Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Pleasance 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 01:45PMSt George's West, EdinburghHere's one that comes straight from the heart. Well, Glasgow actually, which is where the Junction 25 youth theatre call home, and where they create shows hewn fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMA storm of inventive storytelling, this physical theatre ensemble have a bright futureWho? Idle Motion – physical theatre ensemble founded in 2007, and currently company-in-residence at Ox…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:08AMTuesday, August 9, 2011
Assembly MoundOn Tuesdays, Pauline is a domestic goddess. At least that is what her elderly widowed dad calls her when she makes her weekly visit to the provincial town where she grew up to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PMTraverseWhat a blast. Economics has never been more playfully dissected than it is in this latest piece from The Team, the young American experimental company whose previous outings on the f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMMonday, August 8, 2011
Traverse@University of Edinburgh medical schoolLike the cockroach motel where they check in but don't check out, some who enter Gilbert Prendergast's Conservatoire of the Anatomy of Music ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:50PMTraverse, EdinburghTainted Love is the song that propelled former Soft Cell vocalist Marc Almond to fame in the 1980s, and in Mark Ravenhill and composer Conor Mitchell's song cycle he …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PMSt George's West, EdinburghIt may last less than 20 minutes, but Fish and Game's filmic journey about childhood and learning, mothers and memory, is a bittersweet fairytale that will haunt y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PMThis ensemble, who have been under the surface devising ways of mixing theatre with science, break through with an icy showWho? Young ensemble of 28 actors and technicians who came out of Wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:41AMSunday, August 7, 2011
Traverse@Lyceum Rehearsal Room, EdinburghWith the money markets in meltdown, Bluemouth Inc's interactive dance show inspired by the dance competitions of the Depression era – in which the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMC Soco, EdinburghI've yet to see a Belt Up show that completely knocks me out, but I've never seen a piece by this talented York company that wasn't mischievously intriguing. Outland is cert…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:27PMFriday, August 5, 2011
As Edinburgh roars into life, theatres across the UK are following suit. From Scotland to Stockton-on-Tees – don't miss outBy the time you read this, I will have been swallowed up by the E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AMFriday, July 29, 2011
As previews begin on the Edinburgh fringe, festivals and outdoor theatres around the country offer summer treats from circus to ShakespeareThe Edinburgh fringe kicks off next week, but altho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PMSunday, July 24, 2011
Soho, LondonA smart piece of programming from Soho's new artistic director, Steve Marmion, Ed Harris's promising play feels like the flip side of the theatre's recent hit, Realism. It even h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PMFriday, July 22, 2011
Almeida, LondonWriting about these dozen short plays from all over the world, presented by Belarus Free theatre, presents a bit of a challenge. As many will know, even by performing these pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:38PMFestival season heads to the coast, musical fever spreads with Fela! and a handful of Edinburgh shows limber up in LondonAs the schools break up and everyone heads off on their holidays, Bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMWednesday, July 20, 2011
Hampstead Theatre, LondonWhat happens in a marriage when private beliefs and public duty are at odds? How can you reconcile loving a man caught up through his job in doing something, even ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23PMNewhaven, SussexStreet theatre brings communities together, and no more so than in down-at-heel Newhaven, once the gateway to Europe. That heritage – and the town's future – were celebra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35PMLyttelton, LondonWhen the curtain rises on Katie Mitchell's revival of Thomas Heywood's 1603 drama of property and marriage, adultery and revenge, it looks as if we might be in for one of th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:47AMTuesday, July 19, 2011
Arcola, LondonThe scene straight after the interval when the disgraced Nils Krogstad (Alexander Gatehouse) and the unhappy Kristine (Emma Deegan) find each other again and cling like wrecked…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMMonday, July 18, 2011
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonHoward Brenton's play begins as it means to swagger on: in teasingly intelligent style. Miranda Raison's Anne walks on to the stage with her own decapitated head i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMFriday, July 15, 2011
Hampstead Studio, LondonIf you don't know the name Tim Price, you will soon. One of the founders of the Welsh new writing company Dirty Protest, Price's Salt, Root and Roe will premiere in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PMHalf the theatre world may be at Latitude, but there's a bumper crop of summer shows to catch, from carnivals to Katie MitchellA great deal of the theatre world is at Latitude this weekend, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:05PMThursday, July 14, 2011
Bristol Old VicSally Cookson's production of Ali Baba at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol a couple of years back was a miracle of good-humoured invention, and if this devised version of Rober…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:17PMWednesday, July 13, 2011
Royal Exchange Studio, ManchesterWe all strut and fret our brief hour upon the stage, endlessly performing different versions of ourselves on the dusty road to death. Quarantine's latest exp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMTuesday, July 12, 2011
Pavilion, ManchesterIf there is a cooling-off period after purchase, Manchester international festival might want to send this one back. It hasn't quite been sold a piece of tat, but this li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMPearson Street, LondonThe few minutes after a Punchdrunk show are often as thrilling as the piece itself, as the audience comes together again to share stories of what occurred and discover …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AMThe era of tokenistic 'outreach' programmes is over. The row over Beached shows that community projects are integral to the work of arts organisations – and need handling with careWhatever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMFriday, July 8, 2011
Take the children outside for Treasure Island or Shakespeare and Watch This Space for some free festival fun for all the familyTwo of the quietest weeks of the year lie ahead, but it's a goo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:35AMMonday, July 4, 2011
Jermyn Street Theatre, LondonThe title suggests an urgency that never materialises in this double bill of Arthur Miller plays dating from 1987, which mostly proves that even great playwright…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMFriday, July 1, 2011
A feast of festivals – with Victoria Wood on song in Manchester and a fusion of female fury and Greek tragedy in BirminghamThere is no such thing as a quiet period in theatre any longer. J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:38PM 
