Friday, August 16, 2019
Kings theatre, EdinburghAn updating of Sophocles’ classic, set on election eve, has such political resonance you can imagine Boris Johnson not far away
The play has hardly begun and alread…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMThursday, August 15, 2019
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghSasha Frost sparkles as a curious and vulnerable Kay searching for her birth parents, but this unfocused production fails to capture the intimacy of the soul-searching…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMWednesday, August 14, 2019
A trio of performances – Daniel Bellus in Beat, Alexander Fox in Snare and Mick Berry’s Keith Moon: The Real Me – put drums centre stage
It must be something to do with being at the b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMRobert Softley Gale’s show Purposeless Movements turns the involuntary gestures of cerebral palsy into choreography
Becoming a parent for the first time can be nerve-racking for anyone. Kn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghIn a series of autofictional shows, Traumboy and Traumgirl offer insights of varying quality amid the intimate revelations and erotic dancing
‘I’m not the person mos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMMonday, August 12, 2019
Plan your schedule with our roundup of top shows, ordered by start time. This page will be updated daily throughout the festival
BoutSummerhall, 10.20am, until 25 AugustAn exploration of bro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMTraverse, EdinburghMale psychotherapists feel the heat in pantomimic telling of a true story about the voyeuristic exploitation of a female patient’s private disclosures
If you search onli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, August 11, 2019
Church Hill theatre, EdinburghThe 1927 company became darlings of the festival scene after their first fringe outing, but this showcase of traditional tales lacks urgency
When the Margate co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMUnderbelly, Cowgate, EdinburghThis slight drama, in which a woman sifts through old possessions and memories, leaves so much unsaid one wonders if there is any meaning at all
The premise of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSaturday, August 10, 2019
Traverse, EdinburghSet in South Armagh during the Troubles, Meghan Tyler’s anarchic and OTT revenge fantasy hits back at the patriarchy and turns into a bloodbath
It turns out Killing Eve …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMFriday, August 9, 2019
The Studio, Festival theatre, EdinburghTim Crouch plays a messianic cult leader prophesying catastrophe in a formally adventurous show about the dangers of environmental fatalism
And, lo, as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMThursday, August 8, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThere’s lots to love about the polished and fizzy scenes of this family drama, but too many themes leave its message unclear
There’s lots to love about this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMAssembly Rooms, EdinburghFrances Barber stars as Zelig-like chanteuse Billie Trix, in this one-woman spinoff from the band and Jonathan Harvey’s 2001 musical Closer to Heaven
Despite her g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMYour home, EdinburghDaniel Bye enlists the help of his five-month-old son in an unpredictable hour-long exploration of nature versus nurture
A show can have the same words, same actors, same…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
Zoo Southside, Edinburgh The pioneering Ontroerend Goed company takes on a conceptually daring view of environmental apocalypse
Three years ago, the pioneering Belgian company Ontroerend Goe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMTuesday, August 6, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghVolunteers are game in YESYESNONO’s lively show that uses drama-school exercises to investigate the nature of truth
Jim from the Wardrobe Ensemble has been in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PMGilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghIn her playwriting, Sheila Atim puts a female scientist on stage with the pharaoh to chat about music, men and misrepresentation
Sheila Atim, the Olivier awar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMGilded Balloon, EdinburghEve Nichol’s play combines songs from the Glasgow band’s well-loved album with an ambiguous narrative
‘We’re seeing other people – at least that’s what w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMMonday, August 5, 2019
Traverse theatre, EdinburghBreaking down a thrown burger into its constituent ingredients is a way of confronting assault in this sassy, humane show
Behind Travis Alabanza is a container ful…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMSummerhall, EdinburghThis vivid production shows both sides of the care system through the eyes of a nurse and a patient
The spirit of Nye Bevan floats over Alan Harris’s monologue for Nat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSummerhall, EdinburghCardboard Citizens’ gutsy and gut-wrenching stories of the homeless focuses on people instead of just grim statistics
Someone at Cardboard Citizens has noticed a patte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMSunday, August 4, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghJessica Ross doesn’t come anywhere close to making moral or dramatic sense of why four nurses killed elderly patients
How to account for the four Austrian nur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghNicola Wren deploys considerable charm in a not-really-showbiz story of childhood pantos, movie bit-parts and self-acceptance
The Edinburgh fringe is good at bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMSaturday, August 3, 2019
Songs in the Key of Cree, Deer Woman and Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools, three shows by Canada’s Indigenous artists, are presented at the Edinburgh festival
This summer, Canada’s National I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMFriday, August 2, 2019
Traverse, EdinburghJavaad Alipoor’s kaleidoscopic show delves below the compellingly shocking behaviour to lay bare an epoch-spanning vision of human waste
The sensation of racing a high-p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMTuesday, July 30, 2019
Pitlochry festival theatreForbidden love blooms between Catholic and Protestant settlers in Nicola McCartney’s razor-sharp study of cultural identity
Imagine Romeo and Juliet transplanted …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMSunday, July 21, 2019
Glasgow Botanic Gardens A superb Nicole Cooper plays Hamlet as a fiercely wronged daughter, while a stripped-down version of Richard reveals an impulsive gambler on a wild streak
★★★�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMSunday, July 14, 2019
The Lowry, SalfordFrom Henry V’s speech to Jona Lewie’s Stop the Cavalry, this illuminating production explores the ‘flawed family’ of Europe
Way back at the start of the Brexit wars…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThe Stoller Hall, ManchesterWith fascinating – and frustrating – results, the actor plays a woman seemingly possessed by the ghost of the late Velvet Underground singer
When 1980s Manche…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMTuesday, July 9, 2019
How do you re-enact a homicide for a theatre performance – and should you? Director Milo Rau invited people who knew the victim to take part
On 22 April, 2012, Ihsane Jarfi left a gay bar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMCrucible, SheffieldTransformative puppetry, design and direction, and a great human lead, make this adaptation of Yann Martel’s book unmissable
A tip for playwrights: when you want to fiel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM 
