Monday, October 28, 2019
Tobacco Factory, BristolA party feel in the first half of Elizabeth Freestone's production slumps like a hangover when Dorothea Myer-Bennett and Geoffrey Lumb are off-stage
Dorothea Myer-Ben…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2019
Bristol Old VicA strong poetic lead and fine support can't make this meandering new adaptation anything more than a slog
'That was mercifully short," one actor jokingly sneers, after the aud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2019
Leeds PlayhouseThe murderer is never named in Charley Miles's furious, funny play about women in Leeds between 1975-80
With a panoramic sense of empathy, Charley Miles' heated play sees the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2019
Southbank Centre, LondonOur era of buffoonish leadership is brilliantly skewered in Forced Entertainment's mimed maelstrom of aggression
Sweaty, sad and stupidly funny, Forced Entertainment'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 6, 2019
New Oxford Street, LondonIn an elaborate game of hide and seek, you have to avoid the marauding undead " but the fear and the fun soon fizzle out
A hand grabs my ankle and a veiny arm slips …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2019
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonTalking over each other, getting the audience to choose the ending: Bert and Nasi's new show may look scrappy but it's highly relevant
Maybe it's a state-of-the-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Crucible, SheffieldTobi Bamtefa gives a swaggering, thundering performance as the dictator Idi Amin, but this adaptation of Giles Foden's novel is stodgy and plodding
Swaggering and lumberin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 22, 2019
Wiltons Music Hall, London The affecting tale of Jews escaping persecution to find new beginnings in Canada a century ago is a rollicking piece of folk music theatre
Old Stock is a pleasantl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Dominion theatre, LondonJay McGuiness and Kimberley Walsh have chemistry in the lead roles but this revival is flat and insipid, and the story's sexual politics are still a problem
For a sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2019
Surrey House, Goldsmiths College, LondonA two-night stay in a simulated care home, recreated with exceptional intricacy, probes the line between care and control
I urinate into the cup and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2019
Minerva theatre, ChichesterA woman's withering agency is examined through nostalgia and regret, in Cordelia Lynn's rewrite of the tragedy
Cordelia Lynn's bleak, modern-day rewrite of Hedda G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2019
When the curtain falls on a marionette's show, they're put out to pasture, given a facelift " or turned into burglar deterrents
'This thing is alive, this thing is alive, this thing is alive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 29, 2019
Six years after its debut, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's monologue is back in the theatre after its tearaway success on TV. We sent three millennial critics to watch it
Related: Sexy, subversive �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghIn a thrilling piece of theatre, a grieving woman immerses herself in quotidian distractions oblivious to three dancers who invade her space
Complex, raw and ins…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghBert and Nasi's ramshackle duet explores the end of the world and of their relationship in tender, silly, heart-rending style
As doomsday draws near, this impossibly bea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2019
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghTeddy Lamb untangles the difficulties of relationships in a bold monologue that is bursting with love
The ache of lost time is contained in this delicate monologue gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghEmma Frankland plays a winged guide to a burning world in this charged and vulnerable piece about fighting for one's survival
This is a play of knives and fireballs. Mar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 17, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghJulia Croft's performance art piece takes you from the edge of a black hole to the eye of the hurricane in The Wizard of Oz. It's all very confusing
The stars lie by our…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PM[SHARE]Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole's latest show started off exploring Brexit, then turned darker. No wonder they hand beer to the audience and down shots on stage
To try and win the lott…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2019
A trio of performers " Harry Clayton-Wright, Louise Orwin and Rachel Mars " grapple with sexuality in disarming ways
Edinburgh's collective pulse has been raised over the course of the fring…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36PM[SHARE]Roundabout, Summerhall, EdinburghDaniel Ward's bold autobiographical show for Middle Child Theatre describes life for a working-class black kid at an otherwise posh white grammar school
Dani…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2019
Zoo Southside, EdinburghUsing music, Greek myth and family history to explore dementia, this rousing gig/show is intimate and epic
This storytelling concert is a tribute to the power of mus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM[SHARE]Monday, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghBritish sign language interpretation adds energy to a dreary show in which doppelganger radio hosts mock an echo chamber of debate
Grey suits, grey hair, grey static. In…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM[SHARE]Pleasance Dome, EdinburghWarping the conventions of theatre, this exhilarating play lays waste to the sky-high expense of the festival of which it is a part
At once a love letter and a massi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2019
Underbelly, Cowgate, EdinburghThe National Youth Theatre's dynamic and maximalist meditation on social media puts the Facebook CEO on trial " and makes him tap dance
In a recent New Yorker c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM[SHARE]Assembly George Square Gardens, EdinburghIn this intimate show backed by a live harp, the effortlessly charming comedian expounds on platonic, brotherly and romantic love
At one end of St P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Leith theatre, EdinburghThe performance poet absorbs all of the uncertainty and anger of our times, and pours it into ferocious, apocalyptic music that both wounds and heals
Rarely can a roo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghTheir script adapted from interviews with young carers, a young trio trade heartbreaking stories of unpaid and unsupported custody of their parents
Brutal but beautifull…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2019
Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh The unflinching artist skewers prejudice against working-class people as he puts the audience through an uncomfortably abrasive hour of soul-searching
This is a deli…
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