Friday, 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 07:36PMTuesday, March 16, 2021
Available onlineChris Bush’s community play uses local music and family histories to explore the city’s resilience, hope and determination
It begins, as a show about Sheffield only could…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMMonday, March 1, 2021
Available online A conspiracy unfolds across a week with clues arriving by post, phone and email in an interactive online adventure from Riptide
Along with Tik Tok dances and home deliveries…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMWednesday, February 3, 2021
Available onlineA trip to the gym for some metaphysical exercise opens the Tron theatre’s fascinating series of experimental audio dramas
Haruki Murakami would have called it What I Talk A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMSunday, January 31, 2021
Available online Denied live performance, creators slip its boundaries to explore screen trickery in this stimulating festival of storytelling, puppetry and animation
If there’s one festiv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTuesday, January 19, 2021
The actor, who has died aged 61, had hangdog charm, a cheery twinkle and the sense of danger that sparks chaotic comedy
It was 2010 and the world of Scottish theatre was reeling from the sud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMSunday, January 17, 2021
Available online Theodora van der Beek’s film about a lactose-fuelled religion is the highlight of an online compilation that finds British theatre-makers in morose mood
What if online th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMTuesday, December 22, 2020
Available onlineNational Theatre of Scotland retell the famous panto in a series of madcap monologues
The top theatre shows to watch online this Christmas
Did Brian Friel ever write a Christ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMTuesday, December 15, 2020
Available onlineCovid quips abound – and the Prince keeps his distance from Cinders – in Nottingham Playhouse’s colourful show
“Recently I’ve lost my sense of taste and smell,” s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMAvailable onlineDame and director Barrie Hunter’s tremendous live show, with characters confined in their Covid-era dressing rooms, is a richly ribald delight
At this time of year, we shou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMMonday, December 14, 2020
Available onlineAn ordinary hotel room becomes a place of upended perspective and magic in Thaddeus Philips’ connection-themed play
The adventure is over, the wizard has been exposed and D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMFriday, December 11, 2020
Available onlineThis belter of a production is larger than life, with cartoon accents, embellished dialogue and eye-popping outfits
King Shirley XII has an awful lot of clothes. His dressing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03PMThursday, December 10, 2020
Available online Filmed at Pitlochry when a live show was prevented, Elizabeth Newman’s charming adventure channels star power to rescue festive spirit
Elizabeth Newman is the director wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMWednesday, December 9, 2020
Available onlineA melancholic fairytale, African shadow puppetry and a haunted proscenium are among the first five offerings from the Lyceum’s series of Christmas plays
How many ways are t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
Available onlineIn this exquisite film we go backstage at Glasgow’s Tron to hear and see the poet’s work performed with beguiling theatricality
It’s been a long time since we saw the b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMFriday, November 20, 2020
Available onlineHannah Lavery’s play about the death of a man in police custody in 2015 is both impassioned and poetic
‘It’s not Black Lives Matter,” says one of the characters in Ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PMTuesday, November 17, 2020
Available onlinePlaying to a live online audience, mind-reader Scott Silven appears to know our thoughts before we do
The joy of a magic trick is in the moment. The magician defies the rule…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMMonday, November 16, 2020
You are the solo performer and audience in this quietly transformative piece whose script is delivered to your door
One of the things they teach playwrights is character development. If your…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMSunday, November 15, 2020
Online via Gaiety, AyrThickSkin’s intense, flickering two-hander about automatons in a totalitarian regime makes gripping, immersive VR viewing
As if 2020 were not dystopian enough, ThickS…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMMonday, November 2, 2020
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh/onlineThe comedian – on a solo tour of UK theatres – finds warm and funny layers of humanity in the small details of everyday lives
Daniel Kitson doesn’t strike…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48PMThursday, October 15, 2020
Available onlineUntimely deaths, ritual sacrifice, the supernatural ... steel yourself for a 90-minute immersive quest that’s an escape room for the age of social distancing
It’s bad for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThursday, October 8, 2020
Available onlineThe imperilled astronauts’ story is retold with a topical slant and a mastery of slow-burn tension
What makes this play by Torben Betts gripping is the thrill of a life-and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PMMonday, October 5, 2020
Available onlineLive Theatre’s series of short plays range from the joys and perils of gardening to a howl of rage against a cruel stepmother
Anyone remember the olden days? They used to h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMMonday, August 31, 2020
Available onlineThe sacred salmon is the star of Pitlochry Festival theatre’s series of poems and plays inspired by the mysterious River Tay
You can’t fault Pitlochry Festival theatre f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, August 25, 2020
Available onlineTraverse flies the Edinburgh festival flag with audio plays tackling ‘what happens after an earth-shattering event’, doomsday cults and slippery politics
This is the tim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMMonday, August 10, 2020
Edinburgh University’s ImprovBot uses data from eight years of past productions to invent tantalising no-shows
You can see how it happens. The company has yet to start devising the show, b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMSaturday, August 8, 2020
Available onlineHope Dickson Leach’s magical, flickering film of past and postponed works is a dazzling theatrical relay race
The test of a good production of Peter Pan is the scene where…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
Available onlineCumming, Val McDermid and others explore pandemic life in this series from National Theatre of Scotland and the BBC
During the Covid crisis, the Victoria and Albert Museum in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMFriday, July 31, 2020
Available onlineThere are a string of cartoonish events and a jangly slice of chart-topping indie pop in this play about missed opportunities
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
Available onlineJack Nurse and Robbie Gordon debate the problems and prudishness surrounding pornography in a lively audio play adapted from the stage
Stories to Connect Us is the name given…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMWednesday, July 15, 2020
Available onlineDarkfield’s eerie two-person sound experience is a gothic horror that ingeniously overcomes the usual pitfalls of online theatre
‘This is supposed to be a controlled spac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PM 
