Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Theatre Royal, WakefieldSet in a northern seaside B&B, John Godber's latest has a healthy dollop of political analysis beneath its very funny surface
According to John Godber's latest co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 12, 2021
Live theatre, NewcastleKema Sikazwe " AKA actor and rapper Kema Kay " performs a sunny, charming but vulnerable musical monologue about growing up in the northeast of England
Kema Sikazwe's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PM[SHARE]Friday, September 10, 2021
Dundee RepJohn McCann's imaginative play follows its characters' search for answers to tough questions during lockdown " watched over by a pair of very unusual seagulls
For the seagulls, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 26, 2021
Traverse theatre, EdinburghActor Amy Molloy delivers an elegant monologue that reveals itself as something greater in this supremely thoughtful show
Kate Regan is a woman defined by the men …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PM[SHARE]Monday, August 23, 2021
Holyrood Park, EdinburghThis open-air performance brings together a multi-generational company celebrating release from pandemic confinement
When your stage is the size of a football pitch a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghTrevor Lock uses audience participation to satisfy our yearning for community in a show that prioritises connection over action
What did we miss most during the pandemic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 22, 2021
Old College Quad, EdinburghKatharine Mehrling delivers the German master's songs in ravishing style, accompanied with restraint by pianist Barrie Kosky
We're nearing the end of a medley from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Available onlineGregor Samsa's sudden bodily dislocation becomes a means of exploring digital-era dilemmas in Hijinx's irreverent adaptation
A few days before the first lockdown, Glasgow's V…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM[SHARE]Friday, August 20, 2021
Traverse theatre, EdinburghOn an hour-long circuit guided by headphones, graffiti, sculptures and shops wheedle their way into the dialogue
If this were a regular show it would be something …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 19, 2021
Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghAngelina Chudi gives a powerful performance as she tackles the contradictory, confusing experience of meeting an abuser
We've all done it. You bump into a signifi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Army @ The Fringe, Drill Hall, EdinburghIn this warm and witty solo show, Lubna Kerr, the Scottish daughter of middle-class Pakistani immigrants, recounts a lifetime's encounters with other …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Harbottle Park, Byker, Newcastle upon TyneThe story of a relationship unfolds as a thoughtful exploration of attitudes to what we eat in Chris Bush's clever two-hander
At first glance, Chris…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AM[SHARE]Monday, August 16, 2021
Harbottle Park, Byker, Newcastle upon TyneChatterbox Charli is on a quest to find her voice and stay free in Phoebe Eclair-Powell's warm and funny family play
"Why does everyone say I'm trou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PM[SHARE]Friday, August 13, 2021
Army @ The Fringe, EdinburghThe friendship of two female soldiers is the poignant basis of this intense, immersive audio play that takes you on a tour of the local area
When you watch news r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 12, 2021
Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghFocusing on four survivors of the massacre at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, this stirs the emotions but doesn't grapple with the most pressing or difficul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PM[SHARE]Newhailes House, MusselburghGrid Iron has brilliantly transposed this Norwegian tale, of a man who leaves his family to live in a tent, to the grounds of a National Trust for Scotland proper…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Traverse theatre, EdinburghDementia and grief are among the difficult subjects explored in Frances Poet's dislocating play
I don't think Frances Poet intends her play to be depressing. She h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Monday, August 9, 2021
Tynecastle Park, EdinburghThis musical play about a women's football league making boots for troops at the Somme is moving and polemical
It was a day of celebration. The players from the No…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PM[SHARE]This August the Scottish capital is much quieter but performers and audiences at this modest jamboree are full of spirit
On the wall in my kitchen is a calendar made by Edinburgh theatre cri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM[SHARE]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 the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]MultiStory, 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 07:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 08:24PM[SHARE]Traverse 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 in a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:48AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 all ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 lov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Monday, 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
Lockdown,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 02:42PM[SHARE] 
