Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Writer-actor Alan Bissett’s When Billy met Alasdair imagines what happened when Alasdair Gray (1934-2019 ) and Billy Connolly (1942-) met in 1981 at a book launch of Lanark, Gray’s celeb…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:18AMTuesday, August 19, 2025
At the Edinburgh Fringe, the solo show, A Poem and a Mistake, is playing for the entire month of August at the iconic Assembly Rooms. I was curious to see how contemporary American playwrigh…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:04AMWorks and Days the latest production of the FC Bergman collective, played at the Lyceum Theatre as part of The Edinburgh International Festival from 7 to 10 August. The show includes stunnin…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:04AMOut of the many venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Summerhall Arts is one that shines for its programme of innovative theatre, cabaret, dance or music. In 2019 the Bristol-based compan…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:04AMSummerhall, one of Edinburgh’s busiest venues, known for its innovative, cutting-edge programme, has had a tough time over the last year. The premises have been sold, making its future as …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:04AMMonday, August 18, 2025
The Edinburgh International Festival this year, welcomes several international trailblazers like FC Bergman and William Kentridge, alongside a cluster of new political plays about censorship…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:21AMAs I read the title of Jonny Woo’s latest show, Suburbia, I wondered how this celebrated performer, cabaret and legendary drag artist, who has lived most of their life in London and New Yo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:20AMThursday, August 14, 2025
Playing at the Scottish Storytelling Centre during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cassandra, written and performed by Ailsa Dixon. This solo show, a compelling mix of music and spoken word, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:26AMHere at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as Gary McNair’s A Gambler’s Guide to Dying, I caught the world première of Karis Kelly’s Consumed. The play won the prestigious Women’s Prize …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:24AMFor this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Traverse Theatre has, as usual, put together a line-up of Scottish plays and others from the rest of the UK, Ireland and around the world. As…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:24AMWednesday, August 13, 2025
The expression ‘Athens of the North’, the title of the play in the present review, conjures up an Edinburgh in the Enlightenment period, a time when classical culture was much valued, 18…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:59AM‘Dare to Discover’ is the leitmotiv of the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe running from 1st to 25th August. In the introduction to 384-page programme, Tony Lankester, the recently appointed Chief …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:54AMThursday, May 8, 2025
Playwright, actor, director and novelist Davide Enia had his first success as a theatrical storyteller in 2002 with his one person play, Italy Brazil 3 to 2, which he wrote, performed and di…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:01AMWednesday, April 16, 2025
At Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre, Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink (Schegge di memoria disordinata a inchiostro policromo) runs from 20 March to 13 April. This new play by Gi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:34PMMonday, March 10, 2025
In February I caught Antonio Syxty’s staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan’s Leonardo Theatre in a production by Manifatture Teatrali Milanesi. Syxty’s interpretat…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:24AMWednesday, March 5, 2025
Rarely have I spent such an intense ninety minutes watching a show, as I did the other evening at Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre. From start to finish French dramatist Nicolas Bedos’s Le…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:44AMSunday, March 2, 2025
In his short story, A Report to an Academy, written and published in 1917, Franz Kafka imagines that an ape, called Red Peter, who has turned human, addresses an academy of academics and sc…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:50AMTuesday, February 4, 2025
Some of the outstanding works by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood are finally being staged in Italy, with productions of The Children and The Welkin currently showing in major theatres. The …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:38AMFriday, January 24, 2025
Director Romeo Castellucci is coming to the end of a four-year collaboration with Milan’s Triennale Theatre. As well as producing a number of shows (see my review of his retelling of Racin…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:24AMSunday, October 20, 2024
The city of Milan hosts two annual Fringe events, the first in June, and the second, in late September and early October. I caught the latter, Fringe Milanooff, situated in forty different v…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:05PMWednesday, September 4, 2024
Every year at the Edinburgh Fringe, Paines Plough, a UK touring company specialised in commissioning and developing new writing, brings a cluster of contemporary plays to the Roundabout, loc…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:36AMFriday, August 30, 2024
New plays can derive from many sources: a vivid imagination, novels, diaries, real-life episodes, autobiography, biography and history. Elena Mazzon’s The Popess, drawing on the real-life …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:24PMA cast of young actors from diverse parts of the globe brought Malvolio’s Fantasy to the Space venue at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. The group, members of Edinburgh University’s Shake…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:22PMWednesday, August 28, 2024
As part of Here and Now, a new Arts Council England showcase, Tim Etchells, artistic director of the celebrated company, Forced Entertainment, has penned L’Addition (The Bill), teaming up …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:21PMMonday, August 19, 2024
The title of the play, The Amazing Doctor She Medicine Show, leaves one wondering who on earth was the amazing Doctor She. All is unveiled in this fifty-minute lecture-cum-interactive perfor…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:26AMSunday, August 18, 2024
On this year’s Edinburgh Fringe a raft of reimaginings of Shakespeare’s plays, by emerging and established companies jostle for punters’ attention. Hamstrung, Migrant Shakespeare, A Me…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:25AMFriday, August 16, 2024
The five-hundred-year history of Italy’s Commedia dell’Arte is neatly packed into Masquerade, a truly entertaining show, which offers a taste of Italy, past and present. The three strong…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:18PMA unique feature of Edinburgh’s Fringe festival is its inclusive nature. Professional and non-professional companies from Scotland and around the world can take part and jostle for the att…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:16PMSpoken word poetry has a huge following in the UK, and Luke Wright is one of the most talented exponents, breaking new ground with his audacious work. Wright took his first steps as one of t…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:15PMOn the Edinburgh Fringe the number of plays investigating climate change is growing each year, and in the 2024 programme, there’s a Climate and Sustainability section. At the Pleasance Dom…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:14PMThursday, August 15, 2024
In Two Minds, produced by Dublin’s celebrated multi-award winning Fishamble, is playing at Traverse Theatre, Scotland’s home for new writing. Dramatist and performer Joanne Ryan has crea…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:12PM 
