannahill
"Vem blir du i skuggan av krisen? Och hur fortsätter vardagen efter bombattacken? Krigets konsekvenser är temat när Playmate Theatre Malmö och Teater Dictat tillsammans bjuder på dubbelföreställning på Bastionen...Det pågående kriget i Ukraina nämns aldrig rakt ut. Men den verkliga konflikten är oundvikligt närvarande genom hela pjäsen...Bland annat spelas karaktären Nana, mormor i pjäsen, av den ukrainska skådespelaren Inna Syzonenko."/Skånska Dagbladet
Det Händer Magazine SUNDAY IN SODOM https://dethander.com/sunday-in-sodomby-jordan-tannahill/?fbclid=IwAR3THLCQCYbwQixdtmhjsyeeKi-JdUSWlEgLJi3F_DuoXsqzMPjNZgGrPH8
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October 2022
https://cphpost.dk/?p=140379
The Copenhagen Post
VODKA TALKS by Arne Nielsen
a guest performance by HIT INTERNATIONAL THEATRE ARTS
"English-language premiere of German play ‘Vodka Talks’ is the debut play of Danish author Arne Nielsen … which he wrote in German...Active since the 1970s, Danish director Lars Junggreen is a legendary veteran of Danish theatre. While the two stars of the show, Jana Pulkrabek and Vanessa Poole, are equally familiar with the stage … and each other. Recent collaborations include ‘HAP’ in Hamburg last year and ‘The Clean House’ in Copenhagen in 2019.
Busy season for HIT International Theatre Arts
In ‘Vodka Talks’ – which will be performed in collaboration with Playmate Theatre Malmö from November 11-13 at Bastionen Theatre, and then April 20-22 at Teatert ved Sorte Hest in Copenhagen – two sisters share revelations and stunning discoveries as they sort through their late father’s estate. "
/Ben Hamilton The Copenhagen Post
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August 2021
HAP by John Foster
Lovely coveage in the regional newspaper of southern Sweden
https://www.skd.se/2021-08-05/lycka-och-ensamhet-i-surrealistisk-komedi
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May 2019
THE GOAT OR WHO IS SYLVIA by Edward Albee
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"Brilliantly performed, Edward Albee’s darkly comical The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? is not for the faint of heart. With a lurking elephant — or, really, a goat — in the room, the audience is thrown headfirst into the most emotionally intimate moments of a great marriage gurgling down the garbage disposal… Poole and Benn balance this tension of love and hate so delicately as to make the whole performance nuanced and believable…The play is carried by Poole’s strongly nuanced portrayal of one half of a happy, devoted partnership sliding quickly into insanity".
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"De tos samspil er fint, og man mærker den fortrolighed og jargon, der kan være mellem ægtefæller, der har været sammen i en årrække"
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Kevin Benn leverer en smukt afdæmpet præstation ... Vanessa Poole udviser suveræn komisk timing...i Jefferson Bonds portræt af sønnen fornemmer vi en ægte fortvivlelse."
April 2019
Swedish radio interview about Playmate and "The Goat or Who is Sylvia?"
https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=7191880
Skånska Dagbladet interview about The Goat or Who is Sylvia?"
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September 2018
Article in The Local, Sweden's nationwide English-language newspaper, about Playmates' production Quality Street and British humour.
A podcast interview with Vanessa Poole about Playmate's first year and first season in Malmö and about our production "Quality Street" ; Inglorious Artists
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Front page coverage and article about Quality Street, September 2018, Malmö Hallå tidning, a supplement to Sydsvenskan
A great article about "Quality Street" and the role Playmate Theatre Malmö has in the region, in this trendy lifestyle Scandi blog/website.
http://www.thenordique.com/blog/2018/9/8/quality-street-a-night-at-the-theatre
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May 2017
"Talking heads" by Alan Bennett: Review
http://cphpost.dk/activities/theatre-review-turning-heads-and-the-talk-of-the-town.html
Theatre Review: Turning heads and the talk of the town ★★★★★
May 9th, 2017 12:46 pm| by Mark Walker/ The Copenhagen Post
Sep 2017
A lovely welcome for Playmate by southern Sweden's leading newspaper
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January 2018
“Lettice and Lovage” by Peter Shaffer: Review SYDSVENSKAN
https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2018-01-21/den-passionerade-prilligheten
Den passionerade prilligheten
By Boel Gerell
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December 2017
"...OPINION: It isn't always easy putting on English-language theatre in southern Sweden, but presenting plays in their original language has huge value – not least for integration – writes Playmate Theatre member Vanessa Poole.
Living as we have done for years with our Swedish partners of choice, we are all happy enough to be settled in Skåne, but oddly for such an expansive and cosmopolitan region, there is one thing missing: there has never been an established English-language theatre in southern Sweden...."
Why Sweden needs theatre in English – Sweden’s only English-language newspaper features Playmate
https://www.thelocal.se/20180103/opinion-why-english-theatre-can-boost-integration-in-sweden
January 2018
News from Österlen: Boel Marie Larsson stars in Playmate’s next play
http://skanesydost.nu/aktuellt/boel-marie-larsson-goes-lettice-douffet/
Sep 2017
Local news for Vellinge : A season of English theatre by Playmate Malmö
May 2017
Playmate Theatre starts a season of English theatre in Malmö at Bastionen/ Skånska Dagbladet.
http://www.skd.se/2017/05/05/brittiska-monologer-far-ny-form-pa-bastionen/
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https://www.thelocal.se/20201023/its-been-disastrous-how-covid-hit-artists-in-sweden/
Playmate reflects on the implications of Covid 19 in the theatre world in an article printed in The Local newspaper, Sweden.
(September 2020)