Merchant 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMAvailable onlineYou are put through a cryptic interview in this ingenious show that tears up theatre’s rulebook to make the spectator the star It’s 2007, I’ve been lured into an Edinbu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMThe playwright’s Tennis Elbow is a gender-swapped version of Writer’s Cramp, his uproarious 70s hit about a failed literary figure If you were in Edinburgh during the 1977 festival there…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMAvailable online A volunteer driver, a dog walker and an injured elderly woman fight personal lockdown battles – with playwright Stewart Melton’s welcome addition of the determination to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMAvailable onlinePlaywright Amy Ng adds issues of imperial exploitation and race by moving drama of wealthy woman and servant to Hong Kong in 1948 Miss Julie is standing on top of the kitchen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMAvailable onlineJohnny McKnight’s warm-hearted play, live-streamed from the Gaiety theatre in Ayr, reflects on what we’ve missed most about performance What will audiences want after the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMAvailable onlineMilo Rau’s film mixes a dramatisation of the crucifixion story with a real-life portrait of exploited migrant workers Milo Rau keeps you on your toes. On stage, the Belgiu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMAvailable onlineAudiences try to stop an ancient artefact from falling into the wrong hands in this interactive production What would a time traveller make of it? Someone arriving from 2019 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMAvailable onlineChris Bush’s community play uses local music and family histories to explore the city’s resilience, hope and determination It begins, as a show about Sheffield only could…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMAvailable online A conspiracy unfolds across a week with clues arriving by post, phone and email in an interactive online adventure from Riptide Along with Tik Tok dances and home deliveries…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMAvailable onlineA trip to the gym for some metaphysical exercise opens the Tron theatre’s fascinating series of experimental audio dramas Haruki Murakami would have called it What I Talk A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMAvailable online Denied live performance, creators slip its boundaries to explore screen trickery in this stimulating festival of storytelling, puppetry and animation If there’s one festiv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThe actor, who has died aged 61, had hangdog charm, a cheery twinkle and the sense of danger that sparks chaotic comedy It was 2010 and the world of Scottish theatre was reeling from the sud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMAvailable online Theodora van der Beek’s film about a lactose-fuelled religion is the highlight of an online compilation that finds British theatre-makers in morose mood What if online th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMAvailable onlineNational Theatre of Scotland retell the famous panto in a series of madcap monologues The top theatre shows to watch online this Christmas Did Brian Friel ever write a Christ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMAvailable onlineCovid quips abound – and the Prince keeps his distance from Cinders – in Nottingham Playhouse’s colourful show “Recently I’ve lost my sense of taste and smell,” s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMAvailable onlineDame and director Barrie Hunter’s tremendous live show, with characters confined in their Covid-era dressing rooms, is a richly ribald delight At this time of year, we shou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMAvailable onlineAn ordinary hotel room becomes a place of upended perspective and magic in Thaddeus Philips’ connection-themed play The adventure is over, the wizard has been exposed and D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMAvailable onlineThis belter of a production is larger than life, with cartoon accents, embellished dialogue and eye-popping outfits King Shirley XII has an awful lot of clothes. His dressing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03PMAvailable online Filmed at Pitlochry when a live show was prevented, Elizabeth Newman’s charming adventure channels star power to rescue festive spirit Elizabeth Newman is the director wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMAvailable onlineA melancholic fairytale, African shadow puppetry and a haunted proscenium are among the first five offerings from the Lyceum’s series of Christmas plays How many ways are t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMAvailable onlineIn this exquisite film we go backstage at Glasgow’s Tron to hear and see the poet’s work performed with beguiling theatricality It’s been a long time since we saw the b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMAvailable onlineHannah Lavery’s play about the death of a man in police custody in 2015 is both impassioned and poetic ‘It’s not Black Lives Matter,” says one of the characters in Ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PMAvailable onlinePlaying to a live online audience, mind-reader Scott Silven appears to know our thoughts before we do The joy of a magic trick is in the moment. The magician defies the rule…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMYou are the solo performer and audience in this quietly transformative piece whose script is delivered to your door One of the things they teach playwrights is character development. If your…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMOnline via Gaiety, AyrThickSkin’s intense, flickering two-hander about automatons in a totalitarian regime makes gripping, immersive VR viewing As if 2020 were not dystopian enough, ThickS…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMRoyal Lyceum, Edinburgh/onlineThe comedian – on a solo tour of UK theatres – finds warm and funny layers of humanity in the small details of everyday lives Daniel Kitson doesn’t strike…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48PMAvailable onlineUntimely deaths, ritual sacrifice, the supernatural ... steel yourself for a 90-minute immersive quest that’s an escape room for the age of social distancing It’s bad for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMAvailable onlineThe imperilled astronauts’ story is retold with a topical slant and a mastery of slow-burn tension What makes this play by Torben Betts gripping is the thrill of a life-and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PMAvailable onlineLive Theatre’s series of short plays range from the joys and perils of gardening to a howl of rage against a cruel stepmother Anyone remember the olden days? They used to h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMAvailable onlineThe sacred salmon is the star of Pitlochry Festival theatre’s series of poems and plays inspired by the mysterious River Tay You can’t fault Pitlochry Festival theatre f…
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