Friday, August 10, 2012
Arthur's Seat"A good walk spoiled," was how Mark Twain once described the game of golf. The phrase comes to mind in this mix of art and sport created by NVA on the steep mountain above Edinb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:27PMTraverse"This is not about fathers and sons," says comedian Mark Thomas in this solo storytelling show. But how could it not be? A picture of Thomas's father, Colin, dominates the stage, mak…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:23PMWhat to see in Edinburgh and beyond, audiences behaving badly, and the worst Edinburgh venues for theatreSight linesWhich are the best and worst festival venues for seeing theatre? A comment…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMThursday, August 9, 2012
The artistic director of the Traverse tells Lyn Gardner about dream plays, theatre in the morning and jelly snakesYou've recently taken over the Traverse – how's it going?I've only been in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:57AMThe performer who wanted his mum to shoot him, why cuteness is now a cult and how Forest fringe went paper-basedShooting your own sonAfter seeing Rob Drummond's wonderfully entertaining but …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMPleasance DomeWhat connects a book about the way ants communicate, a Cumbrian mining accident, a British official in a 1952 air disaster, and a young Egyptian woman travelling to museums acr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:22AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
TraverseIt's hard when someone you love decides to leave you; harder still when you've been together for years. And it's almost impossible to bear when you think that they are making the wro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PMCircuses take over the fringe, Daniel Bye gives value for money at St Stephen's – and for great food be sure to visit the mosqueWords of wisdomQuote of the day comes from Daniel Bye, who a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PMAssembly MoundMiss Julie is suddenly on the rage again, as witnessed by recent revivals at the Royal Exchange in Manchester and London's Young Vic. But she has never raged quite so fiercely …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:53AMTuesday, August 7, 2012
St StephensCruelty and dysfunctional families are the stuff of fairytales. What mother sends her daughter out into the forest on her own? Is it any wonder that the queen was j…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PMTraverseHow do you make sense of the chaos? How do you find your place in the world? How do you change it? They're questions that every generation asks, but they seem perhaps more urgent for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:23PMToday's roundup includes the best cafe, the best loos and the best shows for both adults and children – plus I want to hear your fringe memoriesSeeing starsShould theatre critics use stars…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26AMMonday, August 6, 2012
Pleasance CourtyardThere is always something a little voyeuristic about going to the theatre, sitting in the dark and watching other lives unfold. Natural Shocks take that idea further in Pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMThe Olympics arrive on stage, plus the shows to see and avoid in the first instalment of my new daily Edinburgh blogThose who dare don't always winSo we're out of the starting blocks. I've b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMTraversePlaywright Simon Stephens has form when it comes to teenage murder. In Herons (2001) he depicted one child killing another, while 2009's Punk Rock offered a Columbine-style massacre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45AMSunday, August 5, 2012
Traverse"This isn't magic; it's a conversation," says Rob Drummond in this remarkable, multilayered and utterly gripping show inspired by the infamous bullet-catch trick. It's remarkable for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:52PMTraverseWhen Sophie (Rosie Wyatt) was little, her father made her feel important. Now she's grown-up, Dad is dead – and grief makes her feel as if she is disappearing. Even her office lets…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMFriday, August 3, 2012
All eyes are on the opening of the Edinburgh fringe, but treats are also in store further south – at Derwentwater in the Lake District, French company Ilotopie walk on water and in London…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:41AMMonday, July 30, 2012
Why stick a pin in the Fringe brochure? Here are my top tips from deep inside Edinburgh – and a few pieces of advice for anyone approaching the festival for the first timeAs I've said befo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMFriday, July 27, 2012
From the revived York Mysteries in the north to The Importance of Being Earnest in Cornwall via Troilus and Cressida at the RSC, it's a good week for fans of the classicsScotlandNo surprises…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMSunday, July 22, 2012
It's time we cut Shakespeare's allowanceShakespeare – don't you just love him? Judging by the total attendance figure for the recent Globe to Globe season, many of us do, myself included: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMFriday, July 20, 2012
Adult life through the eyes of a teenager at the Drum in Plymouth, teenagers and grandparents perform together in Manchester, and Miriam Margoyles takes Dickens's Women to Oxford and the Hol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26AMFriday, July 13, 2012
Camden People's theatre, LondonThe night roars with drumbeats, trees fry in towers of flame, and a church turns into a furnace as it is consumed by fire. The image of a city ablaze is a stro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:44AMIt's your last chance for Gatz in London, the RSC heads to Newcastle with Julius Caesar, and Deborah Warner's installation, Peace Camp, is set to light up the coastScotland and Northern Irel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:22AMThursday, July 12, 2012
Theatre Royal, BathThe embittered, scandal-mongering Lady Sneerwell (Serena Evans) and her cronies are a nest of vipers always ready to spit poison about friends as well as foes. The double-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMAs new works plunge audiences into ever more extreme situations, there's greater need than ever for artists to consider the ethics of manipulationI've written before how interactive theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:44AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
National Theatre, LondonAs night falls, 23 of us take our places around a table on the roof of the National Theatre. A large white helium balloon bobs above us, straining at its leash like a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:56AMTuesday, July 10, 2012
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London"This is not theatre, it's hyper-reality," says The Voice. Big Brother may be airing almost unnoticed on Channel 5, but in east London you can see a two-h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PMMonday, July 9, 2012
London's Old Vic closes its internship scheme under pressure from the Arts Council, Clay Shirky reveals a dark theatrical past – plus Samuel Beckett gets active on TwitterFairer deals for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMSunday, July 8, 2012
Almeida, LondonThere is a moment towards the end of the first half of Inspector Sands' latest show that is as charged and heart-breaking as anything you will see on the stage. A wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:41AMFriday, July 6, 2012
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonAs Filter's brilliant version of Dream has already proved this year, nights in the forest near Athens don't have to be stuffed full of prettified Arthur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15AM 
