Monday, August 31, 2020
Available onlineThe sacred salmon is the star of Pitlochry Festival theatre’s series of poems and plays inspired by the mysterious River Tay
You can’t fault Pitlochry Festival theatre f…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, August 25, 2020
Available onlineTraverse flies the Edinburgh festival flag with audio plays tackling ‘what happens after an earth-shattering event’, doomsday cults and slippery politics
This is the tim…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:06AMMonday, August 10, 2020
Edinburgh University’s ImprovBot uses data from eight years of past productions to invent tantalising no-shows
You can see how it happens. The company has yet to start devising the show, b…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:32PMSaturday, August 8, 2020
Available onlineHope Dickson Leach’s magical, flickering film of past and postponed works is a dazzling theatrical relay race
The test of a good production of Peter Pan is the scene where…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:36PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
Available onlineCumming, Val McDermid and others explore pandemic life in this series from National Theatre of Scotland and the BBC
During the Covid crisis, the Victoria and Albert Museum in…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:24AMFriday, July 31, 2020
Available onlineThere are a string of cartoonish events and a jangly slice of chart-topping indie pop in this play about missed opportunities
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Linked From The Guardian at 03:48PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
Available onlineJack Nurse and Robbie Gordon debate the problems and prudishness surrounding pornography in a lively audio play adapted from the stage
Stories to Connect Us is the name given…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:12PMWednesday, July 15, 2020
Available onlineDarkfield’s eerie two-person sound experience is a gothic horror that ingeniously overcomes the usual pitfalls of online theatre
‘This is supposed to be a controlled spac…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:32PMTuesday, June 30, 2020
Available onlinePerformed live on YouTube and Instagram, this play’s study of bling, hedonism and vacuous consumption stands in starker relief than ever
WhatsApp pings with a message from …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:32AMFriday, June 26, 2020
Available onlineMixing existential soul-searching with wry comedy, this is an adventurous production starring its viewers
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The stor…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:24AMSaturday, June 13, 2020
Available onlineWinsome Pinnock’s play, responding to JMW Turner’s Slave Ship painting, is a timely contribution to the Black Lives Matter campaign
Hottest front-room seats: the best the…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:18PMTuesday, June 2, 2020
The playwright and the director Elizabeth Newman on how they reimagined their new theatre production for radio in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak
‘We never ask the right question of t…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:03AMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Available onlineIan Rankin’s stalwart detective struggles with self-isolation in one of six quarantine-themed short films from the National Theatre of Scotland
Hottest front-room seats: th…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:48PMSunday, May 10, 2020
Available onlineAndré Sills dominates the stage as a leader hungry for battle in Robert Lepage’s up-to-date take on Shakespeare’s tragedy
Hottest front-room seats: best theatre and danc…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, April 19, 2020
Available onlineFrom a violent prisoner to a haunted children’s entertainer, these up-close-and-personal new monologues by Rona Munro show us characters in retreat from the outside world
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Linked From The Guardian at 06:42AMMonday, April 13, 2020
Available onlineMercury Theatre Colchester and St Helens Theatre Royal have both launched online pantomimes for isolated audiences
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Linked From The Guardian at 08:32AMWednesday, April 1, 2020
The world’s biggest arts festival is loved for its camaraderie and inspiration. This feels like cancelling Christmas – but performers will respond creatively
The story used to be about h…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:54AMSunday, March 29, 2020
Available online A controlling fool in love comes across more like a sexual predator in this engagingly perceptive Stéphane Braunschweig production for France’s Théâtre de l’Odéon
Fr…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:12AMThursday, March 19, 2020
As venues close due to Covid-19, there’s a world of published drama to savour, from text that falls off the page to Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘undirectable’ collage
Coronavirus and culture …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:42PMMonday, March 16, 2020
Pitlochry Festival theatreJessica Hardwick and Olivier Huband are compelling as a young couple facing harsh realities once their honeymoon ends
It’s the second half of Neil Simon’s comed…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:03AMSunday, March 15, 2020
Tron, GlasgowKafka’s story is given a chilling update that chimes with our times, referencing the migrant crisis, the gig economy and fear of the unknown
Of all the shows to have been affe…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:32PMFriday, March 6, 2020
Leeds PlayhouseAfter being told one too many times to ‘cheer up, love’, Andrea Heaton’s Lisa lashes out and is sent to a finishing school to suppress ideas of resistance
We’re basica…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:48AMCast, DoncasterCompassion triumphs over prejudice in Richard Cameron’s play about pit workers who form a close-harmony combo
One of the stipulations of the Bechdel test, designed to measur…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:48AMThursday, March 5, 2020
Leeds Playhouse The Victorian orphan is given an even greater sense of exclusion in Amy Leach’s excellent production for Ramps on the Moon
Brooklyn Melvin’s Oliver has a ferocious roar b…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:42PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThis update with Elaine C Smith focuses on Scotland’s landowning class but struggles to make the satire funny
There are sad drunks and there are happy drunks. Elaine…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:03AMFriday, February 21, 2020
Dundee RepTitle-winning coach Jim McLean is played with raging mastery by Barrie Hunter in a two-hander that pulls some punches
He was the manager described by one player as a “football pe…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:18PMThursday, February 20, 2020
Viaduct theatre, HalifaxShakespeare meets Richard Curtis in the play that gave its name to the chocolates, carried by boisterous performances and sweet-wrapper chic
As the new artistic direc…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:24AMSunday, February 16, 2020
Byre theatre, St AndrewsThis imaginative adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s gothic fable amps up the physical storytelling with comic results
When my daughter was very young she devel…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:54PMFriday, February 14, 2020
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonModern-day echoes resound in Alistair Beaton’s adaptation of the novel about tiny acts of rebellion in 1940s Germany
‘The plan…” says Anna Quangel (Cha…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:48AMWednesday, February 12, 2020
Belgrade theatre, Coventry Friends venture into danger on a rival estate armed with sassy spirit and beatbox energy – if not a clear plan – in this lively adaptation of Alex Wheatle’s …
Linked From The Guardian at 12:12PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Live theatre, NewcastleA trio of actors try to provide answers for teenagers’ anxieties in Paper Birds’ razor-sharp show
One teenager wants to know when you’re ready to have a baby. A…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:18AM 
