Monday, June 11, 2012
Scotland's biggest theatre awards unveil their winners, and the supporting cast of Swan demonstrates why you should never work with animalsScottish powerIt was a big day for Scottish theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04PMTheatre 503, LondonVincent, his wife Joy and teenage daughter live in a small, dead-end town where a teenager, Rob, has been murdered. Vincent knows all about death – for the last 17 years…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMA Doctor Who hit materialises in Ipswich, a Manchester office block provides the backdrop for a new play by poet Jackie Kay, and Alan Cumming plays all the parts in an unusual MacbethCentral…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMSunday, June 10, 2012
Unicorn, LondonHow far would you go for love? That's a question raised in this infinitely touching little piece about deep space and deep affection that uses live animation techniques simila…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11AMThursday, June 7, 2012
Bush, LondonMan (Simon Darwen) and Dad (Jason Barnett) are standing on either side of the future. The future is Boy (Bayo Gbadamosi), a young black teenager, bright but mouthy, who is convin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMWednesday, June 6, 2012
CPT, LondonMorrissey. An icon for our times? Or the man responsible for the disappearance of the traditional high-street butcher and making David Cameron look cool for a nanosecond? Amy Lam�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMMonday, June 4, 2012
Soho, LondonWhen the party's over, there's the mess to clear up. The mess is not just physical but emotional in the Edinburgh flat that Benny (Danny Kirrane), Mack (Samuel Edward Cook),…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:51AMFriday, June 1, 2012
Gatz, LondonJust as one stage adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal cult novel finishes, another appears. However, Gatz lasts eight hours in four parts. Quite something for such a slim …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMAn Odyssey played out on the streets of Deptford, Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests trilogy in Liverpool, and the Pendle witches reconsidered in LancasterSouthPetit Mal is a circus show from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:29PMThere are many shows in this year's programme that I'd take a punt on, but here are my first thoughts on the shows to get in early forAnybody predicting that the 2012 Edinburgh fringe will t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16AMPeacock, LondonYou could translate "wah! wah!" – how some Indian audiences express their pleasure at a performance – as "bravo!". Sadly, there's far more woe than wah in this feeble atte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:50AMThursday, May 31, 2012
London WondergroundHomespun but disconcertingly disturbing, low-key yet highly charged, Cantina is an Australian circus show that reaches the parts La Clique and La Soirée have previously t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMWednesday, May 30, 2012
What's the best training a director can have for Sophocles's visceral Antigone? Working with Derren Brown, of course.Plenty of us have long thought that the National theatre bears a resembla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMBarbican, LondonOnce seen, never forgotten: when Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa's cherry-blossom Macbeth visited London in 1987, it opened our eyes to what can happen when east meets west.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTuesday, May 29, 2012
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe final image of this production by Israeli company Habima is a stark one. Small and crushed, as if weighed down by history itself, Jacob Cohen's broken Shylock …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:47AMMonday, May 28, 2012
Southwark Playhouse, LondonWhen Charles Byrne arrived in Georgian London, his height – 7ft 7in – made him the next big thing. But it wasn't just the public who paid to see "the Irish gia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:20PMWhy the most awful protagonists often make the most interesting characters. Plus the musical version of An Officer and a Gentleman Geres up for a fightAn Officer and an Ungentlemanly rowA li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMFriday, May 25, 2012
Don't miss Two's Company, Harrogate's perfectly formed festival of small. Or get competitive in Sheffield with LeanerFasterStrongerScotland and Northern IrelandLet's start in Glasgow at the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMThursday, May 24, 2012
Young Vic, LondonThere is something curiously disquieting about a show that piles on the charm as it tells us about a man who hounds his unfaithful wife with his mental cruelty. An English-l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:27AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Sheffield CrucibleIn every beginning lurk the seeds of an ending. Harold Pinter's 1978 play, inspired by his own affair with Joan Bakewell, starts with ex-lovers meeting two years after thei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMTuesday, May 22, 2012
Southwark Playhouse, LondonHell on earth is currently to be found in Southwark Playhouse, where director Kate Budgen makes her mark with a feverish and visually arresting revival of Eugene O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:52PMArtists are grateful for any money they can get, but too often the project is squeezed to fit the funding available – not the other way aroundHow much money do you need to make your next s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMRoundhouse, LondonRichard, Duke of Gloucester, is wearing a boar's head. He struts across the steeply raked stage, a sinister figure who you wouldn't want to meet in the forest on a dark nig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:11AMMonday, May 21, 2012
Simon Stephens's play has stirred up a hornets' nest of debate about how critics approach radical work. Plus an early taste of this year's Edinburgh festivalGetting criticalIt felt as if som…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AMSunday, May 20, 2012
Oval House, LondonWill learning to say "Haargh" very loudly like a pirate further the cause of feminism? The creators of this playful oddity clearly think it's a step in the right direction …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMFriday, May 18, 2012
Drop everything for Three Kingdoms at the Lyric Hammersmith in London and get Smashed with Gandini Juggling in BrightonScotlandATC's double bill of Sarah Kane's Crave and Ivan Viripaev's Ill…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:47AMPoint, EastleighSarah Kane's Crave and Illusions by the Russian playwright Ivan Viripaev are both compelling texts. But put them side by side – as director Ramin Gray does in this double b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
Print Room, London"Don't box me in" is the cry of many lovers, but it takes on new meaning in this fascinating but insufficiently meaty piece from Opera Erratica. The show puts a modern twis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:21PMThe mindblowing view from Cornwall's Minack and the intimacy of Bristol's Tobacco Factory make for some of my favourite haunts. Which are your perfect playhouses?There's been an outbreak of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Babel's producers talk their way out of a tight corner, the loss of support for public subsidy – plus is political theatre really a total waste of time?Babble around BabelBabel, the centre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:27AMSunday, May 13, 2012
Does sleeping in mid-air make your dreams more exciting? Lyn Gardner joins a surreal project in the Norfolk woodsOn a rainy night last week, I climbed gingerly up a ladder and stepped …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:46PM 
