Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Park theatre, LondonCarey Crim asks a series of moral questions in her play about a woman facing the aftermath of her teacher husband's conviction for sexual misconduct
Tom, a beloved drama …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2024
Debuts rich in neurodiversity and self-analysis jostle for attention at this year's festival with a beloved grandma, the Russian elite and a misguided attempt at an apology
We've reached the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 14, 2024
What is it like to be the solo audience member at a fringe performance? I found out at a range of shows designed to give the viewer exactly this experience
I'm standing on an Edinburgh stree…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2024
Traverse, EdinburghThe real story of food writer Atoosa Sepehr, who fled her abusive husband in Iran, is retold with the warm familiarity of a friend " while cooking up a fragrant dish live …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PM[SHARE]Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh A fallen queen bee turns to a social media pyramid scheme in a technological whirlwind of a production, grounded by Emma-Louise Howell's darkly comic, rhythmic scri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:35AM[SHARE]Friday, August 2, 2024
Their on, then off, then on-again relationship has given the standup couple plenty of material. They discuss oversharing on stage, comedy after cancellation, and explaining monogamy to their…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 12, 2024
Fangirl celebrates the obsessive followers of a band closely resembling One Direction. 'It really does question where the boundaries are,' says its creator
It's March 2015 and a bombshell ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 23, 2024
Bush theatre, LondonAfter her father's death, Peace unexpectedly discovers the existence of a half-brother in Nigeria. Who is he? And why did her father never mention him?
On the surface, Fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Friday, June 21, 2024
Watford Palace theatrePhilip J Morris's stage adaptation of the Bafta-winning film tells it straight as Anthony Bryan's life is ripped apart
The voice of Theresa May opens this stage version…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Arcola theatre, LondonSet in a chronically understaffed treatment centre, Laura Waldren's searing play homes in on the hellish cycles and contradictions caused by the condition
For anyone wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 23, 2024
Belgrade theatre, CoventrySiana Bangura's play follows three west African women in Coventry who are cajoled into the water " and find themselves surfacing from grief
They say water has the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2024
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London Nkenna Akunna's monologue follows a young woman as she crashes her oldest friend's 25th birthday party
At its core, Nkenna Akunna's monologue is a breaku…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2024
Hampstead theatre, LondonRichard's Nelson's elegiac monologue feels like Paul Jesson is live-reading a novel and results in a sense of stagnation
Richard's Nelson's monologue, written for Pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 7, 2024
Omnibus theatre, LondonAnastasia Osei-Kuffour's stylish debut gives an honest appraisal of the tricky world of apps and expectations, yet offers a note of hope for those on the long road to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Prince Edward theatre, LondonThe jukebox musical has gravity defying dancing and all the megahits, but it's hard to ignore the glaringly unpleasant biographical absence
'I want to keep this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2024
The writer has gone from creating viral comedy to a play about football and friendship between a group of teens amid the gentrification of south London. 'I'm never as nervous as when I playe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Friday, February 23, 2024
Hampstead theatre, LondonNeil D'Souza's sharp script is packed with regret and affection as old bandmates get together to relive the glory days on holiday
Grab the beer and sunglasses and ge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM[SHARE]Friday, February 16, 2024
Yard theatre, LondonA Ghanaian tour guide struggles to maintain his composure in the face of historical ignorance and requests for selfies, in Rhianna Ilube's poignant critique of colonialis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 23, 2024
It took her eight years to write Intelligence, an era-hopping epic about the pioneer's battle for recognition. Now that it's won the Women's prize for playwriting, will Grochala stop telling…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 8, 2023
New Diorama theatre, LondonAma wants a baby before her 30th birthday in this unstructured play from Jessica Hagan that doesn't know if it is serious or trying to make us laugh
I'm all up for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 30, 2023
For the first time ever, both the 'Oscars of comedy' have gone to standups with South Asian heritage. So what do the two performers who set the fringe alight have planned? Lots of boasting, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 19, 2023
Assembly, EdinburghErin Armstrong performs well as the 70s Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni but the show's structure distracts from her anguish
She had everything: fame, fortune and barrels of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghElle Dillon-Reams' solo show is a stream of consciousness about sexual assault and womanhood
'Writing about this has been confusing," says Elle Dillon-Reams of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AM[SHARE]Monday, August 14, 2023
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghMontel Douglas writes four males leads who are on the brink of becoming men, but their jokes and dancing belie a darker story
We might not all remember our schoo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 13, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghCarrie Rudzinski and Olivia Hall's poems are sincerely performed and loaded with justified anger at unfairness but they grow monotonous
I'm a part of the target audience…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:37PM[SHARE]Friday, June 30, 2023
Orange Tree theatre, LondonThe intricately tangled lives of three women, and their explosive secret, are revealed in this complicated picture of queer love across the decades
The wonder of I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 29, 2023
We take a journey through the magical land of Glastonbury's theatre, circus and comedy
And that's it again for another year. Oh Glastonbury. A fever dream where the time of reality stops as…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 25, 2023
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonRhashan Stone and Daniel Ward jump in time from a shabby minstrel show to modern stardom to a violent future in poet David Harris's controversial satire a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Ben Elton's script is back in the West End, and this time he stars, too
Twenty-one years ago, critics were alarmed by Ben Elton's deranged musical We Will Rock You. But, despite the "stagger…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 11, 2023
Gate theatre, LondonRaw, current and fresh, this three-woman play about the unfair impact of global emissions leaves you fired up and outraged
If we're judging on ambition alone, then Hot in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2023
onathan Bank's revival of Malleson's forgotten play was first seen in New York in 2017. It is, in many ways, inconceivable that this jolly, forward-thinking drama was left unperformed for so…
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