Friday, August 16, 2019
Autobiographical refugee story feels like a boy's own adventure
Urgent, fast-paced, seemingly never pausing for breath, How Not to Drown is a real-life boy’s own adventure, an appeal for c…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 05:03AMWednesday, August 14, 2019
Messianic devotion and audience complicity in a slippery new work from Tim Crouch
It’s the end of the world as we know it. At least according to Miles, scientist turned messiah, who lost …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:06AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Two vicious dissections of class and identity might just leave you reeling
Darren McGarvey AKA Loki: Scotland Today The Stand's New Town Theatre ★★★★★
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMCaptivating and macabre, 1927's new show marks a partial return to their own origins
A fat cat who gobbles up everything in sight. A king who tests his wife’s fidelity with increasingly ho…
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Three contrasting shows tackling climate change and mass extinction
Sea Sick CanadaHub ★★★★
She’s not a performer, Alanna Mitchell tells us. She’s a writer and journalis…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:42AMFriday, August 9, 2019
Ravishing physical theatre on the beginnings of life from Theatre Re
Physical theatre company Theatre Re are virtually Fringe royalty these days, with a several-year history of fine shows un…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 05:54AMThree contrasting shows at CanadaHub tackle racism, climate change and clowning
Deer Woman CanadaHub ★★★
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 05:54AMThursday, August 8, 2019
Pantomime excess in Meghan Tyler's wild but unconvincing new comedy
Chekhov famously pronounced that if you’re going to bring a gun on stage, you’ve got to use it. Is the same true for a…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 06:12AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
Intellectual playfulness in Milo Rau's recreation of a gay hate crime
Who’d have thought a play about a homophobic hate crime could be so much fun? Well, maybe that’s overstating things …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMTuesday, August 6, 2019
Confusion reigns in an overly ambitious take on technology, time and climate catastrophe
You can’t question Javaad Alipoor’s ambition.
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:06AMMonday, August 5, 2019
Two compelling examinations of femininity and masculinity at the Traverse Theatre
Enough ★★★★
Immaculately turned out in winning smiles, navy and nylon, cabin crew Jane and T…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:24AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
New staging brings the iconic 1983 movie's themes and characters into sharper focus
‘Cult’ is probably an over-used adjective, especially when it comes to movies. But there’s undoubted…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:20AMThursday, September 27, 2018
Psychedelic Shakespeare feels rather too charming for its own good“Well, that was really sweet,” one young audience member in front of me remarked on his way out of Edinburgh’s Lyceum …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:24AMTuesday, September 18, 2018
The British master-director settles for vaguely Beckett-inflected bafflementOf the Edinburgh International Festival’s three productions by 2018’s resident company, Paris’s Théâtre de…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:04AMMonday, August 27, 2018
Playful visual trickery and gnomic bafflement at the International Festival Home ★★★★
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:48AMWednesday, August 22, 2018
Two striking explorations of sexual identity stop short of grabbing the emotions La maladie de la mort ★★★ Toxic masculinity in all its appalling variety is a hot topic across Edi…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:42AMFriday, August 17, 2018
Three intimate storytelling shows at Summerhall offer mixed insights Orpheus ★★★★
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 05:12AMTuesday, August 14, 2018
Two superb - and very different - examinations of what defines our identity Nigel Slater's Toast ★★★★
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 02:36AMMonday, August 13, 2018
Toxic masculinity and reflections on identity at the Fringe's newest venueLaunched just last year to celebrate the country’s 150th anniversary, CanadaHub has quickly become one of the…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 03:48AMFriday, August 10, 2018
Racial politics and gun culture dissected in two provocative shows at the Traverse Underground Railroad Game ★★★★★
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Cycles of abuse, a health service polemic and a celebration of silliness Coriolanus Vanishes ★★★★
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A brutal assault on liberal values, and exquisite dance/theatre/cinemaUlster American ★★★★★
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 05:18AMThursday, September 14, 2017
Enoch Powell's 'rivers of blood' speech re-examined in flawed but timely playYou’ve got to hand it to David Greig. The artistic director of Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre has …
Linked From The Arts Desk at 04:05AMFriday, August 18, 2017
Grief, loss, unending pain - and critics talking out of their backsides Meet Me at Dawn ★★★★★
Linked From The Arts Desk at 02:06AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
Comedy, tragedy and a whole lot more at Paines Plough's pop-up RoundaboutPike St ★★★★
Linked From The Arts Desk at 05:18AMSunday, August 13, 2017
Alan Ayckbourn's vast dystopian fantasy feels cosy rather than alarmingA society that segregates men and women, prescribes what women can learn, read, wear, even which words they can sa…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 01:42AMThursday, August 10, 2017
Three compelling shows on identity - gender and otherwise - at the Traverse TheatreEve ★★★★Transgender issues are high on the agenda at this year’s Fringe, with the energetic Test…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 01:36AMWednesday, August 9, 2017
Zinnie Harris's new verison of Ionesco, and Vox Motus take on the subject of migration
Linked From The Arts Desk at 04:12AMThursday, May 4, 2017
Well-meaning but uneven comedy bursts at its seams with mismatched themesTime travel, Brit pop, Sleeping Beauty. Classical ballet, the ravages of alcoholism, serial poisoning. There’s plen…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 03:18AMFriday, February 17, 2017
A wonder-filled, child's-eye view of Shakespeare from director Max WebsterIn the end, it’s all about Mamillius. It’s he – young son of Leontes of Sicily – who launches director …
Linked From The Arts Desk at 02:48AMThursday, January 19, 2017
Terror of the brutal rawness of nature in Malthouse Theatre's masterful stage adaptationWe probably think we know the story. From Peter Weir’s cult 1975 film, or even from the origina…
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