Friday, 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 03:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 sho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PM[SHARE]Assembly 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 glo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Your 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 03:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 08:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 invi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PM[SHARE]Gilded 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 05:36AM[SHARE]Gilded 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 we say we are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:06PM[SHARE]Summerhall, 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 Natio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Summerhall, 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 pattern…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 nurse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM[SHARE]Underbelly 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 07:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 Inqui…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Friday, 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-per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 11:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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, Rufus …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]The 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 Manchester…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM[SHARE]Crucible, 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 field …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2019
Various venues, ManchesterIrish company Anu's site-specific modern stories of struggle bring the radical spirit of 19th-century protesters to life
This production is billed as a response to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 4, 2019
Curve, LeicesterAlice Walker's novel is transformed into an exuberant celebration of community and female empowerment
Incest. Child abuse. Rape. Domestic violence … the foundations of Ali…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2019
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeThis dizzylingly funny drama boasts a tremendous cast, witty costumes and surprising set
'This is not a ballad," says Prudencia Hart early on in David Greig's di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2019
As his bold new Oedipus heads to Edinburgh, the director discusses revamping Sophocles and the 'poisonous nostalgia' behind Brexit
The teenagers in the audience are all squirms and giggles. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Jessie Cave's intimate standup, a beatbox Frankenstein and a twist on the star-crossed lovers are among the Edinburgh shows we've previously reviewed. Here's what we said …
Pleasance Court…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2019
There's a Belle and Sebastian play, a show in a hair salon, Frances Barber performing Pet Shop Boys songs and top comics including Josie Long and Stephen Fry. Here's our guide to the world's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Albert Halls, BoltonDespite the cast's best efforts, Oscar Wilde's comedy gets almost no laughs in a production that tries too hard to be funny
With a good Oscar Wilde aphorism, you can't te…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2019
Royal Exchange, ManchesterRelocating Harold Brighouse's classic to Manchester's Hindu community, Tanika Gupta finds some sharp political parallels and a very funny new cultural context
It is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2019
★★★★☆/★★☆☆☆
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickCharlotte Keatley's 1987 work about mothers and daughters is a wonderful gesture of empath…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Various venues, Edinburgh Inventive stagings keep young minds enthralled as detectives test their bravery, dancers evolve and superheroes fall out
There's an extraordinary moment in the midd…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE] 
