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Friday, December 8, 2017

The Box of Delights review at Wilton’s Music Hall, London – ‘a sparkling children’s fantasy’ by Stewart Pringle

No panto for Wilton’s this year, though only the most ardent of Roy Hudd fans would begrudge them this sparkling replacement, an

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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Derren Brown: Underground review at Playhouse Theatre, London – ‘an evening of astonishment’ by Stewart Pringle

Best Of’s get a bit of a bad rap. There’s something just a little Motorway Service Station at 2am about a Greatest

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Monday, August 21, 2017

Carried Away review at C Royale, Edinburgh – ‘heartfelt monologue about the terrors of pregnancy’ by Stewart Pringle

Hard-drinking monologues are a fringe perennial, as are stories of young women struggling with the prospect or realities of motherhood. So it’s

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Friday, August 18, 2017

I am a Tree review at Assembly, Edinburgh – ‘a bubble of calm and contemplation’ by Stewart Pringle

Jamie Wood is lost, or maybe he’s just lost something. Or maybe we’re all lost, all cut adrift after the concussive political

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Thursday, August 10, 2017

The North! The North! review at Summerhall, Edinburgh – ‘ingenious and gruesome’ by Stewart Pringle

Dark story-telling is a crowded field, particularly at the Edinburgh Fringe, so it takes genuine originality to stand out. That’s something Christopher

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Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Oyster Boy review at Assembly George Square, Edinburgh – ‘good-natured physical theatre’ by Stewart Pringle

Oyster Boy was the debut show for talented all-female Haste Theatre, all the way back in 2013, and this revival is a

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The Dark Room for Kids review at Just the Tonic at The Community Project, Edinburgh – ‘genuinely, irresistibly dangerous’ by Stewart Pringle

Chalk this one up to a terrifyingly bad idea come ever so good. John Robertson, the shock-haired Skeletor of improvised abuse, has

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Transmission review at Assembly George Square, Edinburgh – ‘tosses away an intriguing theme’ by Stewart Pringle

The live component of Transmission is apparently only the tip of the iceberg of a ‘city-scale, augmented reality performance’ including up to

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Monday, August 7, 2017

£¥€$ (Lies) review at Summerhall, Edinburgh – ‘engaging and beautifully presented’ by Stewart Pringle

There are few constants in the work of Ontroerend Goed. Enter the auditorium for one of their shows and you could be

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Sunday, August 6, 2017

Performers review at Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh – ‘limp and laboured’ by Stewart Pringle

This can’t be the same Irvine Welsh. Master of the Scottish gothic, king of dialect, author of Trainspotting and Filth? It can’t

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Finding Nana review at Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh – ‘smart and understated’ by Stewart Pringle

The heart of grief is absence, the not-there-ness of someone close, the reduction of their living being into objects that have fallen

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Friday, August 4, 2017

Foreign Radical review at Summerhall, Edinburgh – ‘ambitious but muddled’ by Stewart Pringle

Caught somewhere between a tribunal play and an interactive theatre game, Foreign Radical is ambitious in both scope and scale. But, it’s

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Friday, June 30, 2017

Review: The Wind in the Willows at the London Palladium by Stewart Pringle

"It’s hack-work, pure and simple": Stewart Pringle on Julian Fellowes' insipid musical version of Kenneth Grahame's classic. The post Review: The Wind in the Willows at the London Palladi…

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Thursday, May 11, 2017

King Charles III starring Tim Pigott-Smith review on BBC2 – ‘a play for today’ by Stewart Pringle

Sweep away the desperate and derelict controversy that’s frothed around its broadcast, and this TV adaptation of Mike Bartlett’s 2014 future-history play

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Thursday, December 8, 2016

Mother Goose review at Wilton’s Music Hall, London – ‘undercooked’ by Stewart Pringle

Revered in Dame circles as the ‘King Lear of panto’, Mother Goose is a deliriously odd confection that’s a million miles away

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Friday, December 2, 2016

Sleeping Beauty review at Hackney Empire, London – ‘explicitly political’ by Stewart Pringle

As the mutant, rampaging nightmare that is 2016 lumbers into the high-tension wires of another year, leave it to Hackney’s panto to

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Friday, August 5, 2016

Where to hang out after the show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Stewart Pringle

So, you’re off to the Edinburgh Fringe. You’ve got your venue sorted, and that’s great. You’re either looking forward to four weeks

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