Friday, August 24, 2018
For every gram of cocaine snorted on the UK’s streets, criminals profit, communities suffer, ecosystems are destroyed, and people die. That's the
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Edouard Louis was just 21 when he wrote The End of Eddy. It's an astonishing work, an autobiographical chronicling of his childhood
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2018
It's difficult to believe Wolf is the work of just one man, so vivid and detailed is the world that creator and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:37AM[SHARE]Luke Wright has written two cracking, politically-charged verse plays in recent years " What I Learned from Johnny Bevan and Frankie Vah
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There's a breathless intensity to Jennifer Roslyn Wingate's Entropy that grips, at first. There's an elusive, Pinter-ish menace to her writing, a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:23PM[SHARE]This is so frustrating. Living Record Productions' Thrown has one of the coolest set-ups of any show in Edinburgh " a binaural
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:55PM[SHARE]The feminist, punk-rock protest group Pussy Riot is a vital voice in Russian society, daring to dissent in the face of an
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You know what you're getting with a Henry Naylor play by now. An authoritative voice, a well-researched story, an unapologetically political message,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PM[SHARE]Burnt Lemon Theatre " freshly minted as a New Diorama Graduate Emerging Company for 2018-19 " is well worth watching, judging by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PM[SHARE]Multi-disciplinary Belgian theatre-maker Marieke Dermul wants to enter Eurovision 2019 with her European Citizen Popsong " an anthem combining musical influences from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:37AM[SHARE]Inspired by the story of William Freeman, the first defendant to plead insanity in a US court, Camilla Whitehill and Strictly Arts'
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AM[SHARE]I have no idea what goes on in The Extinction Event. Not a clue. Simon Evans and David Aula " theatre directors
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AM[SHARE]You won't come across many shows like The Hit, a solo hour of storytelling performed entirely by a puppet. Strangeface's play takes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:22AM[SHARE]Pteronarcophobia. That's the fear of flies. And it's what drives this intelligently staged co-production between master storytellers Les Enfants Terribles and family-focused
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AM[SHARE]Based on Karel Capek's 1936 sci-fi novel of the same name, Knaive Theatre's War with the Newts immerses you in an apocalyptic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AM[SHARE]This is vital verbatim theatre. Adapted from more than 200 hours of interviews and reams upon reams of public documents, Lung Theatre's
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AM[SHARE]Friday, August 17, 2018
Ah, be still my beating heart. Tallulah Brown's Songlines, co-produced by DugOut Theatre and HighTide, is the kind of quirky teenage love
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:41PM[SHARE]There's a commendable degree of ambition to House of Mirth's new play Chihuahua, but the execution isn't there to match it. Phil
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PM[SHARE]The National Student Drama Festival is such a potent Petri dish for young companies; it's galvanising to see so many recent participants
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PM[SHARE]Oof. Last Tapes Theatre Company's Valerie hits you like a ton of bricks. It lands an emotional gut-punch so strong it almost
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It takes a while to get your head around Hunch, Kate Kennedy's intensely physical solo show about the perils of indecision, but
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AM[SHARE]Eva O'Connor's new play – in Edinburgh as part of the Culture Ireland Showcase " attacks that classic crux of contemporary Irish
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AM[SHARE]Busking can be a scary business. Just you, your instrument, and an audience that, more often than not, walks past without a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Here's a young company taking on a big subject. Dreamland is the debut show of Hyperdrive Theatre, an outfit formed from East
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:36AM[SHARE]Stories don't come much more dramatic than Liverpool's 2005 Champions League final win in Istanbul, when they came back from 3-0 down
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38AM[SHARE]Plays should be written about the Holocaust. But not by Philip Wharam and Tim Marriott. It's a terrible topic that demands sensitivity
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AM[SHARE]Ingvild Haugstad hails from Det Andre Teatret, a Norwegian fringe theatre specialising in improv and absurdist comedy. This short solo piece earned her
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Jointly produced by Scottish company Dogstar Theatre and Swedish outfit Profilteatern, Let's Inherit the Earth offers one of the zanier shows available
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PM[SHARE]It's a bit disconcerting to come across a straightforward tragicomic play at the Edinburgh Fringe, but that's what Max Dickins' Kin is.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2018
Work can be incredibly stressful. And if you'd somehow forgotten that during August in Edinburgh, Alastair Curtis' three-handed comedy Dining Al Desko
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AM[SHARE]Shows don’t come much sweeter than this. The Backpack Ensemble " an emerging company hailing from the University of Lincoln " heaves
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