Wednesday, 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 04:32PMTuesday, June 30, 2020
Available onlinePerformed live on YouTube and Instagram, this play’s study of bling, hedonism and vacuous consumption stands in starker relief than ever
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMFriday, June 26, 2020
Available onlineMixing existential soul-searching with wry comedy, this is an adventurous production starring its viewers
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance online
The stor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMSaturday, June 13, 2020
Available onlineWinsome Pinnock’s play, responding to JMW Turner’s Slave Ship painting, is a timely contribution to the Black Lives Matter campaign
Hottest front-room seats: the best the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMTuesday, June 2, 2020
The playwright and the director Elizabeth Newman on how they reimagined their new theatre production for radio in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak
‘We never ask the right question of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Available onlineIan Rankin’s stalwart detective struggles with self-isolation in one of six quarantine-themed short films from the National Theatre of Scotland
Hottest front-room seats: th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PMSunday, May 10, 2020
Available onlineAndré Sills dominates the stage as a leader hungry for battle in Robert Lepage’s up-to-date take on Shakespeare’s tragedy
Hottest front-room seats: best theatre and danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, April 19, 2020
Available onlineFrom a violent prisoner to a haunted children’s entertainer, these up-close-and-personal new monologues by Rona Munro show us characters in retreat from the outside world
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMMonday, April 13, 2020
Available onlineMercury Theatre Colchester and St Helens Theatre Royal have both launched online pantomimes for isolated audiences
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMWednesday, April 1, 2020
The world’s biggest arts festival is loved for its camaraderie and inspiration. This feels like cancelling Christmas – but performers will respond creatively
The story used to be about h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMSunday, March 29, 2020
Available online A controlling fool in love comes across more like a sexual predator in this engagingly perceptive Stéphane Braunschweig production for France’s Théâtre de l’Odéon
Fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMThursday, March 19, 2020
As venues close due to Covid-19, there’s a world of published drama to savour, from text that falls off the page to Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘undirectable’ collage
Coronavirus and culture �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMMonday, March 16, 2020
Pitlochry Festival theatreJessica Hardwick and Olivier Huband are compelling as a young couple facing harsh realities once their honeymoon ends
It’s the second half of Neil Simon’s comed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMSunday, March 15, 2020
Tron, GlasgowKafka’s story is given a chilling update that chimes with our times, referencing the migrant crisis, the gig economy and fear of the unknown
Of all the shows to have been affe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32PMFriday, March 6, 2020
Leeds PlayhouseAfter being told one too many times to ‘cheer up, love’, Andrea Heaton’s Lisa lashes out and is sent to a finishing school to suppress ideas of resistance
We’re basica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMCast, DoncasterCompassion triumphs over prejudice in Richard Cameron’s play about pit workers who form a close-harmony combo
One of the stipulations of the Bechdel test, designed to measur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMThursday, March 5, 2020
Leeds Playhouse The Victorian orphan is given an even greater sense of exclusion in Amy Leach’s excellent production for Ramps on the Moon
Brooklyn Melvin’s Oliver has a ferocious roar b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThis update with Elaine C Smith focuses on Scotland’s landowning class but struggles to make the satire funny
There are sad drunks and there are happy drunks. Elaine…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMFriday, February 21, 2020
Dundee RepTitle-winning coach Jim McLean is played with raging mastery by Barrie Hunter in a two-hander that pulls some punches
He was the manager described by one player as a “football pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMThursday, February 20, 2020
Viaduct theatre, HalifaxShakespeare meets Richard Curtis in the play that gave its name to the chocolates, carried by boisterous performances and sweet-wrapper chic
As the new artistic direc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMSunday, February 16, 2020
Byre theatre, St AndrewsThis imaginative adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s gothic fable amps up the physical storytelling with comic results
When my daughter was very young she devel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMFriday, February 14, 2020
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonModern-day echoes resound in Alistair Beaton’s adaptation of the novel about tiny acts of rebellion in 1940s Germany
‘The plan…” says Anna Quangel (Cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMWednesday, February 12, 2020
Belgrade theatre, Coventry Friends venture into danger on a rival estate armed with sassy spirit and beatbox energy – if not a clear plan – in this lively adaptation of Alex Wheatle’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Live theatre, NewcastleA trio of actors try to provide answers for teenagers’ anxieties in Paper Birds’ razor-sharp show
One teenager wants to know when you’re ready to have a baby. A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMWednesday, February 5, 2020
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Actors swap multiple characters to share stories and trade blows as pints are pulled and relationships dissected in Jim Cartwright’s bittersweet comic drama
T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMMonday, February 3, 2020
Summerhall, Edinburgh Annual festival of visual theatre delivers a busy mix of puppetry, silent comedy, modern dance and the hard to define
When you’re used to performing to four people, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThe city’s theatre is emotional, indignant and polemical finds our critic on a whirlwind trip through a dozen shows
The sparky young performers on stage thank us for coming out tonight. Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMFriday, January 31, 2020
Uig Community Centre, Isle of LewisJulia Taudevin’s show about the Gaelic tradition of singing for the dead takes us on a dizzying spin through space and time
It’s based on keening ritua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMSunday, January 5, 2020
NTGent, Ghent, BelgiumAn acting family play the members of a family about to take their own lives in this unnerving and heartbreaking celebration of the ordinary
It is a dark winter’s nigh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMFriday, January 3, 2020
Various venues, EdinburghCharlotte Runcie and Irvine Welsh are among the writers exploring Scotland’s maritime history in these evocative installations
A litany of names is projected on th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSaturday, December 14, 2019
Traverse, EdinburghDouglas Maxwell’s two-hander teases and cajoles us with questions about how we see ourselves
Jimmy says he doesn’t want to be a story. An asylum seeker in Glasgow, he …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM 
