Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Every year at the Edinburgh Fringe, Paines Plough, a UK touring company specialised in commissioning and developing new writing, brings a cluster of contemporary plays to the Roundabout, loc…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:36AMFriday, August 30, 2024
New plays can derive from many sources: a vivid imagination, novels, diaries, real-life episodes, autobiography, biography and history. Elena Mazzon’s The Popess, drawing on the real-life …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:24PMA cast of young actors from diverse parts of the globe brought Malvolio’s Fantasy to the Space venue at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. The group, members of Edinburgh University’s Shake…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:22PMWednesday, August 28, 2024
As part of Here and Now, a new Arts Council England showcase, Tim Etchells, artistic director of the celebrated company, Forced Entertainment, has penned L’Addition (The Bill), teaming up …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:21PMMonday, August 19, 2024
The title of the play, The Amazing Doctor She Medicine Show, leaves one wondering who on earth was the amazing Doctor She. All is unveiled in this fifty-minute lecture-cum-interactive perfor…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:26AMSunday, August 18, 2024
On this year’s Edinburgh Fringe a raft of reimaginings of Shakespeare’s plays, by emerging and established companies jostle for punters’ attention. Hamstrung, Migrant Shakespeare, A Me…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:25AMFriday, August 16, 2024
The five-hundred-year history of Italy’s Commedia dell’Arte is neatly packed into Masquerade, a truly entertaining show, which offers a taste of Italy, past and present. The three strong…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:18PMA unique feature of Edinburgh’s Fringe festival is its inclusive nature. Professional and non-professional companies from Scotland and around the world can take part and jostle for the att…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:16PMSpoken word poetry has a huge following in the UK, and Luke Wright is one of the most talented exponents, breaking new ground with his audacious work. Wright took his first steps as one of t…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:15PMOn the Edinburgh Fringe the number of plays investigating climate change is growing each year, and in the 2024 programme, there’s a Climate and Sustainability section. At the Pleasance Dom…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:14PMThursday, August 15, 2024
In Two Minds, produced by Dublin’s celebrated multi-award winning Fishamble, is playing at Traverse Theatre, Scotland’s home for new writing. Dramatist and performer Joanne Ryan has crea…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:12PMWednesday, August 14, 2024
Director of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), Nicola Benedetti, chose ‘Rituals that unite us” as the theme for this year’s festival, which got off to a stunning start in the …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:20PMHamlet, along with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and Macbeth, are probably the Shakespeare plays that are most often revisited today by writers, with very different intentions and…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:10PMSunday, July 28, 2024
This year’s Theatre Biennale (15 to 30 June), entitled, Niger and Albus (Black and White), sees directors Gianni Forte and Stefano Ricci keen – as they note in their introduction – to …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:15PMWednesday, July 17, 2024
After Brexit, UK productions very rarely play in Italy, but Biennale theatre directors Gianni Forte and Stefano Ricci have made an exception. The final days of the Festival put center stage …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:56PMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Together with Wayne McGregor’s dance piece, UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey, Romeo Castellucci’s reimagining of Jean Racine’s Bérénice (first staged in 1670), with Isabelle Huppert …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:33PMSunday, April 7, 2024
Milan’s international multidisciplinary performance art festival FOG, featuring theatre, music, and dance, is at its seventh edition. The brainchild of the Triennale theatre’s artistic d…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:47PMFriday, March 1, 2024
Writer, actor, and director Ascanio Celestini is one of Italy’s most celebrated theatrical storytellers, a genre much loved by Italian audiences of all ages. For me, Dario Fo was the undis…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:39AMFriday, December 1, 2023
Since 2015 my theatre studies colleague, Cristina Cavecchi, and I have been leading Shakespeare prison workshops at the Puntozero Beccaria Theatre. This two-hundred-seater theatre is the onl…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:32AM 
