Choreographer Sara Juli’s one-woman show about urinary incontinence and the burdens of motherhood – both bodily and psychological – flows with an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:27AMChoreographer Pauline Mayers’ one-woman show What If I Told You is eloquent on ideas of difference. Part confessional monologue, memoir and workshop,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:07AMAmid the pheromone fug of a locker room, the macho posturing of two blokes in tiny shorts shades into furtive erotic promise
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMGracefool Collective comprises four graduates of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance whose first Edinburgh Fringe show mixes feminist frustration with raucous
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:51PMEchoes of Nijinsky’s faun emerge in Sharon Eyal’s mysterious Process Day, a work danced with commanding presence by every member of Scottish
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:32AMManual Cinema’s Lula Del Ray is easy to admire but oddly unengaging: a slice of Americana with a strange aftertaste. In technical
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMThe first fratricide is given a rather flat treatment in Animikii Theatre’s Origins, a physical theatre retelling of Cain and Abel. Bare-chested
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMSomething remarkably febrile lies at the centre of Nederlands Dans Theater’s Edinburgh triple bill. A man in the throes of death recalls
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:50AMUrielle Klein-Mekongo’s one-woman show Yvette is a winning and poignant work that deals with raging teenage hormones, racial identity and the lasting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMRobert Mapplethorpe and the bohemian subcultures of 1970s’ New York inspire this transfixing piece – an extract from a full-length work –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMTutu is a disappointing all-male production that relies on cheap visual gags in an attempt to satirise several styles of dance. Ballet
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AMA bearded man in a blue suit is dancing blithely to Whitney Houston, but things take an awkward turn in Josh Lucas’
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:21PMCelebration is a small but glorious remedy for despair. Ben Kulvichit and Clara Potter-Sweet acknowledge bewilderment and fright at the recent rise
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMSlip jigs, reels and the smell of hairspray fill the Tallaght Basketball Arena in Margaret McAuliffe’s wonderful one-woman show about a teenage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:47AMCirkopolis has technical feats aplenty but its lacks a real storytelling soul. Intended as a family-friendly reworking of Metropolis, the narrative clarity
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMLuca Silvestrini’s Border Tales has been around since 2014, but its messages about multiculturalism seem more relevant than ever in the rabid
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:21AMCass is a writer who has lost her voice and can’t get out of the bathtub. Her mother has just died and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:02PMScribble, as the title suggests, is a self-consciously writerly work. It’s an attempt to dramatise the author’s intrusive thoughts – specifically the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:58AMLady Macbeth doesn’t get the stage time and death scene she deserves; in the play, her apparent suicide is merely reported to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:48AMThe Room at the Top of the House, by Lincoln University’s graduate company Stand By Theatre, is a sincere but ultimately shallow
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:46AMOut is a powerfully eloquent danced dialogue about race, gender and sexuality in Caribbean culture by Rachael Young and Dwayne Antony. Movement
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMPierrot the clown’s chalky face gazes out from gauzy fabric drapery. In the experimental puppet show Evocation, inspired by work of Symbolist
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:28AMDislocation finds a compelling physical language in The North. A pair of female dancers in fuzzy reindeer antlers move with hyper-articulate strangeness
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:43AMWhalebone is a spirited, sensitive meditation on female bodies and identity, on the personal infirmities and societal scrutiny of the physical self.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMIn the charming Words and Music, Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed presents himself as a wholly engaging cross between a seer and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMA bawdy picaresque spirit animates Cirk La Putyka’s Batacchio and it makes for a wackily entertaining show. We’re introduced to the proceedings
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMIn Tumble Tuck, writer-performer Sarah Milton evokes the fraught and chlorine-scented world of competitive swimming. She’s Daisy, an uncertain girl in a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMCircus company Feathers of Daedalus’ steampunk re-imagining of Coppelia – the classic comic ballet about a clockwork doll and her maniacal maker
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17AMTransit is an acrobatic tour de force that’s signed, sealed and delivered with joyful aplomb by redoubtable young Canadian company Flip FabriQue.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:55AMCzech choreographer Lenka Vagnerova’s Gossip starts out with insidious confidence and appeal. A solitary dancer with a fixed grin, white blazer and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:09PMAn all-female company of circus artists play cleverly with the invocation of spectacle and its denial in the fascinating No Show. Demonstrations
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