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]Pitlochry Festival theatreBrian Ferguson performs with mesmerising verve in this poignant, desperately funny portrait of existential misery
'I am alone," says the narrator of Dostoevsky's 18…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 4, 2021
Crucible, SheffieldWood's 1978 play about a young woman's quest to win a local talent show handles weighty issues, including sexual exploitation, breezily
It is a world of mirror balls and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Monday, June 28, 2021
Crucible, SheffieldDrifters and deadbeats populate four lesser-known Williams shorts in this un-sultry Northern Broadsides anthology
Northern Broadsides has a history of putting a northern E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]Friday, June 25, 2021
Bristol Old Vic and onlineMalaika Kegode embraces audiences with her warm, honest poetry, backed by musicians Jakabol " but her true-life tale quickly takes a dark turn
A sense of homeliness…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AM[SHARE]Friday, June 18, 2021
Liverpool EverymanMajid Mehdizadeh (AKA Luke Jerdy from Hollyoaks) explores modern-day manhood and the contagion of everyday violence
Male violence is like a virus. That is how it comes acro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 13, 2021
Pitlochry Festival theatreA Caledonian witch holds a Roman officer captive in David Greig's drama of attraction and philosophical opposites
Pitlochry Festival theatre already has a claim to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM[SHARE]Friday, June 11, 2021
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe prolific playwright is on fine form with an uncanny story that smartly contrasts national crises past and present
Domestic life was quiet during lockdo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM[SHARE]Monday, May 31, 2021
Available onlineAnimation and street dancing power Mixed Up, a film about validating feelings, while The Super Special Disability Roadshow gives voice to a young audience
There's a video for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Available onlineGods Vishnu, Lakshmi and Brahma become street-smart hedonists in Jaimini Jethwa's ribald and swaggering audio play
Body-swap comedies are big in the cinema. From the mother-d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PM[SHARE]Monday, May 24, 2021
Available onlineIvor MacAskill and Rosana Cade's clever show about identity was the highlight of the Glasgow festival's opening weekend
The animating force behind The Adventures of Pinocchi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 13, 2021
The author, who became a literary sensation at the age of 21 with The End of Eddy, is appearing in a show exploring acting in theatre and in everyday life
Some people give their bodies to me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Friday, April 23, 2021
Merchant City, GlasgowAdura Onashile's app-based walking tour, created with the National Theatre of Scotland, explores the city's historical ties to the slave trade
Glasgow's Merchant City i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 22, 2021
Available onlineYou are put through a cryptic interview in this ingenious show that tears up theatre's rulebook to make the spectator the star
It's 2007, I've been lured into an Edinburgh ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 21, 2021
The playwright's Tennis Elbow is a gender-swapped version of Writer's Cramp, his uproarious 70s hit about a failed literary figure
If you were in Edinburgh during the 1977 festival there wer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Available online A volunteer driver, a dog walker and an injured elderly woman fight personal lockdown battles " with playwright Stewart Melton's welcome addition of the determination to pre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 11, 2021
Available onlinePlaywright Amy Ng adds issues of imperial exploitation and race by moving drama of wealthy woman and servant to Hong Kong in 1948
Miss Julie is standing on top of the kitchen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM[SHARE]Friday, April 2, 2021
Available onlineJohnny McKnight's warm-hearted play, live-streamed from the Gaiety theatre in Ayr, reflects on what we've missed most about performance
What will audiences want after the pan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Monday, March 29, 2021
Available onlineMilo Rau's film mixes a dramatisation of the crucifixion story with a real-life portrait of exploited migrant workers
Milo Rau keeps you on your toes. On stage, the Belgium-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]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 07:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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, wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 07:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 Abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 festival…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 08:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 thea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 02:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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," says David Al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PM[SHARE]Available 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 should…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 Dor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM[SHARE] 
