Friday, August 26, 2011
Pleasance CourtyardGo to the theatre and generally you know where to find the show: on the stage. But over the last few years theatre has broken out of the theatres and is running amok on th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMCatch Audience and Forest Fringe at Edinburgh while you still can. Or head for the theatrical riches of Margate and LondonThe Edinburgh fringe finishes this weekend, with Monday offering a l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMThursday, August 25, 2011
Summerhall, EdinburghJust when it seems as though every available space in Edinburgh has been colonised by the big venues, up pops a brilliant new space, with not a comedian in sight. Summer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:59PMUnderbelly, EdinburghLife in the palace is awfully dull for the king's youngest daughter, who is not allowed to stray beyond the gates. Her elder sisters are not exactly ugly, but they are i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:59PMWednesday, August 24, 2011
Pleasance, EdinburghEdinburgh TheatreMinsk 2011 Pleasance ∂∂∂∂∂You might think that, if you lived under a dictatorship, you would have more pressing things to worry about than sex.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:41PMTraverse, EdinburghOstensibly, this show is part of a long theatrical tradition that allows the minor characters in classic plays to take centre stage and have their say. None, perhaps, dese…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMTuesday, August 23, 2011
AssemblyYay! This is such fun. Smart, thoughtful and tuneful, too. We've already had one terrific piece of American song theatre at the fringe this year in the Team's Mission Drift, and now …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:25PMTraverse @ the PointWeddings, don't you just love them? The drunken uncles, the weeping bridesmaids, the embarrassing best man's speech? Everyone has their wedding story, and Adrian Howells …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PMSunday, August 21, 2011
It's been a very good Edinburgh fringe, although perhaps not a classic one. A classic fringe almost certainly means at least one or two five-star shows, and I haven't seen one, not yet. Miss…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59PMKing's, EdinburghToru Okada has lost his job, his and his wife. His whole life has become a kind of absence, and he is the void at its centre. A man alone and isolated in the big city. But l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMFriday, August 19, 2011
Assembly George SquareWhen Bryony Kimmings was growing up, she thought the pub was a magical place. Aged 12, she drank so much that she passed out and soiled herself. Kimmings is not an alco…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMA wild child gets her iron claws into a hunk of a bear in a twisted fairytale from a group who blend storytelling, puppetry and live action to beguiling effectWho are they? Very much the rig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:51AMAs The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle debuts in Edinburgh, London relies on its musical big guns and Bristol brings out the puppetsRight, this is going to be another brief What to See because the ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AMPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh"We're going to remember this day," says Henry's dad with a smile as his son is wheeled off for experimental surgery that it is hoped will cure Henry of the epi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30AMThursday, August 18, 2011
Traverse, EdinburghWe are living in an era of rapid cultural change: the certainties of yesterday are no longer certain today. The world tilts, and we are not sure of our place. How can we b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:47PMForest Fringe, EdinburghThe fringe offers many strange sights, but I can think of few more curious than watching an audience queue up to have their money shredded, in much the same way as si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMWednesday, August 17, 2011
Underbelly, Edinburgh My mother always told me to say no to strange men offering unsolicited rides in their cars, but you need to say yes and jump in if you are going to enjoy the exhilarati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:39PMSt George's West, EdinburghAt the door to the meeting room we are met by Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe, and welcomed in with a cup of tea. So far, so cosy. We settle down around the co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMTake Time Out at the Edinburgh festival to immerse yourself in a water polo team pep talk from this interactive theatre groupWho are they? A group of photographers, producers, administrators…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11AMTuesday, August 16, 2011
Underbelly, EdinburghNature has taken her revenge on humanity. Her "menopausal rage" has produced devastation and rising sea levels. Millions are dead and all attempts to save the world – …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:40PMPleasance Dome, EdinburghLast year Chris Larner took his ex-wife Allyson – with whom he had remained good friends – to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland where she ended her life. It was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PMMonday, August 15, 2011
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghIt is 2011, and Frieja's father has recently died. She is fulfilling his last wish and taking his ashes to the icy wastes of Norway. They are the same mountains wher…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMThis energetic female duo return to the Fringe with a Scary Gorgeous new show – and there's not an ounce of flour in sightWho are they? RashDash – one of those companies that go from zer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PMFriday, August 12, 2011
Traverse, EdinburghIn the kitchen of the Golden Dragon restaurant and takeaway, a crisis is unfolding. While the customers concentrate on making their choices from the extensive menu, behind…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMPleasance Dome, EdinburghWe often lose sight of our younger selves as we grow older, as the person we once were becomes hidden behind the wrinkles, the folding skin and dull eyes. Sometimes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMThe big openings this week are in Edinburgh, but there's still a Wild Bride in Cornwall and a radical musical in LondonThe big openings this coming week are all in Edinburgh. Forest Fringe b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMThursday, August 11, 2011
Traverse, EdinburghThe setting is poverty-stricken 19th-century Spain, and Beatriz is preparing for her sister's wedding. But the family celebration is halted when the house is invaded by so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMBluebeard becomes a darkly anarchic cautionary tale in a promising debut show from this young companyWho are they? Milk Presents: producer Ruby Glaskin, director Lucy Doherty and production …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:10AMPleasance Dome, EdinburghPuppets can do whatever human actors can do – and much else, besides. After all, most actors don't come with detachable parts. The puppet on the table before us, p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, August 10, 2011
Avoid the front row at the latest show by Belgian provocateurs Ontroerend GoedOscar Wilde once said: "My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure." But what is a successf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:45PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe venue that gave us Potted Potter now offers potted Pinter in Julian Sands's one-man celebration of the great playwright. The show – a mixture of biography…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PM 
