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Scottish Storytelling Centre, EdinburghShona Cowie combines traditional storytelling with physical theatre in a show about Maggie Osborne that posits her as more entrepreneur than witch As w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMScottish Storytelling Centre, EdinburghMaria MacDonell and Jo Clifford consider the classic Hans Christian Andersen story and don’t shy away from nature’s cruelty I’m no fan of seagull…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMSummerhall, EdinburghThe true story of a Sydney suburbanite who organised a campaign to save some local bushland and kickstarted a whole environmentalist movement Towards the end of this one…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMWee Red Bar, EdinburghAn adaptation of David Keenan’s novel about a Scottish band who nearly supported Sonic Youth is lovingly detailed A few years ago, the director Stewart Laing invented…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThis four-strong cast imagine what it’s like ‘feeling safe all the time’ in an urgent and impressionistic performance When they ask you not to take photos …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMChurch Hill theatre, EdinburghUsing letters written by survivors of the 1994 genocide to lost family members, Odile Gakire Katese’s show is a tribute to the power of story Odile Gakire Kat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghLaura Horton’s absorbing and sensitive play explores the impact of a much misunderstood disorder Sophie looks at her clothes and says she sees them as “vers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMRoundabout at Summerhall, Edinburgh Sam Ward takes hints from his audience to imagine how their lives could go from here, in a bittersweet contemplation of fate There is a joke in Waiting fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMThe Hub, Edinburgh Liz Lochhead’s Scots verse spits wit and venom as male power meets female determination with operatic intensity, in this National Theatre of Scotland staging Everybody i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Welsh’s band of unruly misfits reunite – 15 years older – in an intense, dark farce that rushes to a conclusion all too soon For all that the characters …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMAssembly Roxy, EdinburghA Nigerian couple seeking asylum on the grounds of sexual persecution are put to the test as the government’s probing questions seep into the cracks of their relati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AMAssembly George Square, EdinburghDaniel Hoffmann-Gill restages his father’s funeral to give his eulogy the audience it deserves in this tender, honest show I write as someone who got a lau…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AMPitlochry Festival theatreDavid Greig’s two-hander adapted from Charlotte Higgins’s nonfiction book about our ancient past is a sweet meander There can’t be many plays in which the emo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghUsing a VR headset and an empty stage, Tim Crouch puts his audience at one remove from the Shakespeare play to comment on the world and theatre itself On the back wall…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMSummerhall/Traverse, EdinburghA pair of fringe plays by James Ley delve into sex parties and mechanophilia, with romance, plenty of wisecracks and a disarming feelgood cheer Who would have t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghPlaywright Ben Norris takes the ethical problems with self-driving cars as a metaphor for human uncertainty As we freewheel into the era of the self-driving car…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMJust the Tonic Nucleus, EdinburghExploring the late Nirvana star’s life and death, Workman delivers a darkly beautiful hour of spoken word Kurt Cobain did not die a poetic death, says Cass…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMAssembly Roxy, EdinburghIsla Cowan stars in her own play about a young professional driven by callous men and unequal status to bare her fangs Fight, flight or freeze. Those are our response…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:37AMSummerhall, EdinburghHaley McGee performs a funny and wistful solo show that chronicles turning 25 and explores the decades ahead How did Haley McGee grow so wise? You would expect a solo fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghThis epic drama charts characters from Colombo in the 50s, through the civil war, before settling in Sydney Two young lovers are considering the future after meeting a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMSummerhall, EdinburghThe impact of a divisive nature v nurture experiment on a pair of twins is the subject of Carly Wijs’s captivating production It is the normality of it all that strike…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghCold reality intrudes on this modern-day story of emigration set in a mythical land as a stressed single mum battles bureaucracy How to dramatise the refuge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThis semi-autobiographical tale about the impact of a damaging relationship is empathic and impassioned At first, you think this piece of gig theatre is mor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PMSummerhall, EdinburghCompelling one-man play looks at the lack of understanding faced by children with a disability and makes a persuasive plea for change The real drama of Jack Hunter’s o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMTraverse, EdinburghEmily Bruni stars as a mid-career actor who thinks she’s landed a dream role in a stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho There is a theme emerging on this year�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMTraverse, EdinburghUma Nada-Rajah’s farce about an MP using intolerance as her ticket to the top job is very timely, but feebly plotted It is with remarkable prescience that Uma Nada-Rajah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMZoo Southside, EdinburghOntroerend Goed’s new show is funny, self-referential and confusing in equal parts This is not the start of the review. The start will come later. This bit is to gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMPleasance Dome, EdinburghThe first country to abolish slavery has been demonised and minimised, as Emily Aboud’s alternately fascinating and frustrating play reveals “Europe has erased t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMKing’s theatre, EdinburghCummings’ daring evocation in movement of the life of Robert Burns goes way beyond the biscuit-tin “And still my motto is: I dare,” says Alan Cumming at the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghChloe-Ann Tylor is excellent as a monstrous male tennis coach in Eve Nicol’s drama examining control and manipulation How do you represent male power on stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMTraverse, EdinburghTabby Lamb’s delightful two-hander is both a sweet comedy and an astute exploration of digital relationships and gender identity Is it coincidence that the increasing ac…
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