Darkness is a canvas. We fill it with our fears. We populate it with monsters of our making. Glen Neath and David
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMImitating the Dog has explored the relationship between live performance and film in its work before. Nocturnes is intended as a homage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:35PMPatricia Rodriguez and Merce Ribot are having a party. With a messy Brexit looming and no guarantees that EU citizens will have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMSamuel Beckett’s Not I is a notoriously difficult piece to perform. Delivered at ferocious speed, it’s regarded as test of any actor.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMIrish company Malaprop Theatre is interested in all the ways technology is remaking our romantic lives. While the company’s other show, BlackCatfishMusketeer,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:15AMThis new opera by Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum feels entirely at home in Summerhall’s late night mind-fuck slot. It’s a fever-dream
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AMIn this rambling, affable piece of gig-theatre by Manchester-based company Powder Keg, Ross McCafferty and Jake Walton ask questions about the state
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMA single siren sits on her island, aching for companionship but destined to consume each stray sailor that drifts her way. That’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:41PMStructured a little like a church service, Rachel Mars’ Our Carnal Hearts explores the dark corners of our psyches: the places where
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMThis faintly surreal two-hander feels like an attempt to evoke the awkwardness of shared living and the claustrophobic conditions with which most
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMDaisy and Ollie’s dad is not himself. His memory’s going and he can no longer look after himself. But instead of drawing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:21AMRebecca Atkinson-Lord has lost her voice. Or rather she’s lost the voice of her home. She no longer speaks with a Wolverhampton
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:02PMIn Nilaja Sun’s one-woman show, Pike Street, she brings a whole neighbourhood to life. She plays all the members of a New
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMOur world is filled with borders. We have, as a species, a tendency to draw lines around ourselves. The policing of these
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMThere are shades of James Fritz’s brilliantly destabilising Ross and Rachel in The Bearpit. Two young people approaching their five-year anniversary talk
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:15AMThe third show from Barrel Organ, the company behind Nothing and Some People Talk about Violence, sees its work evolving in intriguing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:58AMIn 1908 playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s great-grandparents fled the pogroms in Romania for a new life in Montreal. Old Stock, a ‘refugee musical’,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:22AMWhen Joanne Ryan reached 35, she started to seriously consider when and if she would have children. After all, this is the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMCirca’s work has always explored the poetic possibilities of the human body. While some of the Australian circus company’s previous shows have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AMIdiot Child’s new show takes the form of a madcap self-help seminar. Wearing suit jackets festooned with badges for various achievements, Susie
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMGod is a woman in Richard Marsh’s follow-up to his trilogy of poetry plays about love. God also has something of a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMSophie can’t stop bouncing. She’s on a trampoline and she can’t get off. She claims she can but she can’t. Beside her,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AMLucy Roslyn’s new play, Goody, is set in a travelling circus during the days of the Depression when jobs were scarce, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:17AMFollowing on from Letters to Windsor House, their glorious show about London rental hell, this is Sh!t Theatre’s “mainstream crossover hit”. It’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AMAlan Ayckbourn’s huge new two-part dystopian drama The Divide – the most high profile show at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AMJessica Barker-Wren’s one woman show sees a posh girl ditch her London media job to go back to Devon and help run
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:31PMDaniella Isaacs’ takedown of the wellness industry is inspired by her own experiences. Hear Me Raw is extremely astute about how easy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:27AMRomantic comedies can be toxic. More often than not they reduce love to something neat and clean, full of easily surmounted obstacles.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMDan Pick’s first full-length play, Jelly Beans, takes the form of an unsettling journey into a man’s mind. It’s a grubby yet
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AM“This is a show about happiness,” Meow Meow tells us at the start of her idiosyncratic take on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:49PMThe Wardrobe Ensemble excels at taking specific cultural moments and unpacking them. In Education Education Education the company flashes back to 1997
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