Friday, August 11, 2023
Assembly George Square Gardens, EdinburghOscar Wilde hides in a bunker on a dystopian dance floor, but while there is much high-energy music there is little drama
What would Oscar Wilde be d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07PMAssembly Rooms, EdinburghTwo-hander presents a woman, who has miscarried on a US flight, confronted by a steely lawyer who explains she is representing the foetus
The tension builds from the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMThursday, August 10, 2023
Festival theatre, EdinburghOng Keng Sen’s high-octane production for the National Changgeuk Company of Korea is scintillating from start to finish
This operatic production leans into sever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PMPleasance Dome, EdinburghJenny Sealey, the artistic director of disabled-led theatre company Graeae, becomes playwright and performer in this engaging autobiographical tale
Jenny Sealey tell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04AMtheSpace, EdinburghAndrew O’Hagan’s script has some witty lines but this drama about the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood lacks narrative focus
This monologue opens i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:55AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghJamie Armitage’s police procedural seems straightforward but the live-stream cameras give eerie clues to a story that is not as it seems
This mini police procedural us…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis fantastically silly show by writer-actors Valen Shore and Alison Zatta reflects on the adrenalised rise to fame for young pop stars
On the face of it, a mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AMSummerhall, EdinburghEloina Haines’ performance considers her own – and other women’s – labia and the obscene pressure to make this body part conform
If the Edinburgh fringe has neve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMMonday, August 7, 2023
The Studio, EdinburghGeoff Sobelle is firmly in control of this clever show full of tricks, but it doesn’t really feed the soul
A gigantic banqueting table dominates the room, with members…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:43PMSunday, August 6, 2023
Zoo Southside, EdinburghValentijn Dhaenens switches between 13 characters, with the help of technology, to tell a story of poverty and social injustice
It is maverick, perhaps reckless, to a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:37PMLyceum theatre, EdinburghThe 2003 film forms the basis for this intriguing show about far-right tyranny but it is not a straightforward adaptation by any means
A row of actors introduce them…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh This cult novel adaptation follows one woman’s journey toward self-determination, though it needs more work before it’s a killer hit
This musical comes wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMSaturday, August 5, 2023
Summerhall, Edinburgh The Neutrinos present two very different shows in the same lounge-like space: Inhaus sits the audience in the middle of a pop gig, while Darkroom’s quiet soundtrack d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AMFriday, August 4, 2023
Available onlineDelivered by smartphone in voice notes, videos and texts, this ‘real-time documentary’ follows Afghan teen Sajid on an arduous trek across Europe
This innovative producti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMTuesday, August 1, 2023
Minerva theatre, ChichesterBased on the 70s TV drama, this musical depicts patriarchal power structures in the music industry which haven’t changed much in five decades
Almost two decades …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMFriday, July 28, 2023
Garrick theatre, LondonThe likes of Al Murray, Neil Morrissey and Mel Giedroyc can’t rescue Simon Nye’s woefully tedious show about the real-life heist of King Charles II’s crown jewel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMNaked choruses, sexual fantasies, rubbish tip wastelands and nods to refugee camps … Athens’ Epidaurus festival is thrilling audiences – and thrusting theatre into the 21st century
A g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMThursday, July 27, 2023
Royal Court theatre, LondonDaring production ranges boldly from very funny Westminster satire to suffering families at the sharp end of Home Office policy
‘Words don’t crack bones … Do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMThe experimental collective bus us into unknown woodland at night, where we stumble across mysterious characters and slowly become part of a fugitive community
We have been instructed to tur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMThursday, July 20, 2023
The theatre’s new artistic director proved himself a canny commercialist attuned to promising writing at the New Diorama. How will his maverick sensibility adapt to a major venue?
In appoi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AMTuesday, July 18, 2023
Chichester Festival theatreGina Beck is radiant as Maria in this immaculate and impish production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical
Chichester has set quite a record for staging West En…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMMonday, July 17, 2023
Finborough theatre, LondonThe first professional production of Merton Hodge’s quippy drama in more than 80 years shows how a play can date
Merton Hodge’s whimsical play became an interna…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25AMFriday, July 14, 2023
Crucible, SheffieldBilled as an opportunity to reframe Boublil and Schönberg’s original, this is more of a tweak but it is a visually captivating production
Last autumn, a theatre company…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMThursday, July 13, 2023
Royal Court theatre, LondonThree generations of women in a Merseyside house banter, bicker and disappear into their smartphones in this nuanced play from Michael Wynne
Cuckoo is a delicately…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMTuesday, July 11, 2023
Park theatre, LondonLewis Aaron Wood’s play about a rugby player with anxiety artfully conveys the energy of the sport but the characters are flimsy
A new, welcome body of male-centred pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMMonday, July 10, 2023
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonChild-friendly adaptation that features an airborne chicken takeaway and Prospero casting spells with an iPad is a lovely introduction to Shakespeare
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMFriday, July 7, 2023
Home, ManchesterThis hugely eloquent show weaves together the awful mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 with the tale of a father’s slide into dementia
This experimental drama takes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMJohn Rylands Library, ManchesterThe actor’s controlled inner outrage reels us in with this eerily prescient tale from 1977 of a dystopia in which art is criminalised
It is eerily fitting t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMThursday, July 6, 2023
London PalladiumThis adaptation has a luminous performance from Georgina Onuorah as Dorothy and some great ideas but throws too much at the audience
This turbo-charged revival of Andrew Lloy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43PMWednesday, July 5, 2023
Kiln theatre, LondonElizabeth Thompson takes on the whiskered lads of the Royal Academy in a show that bubbles over with charisma
Elizabeth Thompson was once such a famous artist that a poli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AMCracking comedy, an eclectic mix of theatre – and aerial dance in an ice rink. Our critics share their picks for the August arts extravaganza
Rhod Gilbert: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM 
