Friday, August 23, 2019
Don’t go and see this with your significant other. American writer Jonathan Caren’s five-handed comedy, set during a stag-do – sorry, bachelor
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMTheatre Re celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. In that time, thanks largely to 2014’s Blind Man’s Song and 2017’s The Nature
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMBarely a word is spoken in Civilisation, the bold new collaboration between Antler Theatre’s Jaz Woodcock-Stewart and choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple. A woman
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMMiracle Village is a community in Florida’s Palm Beach County, somewhere deep in sugarcane country – a community for registered sex offenders.
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Beep boop. That’s the noise of the phone in your pocket, or the iPad in your bag, or the laptop on your
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You don’t get much Shakespeare at the fringe – something about five-act tragedies not quite fitting into the average hour-long slot –
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Tallulah Brown had a mini-hit last year with Songlines, a soulful slice of gig-theatre storytelling set on the Suffolk coast. For When
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:48PMAmiable Australian yarn-spinner Wil Greenway is a fixture at the fringe. His beautifully titled shows – The Way the City Ate the
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Here’s a headline you can trust: Fake News is a full-on failure. Osman Baig’s one-man show attempts to craft a cautionary tale
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:09PMThroughout the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Pleasance has been running an eco-friendly pop-up theatre at Dynamic Earth, near Holyrood. Inside the science
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:55AMAlan Harris is an uncompromising writer – his plays slip and stumble along, often with a healthy dose of hectic surrealism stuffed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:42AM“Just a quick warning,” says Lee Mark Jones, poking his head out from behind the curtain. “Things will fuck up.” And they
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Simon McBurney has a lot to answer for. Ever since his smash-hit solo show The Encounter premiered in 2015, theatremakers have been
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:59PMHenry Naylor has been doing this for a while – writing swift, short plays about geo-political topics and putting them on at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:40PMIn 2016, Isley Lynn wrote the widely praised Skin a Cat, a play about her struggle to have sex because she had
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AMRhys Slade-Jones is extremely Welsh. He grew up in Treherbert, a small town in The Valleys, just like his parents before him,
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US star Lyndsy Fonseca, known for her roles in films and TV shows including Kick-Ass, Desperate Housewives and How I Met Your
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:16PMJessica Phillippi’s Illegal offers two stories in one, both based on true stories. The first is a semi-autobiographical account of Phillipi’s battle
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:15AMIn 1994, avant-garde electronica band The KLF burned one million pounds. And no one, including its members, really knows why. Now, it’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMCharlotte Josephine’s new play, Pops, hits you like a train. It’s a poleaxing, two-handed depiction of a dysfunctional father-daughter relationship, driven by
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There’s an urgency and intensity to Marika Mckennell’s E8, but there’s a clumsiness and a clunkiness, too. Developed by Oxford’s North Wall
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Peter William Sutcliffe. The Yorkshire Ripper. The man who murdered 13 women in Yorkshire and Greater Manchester in the late 1970s. The
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Wound Up Theatre had a hit back in 2015 with Bismillah!, a tragi-comic two-hander featuring a friendship between an imprisoned British soldier
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The best three years of your life. That’s what people ceaselessly say about university. What they don’t mention is the anxiety, loneliness
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:59AMTwo years ago, Welsh company Dirty Protest Theatre brought Alan Harris’ one-man play Sugar Baby to the Paines Plough Roundabout. It was
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Art theft has long had a glamorous allure. Think of Vicenzo Peruggia making off with the Mona Lisa in 1911, or the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMThere are several adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at this year’s festival – a musical version, a
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Long live Lung. The verbatim theatre company have carved a niche for themselves making vital, vibrant shows about pressing political issues. Trojan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:44AMThis is the second one-man work from Lewis Doherty. The first, last year’s Wolf, was a playful, cinematic, mime-heavy parody of a
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Founded in 2015, Phosphorus Theatre has made a name for itself with a set of autobiographical shows created and performed by child
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