Thursday, October 24, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonEmer Dineen’s semi-autobiographical show blurs the lines between raucous cabaret and memoir as her alter ego struggles with an existential crisis
Is this club? A fever …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMThursday, October 3, 2024
Dorfman theatre, London In Tanika Gupta’s play, Meera Syal is a steely south Asian matriarch whose Lear-like decline into dementia upends her family
There are quibbles with Tanika Gupta’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMThursday, September 19, 2024
Belgrade theatre, CoventryContested heritage, inequity and the criminal justice system are explored in poet Casey Bailey’s one-man play
‘Please do not touch” reads a sign in front of a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMTuesday, September 10, 2024
Park theatre, LondonCarey Crim asks a series of moral questions in her play about a woman facing the aftermath of her teacher husband’s conviction for sexual misconduct
Tom, a beloved dram…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMSunday, August 18, 2024
Debuts rich in neurodiversity and self-analysis jostle for attention at this year’s festival with a beloved grandma, the Russian elite and a misguided attempt at an apology
We’ve reached…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMWednesday, August 14, 2024
What is it like to be the solo audience member at a fringe performance? I found out at a range of shows designed to give the viewer exactly this experience
I’m standing on an Edinburgh str…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMSunday, August 4, 2024
Traverse, EdinburghThe real story of food writer Atoosa Sepehr, who fled her abusive husband in Iran, is retold with the warm familiarity of a friend – while cooking up a fragrant dish liv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMPleasance Dome, Edinburgh A fallen queen bee turns to a social media pyramid scheme in a technological whirlwind of a production, grounded by Emma-Louise Howell’s darkly comic, rhythmic sc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:35AMFriday, August 2, 2024
Their on, then off, then on-again relationship has given the standup couple plenty of material. They discuss oversharing on stage, comedy after cancellation, and explaining monogamy to their…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMFriday, July 12, 2024
Fangirl celebrates the obsessive followers of a band closely resembling One Direction. ‘It really does question where the boundaries are,’ says its creator
It’s March 2015 and a bombsh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMSunday, June 23, 2024
Bush theatre, LondonAfter her father’s death, Peace unexpectedly discovers the existence of a half-brother in Nigeria. Who is he? And why did her father never mention him?
On the surface, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMFriday, June 21, 2024
Watford Palace theatrePhilip J Morris’s stage adaptation of the Bafta-winning film tells it straight as Anthony Bryan’s life is ripped apart
The voice of Theresa May opens this stage ver…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMTuesday, June 18, 2024
Arcola theatre, LondonSet in a chronically understaffed treatment centre, Laura Waldren’s searing play homes in on the hellish cycles and contradictions caused by the condition
For anyone …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMThursday, May 23, 2024
Belgrade theatre, CoventrySiana Bangura’s play follows three west African women in Coventry who are cajoled into the water – and find themselves surfacing from grief
They say water has t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMThursday, April 18, 2024
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London Nkenna Akunna’s monologue follows a young woman as she crashes her oldest friend’s 25th birthday party
At its core, Nkenna Akunna’s monologue is a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, April 12, 2024
Hampstead theatre, LondonRichard’s Nelson’s elegiac monologue feels like Paul Jesson is live-reading a novel and results in a sense of stagnation
Richard’s Nelson’s monologue, writte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMSunday, April 7, 2024
Omnibus theatre, LondonAnastasia Osei-Kuffour’s stylish debut gives an honest appraisal of the tricky world of apps and expectations, yet offers a note of hope for those on the long road t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMWednesday, March 27, 2024
Prince Edward theatre, LondonThe jukebox musical has gravity defying dancing and all the megahits, but it’s hard to ignore the glaringly unpleasant biographical absence
‘I want to keep …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMFriday, March 8, 2024
The writer has gone from creating viral comedy to a play about football and friendship between a group of teens amid the gentrification of south London. ‘I’m never as nervous as when I p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMFriday, February 23, 2024
Hampstead theatre, LondonNeil D’Souza’s sharp script is packed with regret and affection as old bandmates get together to relive the glory days on holiday
Grab the beer and sunglasses an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMFriday, February 16, 2024
Yard theatre, LondonA Ghanaian tour guide struggles to maintain his composure in the face of historical ignorance and requests for selfies, in Rhianna Ilube’s poignant critique of colonial…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMTuesday, January 23, 2024
It took her eight years to write Intelligence, an era-hopping epic about the pioneer’s battle for recognition. Now that it’s won the Women’s prize for playwriting, will Grochala stop t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMWednesday, November 8, 2023
New Diorama theatre, LondonAma wants a baby before her 30th birthday in this unstructured play from Jessica Hagan that doesn’t know if it is serious or trying to make us laugh
I’m all up…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMWednesday, August 30, 2023
For the first time ever, both the ‘Oscars of comedy’ have gone to standups with South Asian heritage. So what do the two performers who set the fringe alight have planned? Lots of boasti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:13PMSaturday, August 19, 2023
Assembly, EdinburghErin Armstrong performs well as the 70s Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni but the show’s structure distracts from her anguish
She had everything: fame, fortune and barrels o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:43AMWednesday, August 16, 2023
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghElle Dillon-Reams’ solo show is a stream of consciousness about sexual assault and womanhood
‘Writing about this has been confusing,” says Elle Dillon-Rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AMMonday, August 14, 2023
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghMontel Douglas writes four males leads who are on the brink of becoming men, but their jokes and dancing belie a darker story
We might not all remember our schoo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:13PMSunday, August 13, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghCarrie Rudzinski and Olivia Hall’s poems are sincerely performed and loaded with justified anger at unfairness but they grow monotonous
I’m a part of the target audi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:37PMFriday, June 30, 2023
Orange Tree theatre, LondonThe intricately tangled lives of three women, and their explosive secret, are revealed in this complicated picture of queer love across the decades
The wonder of I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PMThursday, June 29, 2023
We take a journey through the magical land of Glastonbury's theatre, circus and comedy
And that’s it again for another year. Oh Glastonbury. A fever dream where the time of reality stops …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:13AMSunday, June 25, 2023
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonRhashan Stone and Daniel Ward jump in time from a shabby minstrel show to modern stardom to a violent future in poet David Harris’s controversial satire…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AM 
