Monday, October 24, 2022
Pitlochry festival theatreSally Reid is superbly deadpan in this devastating production of Willy Russell’s play about a woman who catches a glimpse of the life she could be living
Willy Ru…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotA crisp production tells the extraordinary real-life story of Eva Moorhead who laid the groundwork for the ANC
In December 1919, dock workers in Cape Town…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMMonday, October 17, 2022
Cumbernauld theatre at LanternhouseThe four actors are less interested in Wells’s sci-fi fantasy than in the divisions of today as they stock up for the coming apocalypse with onions, tamp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:43AMFriday, October 14, 2022
Tron theatre, GlasgowA hazily defined relationship makes it hard to fathom the squabbles and romance in this wordless show inspired by 1940s French cinema
What’s not to like? You’ve got …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Platform, GlasgowAn exhilarating show shifts Renton, Sick Boy and pals into the acid house era – and is even more visceral than the book
Perhaps you thought Trainspotting was too coy. Mayb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMFriday, October 7, 2022
Derby theatreNeil Bartlett’s version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic has female leads laying bare the rot at the heart of a beastly boys’ club
We all love a chorus line. We love th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMThursday, October 6, 2022
Dundee RepThis modern-day take on Cervantes’ classic novel follows the ageing Donald who has had enough of daytime television, tea and biscuits
Everyone who cares for Uncle Donald has the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Festival theatre, Edinburgh The circle of the 16th-century monarch is fraught with brittle alliances and racism in Rona Munro’s new history play
It’s a cosmopolitan place, the court of J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMSunday, October 2, 2022
Crucible, SheffieldTom Basden’s new adaptation of the Italian classic brings in dodgy selfies, WhatsApp groups and the lord chief justice in a furious but funny broadside against police ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMFriday, September 30, 2022
Everyman theatre, LiverpoolTheatre meets couples counselling as a night of wine, passion and allegations of infidelity leave two women pulling their relationship apart
Jesse is on her guard.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotNew playhouse kicks off with a boisterous, boundary-pushing production that is inventive enough to find fresh laughs in the mechanicals
You can see how it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMSunday, September 25, 2022
Octagon theatre, BoltonThe paean to the power of the printed word loses none of its earnest intent in a deft and tremendously delivered production adapted by author Jodi Picoult
When Liesel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AMThursday, September 22, 2022
Curve, LeicesterThis physical, modern-day version is immersed in violence, with gang members vying for sex and authority around a pool table
There is nothing polite about Frantic Assembly’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
Theatre Royal, WakefieldJane Thornton and John Godber’s knockabout 1985 cocktail bar comedy is updated to the cost of living crisis era, with a downsized cast doing a valiant job of keepin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
After her gripping trilogy The James Plays, Rona Munro continues her ambitious series on Scottish history with a saga about power and race in the 16th century
When an early draft of Rona Mun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMSunday, September 11, 2022
Pitlochry Festival theatreIn a monologue starring the excellent Blythe Jandoo, Martin McCormick finds a fearful, misogynistic, class-ridden society to blame for a girl’s death
There is som…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07PMFriday, September 9, 2022
Leeds PlayhouseDenzel Westley-Sanderson’s staging of the high-society comedy adds a welcome dose of playfulness amid the cucumber sandwiches
On the way into the theatre there is a pop-up d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMThursday, September 8, 2022
Royal Exchange, ManchesterMaking dynamic use of a sparse stage and a spinning neon sign, Atri Banerjee’s adventurous production gives new shape to Tennessee Williams’ play
You mess with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:19PMWednesday, September 7, 2022
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughSkipping between three generations from the 50s to the present, this occasionally poignant play pulls back from the emotional force of its concept
At 83, A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AMSunday, August 28, 2022
Pitlochry festival theatreSara Shaarawi’s two-hander captures tenderness and sadness as the sisters negotiate the Islamic revolution, exile and betrayal
Fatemeh has just introduced her sis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMLive at No 40, GlasgowDirector Dominic Hill brings exuberance to Shakespeare’s tale of two sets of identical twins unknowingly at large in the same city
Ephesus is quite the place. It has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMFriday, August 26, 2022
Church Hill theatre, EdinburghSergio Blanco’s bad-taste drama uses deadpan humour and a tapestry of cultural allusions to probe our fixation with death
In Mary Shelley’s novel, Victor Fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMThursday, August 25, 2022
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghWhether tap dancing, singing Abba’s Money, Money, Money or lamenting the limitations of bargain-shop ‘pound pants’, the Welsh cast are cheeky and defiant
Emili…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWednesday, August 24, 2022
The Studio, Festival theatre, EdinburghPersonal trauma, the horrors of migration and religious rhetoric feature in an impassioned narrative that ultimately feels more private than shared
Man…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMMonday, August 22, 2022
Assembly Rooms, EdinburghLester Purry is at home performing the late playwright’s breezy yet purposeful collection of stories from his youth, in its European premiere
In the hands of a le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMFestival theatre, EdinburghIvo van Hove directs a mesmerising four-hour adaptation of a divisive novel that unpicks privilege, abuse and psychological damage
When Jude St Francis cuts his wr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMFriday, August 19, 2022
Leith Academy, EdinburghThe audience are cast as climate refugees in an immersive show that weaves together issues of class, power and politics
Climate campaigners have been sounding the ala…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMThursday, August 18, 2022
Scottish Storytelling Centre, EdinburghShona Cowie combines traditional storytelling with physical theatre in a show about Maggie Osborne that posits her as more entrepreneur than witch
As w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMScottish Storytelling Centre, EdinburghMaria MacDonell and Jo Clifford consider the classic Hans Christian Andersen story and don’t shy away from nature’s cruelty
I’m no fan of seagull…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMSummerhall, EdinburghThe true story of a Sydney suburbanite who organised a campaign to save some local bushland and kickstarted a whole environmentalist movement
Towards the end of this one…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMWednesday, August 17, 2022
Wee Red Bar, EdinburghAn adaptation of David Keenan’s novel about a Scottish band who nearly supported Sonic Youth is lovingly detailed
A few years ago, the director Stewart Laing invented…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PM 
