Thursday, August 24, 2023
On Edinburgh fringe stages, pop is eating itself with a series of pastiches and tributes that riff on TV hits and surreal celebrity reimaginings
This review goes out in honour of Gerard Slev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMWednesday, August 23, 2023
The festival’s musicals this year range from theatrical introspection to a rip-roaring improvisation inspired by Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash hit
The world’s most popular musicals have o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMThursday, August 17, 2023
Summerhall, Edinburgh This brainy solo show follows Woof’s intuitive thinker, standing in to deliver a lecture for her hyper-rational neuroscientist husband
And she starts off chatting to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PMTwo inventive productions, Dimanche and Concerned Others, use puppetry and object-theatre to tackle vast environmental and social subjects
Such is the enormity of the problems facing humanit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMWednesday, August 16, 2023
C Aurora, EdinburghThe long-ago disappearance of a great-aunt is explored in Nishla Smith’s captivating performance, enhanced by hand-painted animations
For decades, Nishla Smith’s famil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:55PMAttachment: The Leech Show is a merry romp about an influential reviewer and sums up the industry’s paradoxical attitude to theatre criticism
Advice has been circulating among fringe compa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AMMonday, August 14, 2023
Zoo Playground, EdinburghInspired by the work of Nobel-winning Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich, this is a disturbing but blackly funny piece
Every performance of The Last of the So…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07AMSaturday, August 12, 2023
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDevastating testimonies from field hospitals, jungles and mountain outposts are performed verbatim-style in Tiago Rodrigues’s disquieting show
It feels like an intru…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghObehi Janice’s one-woman show collects her adventures in the dating game but they don’t lead anywhere that interesting
Obehi Janice had friends at school who, like…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AMTwo new shows at the festival question senses of hearing and sight in engaging and eccentric ways
Seeing is believing, right? That is a phrase used repeatedly by Mamoru Iriguchi and co-star …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMFriday, August 11, 2023
Imaginary friends, runaway horses and Roger McGough’s take on the Wind in the Willows are among the treats for younger audiences at the festival
Summerhall, 11.30am, until 20 August Contin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AMWednesday, August 9, 2023
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghUpset by racist attacks in their town, a young couple attempt to get to know the culprits in Eve Leigh’s new play
Anyone running a far-right festival woul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07PMTraverse theatre, EdinburghA high-school English teacher and his former star pupil meet in a brothel in Kieran Hurley’s new play
With this uneven three-hander, Kieran Hurley has fielded tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMZoo Southside, EdinburghPolish company Song of the Goat strip Titus Andronicus back to tell a brutal tale of postwar violence, betrayal and revenge
If you are going to tell Shakespeare’s t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghReflecting on feelings, dating and brotherly love, Nathan Queeley-Dennis’s first drama is fun and frothy
This one-man show by Nathan Queeley-Dennis is wri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThree characters take stock of their low-key lives in Angus Harrison’s cleverly plotted show
If Chekhov were writing today, maybe he would be setting his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:13AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghIn Miriam Battye’s comedic tour de force, Her and Him go through the motions of getting to know each other
Given the survival of the species depends on it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMMonday, August 7, 2023
Traverse, EdinburghLaurie Motherwell’s avoidance of cliche is commendable, but it does leave this tale of a get-rich-quick scheme with little sense of jeopardy
Playwright Laurie Motherwell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PMPleasance @ EICC, EdinburghSouth African actors replay the brutal events of the US’s formation as a catalogue of poverty, struggle, violence and pain
We know the story. We have heard it to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMTraverse, EdinburghIsobel McArthur’s gag-filled farce takes place in a bland modern hotel with a previous life as an opera house
Early in Isobel McArthur’s head-spinning new comedy, ther…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AMSunday, August 6, 2023
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghPlaywright Ed Edwards frames the story of a juvenile offender through the lens of colonialism
In his 2018 play The Political History of Smack and Crack, Ed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMTraverse, Edinburgh A mother is overwhelmed by postnatal depression, just as her musician partner gets a big break, in this heartfelt show drawn from life
There is a tremendous amount of hea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25AMSaturday, August 5, 2023
Traverse, Edinburgh A couple gradually face up to the emotional life choices they’ve made, in this compellingly acted, exquisitely written play by Eugene O’Brien
It is a game we all pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PMPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh The traumatic secret at the heart of Glenna Morrison’s play hits the audience as a shock – but would the drama be greater if we knew all along?
Many people…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMFriday, August 4, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghWelsh-Iranian musician Roshi Nasehi spins her heritage into standup that is most impressive when she works the stories into sound pieces
Having established herself as a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghNamed after a song by Elina Alminas’s Estonian father’s favourite band, Depeche Mode, this show takes on the boorish failings of the former Soviet republic
P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMThursday, August 3, 2023
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghWittily drawn historical drama follows self-effacing leader ill-equipped to deal with the encroaching Nazi menace
If you think actor Joseph Cullen is cartoonish at t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMFriday, July 28, 2023
Williamson Park, LancasterSam Jones brings innocent charm to the role of Jules Verne’s hero in an outdoor version that roams around the park if not quite the globe
Jules Verne’s caper is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AMMonday, July 17, 2023
Glasgow Botanic GardensBard in the Botanics stages Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic novella as a tense three-way struggle that asks big questions about human nature
It is not quite a Dylan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AMWednesday, July 5, 2023
Director John Young energises this medieval community-theatre tradition with a dynamic and dreamlike journey from the crucifixion to the last judgment
It is an inspired idea to present the M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMTuesday, July 4, 2023
What can the ancient sport of backhold wrestling tell us about today’s struggles over unity and tradition? Our writer heads to the Highlands to see
On the far side of the field, a girls’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AM 
