Tuesday, September 17, 2019
A hip-hop history lesson, a dizzy Dahl musical and a continent-hopping barbershop … we pick the finest new works of theatre since 2000
Jez Butterworth: the sage behind our No1 Continue rea…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:18PMSunday, September 15, 2019
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDavid Greig follows Tarkovsky and Soderbergh with this bold, rewarding take on Stanisław Lem’s novel about a sentient planet speaking to its visitors
If a sentient …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:12AMFriday, September 13, 2019
Derby theatreSarah Brigham’s revival of Richard Bean’s brilliant and chaotic comedy hoodwinks the audience into its games, but lacks the original’s taste for danger
Such was the air of…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:24AMWednesday, September 11, 2019
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeWith modern-day parallels and an excellent ensemble, this play about two powerful women tests the limits of intolerance and compassion
How refreshing to be plung…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:36PMMonday, September 2, 2019
Dundee RepPeter Arnott’s brilliant vignettes about a 1879 railway bridge disaster imagine the lives and hopes of passengers stalked by death
Peter Arnott has written enough plays to know y…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:03AMSunday, September 1, 2019
Pitlochry Festival theatre, Port Na CraigRarely has theatre seemed so much part of the public sphere as in this electrifying adaptation of the Elizabeth Gaskell novel
There is a thrilling tr…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:36PMTuesday, August 27, 2019
The festival is over for another year but plenty of its theatre, comedy and dance hits have announced dates around the UK
CollapsibleBreffni Holahan gives a searing performance as Essie in M…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:54AMFriday, August 23, 2019
Scottish Storytelling Centre, EdinburghDrawing on her dual Scottish and Kenyan heritage, Mara Menzies weaves together an exquisite set of stories about the power of language to liberate and …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:12PMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghThis full-blooded agitprop cabaret comprises 10 monologues about resistance and emancipation, based on true stories about the treatment of women in Nigeria
In a week w…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:48AMSummerhall, EdinburghLaura Dalgleish is magnetic as a woman marauding through the Newport night after family pressures become too much
Theatre is a laboratory where we put a character centre…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:48AMWednesday, August 21, 2019
Festival theatre, EdinburghThe avuncular storytelling sage leavens seven-and-a-half-hours of myth-recounting with boyish enthusiasm and silly voices
Stephen Fry is lying prostrate on the st…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:24AMTuesday, August 20, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghTim Etchells’ thought experiment doggedly asks what if you could go back and right the wrongs of your past?
Tim Etchells is surely a master of the late-night pub conve…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:33PMMonday, August 19, 2019
Drawing from folk music, Celtic myth – and a drunken night out, three plays are imbued with a deep sense of terrain
Karine Polwart’s Wind Resistance, which makes a welcome return to Edin…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, August 18, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghAhmed El Attar’s bruising two-hander dives into the long lead-up to 2011 in an attempt to determine what causes mass revolt
What causes a people to rise up? Is it a si…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:18PMFriday, August 16, 2019
Kings theatre, EdinburghAn updating of Sophocles’ classic, set on election eve, has such political resonance you can imagine Boris Johnson not far away
The play has hardly begun and alread…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:36AMThursday, August 15, 2019
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghSasha Frost sparkles as a curious and vulnerable Kay searching for her birth parents, but this unfocused production fails to capture the intimacy of the soul-searching…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:03AMWednesday, August 14, 2019
A trio of performances – Daniel Bellus in Beat, Alexander Fox in Snare and Mick Berry’s Keith Moon: The Real Me – put drums centre stage
It must be something to do with being at the b…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:36AMRobert Softley Gale’s show Purposeless Movements turns the involuntary gestures of cerebral palsy into choreography
Becoming a parent for the first time can be nerve-racking for anyone. Kn…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:36AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghIn a series of autofictional shows, Traumboy and Traumgirl offer insights of varying quality amid the intimate revelations and erotic dancing
‘I’m not the person mos…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:24AMMonday, August 12, 2019
Plan your schedule with our roundup of top shows, ordered by start time. This page will be updated daily throughout the festival
BoutSummerhall, 10.20am, until 25 AugustAn exploration of bro…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:12PMTraverse, EdinburghMale psychotherapists feel the heat in pantomimic telling of a true story about the voyeuristic exploitation of a female patient’s private disclosures
If you search onli…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, August 11, 2019
Church Hill theatre, EdinburghThe 1927 company became darlings of the festival scene after their first fringe outing, but this showcase of traditional tales lacks urgency
When the Margate co…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:03PMUnderbelly, Cowgate, EdinburghThis slight drama, in which a woman sifts through old possessions and memories, leaves so much unsaid one wonders if there is any meaning at all
The premise of …
Linked From The Guardian at 04:42AMSaturday, August 10, 2019
Traverse, EdinburghSet in South Armagh during the Troubles, Meghan Tyler’s anarchic and OTT revenge fantasy hits back at the patriarchy and turns into a bloodbath
It turns out Killing Eve …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:33AMFriday, August 9, 2019
The Studio, Festival theatre, EdinburghTim Crouch plays a messianic cult leader prophesying catastrophe in a formally adventurous show about the dangers of environmental fatalism
And, lo, as…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:24PMThursday, August 8, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThere’s lots to love about the polished and fizzy scenes of this family drama, but too many themes leave its message unclear
There’s lots to love about this…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:03PMAssembly Rooms, EdinburghFrances Barber stars as Zelig-like chanteuse Billie Trix, in this one-woman spinoff from the band and Jonathan Harvey’s 2001 musical Closer to Heaven
Despite her g…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:03AMYour home, EdinburghDaniel Bye enlists the help of his five-month-old son in an unpredictable hour-long exploration of nature versus nurture
A show can have the same words, same actors, same…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:54AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
Zoo Southside, Edinburgh The pioneering Ontroerend Goed company takes on a conceptually daring view of environmental apocalypse
Three years ago, the pioneering Belgian company Ontroerend Goe…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:24AMTuesday, August 6, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghVolunteers are game in YESYESNONO’s lively show that uses drama-school exercises to investigate the nature of truth
Jim from the Wardrobe Ensemble has been in…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:03PMGilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghIn her playwriting, Sheila Atim puts a female scientist on stage with the pharaoh to chat about music, men and misrepresentation
Sheila Atim, the Olivier awar…
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