Sunday, September 11, 2022
Pitlochry Festival theatreIn a monologue starring the excellent Blythe Jandoo, Martin McCormick finds a fearful, misogynistic, class-ridden society to blame for a girl's death
There is somet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07PM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2022
Leeds PlayhouseDenzel Westley-Sanderson's staging of the high-society comedy adds a welcome dose of playfulness amid the cucumber sandwiches
On the way into the theatre there is a pop-up dis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2022
Royal Exchange, ManchesterMaking dynamic use of a sparse stage and a spinning neon sign, Atri Banerjee's adventurous production gives new shape to Tennessee Williams' play
You mess with The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughSkipping between three generations from the 50s to the present, this occasionally poignant play pulls back from the emotional force of its concept
At 83, A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 28, 2022
Pitlochry festival theatreSara Shaarawi's two-hander captures tenderness and sadness as the sisters negotiate the Islamic revolution, exile and betrayal
Fatemeh has just introduced her siste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Live at No 40, GlasgowDirector Dominic Hill brings exuberance to Shakespeare's tale of two sets of identical twins unknowingly at large in the same city
Ephesus is quite the place. It has it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2022
Church Hill theatre, EdinburghSergio Blanco's bad-taste drama uses deadpan humour and a tapestry of cultural allusions to probe our fixation with death
In Mary Shelley's novel, Victor Franke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2022
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghWhether tap dancing, singing Abba's Money, Money, Money or lamenting the limitations of bargain-shop 'pound pants', the Welsh cast are cheeky and defiant
Emilie Parr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2022
The Studio, Festival theatre, EdinburghPersonal trauma, the horrors of migration and religious rhetoric feature in an impassioned narrative that ultimately feels more private than shared
Man…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2022
Assembly Rooms, EdinburghLester Purry is at home performing the late playwright's breezy yet purposeful collection of stories from his youth, in its European premiere
In the hands of a less…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AM[SHARE]Festival theatre, EdinburghIvo van Hove directs a mesmerising four-hour adaptation of a divisive novel that unpicks privilege, abuse and psychological damage
When Jude St Francis cuts his wr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AM[SHARE]Friday, August 19, 2022
Leith Academy, EdinburghThe audience are cast as climate refugees in an immersive show that weaves together issues of class, power and politics
Climate campaigners have been sounding the ala…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2022
Scottish Storytelling Centre, EdinburghShona Cowie combines traditional storytelling with physical theatre in a show about Maggie Osborne that posits her as more entrepreneur than witch
As w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PM[SHARE]Scottish Storytelling Centre, EdinburghMaria MacDonell and Jo Clifford consider the classic Hans Christian Andersen story and don't shy away from nature's cruelty
I'm no fan of seagulls " on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghThe true story of a Sydney suburbanite who organised a campaign to save some local bushland and kickstarted a whole environmentalist movement
Towards the end of this one…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Wee Red Bar, EdinburghAn adaptation of David Keenan's novel about a Scottish band who nearly supported Sonic Youth is lovingly detailed
A few years ago, the director Stewart Laing invented a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PM[SHARE]Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThis four-strong cast imagine what it's like 'feeling safe all the time' in an urgent and impressionistic performance
When they ask you not to take photos during…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2022
Church Hill theatre, EdinburghUsing letters written by survivors of the 1994 genocide to lost family members, Odile Gakire Katese's show is a tribute to the power of story
Odile Gakire Kates…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghLaura Horton's absorbing and sensitive play explores the impact of a much misunderstood disorder
Sophie looks at her clothes and says she sees them as "versions…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]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 07:03PM[SHARE]The 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 is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Pleasance 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 of Tra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 relation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AM[SHARE]Assembly 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 laugh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 emotional…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AM[SHARE]Royal 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 10:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 05:33PM[SHARE]Pleasance 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 12:03PM[SHARE]Just 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 Cassie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AM[SHARE]Assembly 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 05:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 01:03PM[SHARE] 
