Thursday, November 16, 2023
Royal Court, Liverpool Traditional tale is recast as a daft quest across Europe, built on a giddy score powering through hits from Bon Jovi to Kraftwerk
The dick jokes are, of course, inevit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMTuesday, November 14, 2023
She cast an armchair as Mr Bennet in a Pride and Prejudice reboot. Now Isobel McArthur’s been let loose on lusty romp The Fair Maid of the West. So is she worried about outraging mothbally…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMThursday, November 9, 2023
New version of the Anglo-Saxon epic features a massive cast of singers, actors and members of the community
Ian McMillan is contemplating the greats who have gone before him. He is one of fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, October 18, 2023
As he stages Gary McNair’s twist on the tale of Pip, the director reflects on 16 years of spotting and developing raw talent while running the Tron
Andy Arnold is a director with staying p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PMSunday, October 15, 2023
Queen’s Hall arts centre, HexhamAn 83-year-old resident rails against the lack of liberty, settling herself on a bench outside and refusing to return despite legal threats and offers of ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMFriday, September 22, 2023
Royal Court, LiverpoolJames Graham’s funny and violent TV adaptation belies a sensitive study of male mental health, as right-wing economics hits a group of road layers’ lives
The emotio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMThursday, September 21, 2023
Nottingham PlayhouseWith excellent performances, Tom Wright’s play about the man who became a Victorian freakshow attraction is an at times uneasy mix of circus and polemic
Entrances don�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AMCurve, LeicesterThis staging of Kafka’s story is physically exciting, even tireless, but it hits an early peak of terror then has nowhere to go for two hours
It is linguistically playful, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMThursday, September 14, 2023
Octagon theatre, BoltonIn Holly Race Roughan’s thrilling and dynamic production, Arthur Miller’s classic about a Brooklyn longshoreman and his family roils with primal passions
If Arthur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMWednesday, September 13, 2023
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughAlan Ayckbourn has fun imagining the hazards of malfunctioning android lovers and misbehaving auto-maids – but there’s a deeper message too about human…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMFriday, September 8, 2023
His Majesty’s Theatre, AberdeenAll-female production tells Bram Stoker’s story from the perspective of women trying to escape patriarchy – it’s often urgent, but sometimes sucked of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:43AMThursday, September 7, 2023
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotHorror-movie witches haunt the unhappy couple throughout this touring co-production. It’s one of many interesting ideas that are dropped too soon
There …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMFriday, September 1, 2023
Pitlochry festival theatreIsla Cowan’s quietly intelligent new drama goes inside a three-way relationship and each person’s different attachments to their rural cottage retreat
On the fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMThursday, August 31, 2023
Pitlochry festival theatreAt a dinner party attended by a child ghost and a goading TV pundit warning of apocalypse, a middle-class literati find themselves on the brink of social upheaval
P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMThursday, August 24, 2023
On Edinburgh fringe stages, pop is eating itself with a series of pastiches and tributes that riff on TV hits and surreal celebrity reimaginings
This review goes out in honour of Gerard Slev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMWednesday, August 23, 2023
The festival’s musicals this year range from theatrical introspection to a rip-roaring improvisation inspired by Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash hit
The world’s most popular musicals have o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMThursday, August 17, 2023
Summerhall, Edinburgh This brainy solo show follows Woof’s intuitive thinker, standing in to deliver a lecture for her hyper-rational neuroscientist husband
And she starts off chatting to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PMTwo inventive productions, Dimanche and Concerned Others, use puppetry and object-theatre to tackle vast environmental and social subjects
Such is the enormity of the problems facing humanit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMWednesday, August 16, 2023
C Aurora, EdinburghThe long-ago disappearance of a great-aunt is explored in Nishla Smith’s captivating performance, enhanced by hand-painted animations
For decades, Nishla Smith’s famil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:55PMAttachment: The Leech Show is a merry romp about an influential reviewer and sums up the industry’s paradoxical attitude to theatre criticism
Advice has been circulating among fringe compa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AMMonday, August 14, 2023
Zoo Playground, EdinburghInspired by the work of Nobel-winning Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich, this is a disturbing but blackly funny piece
Every performance of The Last of the So…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07AMSaturday, August 12, 2023
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDevastating testimonies from field hospitals, jungles and mountain outposts are performed verbatim-style in Tiago Rodrigues’s disquieting show
It feels like an intru…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghObehi Janice’s one-woman show collects her adventures in the dating game but they don’t lead anywhere that interesting
Obehi Janice had friends at school who, like…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AMTwo new shows at the festival question senses of hearing and sight in engaging and eccentric ways
Seeing is believing, right? That is a phrase used repeatedly by Mamoru Iriguchi and co-star …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMFriday, August 11, 2023
Imaginary friends, runaway horses and Roger McGough’s take on the Wind in the Willows are among the treats for younger audiences at the festival
Summerhall, 11.30am, until 20 August Contin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AMWednesday, August 9, 2023
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghUpset by racist attacks in their town, a young couple attempt to get to know the culprits in Eve Leigh’s new play
Anyone running a far-right festival woul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07PMTraverse theatre, EdinburghA high-school English teacher and his former star pupil meet in a brothel in Kieran Hurley’s new play
With this uneven three-hander, Kieran Hurley has fielded tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMZoo Southside, EdinburghPolish company Song of the Goat strip Titus Andronicus back to tell a brutal tale of postwar violence, betrayal and revenge
If you are going to tell Shakespeare’s t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghReflecting on feelings, dating and brotherly love, Nathan Queeley-Dennis’s first drama is fun and frothy
This one-man show by Nathan Queeley-Dennis is wri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThree characters take stock of their low-key lives in Angus Harrison’s cleverly plotted show
If Chekhov were writing today, maybe he would be setting his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:13AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghIn Miriam Battye’s comedic tour de force, Her and Him go through the motions of getting to know each other
Given the survival of the species depends on it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AM 
