Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Bush theatre, LondonEve Leigh's new play " about grief and old age " is overbearing in its manipulative attempts to make us feel sad
It is billed as a magic show about grief but The Trick ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Ustinov Studio, Bath Tanya Barfield's 2006 play about a man meeting his ancestors asks: am I ever black or white enough?Tracing four generations backwards from 1995, Tanya Barfield's 2006 pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2019
The Drum, PlymouthSam Steiner's hilariously bleak show about helpline volunteers has a charming cynicism and moments of compassionIn his new play, Sam Steiner makes us beam as the world burn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PM[SHARE]Friday, February 8, 2019
Vault festival, LondonThe ethereal star " as seen in an exuberant drag act by Tom Lenk " becomes a spirit guide in this wry show about the role movies play in our livesExuberantly strange an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Sherman theatre, CardiffEvery emotion is tangible as Elgan Rhys's play about a 30-something gay couple races to a violent climaxWoof is a triumph for the Sherman theatre. In Elgan Rhys's per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Royal Court, LondonNicôle Lecky's astute one-woman show, punctuated with rap, pins down the financial and moral dilemmas of her peersBusiness and pleasure collide and combust in Nicôle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2019
'demonstrating how hard true understanding - of both oneself and of another - is to achieve': Kate Wyver writes on the NOW Festival Week 3 double bill.
The post Review: NOW19 – Greg W…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:39AM[SHARE]Friday, January 25, 2019
Vault festival, LondonHolly Beasley-Garrigan didn't want to perform a show about being a gay working-class woman, she tells her audience … that's just how arts funding worksWith anger and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Barbican, London Les Antliaclastes' puppet show is a bewitching ride through the dark side of fairytales with close attention to detailDarkly comic and absurdly charming, this wild gothic ri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 13, 2019
Pleasance, LondonTwo women blot out life's blemishes with feather boas and Shirley Bassey songs until their friendship begins to sourIsolation is gilded in glitter in Annie Jenkins' tender d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonA king's daughter sells her unborn baby to a wicked fashion designer in a patronising show with abrasive songsMoney can't buy love but it can buy theatre tickets.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 16, 2018
Tobacco Factory, BristolBea Roberts' adaptation is best when it amps up its visual gags, though it searches for a plot and a perspectiveThe world can be scary when everything else is bigger …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Southbank Centre, LondonTim Etchells and Forced Entertainment present a mesmeric show in which a young cast consider what grownups tell them'You tell us to grow up." On a simple set of scrap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Monday, December 10, 2018
Belgrade theatre, CoventryA well-intentioned comedy show about female war heroes unintentionally undermines its own ambitionsWhen a panto's biggest laughs are canned, it is not a great sign.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2018
From dreams of destruction to alien encounters, these fledging companies are making impressive experimental workAt this summer's Edinburgh fringe, Oxford graduates This Noise presented Natha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM[SHARE]Friday, September 14, 2018
Camden People's Theatre, LondonInspired by Vladimir Nabokov, this patience-trying piece about a prisoner awaiting execution is full of lazy surrealism and tired gamesWhen the prisoner (Greg …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Royal Court, LondonA tracksuit-clad wolf stalks a mother and son through the forest in Lucy Morrison's stunningly designed enigma of a showAn exquisite woodland shrouds the Royal Court theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Norwich Theatre RoyalAudiences experience a taste of how the 1% travel " and eat " in Curious Directive's ambitious showIt took years of experimenting for the Wright brothers to get airborne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2018
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonAs part of the theatre's Phoenix season, Amit Lahav brings his production back to where a fire halted their run and damaged the buildingIn 2015 a fire swallowed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThe audience wear ponchos for this one-man show about a schoolboy trying to keep his head above water, and learning it's OK to be awkwardGoggles on and guit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Friday, August 17, 2018
Lyceum, EdinburghKatie Mitchell and Alice Birch's stage adaptation of a Marguerite Duras novella is skilfully designed but strangely dullingKatie Mitchell and Alice Birch's fourth collaborat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Traverse, EdinburghDarlingheart's Cora Bissett writes and stars in an artfully told look at the highs and lows of her time in a bandCora Bissett was a teenager when her Glenrothes-based band…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 11, 2018
Canada Hub @ King's Hall, EdinburghAdam Lazarus gives an uncomfortable performance in a piece confronting attitudes towards women and parenthoodIf I should have a daughter, I don't know that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 9, 2018
Summerhall, EdinburghGary McNair's darkly humorous drama asks how far we'd go to save the person we loveThe future Gary McNair imagines is a raggedy one, worn down and patched up with dodgy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Traverse at Jeelie Piece Cafe, EdinburghGrappling with both the comfort and toxicity of social media, Chris Goode's show for Dante or Die is a tender, intimate story of love and letting goTu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AM[SHARE]Monday, August 6, 2018
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThe debate about what is offensive fuels Vinay Patel's drama in which virtue signalling becomes a tangible actionChoose your words wisely. In this dystopian…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PM[SHARE]The Hub, EdinburghIn David Greig's delightfully expanded revival of a fringe show from 2008, a couple look back on an eventful night long agoA man stands with a microphone in one hand and a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 5, 2018
Summerhall, EdinburghDublin's Malaprop company get meta-theatrical in an ever-shifting and chaotic three-hander about the unreliability of memory An act of remembrance is inevitably one of d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2018
Singleton Hospital, SwanseaAs part of the NHS70 celebrations, Roy Williams' play takes the temperature of the nursing profession, showing us two women, three generations apart but equally an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2018
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeTheresa Heskins' epic saga of the big top delivers daring archery, breathless breakdancing and an aching romance Horses fly and flip above our heads. Fireworks s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonTuppence Middleton and John Hopkins star in Vicky Jones's play about the sadistic games of a bored coupleIn Vicky Jones's vicious relationship drama, originally staged in…
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