Thursday, November 8, 2018
Northern Stage, NewcastleStaged in the round, Elayce Ismail's production relocates Dylan Thomas's dramatic poem about the people of Llareggub In divided times, there's something comforting a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2018
Live theatre, Newcastle Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher is restaged in a Tyneside mental hospital in a poignant and politically charged musicalIt sounds like a challenge for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2018
Traverse, EdinburghAnna Jordan's four-hander for Frantic Assembly, unfolding across time to tell parallel war stories, is performed with heart and focusA man is trying to cross the sea to hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2018
Unity, LiverpoolDeparting from convention and reality, Leo Butler's simulated psychedelic experience crashes around with jolly abandonYou can imagine an Open University programme that sets o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Royal Exchange, ManchesterSarah Frankcom gives Arthur Miller's decline-and-fall drama an extra edge in this powerful productionDon Warrington's Willy Loman is at the centre of his own univer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Traverse, EdinburghClare Duffy's play skirts the big issues as an ecowarrior and her mother clash in a locked bathroom Opening in the week the UN has made dire warnings about climate change,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PM[SHARE]Monday, October 1, 2018
Theatr Clwyd, MoldWilliam Golding's fable of desert-island anarchy is reinvented for the modern age in Emma Jordan's brutal, bold productionThere's a theory being pushed by the psychologist …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh With 50/50 gender-split casting, this comedy of disguise and identity enjoys a playful makeoverYou get a sense of the playfulness of Wils Wilson's trippy take on Shak…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2018
Tramway, Glasgow The thwarted lover story, retold in dazzling Glaswegian Scots, has raucous spirit and flamboyant hairpieces but its verbal flourishes are lost in acoustic fogEdwin Morgan's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonA brutal score by Jerskin Fendrix is the driving force behind this bleakly topical reworking of Alfred Jarry's Ubu RoiSince its premiere in 1896, Alfred Jar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 23, 2018
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghA man sits outside a prison in self-imposed punishment, in this philosophically provocative but dramatically inert dramaThe set is not a million miles from Druid Theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2018
The Studio, EdinburghStewart Laing sensitively takes Édouard Louis's groundbreaking coming-of-age story from page to stageWhen Édouard Louis was growing up in a poor working-class vi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Assembly Checkpoint, EdinburghFrom corrupt cartels to 'snakehead' smugglers, the journalist-cum-author presents a plain-talking breakdown of complex global illsWhen Misha Glenny ventured int…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2018
Roundabout at Summerhall, EdinburghDating apps and cute cat gifs are stifling a couple's ability to communicate in Eve Nicol's play for Middle ChildWhat's a monogamist to do in the age of th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghShould Jon stay or should he go? That is the question in a drama of short sentences, questions and heavy sighsBig Aftermath of a Small Disclosure is a play. The play is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 18, 2018
Assembly George Square theatre, EdinburghKaren Cogan is compelling as a pleasure-seeking thirtysomething in this vivd solo show staged by Fishamble and Soho theatreYou can imagine another wr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]Friday, August 17, 2018
Summerhall, EdinburghA sobering examination of British children caught in media crossfireIn the spring of 2014, what was the Trojan horse? Was it the Islamist doctrine allegedly smuggled int…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2018
The Edinburgh festival's Big in Belgium season features daft whimsy, a Eurovision anthem and a headlong charge into uncomfortable territoryWhen the Smiths released Paint a Vulgar Picture , t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 12, 2018
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghA desperate love story is set against a broader picture of government hostility in Ed Edwards' gritty two-handerAccording to this urgent two-hander, the nam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 11, 2018
Summerhall, EdinburghIn monologue and song, Chris Thorpe explores nationality, identity and not accepting the story you're given about BrexitChris Thorpe says his one-man show is not about B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]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 07:04AM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2018
★★★☆☆/★★★★☆ Traverse/Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghIn two new works, the playwright contrasts how the disenfranchised struggle to w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 08:54AM[SHARE]Traverse, 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 07:48AM[SHARE]Unusual 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 shapes. Kud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThis gripping production revives 17th-century court transcripts " and thumbscrews " to show just how little society has changedBy rights, a verbatim report of a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 wheth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 beguiling …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Traverse, 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 thought I'…
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