Belgrade theatre, CoventryA well-intentioned comedy show about female war heroes unintentionally undermines its own ambitionsWhen a panto’s biggest laughs are canned, it is not a great sig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMFrom dreams of destruction to alien encounters, these fledging companies are making impressive experimental workAt this summer’s Edinburgh fringe, Oxford graduates This Noise presented Nat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMCamden People’s Theatre, LondonInspired by Vladimir Nabokov, this patience-trying piece about a prisoner awaiting execution is full of lazy surrealism and tired gamesWhen the prisoner (Gre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMRoyal Court, LondonA tracksuit-clad wolf stalks a mother and son through the forest in Lucy Morrison’s stunningly designed enigma of a showAn exquisite woodland shrouds the Royal Court the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMNorwich Theatre RoyalAudiences experience a taste of how the 1% travel – and eat – in Curious Directive’s ambitious showIt took years of experimenting for the Wright brothers to get ai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMBattersea Arts Centre, LondonAs part of the theatre’s Phoenix season, Amit Lahav brings his production back to where a fire halted their run and damaged the buildingIn 2015 a fire swallowe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThe audience wear ponchos for this one-man show about a schoolboy trying to keep his head above water, and learning it’s OK to be awkwardGoggles on and gu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMLyceum, EdinburghKatie Mitchell and Alice Birch’s stage adaptation of a Marguerite Duras novella is skilfully designed but strangely dullingKatie Mitchell and Alice Birch’s fourth collab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMTraverse, EdinburghDarlingheart’s Cora Bissett writes and stars in an artfully told look at the highs and lows of her time in a bandCora Bissett was a teenager when her Glenrothes-based ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AMCanada Hub @ King’s Hall, EdinburghAdam Lazarus gives an uncomfortable performance in a piece confronting attitudes towards women and parenthoodIf I should have a daughter, I don’t know …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSummerhall, EdinburghGary McNair’s darkly humorous drama asks how far we’d go to save the person we loveThe future Gary McNair imagines is a raggedy one, worn down and patched up with do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMTraverse at Jeelie Piece Cafe, EdinburghGrappling with both the comfort and toxicity of social media, Chris Goode’s show for Dante or Die is a tender, intimate story of love and letting go…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThe debate about what is offensive fuels Vinay Patel’s drama in which virtue signalling becomes a tangible actionChoose your words wisely. In this dystopi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMThe Hub, EdinburghIn David Greig’s delightfully expanded revival of a fringe show from 2008, a couple look back on an eventful night long agoA man stands with a microphone in one hand and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMSummerhall, EdinburghDublin’s Malaprop company get meta-theatrical in an ever-shifting and chaotic three-hander about the unreliability of memory An act of remembrance is inevitably one of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSingleton Hospital, SwanseaAs part of the NHS70 celebrations, Roy Williams’ play takes the temperature of the nursing profession, showing us two women, three generations apart but equally …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PMNew Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeTheresa Heskins’ epic saga of the big top delivers daring archery, breathless breakdancing and an aching romance Horses fly and flip above our heads. Fireworks…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSoho theatre, LondonTuppence Middleton and John Hopkins star in Vicky Jones’s play about the sadistic games of a bored coupleIn Vicky Jones’s vicious relationship drama, originally stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMArtillery Square, WoolwichAt Greenwich and Docklands festival, Jenny Sealey directs a parade of theatre, song and aerial performance by war veteransOn a makeshift parade ground near Woolwich…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMDeptford, LondonThis tour of the capital’s streets at nightfall catches some beautiful unorchestrated moments from other people’s livesTethered together with a rope, we are taking a nigh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMThe Lowry, SalfordAdele Thomas’s revival of McPherson’s early play reveals the horror of loneliness to be on a par with fear of the undeadJust over 20 years on from its Royal Court debut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMTheatre 503, London 10 vibrant short plays by writers including April De Angelis and Richard Bean offer multifaceted, thoughtful views on issues to do with sex and consent Put together in un…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMExploring consent issues through interactive drama and comedy can effect lasting change, whether tackling violence against sex workers in Africa, sex education in South America or abuse in U…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSouthwark Playhouse, London After some banana-skin slip-ups, this comedy about the spotty teenager turned caped blunderer gathers some final, resounding laughterBananaman, the blundering sup…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:29AM"It feels like an act of self-harm": Kate Wyver on Sverre Waage's three-man show featuring performers sold into the circus as children. The post Review: As a Tiger in the Jungle at Jackson&#…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:43AMCurve, LeicesterThis slow-burning drama is adapted from Amana Fontanella-Khan’s book about Indian women’s rights campaigner Sampat Pal and her trailblazing Gulabi GangMasculinity is a we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMGrief, robbery and Christmas pudding: Kate Wyver reviews James Rowland's show on tour in Bristol. The post Review: Team Viking at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol appeared first on Exeunt Magaz…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 02:47AM"It didn't really need to be a play", and other thoughts: Kate Wyver's list review of fanSHEN's performance. The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Lists for the End of the World at Summerhall ap…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:31AMBetween irony and evil: Javaad Alipoor's performance delves into the many-tentacled world of online communities. The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Believers Are But Brothers appeared fir…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:32PMA ghost story: Kate Wyver reviews Barrel Organ's new show about emotional and financial debt. The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Anyone’s Guess How We Got Here at Zoo appeared first on …
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 12:32PMAt a festival that can feel like a celebration of youth, three shows are exploring old age. Kate Wyver talks to their creators about loneliness, dementia, and unexpected laughter. The post A…
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