Saturday, August 11, 2018
Traverse, EdinburghA history lesson on the American civil war becomes an exploration of race relations in the US today but soon stirs up ugly racist sentimentsMost arguments about inequality…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMFriday, August 10, 2018
★★★☆☆/★★★★☆ Traverse/Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghIn two new works, the playwright contrasts how the disenfranchised struggle to wrest control from a system they cannot i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMThursday, August 9, 2018
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghSome signature sex gags raise the odd laugh and a late religious theme intrigues – but really, the end can’t come too soonWhen Frank Skinner was on the way up as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Gilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghThe IT Crowd actor turns playwright with this subtle monologue play in which three studio sitters bare their emotional woundsThe trick to writing a monologue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMTraverse, EdinburghThe activist-comedian takes the temperature of universal healthcare and delivers a grave diagnosisMark Thomas is standing centre stage, feet splayed, shoulders feeling the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMUnusual musicals abound at the fringe, from an F1 spin on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash hit to a satire on ‘inspiration porn’For a mainstream art form, the musical comes in many odd shape…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThis gripping production revives 17th-century court transcripts – and thumbscrews – to show just how little society has changedBy rights, a verbatim report o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMTuesday, August 7, 2018
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghSerena Manteghi gives a high-voltage performance but the story feels far too familiar in Christopher York’s play for the Stephen Joseph theatreIt’s not only…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMSunday, August 5, 2018
Traverse, EdinburghIn David Ireland’s brilliantly brutal satire, things get horribly out of hand when two men and a woman meet to discuss putting on a West End playTwo men are debating whe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSaturday, August 4, 2018
Traverse, EdinburghJulie Hesmondhalgh’s superb turn as narrator lights up these comic tales about the universal significance of loveIn festivals past, the Traverse has showcased a beguilin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMTraverse, EdinburghA parent-teacher meeting becomes a microcosm for privilege and exclusion in a subtle, well-acted three-handerThe entrance of Sarah Morris’s Donna is delayed. “I though…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTraverse, EdinburghPolly Frame’s bereaved mother is consumed by thoughts of revenge as Martín Zimmerman’s mesmerising tale of a school massacre hits homeIn the Alice in Wonderland logic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMWednesday, August 1, 2018
Part philosophical meditation, part fantasy, Marguerite Duras’s 1982 novella La Maladie de la Mort comes to the stage in a hi-tech Edinburgh festival show There’s something about Marguer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMMonday, July 9, 2018
Williamson Park, LancasterLucy Jane Parkinson’s D’Artagnan is equal parts swagger and vulnerability in a jolly, summery promenade productionBeing a horse, Christopher Bianchi’s Planche…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMSunday, July 1, 2018
Tron, Glasgow Love-struck pop hits punctuate the regency matchmaking in this raucous, yet surprisingly faithful, all-female adaptationIt’s not Jane Austen’s fault. When the author publis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMTuesday, June 19, 2018
Pitlochry Festival theatreLiz Carruthers directs a sprightly, good-looking revival of Barrie’s romantic 1902 hitValentine Brown is trying to persuade Phoebe Throssel that age is no barrier…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
Octagon, BoltonThe audience enjoy a Cliff singalong on the top deck as they soak up the feelgood hit of the summerSometimes the stars align and fate smiles on a production. When Elizabeth Ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMSunday, June 3, 2018
State cinema, Leith In an atmospheric derelict venue, the Golden Trailer Collective explore anti-terror detentions in a play that could commit more to its eccentricitiesA cuckoo festival wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMFriday, June 1, 2018
Theatres in Scotland played host to the dazzling stagecraft of Robert Lepage, a striking Titus Andronicus and raucous but close-harmonising schoolgirls This summer, I was lucky to get two bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Traverse, Edinburgh, and North Edinburgh Arts CentreBaba Yaga, a delirious take on Slavic folklore, and the masterful one-man show Stick By Me offer joyful explorations of rules and how to b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMFriday, May 11, 2018
He has blazed his way through theatre and opera. Now, the great director Calixto Bieito is reflecting on his fears in a highly personal concertThe scene is northern Spain, some time in the e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMMonday, May 7, 2018
Corn Exchange, HaddingtonCharlie’s Angels meet the Andrews Sisters in this entertaining and melodic meditation on griefYes, it is aimed at the over-eights, but Eddie and the Slumber Sister…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghStewart Laing directs August Strindberg’s drama about a man wheedling his way into his ex-wife’s marriageIf the men’s rights movement is looking for a spokesman,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Traverse, EdinburghA mother’s fear that her toddler has been abused sends her into a nightmarish state of anxiety in Frances Poet’s playWhen Iago causes Othello to doubt himself, it only…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, April 19, 2018
Citizens, GlasgowGeorge Costigan is magnificent as the patriarch of the fraught Tyrone family, imprisoned in a jail of their own making The Connecticut summer house of the Tyrone family in E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMMonday, February 19, 2018
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghTony Cownie roughs up and relocates Hannah Cowley’s 18th-century play, adding vulgar jokes and rebellious energyImagine an inverted version of Cinderella, in which t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AMThursday, February 15, 2018
Traverse theatre, EdinburghThe West Bank’s nightly curfews, checkpoints and pipe bombs make for gallows humour in this defiant comedy that gives a voice to the voicelessYour average Mark T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AMFriday, February 2, 2018
Northern Stage, NewcastleLaura Lindow’s adaptation of the sci-fi classic is a thrilling parable of complacency that allows a brilliant cast to shineHG Wells wrote The War of the Worlds at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:39AMMonday, January 29, 2018
Citizens, GlasgowThe tale of four Belfast women during the Troubles becomes an unflinching study of the effects of male violenceOn the face of it, Bold Girls is not a violent play. In form, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, January 26, 2018
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThis adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ tale turns the audience into voyeurs looking in on the recollection of an intense affairThere’s a theme in Marguerite Duras’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:17AMMonday, January 22, 2018
Octagon, BoltonJessica Baglow captures the plain-speaking pragmatism of Charlotte Brontë’s heroine in a light and lucid adaptation directed by Elizabeth NewmanThe first thing that anyone …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM 
