Available 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMAvailable onlineTraverse flies the Edinburgh festival flag with audio plays tackling ‘what happens after an earth-shattering event’, doomsday cults and slippery politics This is the tim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMEdinburgh University’s ImprovBot uses data from eight years of past productions to invent tantalising no-shows You can see how it happens. The company has yet to start devising the show, b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMAvailable onlineHope Dickson Leach’s magical, flickering film of past and postponed works is a dazzling theatrical relay race The test of a good production of Peter Pan is the scene where…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMAvailable onlineCumming, Val McDermid and others explore pandemic life in this series from National Theatre of Scotland and the BBC During the Covid crisis, the Victoria and Albert Museum in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMAvailable onlineThere are a string of cartoonish events and a jangly slice of chart-topping indie pop in this play about missed opportunities Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMAvailable onlineJack Nurse and Robbie Gordon debate the problems and prudishness surrounding pornography in a lively audio play adapted from the stage Stories to Connect Us is the name given…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMAvailable onlineDarkfield’s eerie two-person sound experience is a gothic horror that ingeniously overcomes the usual pitfalls of online theatre ‘This is supposed to be a controlled spac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PMAvailable onlinePerformed live on YouTube and Instagram, this play’s study of bling, hedonism and vacuous consumption stands in starker relief than ever WhatsApp pings with a message from …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMAvailable onlineMixing existential soul-searching with wry comedy, this is an adventurous production starring its viewers Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance online The stor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMAvailable onlineWinsome Pinnock’s play, responding to JMW Turner’s Slave Ship painting, is a timely contribution to the Black Lives Matter campaign Hottest front-room seats: the best the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMThe playwright and the director Elizabeth Newman on how they reimagined their new theatre production for radio in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak ‘We never ask the right question of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMAvailable onlineIan Rankin’s stalwart detective struggles with self-isolation in one of six quarantine-themed short films from the National Theatre of Scotland Hottest front-room seats: th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PMAvailable onlineAndré Sills dominates the stage as a leader hungry for battle in Robert Lepage’s up-to-date take on Shakespeare’s tragedy Hottest front-room seats: best theatre and danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMAvailable onlineFrom a violent prisoner to a haunted children’s entertainer, these up-close-and-personal new monologues by Rona Munro show us characters in retreat from the outside world �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMAvailable onlineMercury Theatre Colchester and St Helens Theatre Royal have both launched online pantomimes for isolated audiences Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThe world’s biggest arts festival is loved for its camaraderie and inspiration. This feels like cancelling Christmas – but performers will respond creatively The story used to be about h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMAvailable online A controlling fool in love comes across more like a sexual predator in this engagingly perceptive Stéphane Braunschweig production for France’s Théâtre de l’Odéon Fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMAs venues close due to Covid-19, there’s a world of published drama to savour, from text that falls off the page to Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘undirectable’ collage Coronavirus and culture �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMPitlochry Festival theatreJessica Hardwick and Olivier Huband are compelling as a young couple facing harsh realities once their honeymoon ends It’s the second half of Neil Simon’s comed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMTron, GlasgowKafka’s story is given a chilling update that chimes with our times, referencing the migrant crisis, the gig economy and fear of the unknown Of all the shows to have been affe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32PMLeeds PlayhouseAfter being told one too many times to ‘cheer up, love’, Andrea Heaton’s Lisa lashes out and is sent to a finishing school to suppress ideas of resistance We’re basica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMCast, DoncasterCompassion triumphs over prejudice in Richard Cameron’s play about pit workers who form a close-harmony combo One of the stipulations of the Bechdel test, designed to measur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMLeeds Playhouse The Victorian orphan is given an even greater sense of exclusion in Amy Leach’s excellent production for Ramps on the Moon Brooklyn Melvin’s Oliver has a ferocious roar b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghThis update with Elaine C Smith focuses on Scotland’s landowning class but struggles to make the satire funny There are sad drunks and there are happy drunks. Elaine…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMDundee RepTitle-winning coach Jim McLean is played with raging mastery by Barrie Hunter in a two-hander that pulls some punches He was the manager described by one player as a “football pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMViaduct theatre, HalifaxShakespeare meets Richard Curtis in the play that gave its name to the chocolates, carried by boisterous performances and sweet-wrapper chic As the new artistic direc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMByre theatre, St AndrewsThis imaginative adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s gothic fable amps up the physical storytelling with comic results When my daughter was very young she devel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMRoyal and Derngate, NorthamptonModern-day echoes resound in Alistair Beaton’s adaptation of the novel about tiny acts of rebellion in 1940s Germany ‘The plan…” says Anna Quangel (Cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMBelgrade theatre, Coventry Friends venture into danger on a rival estate armed with sassy spirit and beatbox energy – if not a clear plan – in this lively adaptation of Alex Wheatle’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMLive theatre, NewcastleA trio of actors try to provide answers for teenagers’ anxieties in Paper Birds’ razor-sharp show One teenager wants to know when you’re ready to have a baby. A…
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