Monday, August 9, 2021
Available 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 09:42AMMultiStory, EdinburghA young singer loves clubbing, which clashes with her hopes of success at the Eisteddfod in Lisa Jên Brown’s exuberant two-hander
Globalisation leaves us in a quanda…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, August 8, 2021
Summerhall, EdinburghMamoru Iriguchi and Afton Moran raid their dressing-up box to give us a cheery guide to the evolutionary history of reproduction, and what it says about gender fluidity …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMTraverse theatre, EdinburghThe Edinburgh festival’s theatre programme begins with Enda Walsh’s flamboyant and funny new play about a man receiving an inappropriate form of drama therapy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThursday, July 29, 2021
Available onlineThe former Guardian critic, along with Evening Standard scribe Fiona Mountford, take to the limelight in this fruity vintage marital drama
Victor Kiam liked his shavers so mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMFriday, July 23, 2021
Grosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterSuzanne Ahmet turns on the charm as Elizabeth in this outdoor production of Austen’s great love story and wry comedy of manners
“If life is not al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMThursday, July 22, 2021
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeThis delightful promenade show uses pretty-as-a-picture design, undercut with creepy asides, to bring ETA Hoffmann’s famous tale alive
Who knew there w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMTuesday, July 20, 2021
Available onlineIn Gary McNair’s jovial audio play, a woman rediscovers a connection with her home town and her dead father by following a Scottish football team for a season
Who doesn’t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMFriday, July 16, 2021
Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough In Laura Wade’s clever play, her heroine becomes a 50s housewife but 21st-century gender politics lurk under the Formica surface
In the row behind me, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMMonday, July 12, 2021
The Irish playwright is known both for feverishly claustrophobic plays – including his latest, Medicine – and big commercial hits. If a project doesn’t feel right, he fires himself
Loc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMSunday, July 11, 2021
Bard in the Botanics, GlasgowShakespeare’s play on the unreliability of appearances works well in the wings of a theatre, but this 90-minute streamlining perhaps cuts too much
You can see …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42PMFriday, July 9, 2021
Pitlochry Festival theatreLockdown loneliness, eco-crisis and land ownership are explored with varying degrees of subtlety in an uplifting show
The National Trust should see about hiring Col…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMPitlochry Festival theatreBrian Ferguson performs with mesmerising verve in this poignant, desperately funny portrait of existential misery
‘I am alone,” says the narrator of Dostoevsky�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSunday, July 4, 2021
Crucible, SheffieldWood’s 1978 play about a young woman’s quest to win a local talent show handles weighty issues, including sexual exploitation, breezily
It is a world of mirror balls …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMMonday, June 28, 2021
Crucible, SheffieldDrifters and deadbeats populate four lesser-known Williams shorts in this un-sultry Northern Broadsides anthology
Northern Broadsides has a history of putting a northern E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMFriday, June 25, 2021
Bristol Old Vic and onlineMalaika Kegode embraces audiences with her warm, honest poetry, backed by musicians Jakabol – but her true-life tale quickly takes a dark turn
A sense of homeline…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMFriday, June 18, 2021
Liverpool EverymanMajid Mehdizadeh (AKA Luke Jerdy from Hollyoaks) explores modern-day manhood and the contagion of everyday violence
Male violence is like a virus. That is how it comes acro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMSunday, June 13, 2021
Pitlochry Festival theatreA Caledonian witch holds a Roman officer captive in David Greig’s drama of attraction and philosophical opposites
Pitlochry Festival theatre already has a claim …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMFriday, June 11, 2021
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe prolific playwright is on fine form with an uncanny story that smartly contrasts national crises past and present
Domestic life was quiet during lockdo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMMonday, May 31, 2021
Available onlineAnimation and street dancing power Mixed Up, a film about validating feelings, while The Super Special Disability Roadshow gives voice to a young audience
There’s a video f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06AMTuesday, May 25, 2021
Available onlineGods Vishnu, Lakshmi and Brahma become street-smart hedonists in Jaimini Jethwa’s ribald and swaggering audio play
Body-swap comedies are big in the cinema. From the mother…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMMonday, May 24, 2021
Available onlineIvor MacAskill and Rosana Cade’s clever show about identity was the highlight of the Glasgow festival’s opening weekend
The animating force behind The Adventures of Pino…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMThursday, May 13, 2021
The author, who became a literary sensation at the age of 21 with The End of Eddy, is appearing in a show exploring acting in theatre and in everyday life
Some people give their bodies to me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMFriday, April 23, 2021
Merchant City, GlasgowAdura Onashile’s app-based walking tour, created with the National Theatre of Scotland, explores the city’s historical ties to the slave trade
Glasgow’s Merchant …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMThursday, April 22, 2021
Available onlineYou are put through a cryptic interview in this ingenious show that tears up theatre’s rulebook to make the spectator the star
It’s 2007, I’ve been lured into an Edinbu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMWednesday, April 21, 2021
The playwright’s Tennis Elbow is a gender-swapped version of Writer’s Cramp, his uproarious 70s hit about a failed literary figure
If you were in Edinburgh during the 1977 festival there…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMWednesday, April 14, 2021
Available online A volunteer driver, a dog walker and an injured elderly woman fight personal lockdown battles – with playwright Stewart Melton’s welcome addition of the determination to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, April 11, 2021
Available onlinePlaywright Amy Ng adds issues of imperial exploitation and race by moving drama of wealthy woman and servant to Hong Kong in 1948
Miss Julie is standing on top of the kitchen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMFriday, April 2, 2021
Available onlineJohnny McKnight’s warm-hearted play, live-streamed from the Gaiety theatre in Ayr, reflects on what we’ve missed most about performance
What will audiences want after the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMMonday, March 29, 2021
Available onlineMilo Rau’s film mixes a dramatisation of the crucifixion story with a real-life portrait of exploited migrant workers
Milo Rau keeps you on your toes. On stage, the Belgiu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMFriday, March 19, 2021
Available onlineAudiences try to stop an ancient artefact from falling into the wrong hands in this interactive production
What would a time traveller make of it? Someone arriving from 2019 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PM 
