Sunday, August 14, 2022
Roundabout at Summerhall, Edinburgh Sam Ward takes hints from his audience to imagine how their lives could go from here, in a bittersweet contemplation of fate
There is a joke in Waiting fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMThe Hub, Edinburgh Liz Lochhead’s Scots verse spits wit and venom as male power meets female determination with operatic intensity, in this National Theatre of Scotland staging
Everybody i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Welsh’s band of unruly misfits reunite – 15 years older – in an intense, dark farce that rushes to a conclusion all too soon
For all that the characters …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMSaturday, August 13, 2022
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghA Nigerian couple seeking asylum on the grounds of sexual persecution are put to the test as the government’s probing questions seep into the cracks of their relati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AMAssembly George Square, EdinburghDaniel Hoffmann-Gill restages his father’s funeral to give his eulogy the audience it deserves in this tender, honest show
I write as someone who got a lau…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AMFriday, August 12, 2022
Pitlochry Festival theatreDavid Greig’s two-hander adapted from Charlotte Higgins’s nonfiction book about our ancient past is a sweet meander
There can’t be many plays in which the emo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghUsing a VR headset and an empty stage, Tim Crouch puts his audience at one remove from the Shakespeare play to comment on the world and theatre itself
On the back wall…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMThursday, August 11, 2022
Summerhall/Traverse, EdinburghA pair of fringe plays by James Ley delve into sex parties and mechanophilia, with romance, plenty of wisecracks and a disarming feelgood cheer
Who would have t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghPlaywright Ben Norris takes the ethical problems with self-driving cars as a metaphor for human uncertainty
As we freewheel into the era of the self-driving car…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMJust the Tonic Nucleus, EdinburghExploring the late Nirvana star’s life and death, Workman delivers a darkly beautiful hour of spoken word
Kurt Cobain did not die a poetic death, says Cass…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMAssembly Roxy, EdinburghIsla Cowan stars in her own play about a young professional driven by callous men and unequal status to bare her fangs
Fight, flight or freeze. Those are our response…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:37AMWednesday, August 10, 2022
Summerhall, EdinburghHaley McGee performs a funny and wistful solo show that chronicles turning 25 and explores the decades ahead
How did Haley McGee grow so wise? You would expect a solo fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghThis epic drama charts characters from Colombo in the 50s, through the civil war, before settling in Sydney
Two young lovers are considering the future after meeting a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMSummerhall, EdinburghThe impact of a divisive nature v nurture experiment on a pair of twins is the subject of Carly Wijs’s captivating production
It is the normality of it all that strike…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07AMTuesday, August 9, 2022
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghCold reality intrudes on this modern-day story of emigration set in a mythical land as a stressed single mum battles bureaucracy
How to dramatise the refuge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThis semi-autobiographical tale about the impact of a damaging relationship is empathic and impassioned
At first, you think this piece of gig theatre is mor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PMMonday, August 8, 2022
Summerhall, EdinburghCompelling one-man play looks at the lack of understanding faced by children with a disability and makes a persuasive plea for change
The real drama of Jack Hunter’s o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMTraverse, EdinburghEmily Bruni stars as a mid-career actor who thinks she’s landed a dream role in a stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho
There is a theme emerging on this year�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMTraverse, EdinburghUma Nada-Rajah’s farce about an MP using intolerance as her ticket to the top job is very timely, but feebly plotted
It is with remarkable prescience that Uma Nada-Rajah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMSunday, August 7, 2022
Zoo Southside, EdinburghOntroerend Goed’s new show is funny, self-referential and confusing in equal parts
This is not the start of the review. The start will come later. This bit is to gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMPleasance Dome, EdinburghThe first country to abolish slavery has been demonised and minimised, as Emily Aboud’s alternately fascinating and frustrating play reveals
“Europe has erased t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMKing’s theatre, EdinburghCummings’ daring evocation in movement of the life of Robert Burns goes way beyond the biscuit-tin
“And still my motto is: I dare,” says Alan Cumming at the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMSaturday, August 6, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghChloe-Ann Tylor is excellent as a monstrous male tennis coach in Eve Nicol’s drama examining control and manipulation
How do you represent male power on stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMTraverse, EdinburghTabby Lamb’s delightful two-hander is both a sweet comedy and an astute exploration of digital relationships and gender identity
Is it coincidence that the increasing ac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMFriday, August 5, 2022
Ashton Hall, St Stephens, EdinburghMcKellen is the only speaker in Peter Schaufuss’s eccentric but witless adaptation of Hamlet as narrative ballet
Might we be missing some of Hamlet’s a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMSummerhall, EdinburghTwo caretakers at an abandoned Soviet research base in the Arctic debate their unease at the country’s present and what became of the USSR
Who exactly is the enemy cur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, August 4, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh In an atmospheric staging, with poetic dialogue, Jason Brownlee sketches the cruel twists of a violent and abusive London childhood
According to the villain pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMSummerhall, EdinburghAudio drama follows the grim decline of an incel, drawing lines between everyday aggression and appalling hate crime
We’re standing with our thoughts on Edinburgh’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMFriday, July 29, 2022
Separate adaptations in Chester and Pitlochry see one faithful to the original, while the other is boldly set 50 years later and on a different continent
It has turned into a summer of Littl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMMonday, July 25, 2022
Grosvenor Park open air theatre, ChesterThere is a fresh twist in this adaptation of Clive King’s book but its important message is bogged down in a long-winded production
Jessica Swale fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMGrosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterThe friskiness of title characters Samuel Awoyo and Joëlle Brabban is matched by the punchy assurance of their delivery
Juliet is on her balcony in a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AM 
