Sunday, August 19, 2018
Twa, the collaboration between writer Annie George and visual artist Flore Gardner at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, is a lucid and involving production.
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Hymns For Robots, Noctium Theatre’s portrait of electronic music innovator Delia Derbyshire, is an appealingly winsome piece of theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, August 17, 2018
When there’s nothing but a bible and megaphone by way of set or stage dressing in a performance about the DUP, you
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:08PMA quiet examination of the nature of exclusion and fear of the other is framed as deeply ironic comedy in Jean Ann
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMThe WWI Wardrobe Project has emotional force as well as a certain charm as Immersive Response’s production seeks to make 1917 more immediate.
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At a fringe where the issues surrounding mental health form a major theme, Where It Hurts, from Edinburgh’s Grassmarket Projects, not only
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The threat of antibiotic resistance may be an unlikely subject for a musical, but The Mould That Changed The World makes this educational topic fun in a highly entertaining new show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMBreathing Corpses, by Split Brick and New Celts at The Space on the Mile, leaves a nasty taste in the mouth at times. This is entirely intentional, as it is a decidedly nihilistic study of d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMAmid rave reviews for her show What Girls Are Made Of at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, the award-winning director and actor talks
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Visceral, passionate and thrashing about in any key it can find a snarl, Marcel Dorney’s pseudo-history of Brisbane punk in the late
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:43PMCheerfulness in the face of adversity characterises The Monster in the Hall by Capsize Collective and New Celts at The Space on the Mile.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMA truly harrowing tale of survival is told in Heroine, a one-woman show from Scene Change Productions making its world premiere this Fringe.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMEmerging out of what appears to be primordial soup, dancers Mickael Henrotay-Delaunay and Ismael Oiartzabal weave a tale of friendship and derring-do
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Any preconceptions about a play depicting five-a-side football should instantly be put aside for Tom Wells’s Jumpers For Goalposts.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTough lawyer Nina returns to her rooms to await the verdict on a particularly brutal case of child abuse – the chilling
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMStuck at the top of a stepladder, her little finger trapped in the hinge, Clare is about as disempowered as it is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AMCleverly entertaining but carrying a strong social bite, Nichola McAuliffe’s Revenants has a hint of the drawing room drama about it. In
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMThe legend of King Arthur is given a thoroughly modern retelling in Grail Project from Californian physical theatre ensemble Theatre Movement Bazaar.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMSweet and true, Handfast by Edinburgh-based company Nutshell at Summerhall, is the wedding day you deserve.
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Michael Daviot’s Don Quixote Unbound at Sweet Grassmarket is a wonderfully involving, enchanting and thought-provoking example of the arts of storytelling and theatre-making.
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The idea that your life flashes before your eyes as you die is given a distinctly contemplative air by Finnish company Teatteri
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Antigone presented by Amplify Time and New Celts at TheSpace on the Mile, attempts to bring the concerns of Ancient Greece to the contemporary arena. If unresolved tensions in the script mea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMNasty truths lie behind the cartoonish nature of The Laird’s Big Breaxit in the Library at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Nitro by Glass Knuckles and New Celts at theSpace on the Mile may never live up to the explosive promise of its title but has an energy and vigour that covers its faults effectively.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMThere is an air of freshness and fun to Cambusdonald Royal from Edinburgh People’s Theatre at Mayfield Salisbury Church.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, August 7, 2018
Strange Town Theatre Company take us to a war-town Warsaw in Steve Small’s raw and powerful staging of David Greig’s Dr Korczak’s Example.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, August 6, 2018
The sincerity, emotional directness and beautiful staging of A War of Two Halves deserves to transcend sporting allegiances. This Is My Story and Nonsense Room’s site-specific performance …
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An important piece of LGBT history is explored in Eighties gay romantic comedy, Love Song to Lavender Menace, which returns to Edinburgh this Fringe.
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There is dark foreboding to Tim Hardy’s performance of Simon Brett’s monologue, directed by Alison Skilbeck. It’s as if a woman in
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Not everyone appreciates the importance of Edinburgh to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Of course, people think of the city as packed with venues and backdrops, but few know the scale of work…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThere’s no faulting David Carberry’s ambition in his attempt to create a commentary and response to Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground through
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