Harbottle Park, Byker, Newcastle upon TyneChatterbox Charli is on a quest to find her voice and stay free in Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s warm and funny family play “Why does everyone say I’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMArmy @ The Fringe, EdinburghThe friendship of two female soldiers is the poignant basis of this intense, immersive audio play that takes you on a tour of the local area When you watch news r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMPleasance at EICC, EdinburghFocusing on four survivors of the massacre at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, this stirs the emotions but doesn’t grapple with the most pressing or diffic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PMNewhailes House, MusselburghGrid Iron has brilliantly transposed this Norwegian tale, of a man who leaves his family to live in a tent, to the grounds of a National Trust for Scotland proper…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMTraverse theatre, EdinburghDementia and grief are among the difficult subjects explored in Frances Poet’s dislocating play I don’t think Frances Poet intends her play to be depressing. S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMTynecastle Park, EdinburghThis musical play about a women’s football league making boots for troops at the Somme is moving and polemical It was a day of celebration. The players from the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMThis August the Scottish capital is much quieter but performers and audiences at this modest jamboree are full of spirit On the wall in my kitchen is a calendar made by Edinburgh theatre cri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMAvailable onlineA park bench, inside a car and a room in your house are the three settings for Darkfield’s play which lacks a killer payoff Theatre-makers are used to being in control of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMMultiStory, EdinburghA young singer loves clubbing, which clashes with her hopes of success at the Eisteddfod in Lisa Jên Brown’s exuberant two-hander Globalisation leaves us in a quanda…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSummerhall, EdinburghMamoru Iriguchi and Afton Moran raid their dressing-up box to give us a cheery guide to the evolutionary history of reproduction, and what it says about gender fluidity …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMTraverse theatre, EdinburghThe Edinburgh festival’s theatre programme begins with Enda Walsh’s flamboyant and funny new play about a man receiving an inappropriate form of drama therapy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMAvailable onlineThe former Guardian critic, along with Evening Standard scribe Fiona Mountford, take to the limelight in this fruity vintage marital drama Victor Kiam liked his shavers so mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMGrosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterSuzanne Ahmet turns on the charm as Elizabeth in this outdoor production of Austen’s great love story and wry comedy of manners “If life is not al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMNew Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeThis delightful promenade show uses pretty-as-a-picture design, undercut with creepy asides, to bring ETA Hoffmann’s famous tale alive Who knew there w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMAvailable onlineIn Gary McNair’s jovial audio play, a woman rediscovers a connection with her home town and her dead father by following a Scottish football team for a season Who doesn’t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMStephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough In Laura Wade’s clever play, her heroine becomes a 50s housewife but 21st-century gender politics lurk under the Formica surface In the row behind me, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMThe Irish playwright is known both for feverishly claustrophobic plays – including his latest, Medicine – and big commercial hits. If a project doesn’t feel right, he fires himself Loc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMBard in the Botanics, GlasgowShakespeare’s play on the unreliability of appearances works well in the wings of a theatre, but this 90-minute streamlining perhaps cuts too much You can see …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42PMPitlochry Festival theatreLockdown loneliness, eco-crisis and land ownership are explored with varying degrees of subtlety in an uplifting show The National Trust should see about hiring Col…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMPitlochry Festival theatreBrian Ferguson performs with mesmerising verve in this poignant, desperately funny portrait of existential misery ‘I am alone,” says the narrator of Dostoevsky�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMCrucible, SheffieldWood’s 1978 play about a young woman’s quest to win a local talent show handles weighty issues, including sexual exploitation, breezily It is a world of mirror balls …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMCrucible, SheffieldDrifters and deadbeats populate four lesser-known Williams shorts in this un-sultry Northern Broadsides anthology Northern Broadsides has a history of putting a northern E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMBristol Old Vic and onlineMalaika Kegode embraces audiences with her warm, honest poetry, backed by musicians Jakabol – but her true-life tale quickly takes a dark turn A sense of homeline…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMLiverpool EverymanMajid Mehdizadeh (AKA Luke Jerdy from Hollyoaks) explores modern-day manhood and the contagion of everyday violence Male violence is like a virus. That is how it comes acro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMPitlochry Festival theatreA Caledonian witch holds a Roman officer captive in David Greig’s drama of attraction and philosophical opposites Pitlochry Festival theatre already has a claim …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMStephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe prolific playwright is on fine form with an uncanny story that smartly contrasts national crises past and present Domestic life was quiet during lockdo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMAvailable onlineAnimation and street dancing power Mixed Up, a film about validating feelings, while The Super Special Disability Roadshow gives voice to a young audience There’s a video f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06AMAvailable onlineGods Vishnu, Lakshmi and Brahma become street-smart hedonists in Jaimini Jethwa’s ribald and swaggering audio play Body-swap comedies are big in the cinema. From the mother…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMAvailable onlineIvor MacAskill and Rosana Cade’s clever show about identity was the highlight of the Glasgow festival’s opening weekend The animating force behind The Adventures of Pino…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMThe author, who became a literary sensation at the age of 21 with The End of Eddy, is appearing in a show exploring acting in theatre and in everyday life Some people give their bodies to me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMMerchant City, GlasgowAdura Onashile’s app-based walking tour, created with the National Theatre of Scotland, explores the city’s historical ties to the slave trade Glasgow’s Merchant …
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