Friday, August 23, 2024
Pitlochry Festival theatre Harry Mould’s sweet and sexually frank debut focuses on the female volunteers at the Samaritans in the 1970s charged with talking to ‘telephone masturbators’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AMTuesday, August 20, 2024
Back for its 15th year, this festival favourite finds a bespectacled primate sitting silently on stage for 56 minutes – to wild applause
The queue snakes around the bar, stretches down the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMMonday, August 19, 2024
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, EdinburghAlan McHugh’s play is about grief and the agony of treatment – but also hope and laughter in the face of adversity
What a lovely thing to have done…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMFriday, August 16, 2024
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThis unfunny spoof of Glasgow’s dismal Wonka-themed attraction is as short of ideas as the event that inspired it
How we laughed at Willy’s Chocolate Experience,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMThursday, August 15, 2024
Cancel culture, faltering fatherhood and the life of a tennis champ are dramatised as standups including Ivo Graham, Anna Morris and Adam Riches take a theatrical path this summer
Sam Kissaj…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00AMWednesday, August 14, 2024
Summerhall, EdinburghTim Etchells’ looping performance piece with Bert and Nasi replays a simple restaurant scene over and over with hilarious results
Like a volley of Ken Dodd jokes or on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMSunday, August 11, 2024
Younger audiences can choose from fart jokes, dancing lizards, acrobatic bees and plenty of other monkeying around
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSaturday, August 10, 2024
Summerhall, EdinburghBarton C Williams, flown out of Vietnam at the end of the war, recounts his experiences of racism in Adelaide and tells the stories of others relocated around the world
…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:51PMFrom the backseat of a moving car to a swimming pool, what constitutes a venue at Scotland’s sprawling arts festival never fails to surprise
Of all the extraordinary things about the Edinb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:17AMFriday, August 9, 2024
Zoo Southside, EdinburghThe mezcal’s on hand for this strange, song-filled journey into the land of the dead
If Juan Rulfo’s magic realist novel Pedro Páramo has the feel of a séance, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghA hard-up dramatist is determined to pay tribute to her mum in Kelly Jones’s deftly handled play, produced by Paines Plough
In Michel Tremblay’s Le Vrai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThursday, August 8, 2024
Traverse, EdinburghA couple visit a bereaved friend only to find a surprise awaits in Douglas Maxwell’s comedy of social embarrassment
Instead of Chekhov’s gun, we have Maxwell’s whisk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMWednesday, August 7, 2024
Summerhall, EdinburghWith big hair, long dress and Appalachian accent, Charlene Boyd finds common voice with the singer in a personal and political show
The most powerful country songs are t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59AMTuesday, August 6, 2024
Summerhall, EdinburghThe schoolboys from the 2018 comedy Square Go are back and on their way to a disco with high hopes and fears
On the way out, I hear someone tell his friends he had been …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:53AMSummerhall, EdinburghWriter and actor Sam Ward dissects how a community breaks down in this vivid one-man show
It is not the kind of topicality Sam Ward would have wished for, but the curren…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMMonday, August 5, 2024
Traverse, Edinburgh When a disappointed novelist teaching creative writing encounters a student fascinated by Crime and Punishment a dangerous passion is sparked
At one p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMTraverse, EdinburghThe actor-playwright trims Rostand’s classic and plays the lead with charisma in a breezy, feelgood show
The joy of Virginia Gay’s irreverent version of the Edmond Ros…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMRoyal Lyceum, Edinburgh In Eline Arbo’s taut production of the neo-classical play, Ilke Paddenburg’s Amazon queen presents a fearsome clash of sensuality and aggression
When two tribes g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:52AMTraverse, EdinburghJoanne Ryan’s two-hander, inspired by her own story and brilliantly performed by Pom Boyd and Karen McCartney, elevates everyday family dynamics with a light touch
The s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMSunday, August 4, 2024
Traverse, Edinburgh In this story by Oliver Emanuel, posthumously presented with songs by Gareth Watkins, a couple’s romance is told through the paper trail it leaves
When Oliver Emanuel w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMChurch Hill theatre, EdinburghVicky Featherstone’s directing and Isis Hainsworth’s fine lead turn valiantly blur the wild and the urban to portray the writer’s introspective journey to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh Daisy Hall’s play finds two men attempting to calm an impending storm, even the climate crisis itself, with the perfect peal of bells
The greatest dilemm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMFriday, August 2, 2024
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh What could have been a fiery exchange of fiercely held viewpoints is more likely to incite yawns than outrage
Joshua Kaplan’s play starts with an amusing conceit:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:16AMFriday, July 26, 2024
Grosvenor Park, ChesterIn this open-air production, audiences become citizens of an unruly city in which violence and corruption abound
The prize for adventurous programming goes to Chester�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThursday, July 25, 2024
Williamson Park, LancasterLed by the White Rabbit, this groovy promenade show follows a determined Alice’s journey to the city’s Ashton Memorial
With more incident than drama, Lewis Carr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMFriday, July 5, 2024
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickThe Penrith town band bring warmth and plangency to an adaptation of the post-Thatcher movie, alive with movement and community spirit
Around the end of the 1990s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, June 30, 2024
Tron theatre, GlasgowJohnny McKnight’s snappy revival makes us all complicit in Philip Ridley’s satire on capitalism and consumerism
What moral compromises has the Christian right had t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMThursday, June 27, 2024
Pitlochry Festival theatreA shapeless staging and knockabout jokes detract from the emotional heft of this tale of thwarted love
You might be excited to know that this adaptation of the Jane…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMTuesday, June 25, 2024
Actor will star in The Fear of 13, based on the true story of Nick Yarris, who was wrongly convicted of murder – as the Donmar Warehouse announces four new productions starring Celia Imrie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMThursday, June 20, 2024
Royal Exchange, ManchesterDirector Josh Roche’s new perspective – complete with smartphones, Instagram and Whitney Houston – breathes fresh life into a familiar classic
To update Oscar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMMonday, June 17, 2024
Octagon, BoltonBram Stoker’s novel gets redone in the style of The Play That Goes Wrong, in an energetically performed but ultimately feeble farce
We have a cost of living crisis and a bor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM 
