Friday, August 9, 2024
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghA hard-up dramatist is determined to pay tribute to her mum in Kelly Jones’s deftly handled play, produced by Paines Plough
In Michel Tremblay’s Le Vrai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThursday, August 8, 2024
Traverse, EdinburghA couple visit a bereaved friend only to find a surprise awaits in Douglas Maxwell’s comedy of social embarrassment
Instead of Chekhov’s gun, we have Maxwell’s whisk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMWednesday, August 7, 2024
Summerhall, EdinburghWith big hair, long dress and Appalachian accent, Charlene Boyd finds common voice with the singer in a personal and political show
The most powerful country songs are t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59AMTuesday, August 6, 2024
Summerhall, EdinburghThe schoolboys from the 2018 comedy Square Go are back and on their way to a disco with high hopes and fears
On the way out, I hear someone tell his friends he had been …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:53AMSummerhall, EdinburghWriter and actor Sam Ward dissects how a community breaks down in this vivid one-man show
It is not the kind of topicality Sam Ward would have wished for, but the curren…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMMonday, August 5, 2024
Traverse, Edinburgh When a disappointed novelist teaching creative writing encounters a student fascinated by Crime and Punishment a dangerous passion is sparked
At one p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMTraverse, EdinburghThe actor-playwright trims Rostand’s classic and plays the lead with charisma in a breezy, feelgood show
The joy of Virginia Gay’s irreverent version of the Edmond Ros…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMRoyal Lyceum, Edinburgh In Eline Arbo’s taut production of the neo-classical play, Ilke Paddenburg’s Amazon queen presents a fearsome clash of sensuality and aggression
When two tribes g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:52AMTraverse, EdinburghJoanne Ryan’s two-hander, inspired by her own story and brilliantly performed by Pom Boyd and Karen McCartney, elevates everyday family dynamics with a light touch
The s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMSunday, August 4, 2024
Traverse, Edinburgh In this story by Oliver Emanuel, posthumously presented with songs by Gareth Watkins, a couple’s romance is told through the paper trail it leaves
When Oliver Emanuel w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMChurch Hill theatre, EdinburghVicky Featherstone’s directing and Isis Hainsworth’s fine lead turn valiantly blur the wild and the urban to portray the writer’s introspective journey to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh Daisy Hall’s play finds two men attempting to calm an impending storm, even the climate crisis itself, with the perfect peal of bells
The greatest dilemm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMFriday, August 2, 2024
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh What could have been a fiery exchange of fiercely held viewpoints is more likely to incite yawns than outrage
Joshua Kaplan’s play starts with an amusing conceit:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:16AMFriday, July 26, 2024
Grosvenor Park, ChesterIn this open-air production, audiences become citizens of an unruly city in which violence and corruption abound
The prize for adventurous programming goes to Chester�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThursday, July 25, 2024
Williamson Park, LancasterLed by the White Rabbit, this groovy promenade show follows a determined Alice’s journey to the city’s Ashton Memorial
With more incident than drama, Lewis Carr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMFriday, July 5, 2024
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickThe Penrith town band bring warmth and plangency to an adaptation of the post-Thatcher movie, alive with movement and community spirit
Around the end of the 1990s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, June 30, 2024
Tron theatre, GlasgowJohnny McKnight’s snappy revival makes us all complicit in Philip Ridley’s satire on capitalism and consumerism
What moral compromises has the Christian right had t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMThursday, June 27, 2024
Pitlochry Festival theatreA shapeless staging and knockabout jokes detract from the emotional heft of this tale of thwarted love
You might be excited to know that this adaptation of the Jane…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMTuesday, June 25, 2024
Actor will star in The Fear of 13, based on the true story of Nick Yarris, who was wrongly convicted of murder – as the Donmar Warehouse announces four new productions starring Celia Imrie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMThursday, June 20, 2024
Royal Exchange, ManchesterDirector Josh Roche’s new perspective – complete with smartphones, Instagram and Whitney Houston – breathes fresh life into a familiar classic
To update Oscar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMMonday, June 17, 2024
Octagon, BoltonBram Stoker’s novel gets redone in the style of The Play That Goes Wrong, in an energetically performed but ultimately feeble farce
We have a cost of living crisis and a bor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSunday, June 16, 2024
Everyman, LiverpoolTasha Dowd’s big-hearted play is about a Liverpudlian woman who befriends HIV patients at the height of the Aids crisis, and features a ferocious broadside in favour of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMShakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotIn this raucous production set at a summer festival, Viola and Sebastian have done too many pills, Sir Toby Belch listens to Arctic Monkeys … and Les De…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMTuesday, May 28, 2024
The 2018 hit about a cleaner who dreams of becoming a star in Nashville will begin theatre run in Edinburgh
Wild Rose, the award-winning movie about a Glasgow country singer, is to be turned…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMVarious venues, EdinburghFrom a gentle exploration of tubes and spheres to a forthright examination of climate change, immersive puppetry and minimalist narrators, this is mesmerising for fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMFriday, May 24, 2024
Live theatre, NewcastleStewart Pringle’s play unfolds with wit and abrasive lyricism on the sidelines of a chaotic miles-long pitch, where the action definitely isn’t
If you despair at h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Playwright Zinnie Harris and composer Louis Barabbas’s adaptation of the novel will open at Leeds Playhouse and tour in 2025
Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novella Coraline is to be turned …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMMonday, May 20, 2024
Aviva Studios, ManchesterDaisy Johnson adapts a 1970 TV play into a poetic and disturbing exploration of childbirth’s physical and emotional impact
John Bowen’s Robin Redbreast is one of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMWednesday, May 15, 2024
Birmingham RepA strong cast and a magical set make this more or less word-for-word stage transfer of the cult hit an entertaining tribute piece
In 1988, I worked on a listings magazine’s c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMMonday, May 13, 2024
The Fawlty Towers actor has often played the monarch in the past and has now recorded audio for a new production at the festival
At the age of 91, Prunella Scales has reprised one of her fav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMTron theatre, GlasgowThatcher stalks the stage like an untamed monster, but the rest of Barr’s account of growing up gay in the 80s is sentimentalised and soppy
On the page, Damian Barr’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03AM 
