Saturday, August 19, 2017
One woman interrogates her personal assistant in Siri, The Believers Are But Brothers brings the war on terror to your mobile, and Frogman conducts an underwater murder investigation via VR …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMSummerhall, EdinburghStructured like a church service, Rachel Mars’ exploration of humanity’s competitive spirit has an added piquancy on the Edinburgh fringeIt is the sticky and spiky h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMFriday, August 18, 2017
Fleabag director Vicky Jones’s filthily enjoyable play enters its last week at Soho theatre, while Iceland Dance Company takes over Royal Festival Hall1 TouchVicky Jones’s filthily enjoy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThursday, August 17, 2017
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghTaking Tony Blair’s mantra as a starting point and using a Spice Girls and Oasis soundtrack, Wardrobe Ensemble’s farce tells us much about the state of teachingI…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMWednesday, August 16, 2017
CanadaHub at King’s Hall, Edinburgh Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava play one woman, sometimes at war with each other and sometimes in harmony, in a beautifully performed showA woman strugg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMTuesday, August 15, 2017
Summerhall, EdinburghThe duo who created Eurohouse shift from comic to tragic in a brilliant piece that reflects on Syria and the breakdown of relationshipsThe woman beside me in the audienc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSix of the best from Edinburgh including Mat Ewins’ barrage of one-liners, a German teacher placement at a secondary school and a transgender journey Pleasance Courtyard Building on the su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMIn his ambitious Edinburgh show The Believers Are But Brothers, Alipoor invites audiences to experience the world of young disaffected men onlineJavaad Alipoor is interweaving a series of st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMMonday, August 14, 2017
After the recent fringe hits Every Brilliant Thing and Fake It ’Til You Make It, a new crop of theatre productions are taking startling approaches to exploring mental illnessAt the 2014 Ed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMWe all know that the Edinburgh Fringe can be a brutal place. We all know that it’s not a level playing field
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, August 11, 2017
Assembly Rooms; Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghHad they not had Welsh’s name attached, these tired, clumsy and slackly directed works would surely never have seen the light of dayNot so muc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMShakespeare’s play gets a Mexican makeover in Matthew Dunster’s revival, while Boy Blue Entertainment explores images of freedom in a turbulent world1 Much Ado About NothingShakespeare�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMThursday, August 10, 2017
The Hub, EdinburghThe Australian diva’s enjoyable tongue-in-cheek evening uses blow-up dolls and double entendres to deliciously subvert the fairytale of enduring loveUnder Fergus Linehan,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMA new wave of pioneers at the fringe are telling their stories of mental and physical journeys with honesty, passion, wit and a peep-show vaginaBack in the 1970s and 80s, in the early days o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMWednesday, August 9, 2017
Traverse, EdinburghA different actor performs each night in Nassim Soleimanpour’s audacious new play that explores the freedom and limitation of languageWhen we go to another country, what…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMPlan your viewing with our list of top shows, ordered by start time. This page will be updated throughout the festival Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMMonday, August 7, 2017
Northern Stage at Summerhall, EdinburghAn unloved new town reunites old friends in Jackie Hagen’s two-hander, lifted by the performances of Reuben Johnson and Rachel DenningThe disabled-le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMSummerhall, EdinburghA winning performance amid exhilarating sound and lighting gives universal resonance to this account of the director’s rare conditionIs it possible for us to understan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMThis week, the first full week of the fringe, Edinburgh is still one of the most optimistic places on earth. Even if
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, August 6, 2017
The Studio, Edinburgh The Turner prize-winner improvises with a mic and guitar in an endearing, exposing show full of ticklish humourA few years ago, the Turner prize-winner Martin Creed was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSaturday, August 5, 2017
Traverse, EdinburghGary McNair’s play about a lonely misfit’s one-sided correspondence with the Smiths frontman makes for a touching hour‘This isn’t fan mail, it’s correspondence,�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMFriday, August 4, 2017
Northern Stage at Summerhall, EdinburghSelina Thompson uses a light touch and humour to leaven anger and grief, as she brings past traumas palpably up to dateTim Etchells of the experimental…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMOne of the unexpected pleasures of last summer returns to Regent’s Park, while the Finnish choreographer addresses masculinity and brutality1 The Flying Lovers of VitebskWhat is the cost o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMThursday, August 3, 2017
They’re back to dominate the industry’s focus throughout August. The Edinburgh International Festival and its vast, unwieldy offshoot, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, July 31, 2017
Last week, I wrote a one-star review for I Loved Lucy at the Arts Theatre in London. Like its five-star counterpoint, the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, July 28, 2017
Fleabag director Vicky Jones returns with a candid, honest play about sex, while Russia’s finest enjoy a second week at the Royal Opera House1 TouchDee is living in chaos in a bedsit in Lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Arts theatre, LondonSandra Dickinson’s heroic portrayal of the once world-famous TV comedian brings a pulse to this stage corpseAt the height of her success, Lucille Ball was the most famo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMMonday, July 24, 2017
The appointment of Michelle Terry as artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe is a smart move by a theatre board that rightly came in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMThere has been some furore over an advert placed – then hastily removed by Arts Council England – on its jobs website
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, July 21, 2017
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonMatthew Dunster transposes Shakespeare’s battle of the sexes comedy to the Mexican revolution, in a production with a fiesta spirit and a feisty BeatriceThe Su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMJames Graham takes on the Sun and Rupert Murdoch, while the great Russian troupe bring Don Quixote and Swan Lake to the Royal Opera House1 The FerrymanNow extended into 2018, Jez Butterworth…
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