Thursday, August 27, 2015
With their funding under threat, acts which refuse to be sidelined find a platform in Edinburgh's Integrated Fringe - but how can they survive the cuts?"It only took the NT 50 years to notic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghJenny Lee's timely play examines our relationship with digital technologies, and questions the corporations who aim to predict our intentionsWe all like to thin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PM[SHARE]Forest Fringe, EdinburghAction Hero's entertaining show about a celebrity on a photoshoot draws us in as observers, participants and accomplicesAction Hero's show Frontman presented us with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2015
King's theatre, Edinburgh With a glorious sense of chaos, this production celebrates the community surrounding a dying trombonist with eloquence and a deep sense of funWe all eventually marc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PM[SHARE]Underbelly, EdinburghThe jackboot of history hangs over Rhum and Clay's moody and atmospheric look at fate, free will and memory loss We all wonder if we had taken a different path where we …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PM[SHARE]The rules of engagement in theatre have changed, and now audience participation is everywhere. But artists have a responsibility to take care of those they pick onI'm always fascinated in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:28AM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2015
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDavid Greig and Graham Eatough's insanely ambitious adaptation of the Alasdair Gray novel is like a heady, unsettling, unpredictable dream Related: Alasdair Gray's La…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AM[SHARE]There are eight more days' of shows to choose from including Smoke and Mirrors, O No!, Backstage in Biscuit Land and The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of HeavenSome people seem under the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 23, 2015
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe quality of the writing and performance shines through in Gina Moxley's powerful drama about a young woman piecing together painful memoriesGina Moxley is di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Zoo, EdinburghPainful truths await the baby-boomer generation as sexuality dawns in the era of glam rock and Deep ThroatChristine (Kerry Lovell) has a fraying David Cassidy poster on her bed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AM[SHARE]Friday, August 21, 2015
Summerhall, EdinburghThe Flanagan Collective's latest show weaves quantum physics, magic and a critique of consumer capitalism around its central couple with a light touchJ is a Birmingham p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AM[SHARE]Traverse, Edinburgh (off-site)This walking show takes place on the Edinburgh streets, and has all the adrenaline-charged thrill of teenage loveThere is a moment at the end of Forever Young, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 20, 2015
Edinburgh shows can be calling cards for emerging artists, but making connections should not be at the expense of year-round development "Edinburgh's a casino, but some do hit the jackpot," …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PM[SHARE]Traverse theatre, EdinburghUnlimited Theatre go beyond the ken of the living with this enjoyable, poignant cabaret piece about death in the distant and all-too-near futureThere are only two …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Underbelly (off-site), EdinburghThe audience's experience of intimacy is at the core of this vivid and sophisticated dramatisation of the lives of sex workers"What I offer is extreme intimac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:11AM[SHARE]Traverse theatre, Edinburgh Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall's adaptation of Alan Warner's The Sopranos follows a troupe of convent choirgirls on a rampage across the city, to exhilarating effec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AM[SHARE]Barbican, LondonLess a tragedy and more a tortured comedy played out in the squelching mud and dirt of Elsinore, Thomas Ostermeier's Schaubuhne production shines the same forensic light on S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Summerhall, EdinburghUS writer-performer and globetrotter Thaddeus Phillips muses on the meaning of safe passage, but fails to address the current refugee crisisApparently it was Henry V who…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM[SHARE]The Famous Spiegeltent, EdinburghLa Clique are a long way from the subversive, elegant burlesque with which they made their name: this is a glitzy but unsophisticated good-time showBurlesque…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:01AM[SHARE]Traverse (off-site), EdinburghZinnie Harris's 40-minute opera set in a kitchen-sink wasteland is beautifully performed with a moving score by John HarrisZinnie Harris has pruned and retraine…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Forest Fringe, EdinburghMusical vagabonds Little Bulb use cabaret and science to explore the purpose of song " but the piece is still finding its voiceIf there is a more loveable company tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PM[SHARE]If you catch them at the right moment in your life, some shows speak directly to you, as if they were made with you in mindYesterday at Forest Fringe, I had one of those moments in the theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PM[SHARE]Forest Fringe, EdinburghMixing truth and fiction, card tricks and illusions, this delightful, bamboozling magic show reveals the misdirections that occur in theatre and in lifeVincent Gambin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWith a Daily Mail-reading landlady and an ineffective vicar, this nimble satire has characters straight out of Midsomer MurdersThe fairytale village of Massivev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA terrible secret drives Philip Ridley's tense and affecting drama about a teenage magician with mental health problemsWe need to talk about Donny. Actually, Do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AM[SHARE]A Desert Island Discs spoof, brooding circus performers who strip naked and a Yoko Ono-inspired love-fest … our critics choose their hot tickets at this year's fringeO No!In less skilled h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:49AM[SHARE]Monday, August 17, 2015
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghMaureen Beattie is astonishing in this final part of Jennifer Tremblay's trilogy of plays about the past, guilt and the family"The child who dies or leaves becomes th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PM[SHARE]The festival always throws up some oddball surprises, from dancing plastic bags to stone-balancing. This year's rogue hit has a man showing us his flipbooksFrom a critic's point of view, it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:21AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAlison Carr's touching, direct play is a reminder of how bad we can be at dealing with bereavementFourteen-year-old Vera was born in water like a fish, and is s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM[SHARE]Assembly CheckpointA challenging piece that examines what it means to be happy is neither safe nor cosy " but it is compelling and beautifulDon't be deceived by the title, which suggests one…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 16, 2015
Pleasance, EdinburghCulled from interviews with trans women, these personal accounts read out on stage highlight the diversity of their experiencesHigh-profile transgender women such as Chel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM[SHARE] 
