James Thierrée joyfully collides together dance, mime, acrobatics, music and more - but what does it all mean? "I feel I owe you an explanation." That much James Thierrée concedes partway …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:54AMA multi-layered, multi-generational theatrical epic is one of this year's stand-out offerings First, a bit of housekeeping. Maybe it was the three-and-a-half-hour duration, or maybe the unfa…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:33AMTwo performer-less shows on the theme of work set the audience to - well, work Temping, Assembly George Square Studios ★★★★ Sarah Jane is away in Hawaii. But don’t worry – she�…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:18AMTheatre about theatre? There's plenty of it about at the Fringe: here are two fine examples Every Word was Once an Animal, Zoo Southside ★★★★
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:25AMThree shows at the Traverse take in gritty realism and no-holds-barred farce The Last Return, Traverse Theatre ★★★★★
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:07AMTwo shows at Summerhall explore issues of identity - though with contrasting outcomes Boy, Summerhall ★★★★ Nature or nurture? It’s the perennial question behind so much in human d…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:24AMStrong constituent parts in Alan Cumming's Burns dance show - but do they add up? In retrospect, all the clues were there. A star actor embarking on a new performance genre; a fresh reapprai…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:03AMDeeply moving verbatim show from a bright new London company The popcorn on offer as you enter the Pleasance’s performing space at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre quickly fil…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:24AMFrances Poet offers a luminous meditation on suffering and death at the Traverse Ageing Mick wakes up on Portobello beach with two gold rings in his pocket, and embarks on the bender to end …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:36AMA head-spinning thriller and a heart-wrenching monologue at Assembly Fear of Roses Assembly Roxy ★★★
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:36AMAn elusive eco fable from Grid Iron makes glowing sense in its forest setting There’s always a tricky balance to be struck with site-specific theatre. What’s more important: the show its…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:03AMTwo shows shine in a converted army reserve centre amid a depleted festival Tunnels Army @ The Fringe ★★★
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:54PMAutobiographical refugee story feels like a boy's own adventure Urgent, fast-paced, seemingly never pausing for breath, How Not to Drown is a real-life boy’s own adventure, an appeal for c…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:03AMMessianic devotion and audience complicity in a slippery new work from Tim Crouch It’s the end of the world as we know it. At least according to Miles, scientist turned messiah, who lost …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:06AMTwo vicious dissections of class and identity might just leave you reeling Darren McGarvey AKA Loki: Scotland Today The Stand's New Town Theatre ★★★★★
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMCaptivating and macabre, 1927's new show marks a partial return to their own origins A fat cat who gobbles up everything in sight. A king who tests his wife’s fidelity with increasingly ho…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMThree contrasting shows tackling climate change and mass extinction Sea Sick CanadaHub ★★★★ She’s not a performer, Alanna Mitchell tells us. She’s a writer and journalis…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:42AMRavishing physical theatre on the beginnings of life from Theatre Re Physical theatre company Theatre Re are virtually Fringe royalty these days, with a several-year history of fine shows un…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:54AMThree contrasting shows at CanadaHub tackle racism, climate change and clowning Deer Woman CanadaHub ★★★
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:54AMPantomime excess in Meghan Tyler's wild but unconvincing new comedy Chekhov famously pronounced that if you’re going to bring a gun on stage, you’ve got to use it. Is the same true for a…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:12AMIntellectual playfulness in Milo Rau's recreation of a gay hate crime Who’d have thought a play about a homophobic hate crime could be so much fun? Well, maybe that’s overstating things …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMConfusion reigns in an overly ambitious take on technology, time and climate catastrophe You can’t question Javaad Alipoor’s ambition.
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:06AMTwo compelling examinations of femininity and masculinity at the Traverse Theatre Enough ★★★★ Immaculately turned out in winning smiles, navy and nylon, cabin crew Jane and T…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:24AMNew staging brings the iconic 1983 movie's themes and characters into sharper focus ‘Cult’ is probably an over-used adjective, especially when it comes to movies. But there’s undoubted…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:20AMPsychedelic Shakespeare feels rather too charming for its own good“Well, that was really sweet,” one young audience member in front of me remarked on his way out of Edinburgh’s Lyceum …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:24AMThe British master-director settles for vaguely Beckett-inflected bafflementOf the Edinburgh International Festival’s three productions by 2018’s resident company, Paris’s Théâtre de…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:04AMPlayful visual trickery and gnomic bafflement at the International Festival Home ★★★★
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:48AMTwo striking explorations of sexual identity stop short of grabbing the emotions La maladie de la mort ★★★ Toxic masculinity in all its appalling variety is a hot topic across Edi…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:42AMThree intimate storytelling shows at Summerhall offer mixed insights Orpheus ★★★★
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:12AMTwo superb - and very different - examinations of what defines our identity Nigel Slater's Toast ★★★★
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:36AMToxic masculinity and reflections on identity at the Fringe's newest venueLaunched just last year to celebrate the country’s 150th anniversary, CanadaHub has quickly become one of the…
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