With their funding under threat, acts which refuse to be sidelined find a platform in Edinburgh’s Integrated Fringe - but how can they survive the cuts?“It only took the NT 50 years to n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghJenny Lee’s timely play examines our relationship with digital technologies, and questions the corporations who aim to predict our intentionsWe all like to th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMForest Fringe, EdinburghAction Hero’s entertaining show about a celebrity on a photoshoot draws us in as observers, participants and accomplicesAction Hero’s show Frontman presented us w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMKing’s theatre, Edinburgh With a glorious sense of chaos, this production celebrates the community surrounding a dying trombonist with eloquence and a deep sense of funWe all eventually ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PMUnderbelly, EdinburghThe jackboot of history hangs over Rhum and Clay’s moody and atmospheric look at fate, free will and memory loss We all wonder if we had taken a different path where w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PMThe rules of engagement in theatre have changed, and now audience participation is everywhere. But artists have a responsibility to take care of those they pick onI’m always fascinated in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:28AMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghDavid Greig and Graham Eatough’s insanely ambitious adaptation of the Alasdair Gray novel is like a heady, unsettling, unpredictable dream Related: Alasdair Gray's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AMThere are eight more days’ of shows to choose from including Smoke and Mirrors, O No!, Backstage in Biscuit Land and The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of HeavenSome people seem under th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe quality of the writing and performance shines through in Gina Moxley’s powerful drama about a young woman piecing together painful memoriesGina Moxley is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMZoo, EdinburghPainful truths await the baby-boomer generation as sexuality dawns in the era of glam rock and Deep ThroatChristine (Kerry Lovell) has a fraying David Cassidy poster on her bed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AMSummerhall, EdinburghThe Flanagan Collective’s latest show weaves quantum physics, magic and a critique of consumer capitalism around its central couple with a light touchJ is a Birmingham…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AMTraverse, Edinburgh (off-site)This walking show takes place on the Edinburgh streets, and has all the adrenaline-charged thrill of teenage loveThere is a moment at the end of Forever Young, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AMEdinburgh shows can be calling cards for emerging artists, but making connections should not be at the expense of year-round development “Edinburgh’s a casino, but some do hit the jackpo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMTraverse theatre, EdinburghUnlimited Theatre go beyond the ken of the living with this enjoyable, poignant cabaret piece about death in the distant and all-too-near futureThere are only two …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMUnderbelly (off-site), EdinburghThe audience’s experience of intimacy is at the core of this vivid and sophisticated dramatisation of the lives of sex workers“What I offer is extreme int…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:11AMTraverse theatre, Edinburgh Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall’s adaptation of Alan Warner’s The Sopranos follows a troupe of convent choirgirls on a rampage across the city, to exhilarating e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMBarbican, LondonLess a tragedy and more a tortured comedy played out in the squelching mud and dirt of Elsinore, Thomas Ostermeier's Schaubuhne production shines the same forensic light on S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58AMSummerhall, EdinburghUS writer-performer and globetrotter Thaddeus Phillips muses on the meaning of safe passage, but fails to address the current refugee crisisApparently it was Henry V who…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMThe Famous Spiegeltent, EdinburghLa Clique are a long way from the subversive, elegant burlesque with which they made their name: this is a glitzy but unsophisticated good-time showBurlesque…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:01AMTraverse (off-site), EdinburghZinnie Harris’s 40-minute opera set in a kitchen-sink wasteland is beautifully performed with a moving score by John HarrisZinnie Harris has pruned and retrai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMForest Fringe, EdinburghMusical vagabonds Little Bulb use cabaret and science to explore the purpose of song – but the piece is still finding its voiceIf there is a more loveable company t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMIf you catch them at the right moment in your life, some shows speak directly to you, as if they were made with you in mindYesterday at Forest Fringe, I had one of those moments in the theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMForest Fringe, EdinburghMixing truth and fiction, card tricks and illusions, this delightful, bamboozling magic show reveals the misdirections that occur in theatre and in lifeVincent Gambin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWith a Daily Mail-reading landlady and an ineffective vicar, this nimble satire has characters straight out of Midsomer MurdersThe fairytale village of Massivev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA terrible secret drives Philip Ridley’s tense and affecting drama about a teenage magician with mental health problemsWe need to talk about Donny. Actually, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AMA Desert Island Discs spoof, brooding circus performers who strip naked and a Yoko Ono-inspired love-fest … our critics choose their hot tickets at this year’s fringeO No!In less skilled…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:49AMAssembly Roxy, EdinburghMaureen Beattie is astonishing in this final part of Jennifer Tremblay’s trilogy of plays about the past, guilt and the family“The child who dies or leaves become…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PMThe festival always throws up some oddball surprises, from dancing plastic bags to stone-balancing. This year’s rogue hit has a man showing us his flipbooksFrom a critic’s point of view,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:21AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAlison Carr’s touching, direct play is a reminder of how bad we can be at dealing with bereavementFourteen-year-old Vera was born in water like a fish, and is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMAssembly CheckpointA challenging piece that examines what it means to be happy is neither safe nor cosy – but it is compelling and beautifulDon’t be deceived by the title, which suggests…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:56AMPleasance, EdinburghCulled from interviews with trans women, these personal accounts read out on stage highlight the diversity of their experiencesHigh-profile transgender women such as Chel…
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