Thursday, February 14, 2019
Royal Exchange, ManchesterIt’s 2080 and Europe is in shreds in Anna Jordan’s new version of Brecht’s play, which has a compelling central performance War – what is it good for? Busin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThursday, February 7, 2019
Leeds Playhouse This portrait of a family devastated by a random stabbing lands its blows with a heavy thudIn 2008, random was a sharp retort to the stereotypical “urban” image of soarin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PMWednesday, January 23, 2019
Home, ManchesterCuts of the Cloth explores a family torn apart by the state while storyteller Conor A offers an account of chronic illnessNurturing new performances is a balancing act: shows…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMTuesday, January 8, 2019
Arts education is in crisis but theatre company Slung Low has set up a pay-what-you-can community college, offering lessons in art activism, wood-whittling and much moreOn board a double-dec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMSaturday, December 15, 2018
This year’s panto is one long bow for writer, director and long-running dame Berwick Kaler. Marking 40 years of what he calls
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMFriday, December 14, 2018
Crucible, Sheffield Standout turns from strong female leads can’t tame the darkness at the heart of Cole Porter’s Shakespearean musicalKiss Me, Kate is a musical of many layers. The fict…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMThursday, December 13, 2018
On stage and screen, Christmas tends to look a certain way: twinkling tree, glistening turkey, picture-perfect nuclear family. The new seasonal show
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30PMLiverpool PlayhouseSpymonkey riff with pop culture – from funk-anthem carols to Torvill and Dean – in a bizarre take on the Dickens classicAt this time of year, Scrooge is as reliable as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMFriday, December 7, 2018
'Shimmer and sparkle': Catherine Love reviews an unlikely Christmas show which delights as much as it unsettles.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:02PMFriday, November 23, 2018
Home, ManchesterThe playwright’s prison time inspires an all-male production that is dazzling, dangerous and captivatingly queasyJean Genet understood the essence of theatre: everything is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMMonday, October 29, 2018
It is practically a professional requirement that actors be emotional and vulnerable, but only recently has protecting their mental wellbeing become a priorityActor and playwright Milly Thom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMFriday, October 19, 2018
Leeds PlayhouseJames Brining’s revival of this rueful study of foreignness and fear doesn’t go out of its way to seem timely because it doesn’t need toWhat is Europe? A continent, an i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMThursday, October 18, 2018
'Dream space': Catherine Love reviews Sarah Frankcom's fresh, insightful take on the 20th Century American staple
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:08AMThursday, October 11, 2018
York Theatre RoyalRelocated to northern England, this fast-paced panto-esque comedy is damningly relevant nowAfter the 2008 banking crisis, Dario Fo redrafted his 1974 play Can’t Pay? Won�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
Albion Electric Warehouse, LeedsKeeping the audience on the move, Red Ladder’s 50th-anniversary production stars Pauline McLynnMother Courage and Her Children is a play of perpetual moveme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, October 1, 2018
The Snow Queen – like so many of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytales – is a dark story. A boy is kidnapped and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:51PMFriday, September 28, 2018
York Army Museum Lying in a row of beds, an audience of 10 is transported to a wartime hospital in Sound&Fury’s arresting showThere are no images of the first world war in Sound&Fu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
Building community: Catherine Love writes on a quietly radical performance, part of a series of public interventions by Common Wealth.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:33AMSaturday, September 22, 2018
Why do we keep telling the same stories? Director Jude Christian’s mash-up of Othello and Macbeth, two of the oldest and most
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:07AMTuesday, September 18, 2018
Crucible, SheffieldBush tackles sexism and racial prejudice in a cross-generational commentary on contemporary politicsIn Chris Bush’s new play, steel is a multi-faceted metaphor. It’s r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughAlan Ayckbourn’s 82nd play, about an over-the-hill crime novelist, struggles to come up with anything new to say about creativity, fame or failureAn agei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, August 15, 2018
Theatre and acrobatic shows at the Edinburgh festival use the experiences of donors to explore fertility, faith and family‘Who is the family?” asks aerial artist and theatre-maker Sarah …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMTuesday, August 14, 2018
Pleasance Dome/Zoo Charteris, Edinburgh★★★☆☆/★★☆☆☆Grace Chapman tries to outrun her fears and Fredrik Høyer works up a sweat in two one-person shows about mental and phy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMMonday, August 13, 2018
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn Theatre Ad Infinitum’s latest show, George Mann and Nir Paldi consider whether they can cope with the prejudice that two dads still faceTo procreate or not…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSunday, August 12, 2018
Traverse theatre, EdinburghFood’s nostalgic power is captured with mouth-watering success in this poignant staging of the popular memoirFood tells stories. The homemade mince pies that whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMFriday, August 10, 2018
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghFrom a Deliveroo driver to a dying Christ, Julian Spooner seamlessly shapeshifts in an enthralling restaging of a Dario Fo classicSolo shows are everywhere at th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMThursday, August 9, 2018
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFran Bushe’s comedy uses glitter and smart songs to advocate better understanding of sex for womenFran Bushe wants to fix sex. Armed with glitter, songs and a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMSummerhall, EdinburghValentijn Dhaenens takes us behind the speechifying in a compelling study of how politicians operateIt’s six years since Valentijn Dhaenens blasted fringe-goers with h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Summerhall, EdinburghKatherine Radeva takes on the dying days of communism in her native Bulgaria and considers the Britain she lives in todayIn the same year Europe marks the 30th anniversa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PMTuesday, August 7, 2018
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghSchoolboy banter and playground scraps expose underlying insecurities in Gary McNair and Kieran Hurley’s playThe playground is a battlefield. Max and his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghSimon Longman’s teen tale of ‘left behind’ Britain pulls no emotional punches but risks becoming two-dimensionalKate, Sam and Pete live in a town made…
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