Monday, August 25, 2025
For the last thirty years of my attendance, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has always been too big to grasp in its entirety. In 2025, with a record 4,000 registered shows, the challenge is no…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:31AMEmma Frankland’s No Apologies achieves something genuinely rare: a radical reimagining that feels both vital and sumptuous. Her premise echoing as a refrain throughout the piece— “Kurt…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:40AMAnemone Valcke and Verona Verbakel’s The Ego emerges from Ontroerend Goed’s theatrical lineage with characteristic Belgian fearlessness and appetite for (self-)reflection. What begins as…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:40AMWhat is the purpose of performing arts when the stakes are literally life and death? Pussy Riot’s Riot Days confronts this question with unflinching directness, transforming the concert h…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:39AMThe Belgian Company Ontroerend Goed have been coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for so long that I can no longer imagine how their work would seem to someone on first encounter anymore. Not tha…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:39AMSunday, August 24, 2025
Emma Howlett’s Aether arrives with impressive academic credentials—consultations with Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Stanford universities lending gravitas to TheatreGoose’s latest …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:37AMWhat does it take to get you up on your feet and into the groove? Whatever your disposition, Little Bulb’s Listen Dance delivers a “raucous evening of social dance and live music” with…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:37AMOli Mathiesen’s dance piece The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave has been described by this young Māori choreographer as an “acid house remix that screams f**k you to the pandemic.” W…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:37AMWednesday, July 2, 2025
Imagine Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, staged as a sort of salon game, in a real couple’s home serving as a set for the classic drama of duty versus love. Fix+Foxy’s innovative production, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:26AMSunday, May 18, 2025
There is a big screen hanging above the stage on which four faces in four individual frames are apparently chatting to each other as we walk in. At the same time two other persons are busyin…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:06PMThursday, May 15, 2025
’To be or not to be’, that is a question with a completely new ring to it in Teatro La Plaza’s production performed by eight actors and actresses with Down’s syndrome and cognitive d…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:50AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
This Guardian pick of the year 2025 recently closed at London’s Almeida theatre, but it is definitely worth anthologizing for prosperity. I hope this also gives me the licence to write fre…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:48AMThursday, August 29, 2024
With nearly 4000 shows at hundreds of venues in the city, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a kind of beautiful chaos that is impossible to distil by a single person in a single article. To b…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:49AMTuesday, June 18, 2024
The 12th annual edition of CPH Stage Festival has come to a close. The cultural highlight that transforms the city into a dynamic hub of theatrical creativity and innovation had originally s…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:13PMTuesday, August 22, 2023
There is a show at this year’s Fringe called Distant Memories of the Near Future written and performed by copywriter and storyteller David Head. It is billed as a piece which imagines an A…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:09PMSunday, August 20, 2023
Lucy McCormick used to do music gigs and re-enactments, but she has now put her past and her friends behind her and is bent on exploring being in the present. This of course must include us.…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:29AMSaturday, August 19, 2023
There is a little red brochure going around the Edinburgh Fringe titled #Danish. It represents the seventh season of work presented by the Danish Arts Foundation in Edinburgh, and this year …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:30PMFriday, August 18, 2023
It was exactly ten years ago that Big in Belgium – a season of work from Flanders – was first presented at the Edinburgh Fringe. This panorama of eight new experimental pieces came on th…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:07PMWednesday, August 16, 2023
Thanks to the early 20th century ethnographic research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, the word ‘guslar’ may be more familiar – if at all in the English-speaking world – as a term i…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:10AMYou would not have been wrong to expect a feast in this show set at a giant dining table, fully dressed with crisp linen, wine glasses and silverware, a low hanging chandelier and subtly sig…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:10AMThere are multiple ways to admire this production of a Greek classic, directed by Singaporean Ong Keng Sen for the National Theatre of Korea, specifically their opera section. The Korean Cha…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:09AMMonday, June 26, 2023
Laurie Anderson’s new show – currently on its European tour – is full of meteorological precipitation. The multimedia backdrop, designed by the artist, features various kinds of downfa…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:22PMThursday, April 6, 2023
It’s about two years since I moved to the Oresund region, the liminal place between southern Sweden and eastern Denmark – also known as the greater Copenhagen area. Though I have begun t…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:35AMMonday, December 5, 2022
There is a palpable sense of world-class musicianship as the ensemble of six instrumentalists and two backing vocalists take to the stage to set the scene for Jason Timbuktu Diakité’s eve…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:33PMFriday, September 16, 2022
‘If this were a text for the theatre, here is how it would begin’ – these are the opening words of the French literary superstar Édouard Louis’s third book Who Killed My Father, pub…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:38AMFriday, September 9, 2022
Here’s a few things to start with. Following my recent relocation from London to the Swedish equivalent of Oxford, this is my first encounter with the Lund Comedy Festival. The three-day e…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:13AMSunday, August 7, 2022
Just over a hundred years since its founding (by impresario and theatre director Max Reinhardt), the Salzburg Festival honours the nearly forgotten 20th-century south German writer Marieluis…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:45PMTuesday, May 24, 2022
Punchdrunk theatre, the eponymous progenitors of “immersive theatre,” have been wowing their audiences worldwide since their early modest beginnings in Devon in the year 2000. Due to the…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:33AMThursday, May 19, 2022
Ivo van Hove’s production of Age of Rage is sourced from six plays by Euripides and one by Aeschylus, chronicling the cycle of violence and revenge befallen on the house of Atreus – star…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:29AMWednesday, September 8, 2021
Imagine you suffered terrible injustices that in your day and age were just the norm, that your devotion to your calling meant you entered history as a passive victim and not as an agent in …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:58AMSunday, August 29, 2021
As its name suggests, The Song Project is more a collaborative experiment than a conventional piece of theatre. Co-initiated by the Royal Court’s Associate Designer Chloe Lamford and the D…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:28AM 
