Monday, September 17, 2018
Much to my regret, I didn’t see Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Emilia at Shakespeare’s Globe. It opened after I had departed for the
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Last Thursday night, I went to Battersea Arts Centre to celebrate the reopening of the Grand Hall and see Gecko’s Missing, which
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The Bush’s loss is the Southbank’s gain as Madani Younis departs the Uxbridge Road to take up residence in SE1 and the
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Since her breakthrough play Yen, Anna Jordan has gained a reputation for tackling grim subjects. She tells Lyn Gardner how new touring
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On almost my final day in Edinburgh, I went to see Samira Elagoz’s Cock, Cock…Who’s There? at Summerhall, which was part of
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After 40 years running Polka Theatre, Stephen Midlane is retiring. He tells Lyn Gardner about working with world-famous children’s authors, why it’s
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1. The smell of Toast in Nigel Slater’s Toast at the Traverse. The lemon meringue pie was pretty good too. More fringe
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“It’s time to free ourselves from the obsession with the perfectly formed, beautifully diverse audience,” declared Nicholas Hytner in the Sunday Times
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Have we reached peak fringe? It was a question asked at the Devoted and Disgruntled session at Fringe Central on Monday discussing
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In recent years, a great deal has been written and discussed about the toll that a month at the festival can take
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“At this point, you might be thinking you’d like to exchange your ticket for Thor and Loki, the musical,” says US soldier
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As we enter the third week of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, companies, producers and programmers will be making plans to tour their
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Plenty of people think that all the Edinburgh Fringe does is generate rubbish. That may be unfair to the shows that receive
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Waiting in queues is usually dull. But on the fringe, I love queues, largely because they are such a terrific source of
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Every show and every venue is under scrutiny during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, but few experience the level of examination that the
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So, you are Fergus Linehan, and you are programming the Edinburgh International Festival. What to do? Do you look to find shows
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It is easy to be swept away by enthusiasm at the fringe. I know I am guilty of it. I find it
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Many companies and artists currently in Edinburgh will be looking to tour their shows after the festival. It’s one of the reasons
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Every morning in Edinburgh I pass through a courtyard where gaggles of students take it in turns to warm up for their
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For many theatremakers, the festival is fraught with financial risk and competition for punters, but it can provide rocket fuel for an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTwenty years ago, the standing ovation was almost unheard of in British theatre. Even on press nights, giving a standing ovation was
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The Austrian playwright Peter Handke once wrote a play called Offending the Audience, which was designed to do just that. The history
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The Scout movement’s motto is “Be Prepared”, and it’s a good one to adopt for anyone performing at the Edinburgh Fringe where
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I have been in Edinburgh since Wednesday. I always love these first few days of the festival before the city becomes crazily
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In Hamlet, the Danish prince commissions a troupe of players to perform at King Claudius’ court in Elsinore. Shakespeare own’s company, the
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Camille - the first tart with a heart - has inspired countless plays and films. But her life, says Lyn Gardner, was far from romanticOn February 5 1847, the prostitute known as Marie Dupless…
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The Stage criticism survey makes for fascinating reading, and I don’t say that because I and other writers for The Stage did
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A country childhood instilled in Elizabeth Freestone a love for touring. After leaving her ‘dream job’ with Pentabus Rural Theatre, she tells
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In Daniel Kehlmann’s The Mentor, seen at the Ustinov in Bath and in the West End last year, F Murray Abraham played
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Taking over a theatre building for the first time can come as a shock for artistic directors and they soon learn that
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