Friday, 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 06:18AMWednesday, February 5, 2020
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Actors swap multiple characters to share stories and trade blows as pints are pulled and relationships dissected in Jim Cartwright’s bittersweet comic drama
T…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:06AMMonday, February 3, 2020
Summerhall, Edinburgh Annual festival of visual theatre delivers a busy mix of puppetry, silent comedy, modern dance and the hard to define
When you’re used to performing to four people, a…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:48AMThe city’s theatre is emotional, indignant and polemical finds our critic on a whirlwind trip through a dozen shows
The sparky young performers on stage thank us for coming out tonight. Th…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:24AMFriday, January 31, 2020
Uig Community Centre, Isle of LewisJulia Taudevin’s show about the Gaelic tradition of singing for the dead takes us on a dizzying spin through space and time
It’s based on keening ritua…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:48AMSunday, January 5, 2020
NTGent, Ghent, BelgiumAn acting family play the members of a family about to take their own lives in this unnerving and heartbreaking celebration of the ordinary
It is a dark winter’s nigh…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:18PMFriday, January 3, 2020
Various venues, EdinburghCharlotte Runcie and Irvine Welsh are among the writers exploring Scotland’s maritime history in these evocative installations
A litany of names is projected on th…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:42AMSaturday, December 14, 2019
Traverse, EdinburghDouglas Maxwell’s two-hander teases and cajoles us with questions about how we see ourselves
Jimmy says he doesn’t want to be a story. An asylum seeker in Glasgow, he …
Linked From The Guardian at 05:24AMThursday, December 12, 2019
Playhouse, LiverpoolThe hard-working cast bring enough enthusiasm and gusto to this musical adaptation to disguise its weak score
The word “believe” has been projected in big letters up …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:18PMWednesday, December 11, 2019
Tramway, GlasgowTreating Carlo Collodi’s allegory with the seriousness it deserves, this sincere and playful production draws a vulnerable boy into the tale’s darkest corners
Don’t be …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:36AMFriday, December 6, 2019
Northern Stage, NewcastleSpectacle trumps subtlety as Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of lost innocence is stifled by a topical plot and noisy percussion
You can see the temptation. You’…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:36PMThursday, December 5, 2019
Hull TruckMaking Wendy younger gives a different dynamic to Deborah McAndrew’s engaging adaptation, with Baker Mukasa’s spontaneous Peter
She’s a theatrical sort, is Vanessa Schofield…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:03AMWednesday, December 4, 2019
Traverse, EdinburghFrom a man sneezing out frog-like creatures to a husband restored to life with the phlegm of a beggar, these supernatural fables are uncanny
Being human is a risk. You nev…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:24PMSunday, December 1, 2019
Leeds PlayhouseDorothy turns eco-warrior, seeking justice in an unjust world, in this visually exciting production of the children’s classic
Check out the internet theory that Greta Thunbe…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:48PMFriday, November 29, 2019
Curve, LeicesterThe classic musical gets a bold makeover in this stylish and intimate production directed by Nikolai Foster
It’s not every show that comes with an endorsement from the loca…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:54AMThursday, November 28, 2019
Dundee RepThe Scottish comic-strip transfers to the stage in a witty show addressing cultural anxieties about belonging, driven by a rock, gospel and bhangra score
It would be a stretch to c…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:48AMMonday, November 25, 2019
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeSisters Danielle and Nichole Bird create a dreamlike mirror image in a superbly staged production, alive with music, wit and spectacle
It was written as …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, November 24, 2019
Coliseum, OldhamWhat used to be one boy’s coming-of-age struggle with a tyrannous ogre is now a free-for-all
Boisterous, full-throttled and cheery it may be, but it’s hard to locate the …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:33PMWednesday, October 23, 2019
Paisley Arts CentreA shipyard electrician and his wife suffer the debilitating effects of a preventable, man-made disease in Frances Poet’s play
In 1898, factory inspector Lucy Deane Strea…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:42PMFriday, October 18, 2019
Byker Community Centre, NewcastleThis explosive, techno-soundtracked assault on the military machine cuts between war-zone combatants and anxious families in the weapons industry
Two men loo…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:42PMSunday, October 13, 2019
Traverse, EdinburghAnna Russell-Martin gives a magnetic performance as Anais, the 15-year-old resident of a care home, who dreams of reinventing herself
Anna Russell-Martin doesn’t crack a…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:06AMThursday, September 19, 2019
Royal Exchange, ManchesterLucy Ellinson stars as a lean, mean and moody Macbeth in Christopher Haydon’s noisy, dystopian production, with Ony Uhiara as a high-spirited wife
Let’s number …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:03AMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Northern Stage, NewcastleArts employee Rosa Postlethwaite sets out to satirise the corporate machinery of modern theatre – but deadpan irony gets it in the way
Do you remember a time befor…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:54AMTuesday, 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…
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