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 05:03AMMessianic 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 04:06AMTwo 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…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMThree 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 04:42AMRavishing 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 05:54AMPantomime 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 06:12AMIntellectual 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 06:06AMConfusion 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 07:06AMTwo 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 08:24AMNew 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 04:20AMPsychedelic 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 04:24AMThe 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 04:04AMPlayful visual trickery and gnomic bafflement at the International Festival Home ★★★★
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:48AMTwo 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 04:42AMThree intimate storytelling shows at Summerhall offer mixed insights Orpheus ★★★★
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 05:12AMTwo superb - and very different - examinations of what defines our identity Nigel Slater's Toast ★★★★
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 02:36AMToxic 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 03:48AMRacial politics and gun culture dissected in two provocative shows at the Traverse Underground Railroad Game ★★★★★
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:54AMCycles of abuse, a health service polemic and a celebration of silliness Coriolanus Vanishes ★★★★
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:24AMA brutal assault on liberal values, and exquisite dance/theatre/cinemaUlster American ★★★★★
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 05:18AMEnoch 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 04:05AMGrief, loss, unending pain - and critics talking out of their backsides Meet Me at Dawn ★★★★★
Linked From The Arts Desk at 02:06AMComedy, tragedy and a whole lot more at Paines Plough's pop-up RoundaboutPike St ★★★★
Linked From The Arts Desk at 05:18AMAlan 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 01:42AMThree 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 01:36AMZinnie Harris's new verison of Ionesco, and Vox Motus take on the subject of migration
Linked From The Arts Desk at 04:12AMWell-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 03:18AMA 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 02:48AMTerror 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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