Friday, March 22, 2024
From specifically adapted performances to telling new stories about memory, drama groups are innovating with music, movement and wordless performance to bring the joy of theatre to everyone
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2024
Garrick theatre, LondonChandran is brilliantly bratty in Rosie Day's one-woman story of vulnerability masked by sarcasm and bravado
Rosie Day's one-woman play takes teen pain seriously. In a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2024
Offering up their time and energy, unpaid staff have become a crucial support for an embattled industry. They explain what's in it for them
Wander into Leicester's Curve theatre and you migh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2024
Park theatre, LondonA rich and messy revival explores ideas of belonging, with the Desperate Housewives star playing a determinedly indifferent matriarch
Chaos reigns. Every inch of Paige's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Friday, February 16, 2024
From Michael Sheen's portrayal of the organisation's founder to a frank tale of the modern challenges faced by its staff, theatres are exploring the history, and fragile future, of our healt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2024
Lyttelton theatre, LondonDodie Smith's play presents a beautifully drawn, four-generation celebration of a golden wedding anniversary on the eve of the second world war
Sneaking downstairs w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Monday, January 29, 2024
Need to make an elephant vanish, an aeroplane take off or a wizard fly? As magic grips the stage, illusionist supremos reveal how they turn the likes of Stranger Things into eye-popping spec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]Friday, January 19, 2024
The actor and playwright had to 'posh it up' for the role of Lily Pargetter in the radio soap. For her latest drama, she enlisted hundreds of young collaborators to ensure she got their voic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Friday, January 12, 2024
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonThe Divine-inspired villain of The Little Mermaid and her rag-tag band of gay sea creatures reclaim their narrative in a boundlessly energetic, beautifull…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Monday, December 4, 2023
With 10 shows on and 1m tickets sold, Evolution are panto gods. But how do you work a giant? What will 50kg of glitter cover? And why did a bench almost cause a riot?
The giant takes a lumb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 3, 2023
Finborough theatre, LondonA mix of sweet observations about female friendship and cheeky brazenness about sex, Kat Rose-Martin's play finds two young women at a crossroads in their lives
In …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PM[SHARE]Bush theatre, LondonKwame Owusu's language dances on the tongue of athletic performer Tienne Simon in this monologue about a young, sci-fi-loving gay man's struggles to fit in and find love
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AM[SHARE]Friday, November 10, 2023
Royal Court theatre, LondonA trust-fund kid losing his family castle to an oligarch provides enough satire for some strong performances, but the concept is overstretched
Rory Mullarkey's eat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Camden People's theatre, LondonDressed as the creature, Hester Stefan Chillingworth live-dubs the 1931 movie and reframes the narrative
The 1931 movie Frankenstein plays silently on the back…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Almeida theatre, LondonMarina Carr's play is beautifully bleak and Alison Oliver's central performance as a woman lost in grief is matched by a mighty cast
The preoccupation with death is th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Electrifying shows at Glasgow's international festival include Brazilian artist Carolina Bianchi putting her body on the line to highlight violence against women
A teenager in a balaclava st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 8, 2023
Rose theatre, KingstonA demanding director drives his cast into discomforting areas in this clever play critiquing the patriarchal power structures of the movie business
The clench of a gun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 21, 2023
Kiln theatre, LondonIra Mandela Siobhan plays a pachyderm in Lynn Nottage's indictment of the ivory trade, leaving traces on those who murdered him and sold his tusks
The gargantuan tusks ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 9, 2023
From the magician who stops his show to serve at the bar to the actor who drives entire plays around in his car, for these theatre-lovers small really is beautiful
When a producer rings up a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Coming-out tales, ventriloquism, a musical set in a public loo and glamorous late-night cabaret are among the festival's uplifting LGBTQ+ shows
No one ever pays attention when you're handed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 20, 2023
Growing out of the Lionesses' success, the Edinburgh fringe play Pitch uses interviews gathered from LGBTQ+ grassroots football teams across the country
With muddy knees and soggy feet, we s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 19, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghThe conceit that nothing we do can distract from our existential crisis falls flat amid an awkward set of audience participations in this solo show
It doesn't bode well …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 17, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghGig-theatre blends beguiling music with warm storytelling to retell the story of Phaeton's theft from the sun god
In an airless basement room, Wright and Grainger weave …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:49PM[SHARE]Zoo Southside, EdinburghBelgian theatre company Ontroerend Goed create a sombre, dreamlike atmosphere in this piece about funeral rites and mourning
We queue up to give the names of our dead…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghUsing verbatim interviews, Ell Potter and Mary Higgins turn their attention to how relationships end " including their own
The boldest, bravest and stranges…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AM[SHARE]Monday, August 14, 2023
Magic and mentalism abounds at this year's festival. But how are the tricks done? Some of the best performers remain tightlipped " while others reveal all
"That feeling you have right now," …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2023
Lyttelton theatre, LondonA love affair between participants in a drug trial is staged by Jamie Lloyd with a stellar cast including Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell
Senses are sharpened in Ja…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2023
In her Edinburgh festival show, LA comic and clown Courtney Pauroso plays a latex-clad humanoid pleasure device. But are fringegoers ready to restart her?
The last time I saw Courtney Pauros…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PM[SHARE]Monday, July 3, 2023
From kicking out the teeth of a dead cow onstage to popularising the prefix Mx, the performer has blazed a trail. Now 60, Bond talks about channeling rage into comedy " and nonconformity int…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AM[SHARE]Friday, June 30, 2023
Kay Dick's novel They was almost forgotten " but its dark predictions are eerily prescient. Perfect fodder for Peake and her new company to bring to life in Manchester
In the dead of night, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AM[SHARE]Friday, June 9, 2023
Kiln theatre, LondonTender portrait of a woman caring for her love " joy and affection seep through performances that ache with the tragedy of seeing your partner slip away
Es and Flo dance …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
