Thursday, August 29, 2024
With nearly 4000 shows at hundreds of venues in the city, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a kind of beautiful chaos that is impossible to distil by a single person in a single article. To b…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:49AMTuesday, June 18, 2024
The 12th annual edition of CPH Stage Festival has come to a close. The cultural highlight that transforms the city into a dynamic hub of theatrical creativity and innovation had originally s…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:13PMTuesday, August 22, 2023
There is a show at this year’s Fringe called Distant Memories of the Near Future written and performed by copywriter and storyteller David Head. It is billed as a piece which imagines an A…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:09PMSunday, August 20, 2023
Lucy McCormick used to do music gigs and re-enactments, but she has now put her past and her friends behind her and is bent on exploring being in the present. This of course must include us.…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:29AMSaturday, August 19, 2023
There is a little red brochure going around the Edinburgh Fringe titled #Danish. It represents the seventh season of work presented by the Danish Arts Foundation in Edinburgh, and this year …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:30PMFriday, August 18, 2023
It was exactly ten years ago that Big in Belgium – a season of work from Flanders – was first presented at the Edinburgh Fringe. This panorama of eight new experimental pieces came on th…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:07PMWednesday, August 16, 2023
Thanks to the early 20th century ethnographic research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, the word ‘guslar’ may be more familiar – if at all in the English-speaking world – as a term i…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:10AMYou would not have been wrong to expect a feast in this show set at a giant dining table, fully dressed with crisp linen, wine glasses and silverware, a low hanging chandelier and subtly sig…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:10AMThere are multiple ways to admire this production of a Greek classic, directed by Singaporean Ong Keng Sen for the National Theatre of Korea, specifically their opera section. The Korean Cha…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:09AMMonday, June 26, 2023
Laurie Anderson’s new show – currently on its European tour – is full of meteorological precipitation. The multimedia backdrop, designed by the artist, features various kinds of downfa…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:22PMThursday, April 6, 2023
It’s about two years since I moved to the Oresund region, the liminal place between southern Sweden and eastern Denmark – also known as the greater Copenhagen area. Though I have begun t…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:35AMMonday, December 5, 2022
There is a palpable sense of world-class musicianship as the ensemble of six instrumentalists and two backing vocalists take to the stage to set the scene for Jason Timbuktu Diakité’s eve…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:33PMFriday, September 16, 2022
‘If this were a text for the theatre, here is how it would begin’ – these are the opening words of the French literary superstar Édouard Louis’s third book Who Killed My Father, pub…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:38AMFriday, September 9, 2022
Here’s a few things to start with. Following my recent relocation from London to the Swedish equivalent of Oxford, this is my first encounter with the Lund Comedy Festival. The three-day e…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:13AMSunday, August 7, 2022
Just over a hundred years since its founding (by impresario and theatre director Max Reinhardt), the Salzburg Festival honours the nearly forgotten 20th-century south German writer Marieluis…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:45PMTuesday, May 24, 2022
Punchdrunk theatre, the eponymous progenitors of “immersive theatre,” have been wowing their audiences worldwide since their early modest beginnings in Devon in the year 2000. Due to the…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:33AMThursday, May 19, 2022
Ivo van Hove’s production of Age of Rage is sourced from six plays by Euripides and one by Aeschylus, chronicling the cycle of violence and revenge befallen on the house of Atreus – star…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:29AMWednesday, September 8, 2021
Imagine you suffered terrible injustices that in your day and age were just the norm, that your devotion to your calling meant you entered history as a passive victim and not as an agent in …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:58AMSunday, August 29, 2021
As its name suggests, The Song Project is more a collaborative experiment than a conventional piece of theatre. Co-initiated by the Royal Court’s Associate Designer Chloe Lamford and the D…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:28AMThursday, August 5, 2021
I cannot imagine a better way to end one’s Covid-19 lockdown than to head to a Lucy McCormick show at London’s Battersea Arts Centre. Life: Live, straplined as a debut concert by the nu …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:38AMFriday, May 15, 2020
This article is part of the Dramaturgs’ Network Invisible Diaries series. Woke up today to packed bags laid out on the living room carpet. My four-year-old is going on holiday. To her gr…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:53PMThursday, February 13, 2020
The last time I took my non-theatre-going husband to the Royal Court was in the autumn of 2013, when I was heavily pregnant with our first child, to see Kate Tempest’s Brand New Ancients. …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:08PMSaturday, December 21, 2019
Lucy McCormick specializes in historical re-enactments, she tells us, and she is here to play all the women of history, as a means of finding her hero. All this – within about one hour, an…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:17AM 
