It is practically a professional requirement that actors be emotional and vulnerable, but only recently has protecting their mental wellbeing become a priorityActor and playwright Milly Thom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMLeeds PlayhouseJames Brining’s revival of this rueful study of foreignness and fear doesn’t go out of its way to seem timely because it doesn’t need toWhat is Europe? A continent, an i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PM'Dream space': Catherine Love reviews Sarah Frankcom's fresh, insightful take on the 20th Century American staple The post Review: Death of a Salesman at the Royal Exchange, Manchester appea…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:08AMYork Theatre RoyalRelocated to northern England, this fast-paced panto-esque comedy is damningly relevant nowAfter the 2008 banking crisis, Dario Fo redrafted his 1974 play Can’t Pay? Won�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMAlbion Electric Warehouse, LeedsKeeping the audience on the move, Red Ladder’s 50th-anniversary production stars Pauline McLynnMother Courage and Her Children is a play of perpetual moveme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThe Snow Queen – like so many of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytales – is a dark story. A boy is kidnapped and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:51PMYork Army Museum Lying in a row of beds, an audience of 10 is transported to a wartime hospital in Sound&Fury’s arresting showThere are no images of the first world war in Sound&Fu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMBuilding community: Catherine Love writes on a quietly radical performance, part of a series of public interventions by Common Wealth. The post Review: Radical Acts at Bradford Club appeared…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:33AMWhy do we keep telling the same stories? Director Jude Christian’s mash-up of Othello and Macbeth, two of the oldest and most
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:07AMCrucible, SheffieldBush tackles sexism and racial prejudice in a cross-generational commentary on contemporary politicsIn Chris Bush’s new play, steel is a multi-faceted metaphor. It’s r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMStephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughAlan Ayckbourn’s 82nd play, about an over-the-hill crime novelist, struggles to come up with anything new to say about creativity, fame or failureAn agei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMTheatre and acrobatic shows at the Edinburgh festival use the experiences of donors to explore fertility, faith and family‘Who is the family?” asks aerial artist and theatre-maker Sarah …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMPleasance Dome/Zoo Charteris, Edinburgh★★★☆☆/★★☆☆☆Grace Chapman tries to outrun her fears and Fredrik Høyer works up a sweat in two one-person shows about mental and phy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn Theatre Ad Infinitum’s latest show, George Mann and Nir Paldi consider whether they can cope with the prejudice that two dads still faceTo procreate or not…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMTraverse theatre, EdinburghFood’s nostalgic power is captured with mouth-watering success in this poignant staging of the popular memoirFood tells stories. The homemade mince pies that whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghFrom a Deliveroo driver to a dying Christ, Julian Spooner seamlessly shapeshifts in an enthralling restaging of a Dario Fo classicSolo shows are everywhere at th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFran Bushe’s comedy uses glitter and smart songs to advocate better understanding of sex for womenFran Bushe wants to fix sex. Armed with glitter, songs and a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMSummerhall, EdinburghValentijn Dhaenens takes us behind the speechifying in a compelling study of how politicians operateIt’s six years since Valentijn Dhaenens blasted fringe-goers with h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMSummerhall, EdinburghKatherine Radeva takes on the dying days of communism in her native Bulgaria and considers the Britain she lives in todayIn the same year Europe marks the 30th anniversa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghSchoolboy banter and playground scraps expose underlying insecurities in Gary McNair and Kieran Hurley’s playThe playground is a battlefield. Max and his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghSimon Longman’s teen tale of ‘left behind’ Britain pulls no emotional punches but risks becoming two-dimensionalKate, Sam and Pete live in a town made…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMUnderground Railroad Game and On the Exhale are among several shows at the festival exploring the way America sees itselfAs the UK’s so-called special relationship with the US becomes incr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMAny stage version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved children’s book hangs on the garden of its title. In Liz Stevenson’s production, the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMThe grass is always greener, so they say. But for vicar Hugh (Jamie Baughan) and his wife Louise (Louise Shuttleworth), it really
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMThis summer, community-led shows are encouraging residents to tell their own tales of loss, love and Bruce Springsteen gigsAt the Crucible theatre, Sheffield’s teenagers are thinking about…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMThe RSC actor on the moral ambiguity of Mantel's Tudor world and the thrill of bringing her Wolf Hall books to the West End• Michael Billington's review of Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies•…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PM★★☆☆☆/★★★☆☆ Shakespeare’s Rose theatre, YorkThis new venture offers spinning fairies in an otherwise flat Midsummer Night’s Dream and espresso-fuelled scraps in a mor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMIn this country, too often there’s a crude, limiting idea of what Shakespeare on stage looks like. Audiences expect opaque verse, loud
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:58AMRoyal Exchange, Manchester Peake’s play is a fierce cry for recognition of the movement that supported miners and their families and saw women occupy a coal pit in protestThere’s a famil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSheffield CrucibleDirector Caroline Steinbeis takes up the gauntlet by reshaping and mining Churchill’s 57 fleeting scenes for less obvious meaning Scripts are both instructional and nebul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMEveryman, LiverpoolWith a cacophonous cast of characters, Robert Farquhar’s new take on Peer Gynt dashes through the second half of the 20th centuryThe spirit of ensemble, an idea at the h…
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