Saturday, August 12, 2023
Two new shows at the festival question senses of hearing and sight in engaging and eccentric ways
Seeing is believing, right? That is a phrase used repeatedly by Mamoru Iriguchi and co-star …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2023
Imaginary friends, runaway horses and Roger McGough's take on the Wind in the Willows are among the treats for younger audiences at the festival
Summerhall, 11.30am, until 20 August Continue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghUpset by racist attacks in their town, a young couple attempt to get to know the culprits in Eve Leigh's new play
Anyone running a far-right festival would …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07PM[SHARE]Traverse theatre, EdinburghA high-school English teacher and his former star pupil meet in a brothel in Kieran Hurley's new play
With this uneven three-hander, Kieran Hurley has fielded two …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AM[SHARE]Zoo Southside, EdinburghPolish company Song of the Goat strip Titus Andronicus back to tell a brutal tale of postwar violence, betrayal and revenge
If you are going to tell Shakespeare's tal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AM[SHARE]Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghReflecting on feelings, dating and brotherly love, Nathan Queeley-Dennis's first drama is fun and frothy
This one-man show by Nathan Queeley-Dennis is writt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AM[SHARE]Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThree characters take stock of their low-key lives in Angus Harrison's cleverly plotted show
If Chekhov were writing today, maybe he would be setting his pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghIn Miriam Battye's comedic tour de force, Her and Him go through the motions of getting to know each other
Given the survival of the species depends on it, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2023
Traverse, EdinburghLaurie Motherwell's avoidance of cliche is commendable, but it does leave this tale of a get-rich-quick scheme with little sense of jeopardy
Playwright Laurie Motherwell i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PM[SHARE]Pleasance @ EICC, EdinburghSouth African actors replay the brutal events of the US's formation as a catalogue of poverty, struggle, violence and pain
We know the story. We have heard it told…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AM[SHARE]Traverse, EdinburghIsobel McArthur's gag-filled farce takes place in a bland modern hotel with a previous life as an opera house
Early in Isobel McArthur's head-spinning new comedy, there is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 6, 2023
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghPlaywright Ed Edwards frames the story of a juvenile offender through the lens of colonialism
In his 2018 play The Political History of Smack and Crack, Ed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AM[SHARE]Traverse, Edinburgh A mother is overwhelmed by postnatal depression, just as her musician partner gets a big break, in this heartfelt show drawn from life
There is a tremendous amount of hea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 5, 2023
Traverse, Edinburgh A couple gradually face up to the emotional life choices they've made, in this compellingly acted, exquisitely written play by Eugene O'Brien
It is a game we all play. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh The traumatic secret at the heart of Glenna Morrison's play hits the audience as a shock " but would the drama be greater if we knew all along?
Many people hat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghWelsh-Iranian musician Roshi Nasehi spins her heritage into standup that is most impressive when she works the stories into sound pieces
Having established herself as a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AM[SHARE]Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghNamed after a song by Elina Alminas's Estonian father's favourite band, Depeche Mode, this show takes on the boorish failings of the former Soviet republic
Pleas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 3, 2023
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghWittily drawn historical drama follows self-effacing leader ill-equipped to deal with the encroaching Nazi menace
If you think actor Joseph Cullen is cartoonish at t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AM[SHARE]Friday, July 28, 2023
Williamson Park, LancasterSam Jones brings innocent charm to the role of Jules Verne's hero in an outdoor version that roams around the park if not quite the globe
Jules Verne's caper is a g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AM[SHARE]Monday, July 17, 2023
Glasgow Botanic GardensBard in the Botanics stages Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic novella as a tense three-way struggle that asks big questions about human nature
It is not quite a Dylan-g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Director John Young energises this medieval community-theatre tradition with a dynamic and dreamlike journey from the crucifixion to the last judgment
It is an inspired idea to present the M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 4, 2023
What can the ancient sport of backhold wrestling tell us about today's struggles over unity and tradition? Our writer heads to the Highlands to see
On the far side of the field, a girls' foo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 2, 2023
Manchester international festivalThe audience tour the city listening to a series of voice notes sent by a world-weary survivor. But this promenade performance falters with its form and sens…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PM[SHARE]Royal Exchange, ManchesterKimber Lee's punky polemic circles through pastiches of Madama Butterfly, South Pacific and M*A*S*H, dissecting years of racist, imperialist and misogynistic tropes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Friday, June 9, 2023
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterCoronation Street's Christine Mackie gives a passionate performance as the raging patriarch in a production that has moments of invention but too little clarity …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 8, 2023
Pitlochry Festival theatreKirsty Stuart's Blanche is convincingly respectable in this revival of the Tennessee Williams classic, before she spectacularly unravels
It must be tempting for an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Vanya, adapted by Simon Stephens, will see Scott tackle all of the characters in Chekhov's play
Andrew Scott is to return to London's West End to play every character in Uncle Vanya. The sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 1, 2023
Northern Stage, Newcastle upon TynePoliticians' glib statements frame the struggles of one man confounded by a bewildering welfare system, in an adaptation of the Ken Loach film that both mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Various venues, EdinburghFor children wondering what their parents do all day, many of the delightful shows programmed here will show them that they're not really so grown up
How curious to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Monday, May 29, 2023
Pitlochry festival theatreMama Rose drags her two daughters from one vaudeville fleapit to the next in a bulldozer of a role
There's something of the Mother Courage about Mama Rose. Like Ber…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2023
The writer of the acclaimed Patricia Gets Ready… returns with a lockdown-inspired comedy drama about a drug dealer having a power cut
The trigger for a play can be many things: a moral dil…
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