Monday, August 25, 2025

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025: Provisional Futures in a World on Fire by Duška Radosavljević

For the last thirty years of my attendance, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has always been too big to grasp in its entirety. In 2025, with a record 4,000 registered shows, the challenge is no…

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German Summer Festival Theatre (2): Domfestspiele Verden, “Die Zündholzfrau” by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

In 1997, an association was founded in the German city of Verden on the river Aller, located between Bremen and Hannover in Lower Saxony, to arrange large-scale theatre productions, in the f…

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“No Apologies” by Emma Frankland, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

Emma Frankland’s No Apologies achieves something genuinely rare: a radical reimagining that feels both vital and sumptuous. Her premise echoing as a refrain throughout the piece— “Kurt…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:40AM

“The Ego” by Anemone Valcke and Verona Verbakel, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

Anemone Valcke and Verona Verbakel’s The Ego emerges from Ontroerend Goed’s theatrical lineage with characteristic Belgian fearlessness and appetite for (self-)reflection. What begins as…

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“Riot Days” by Pussy Riot, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

What is the purpose of performing arts when the stakes are literally life and death? Pussy Riot’s Riot Days confronts this question with unflinching directness, transforming the concert h…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:39AM

“Thanks for Being Here” by Ontroerend Goed, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

The Belgian Company Ontroerend Goed have been coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for so long that I can no longer imagine how their work would seem to someone on first encounter anymore. Not tha…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:39AM
Sunday, August 24, 2025

German Summer Festival Theatre (1): Theatersommer Wismar, Brecht/Weill The Threepenny Opera by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Over the summer months, all of the publicly funded state and municipal theatres, as well as Landesbühnen and some privately owned theatres have an institutional holiday season of six to eig…

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“Aether”, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

Emma Howlett’s Aether arrives with impressive academic credentials—consultations with Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Stanford universities lending gravitas to TheatreGoose’s latest …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:37AM

“Little Bulb: Listen Dance”, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

What does it take to get you up on your feet and into the groove? Whatever your disposition, Little Bulb’s Listen Dance delivers a “raucous evening of social dance and live music” with…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:37AM

“The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave”, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

Oli Mathiesen’s dance piece The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave has been described by this young Māori choreographer as an “acid house remix that screams f**k you to the pandemic.” W…

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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing at @Sohoplace: Moving Mixture Of Joyous Theatricality And Serious Mental Health Themes by Aleks Sierz

Slowly, very slowly, the audience begins to arrive. Taking their seats, shedding jackets, arranging bags and glancing at programmes. But already, there’s a stir: the imposing figure of act…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:37AM
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

“A Poem And A Mistake,” Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Margaret Rose

At the Edinburgh Fringe, the solo show, A Poem and a Mistake, is playing for the entire month of August at the iconic Assembly Rooms. I was curious to see how contemporary American playwrigh…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:04AM

“Works And Days” By The Fc Bergman Collective, Edinburgh International Festival by Margaret Rose

Works and Days the latest production of the FC Bergman collective, played at the Lyceum Theatre as part of The Edinburgh International Festival from 7 to 10 August. The show includes stunnin…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:04AM

“Wild Thing!” By Mechanimal, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Margaret Rose

Out of the many venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Summerhall Arts is one that shines for its programme of innovative theatre, cabaret, dance or music. In 2019 the Bristol-based compan…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:04AM

Sam Kissajukian’s “Three Hundred Paintings,” Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Margaret Rose

Summerhall, one of Edinburgh’s busiest venues, known for its innovative, cutting-edge programme, has had a tough time over the last year. The premises have been sold, making its future as …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:04AM
Monday, August 18, 2025

Mohamed El Khatib’s “La Vie Sècrete Des Vieux”: a Poetics of Attentive Listening by Maria Delgado

There are shows that may, on the surface, feel wafer thin, shows where nothing much seems to happen, only as the conversations unravel, they reveal characters whose experiences give the prod…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:51AM

“Make It Happen,” Edinburgh Festival Theatre 2025 by Margaret Rose

The Edinburgh International Festival this year, welcomes several international trailblazers like FC Bergman and William Kentridge, alongside a cluster of new political plays about censorship…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:21AM

“Suburbia,” Written And Performed By Jonny Woo, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Margaret Rose

As I read the title of Jonny Woo’s latest show, Suburbia, I wondered how this celebrated performer, cabaret and legendary drag artist, who has lived most of their life in London and New Yo…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:20AM
Thursday, August 14, 2025

“Cassandra,” Written And Performed By Ailsa Dixon, Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Margaret Rose

Playing at the Scottish Storytelling Centre during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cassandra, written and performed by Ailsa Dixon. This solo show, a compelling mix of music and spoken word, …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:26AM

Karis Kelly’s “Consumed” At The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Margaret Rose

Here at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as Gary McNair’s A Gambler’s Guide to Dying, I caught the world première of Karis Kelly’s Consumed. The play won the prestigious Women’s Prize …

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“A Gambler’s Guide To Dying” Set In Glasgow’s Gorbals, Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Margaret Rose

For this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Traverse Theatre has, as usual, put together a line-up of Scottish plays and others from the rest of the UK, Ireland and around the world. As…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:24AM
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

“Athens Of The North” at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Margaret Rose

The expression ‘Athens of the North’, the title of the play in the present review, conjures up an Edinburgh in the Enlightenment period, a time when classical culture was much valued, 18…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:59AM

“Buen Camino,” Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Margaret Rose

‘Dare to Discover’ is the leitmotiv of the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe running from 1st to 25th August. In the introduction to 384-page programme, Tony Lankester, the recently appointed Chief …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:54AM

Gotta Spoof ‘Em All: “Balls: The Monster-Catchin’ Musical Comedy” Parodies Pokémon in NYC by Andrew Agress

As a child of the 90s, I engaged in a popular post-school ritual growing up: plopping down in front of the TV to watch the hit animated show Pokémon. Since its inception in 1996, the pheno…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:49AM
Monday, August 11, 2025

Tampere Theatre Festival 2025: Worlds in Miniature by Maria Delgado

In the opening page of the 2025 Tampere Theatre Festival brochure, the artistic team (Hilkka-Liisa Iivanainen, Taija Helminen, Tanjalotta Räikkä and executive director Hanna Rosendahl) ref…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:30PM
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Flightless, Caged “Angels In America” by Teodora Medeleanu

Sitting through 5 and a half hours of performance might seem like an exercise of will and determination, rather than an enjoyable experience. All that can go wrong actually might, and gettin…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:31PM
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Barcelona’s 2025 Grec Festival: “The Performing Arts as a Critical and Poetic Tool” by Maria Delgado

The 2025 Grec festival, the first under the new directorship of Leticia Martín Ruiz, opened on 26 June and ran through to 4 August. 97 productions attracted 127,724 spectators for the 2025 …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:03PM

“Trilogia Cadela Força – Capítulo II: The Brotherhood.” Review. Holland Festival 2025. by Jenny Strataki

My colleague Jonathan and I were walking towards Leidseplein and the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, laughing kind of nervously. We were in consensus: 3 hours and 45 minutes is a long time…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:29AM

“From Dust.” Another Review. Holland Festival 2025. by Róisín Daly

Stepping into From Dust feels less like attending a performance and more like consciously entering a dream. In this virtual reality opera, Michel Van der Aa extends his innovation in immer…

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“From Dust.” Review. Holland Festival 2025. by Javad Mohajeri

Arrival and Anticipation On Thursday, June 19, I participated in Michel van der Aa’s From Dust. The performance was presented as a virtual reality opera, scheduled into precise 20-minute t…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:43AM

“Welcome to Asbestos Hall.” Review. Part II. Holland Festival 2025. by Unnur Hlíf Rúnarsdóttir

For Part I of this review, go here. Yet again, I find myself at the edge of Amsterdam, at the theater of Likeminds in Amsterdam Noord, for my Visit #3 of Welcome to Asbestos Hall. Once more…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:26AM

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