Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghWils Wilson’s perception-bending production highlights the artifice of a prince’s world, exposing the thin veneer of riches and respectability
Segismundo has just …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMMonday, November 1, 2021
Tron, GlasgowThe climate-change summit inspires a production emphasising the land-grab aspects of Shakespeare’s late play in an imaginative staging
The short-term forecast is for a stor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03AMSunday, October 31, 2021
The pandemic-delayed staging of Yann Martel’s novel is finally arriving in London, and the star of the show is a mesmerising puppet
Finn Caldwell is studying four performers perched in the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMWednesday, October 27, 2021
Edinburgh PlayhouseA refreshed version of the Disney perennial begins a tour of the UK with some spectacular visual feasts and a heart-stopping performance by Courtney Stapleton as Belle
Thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMFriday, October 22, 2021
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughJanice Okoh’s version of the 2019 novel waters down the culture clash at its heart and suffers for the lack of the author’s rich prose
After Benjamin M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSaturday, October 16, 2021
Northern Stage, NewcastleLittle leavens the air of hopelessness in Jim Cartwright’s 1986 collage of awkwardly staged monologues
Angela Rayner would probably approve of the “Tory scum” …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMFriday, October 15, 2021
Live theatre, NewcastleThe Durham miners’ gala features in both these short plays exploring contrasting experiences of race and class
What are the chances of the Durham miners’ gala mak…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMThursday, October 14, 2021
Dundee RepA conscientious citizen stands against the forces of fake news and self-interest in the National Theatre of Scotland’s provocative adaptation
Lewis den Hertog’s images have th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMMonday, October 11, 2021
Impact Hub Bradford and onlineStruggling zero-hours sisters risk everything as Kamal Kaan’s angsty play transplants the action from Ancient Greece
There is a home secretary hell bent on pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMFriday, September 17, 2021
Pitlochry Festival theatreLesley Orr and Jo Clifford’s show about the lives of some who have died in the past 18 months is a necessary act of communal remembrance
We’ve read about it in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMThursday, September 16, 2021
Royal Exchange, ManchesterLiv Hill is brilliant as a wise-cracking teenager in Stuart Slade’s play about cancer, sex and the mystery of life
For those of us with limited tolerance for pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
Theatre Royal, WakefieldSet in a northern seaside B&B, John Godber’s latest has a healthy dollop of political analysis beneath its very funny surface
According to John Godber’s lates…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSunday, September 12, 2021
Live theatre, NewcastleKema Sikazwe – AKA actor and rapper Kema Kay – performs a sunny, charming but vulnerable musical monologue about growing up in the northeast of England
Kema Sikazw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMFriday, September 10, 2021
Dundee RepJohn McCann’s imaginative play follows its characters’ search for answers to tough questions during lockdown – watched over by a pair of very unusual seagulls
For the seagull…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMThursday, August 26, 2021
Traverse theatre, EdinburghActor Amy Molloy delivers an elegant monologue that reveals itself as something greater in this supremely thoughtful show
Kate Regan is a woman defined by the men …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PMMonday, August 23, 2021
Holyrood Park, EdinburghThis open-air performance brings together a multi-generational company celebrating release from pandemic confinement
When your stage is the size of a football pitch a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSummerhall, EdinburghTrevor Lock uses audience participation to satisfy our yearning for community in a show that prioritises connection over action
What did we miss most during the pandemic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, August 22, 2021
Old College Quad, EdinburghKatharine Mehrling delivers the German master’s songs in ravishing style, accompanied with restraint by pianist Barrie Kosky
We’re nearing the end of a medley …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMAvailable onlineGregor Samsa’s sudden bodily dislocation becomes a means of exploring digital-era dilemmas in Hijinx’s irreverent adaptation
A few days before the first lockdown, Glasgow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMFriday, August 20, 2021
Traverse theatre, EdinburghOn an hour-long circuit guided by headphones, graffiti, sculptures and shops wheedle their way into the dialogue
If this were a regular show it would be something …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThursday, August 19, 2021
Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghAngelina Chudi gives a powerful performance as she tackles the contradictory, confusing experience of meeting an abuser
We’ve all done it. You bump into a signi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMWednesday, August 18, 2021
Army @ The Fringe, Drill Hall, EdinburghIn this warm and witty solo show, Lubna Kerr, the Scottish daughter of middle-class Pakistani immigrants, recounts a lifetime’s encounters with othe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMTuesday, August 17, 2021
Harbottle Park, Byker, Newcastle upon TyneThe story of a relationship unfolds as a thoughtful exploration of attitudes to what we eat in Chris Bush’s clever two-hander
At first glance, Chr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMMonday, August 16, 2021
Harbottle Park, Byker, Newcastle upon TyneChatterbox Charli is on a quest to find her voice and stay free in Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s warm and funny family play
“Why does everyone say I’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMFriday, August 13, 2021
Army @ The Fringe, EdinburghThe friendship of two female soldiers is the poignant basis of this intense, immersive audio play that takes you on a tour of the local area
When you watch news r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMThursday, August 12, 2021
Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghFocusing on four survivors of the massacre at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, this stirs the emotions but doesn’t grapple with the most pressing or diffic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PMNewhailes House, MusselburghGrid Iron has brilliantly transposed this Norwegian tale, of a man who leaves his family to live in a tent, to the grounds of a National Trust for Scotland proper…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMWednesday, August 11, 2021
Traverse theatre, EdinburghDementia and grief are among the difficult subjects explored in Frances Poet’s dislocating play
I don’t think Frances Poet intends her play to be depressing. S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMMonday, August 9, 2021
Tynecastle Park, EdinburghThis musical play about a women’s football league making boots for troops at the Somme is moving and polemical
It was a day of celebration. The players from the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMThis August the Scottish capital is much quieter but performers and audiences at this modest jamboree are full of spirit
On the wall in my kitchen is a calendar made by Edinburgh theatre cri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMAvailable onlineA park bench, inside a car and a room in your house are the three settings for Darkfield’s play which lacks a killer payoff
Theatre-makers are used to being in control of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM 
