Wednesday, September 11, 2019
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeWith modern-day parallels and an excellent ensemble, this play about two powerful women tests the limits of intolerance and compassion
How refreshing to be plung…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PM[SHARE]Monday, September 2, 2019
Dundee RepPeter Arnott's brilliant vignettes about a 1879 railway bridge disaster imagine the lives and hopes of passengers stalked by death
Peter Arnott has written enough plays to know you…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 1, 2019
Pitlochry Festival theatre, Port Na CraigRarely has theatre seemed so much part of the public sphere as in this electrifying adaptation of the Elizabeth Gaskell novel
There is a thrilling tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PM[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]Friday, August 23, 2019
Scottish Storytelling Centre, EdinburghDrawing on her dual Scottish and Kenyan heritage, Mara Menzies weaves together an exquisite set of stories about the power of language to liberate and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12PM[SHARE]Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThis full-blooded agitprop cabaret comprises 10 monologues about resistance and emancipation, based on true stories about the treatment of women in Nigeria
In a week w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghLaura Dalgleish is magnetic as a woman marauding through the Newport night after family pressures become too much
Theatre is a laboratory where we put a character centre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Festival theatre, EdinburghThe avuncular storytelling sage leavens seven-and-a-half-hours of myth-recounting with boyish enthusiasm and silly voices
Stephen Fry is lying prostrate on the st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghTim Etchells' thought experiment doggedly asks what if you could go back and right the wrongs of your past?
Tim Etchells is surely a master of the late-night pub convers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2019
Drawing from folk music, Celtic myth " and a drunken night out, three plays are imbued with a deep sense of terrain
Karine Polwart's Wind Resistance, which makes a welcome return to Edinburg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghAhmed El Attar's bruising two-hander dives into the long lead-up to 2011 in an attempt to determine what causes mass revolt
What causes a people to rise up? Is it a simp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2019
Kings theatre, EdinburghAn updating of Sophocles' classic, set on election eve, has such political resonance you can imagine Boris Johnson not far away
The play has hardly begun and already …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2019
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghSasha Frost sparkles as a curious and vulnerable Kay searching for her birth parents, but this unfocused production fails to capture the intimacy of the soul-searching…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 14, 2019
A trio of performances " Daniel Bellus in Beat, Alexander Fox in Snare and Mick Berry's Keith Moon: The Real Me " put drums centre stage
It must be something to do with being at the back al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Robert Softley Gale's show Purposeless Movements turns the involuntary gestures of cerebral palsy into choreography
Becoming a parent for the first time can be nerve-racking for anyone. Know…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghIn a series of autofictional shows, Traumboy and Traumgirl offer insights of varying quality amid the intimate revelations and erotic dancing
'I'm not the person most pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[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]Traverse, EdinburghMale psychotherapists feel the heat in pantomimic telling of a true story about the voyeuristic exploitation of a female patient's private disclosures
If you search online…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 11, 2019
Church Hill theatre, EdinburghThe 1927 company became darlings of the festival scene after their first fringe outing, but this showcase of traditional tales lacks urgency
When the Margate co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM[SHARE]Underbelly, Cowgate, EdinburghThis slight drama, in which a woman sifts through old possessions and memories, leaves so much unsaid one wonders if there is any meaning at all
The premise of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2019
Traverse, EdinburghSet in South Armagh during the Troubles, Meghan Tyler's anarchic and OTT revenge fantasy hits back at the patriarchy and turns into a bloodbath
It turns out Killing Eve wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2019
The Studio, Festival theatre, EdinburghTim Crouch plays a messianic cult leader prophesying catastrophe in a formally adventurous show about the dangers of environmental fatalism
And, lo, as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThere's lots to love about the polished and fizzy scenes of this family drama, but too many themes leave its message unclear
There's lots to love about this sho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PM[SHARE]Assembly Rooms, EdinburghFrances Barber stars as Zelig-like chanteuse Billie Trix, in this one-woman spinoff from the band and Jonathan Harvey's 2001 musical Closer to Heaven
Despite her glo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Your home, EdinburghDaniel Bye enlists the help of his five-month-old son in an unpredictable hour-long exploration of nature versus nurture
A show can have the same words, same actors, same…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Zoo Southside, Edinburgh The pioneering Ontroerend Goed company takes on a conceptually daring view of environmental apocalypse
Three years ago, the pioneering Belgian company Ontroerend Goe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghVolunteers are game in YESYESNONO's lively show that uses drama-school exercises to investigate the nature of truth
Jim from the Wardrobe Ensemble has been invi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PM[SHARE]Gilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghIn her playwriting, Sheila Atim puts a female scientist on stage with the pharaoh to chat about music, men and misrepresentation
Sheila Atim, the Olivier awar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AM[SHARE]Gilded Balloon, EdinburghEve Nichol's play combines songs from the Glasgow band's well-loved album with an ambiguous narrative
'We're seeing other people " at least that's what we say we are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2019
Traverse theatre, EdinburghBreaking down a thrown burger into its constituent ingredients is a way of confronting assault in this sassy, humane show
Behind Travis Alabanza is a container ful…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghThis vivid production shows both sides of the care system through the eyes of a nurse and a patient
The spirit of Nye Bevan floats over Alan Harris's monologue for Natio…
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