Friday, August 20, 2021
Traverse theatre, EdinburghOn an hour-long circuit guided by headphones, graffiti, sculptures and shops wheedle their way into the dialogue
If this were a regular show it would be something …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThursday, August 19, 2021
Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghAngelina Chudi gives a powerful performance as she tackles the contradictory, confusing experience of meeting an abuser
We’ve all done it. You bump into a signi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMWednesday, August 18, 2021
Army @ The Fringe, Drill Hall, EdinburghIn this warm and witty solo show, Lubna Kerr, the Scottish daughter of middle-class Pakistani immigrants, recounts a lifetime’s encounters with othe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMTuesday, August 17, 2021
Harbottle Park, Byker, Newcastle upon TyneThe story of a relationship unfolds as a thoughtful exploration of attitudes to what we eat in Chris Bush’s clever two-hander
At first glance, Chr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMMonday, August 16, 2021
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 01:18PMFriday, August 13, 2021
Army @ 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 04:24PMThursday, August 12, 2021
Pleasance 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 06:36AMWednesday, August 11, 2021
Traverse 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 12:06PMMonday, August 9, 2021
Tynecastle 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 07:24AMSunday, August 8, 2021
Summerhall, 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 08:18AMThursday, July 29, 2021
Available 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 10:48AMFriday, July 23, 2021
Grosvenor 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 07:24AMThursday, July 22, 2021
New 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 07:24AMTuesday, July 20, 2021
Available 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 07:32PMFriday, July 16, 2021
Stephen 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 07:48AMMonday, July 12, 2021
The 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 05:24AMSunday, July 11, 2021
Bard 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 08:42PMFriday, July 9, 2021
Pitlochry 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 09:18AMSunday, July 4, 2021
Crucible, 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 07:54PMMonday, June 28, 2021
Crucible, 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 03:54AMFriday, June 25, 2021
Bristol 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 05:36AMFriday, June 18, 2021
Liverpool 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 11:06AMSunday, June 13, 2021
Pitlochry 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 08:18PMFriday, June 11, 2021
Stephen 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 06:06AMMonday, May 31, 2021
Available 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 12:06AM 
