Scribble review at Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh " 'obfuscated by stilted and irritating devices'
Scribble, as the title suggests, is a self-consciously writerly work. It's an attempt to dramatise the author's intrusive thoughts " specifically the
Scribble, as the title suggests, is a self-consciously writerly work. It's an attempt to dramatise the author's intrusive thoughts " specifically the
Lady Macbeth doesn't get the stage time and death scene she deserves; in the play, her apparent suicide is merely reported to
The Room at the Top of the House, by Lincoln University's graduate company Stand By Theatre, is a sincere but ultimately shallow
Out is a powerfully eloquent danced dialogue about race, gender and sexuality in Caribbean culture by Rachael Young and Dwayne Antony. Movement
Pierrot the clown's chalky face gazes out from gauzy fabric drapery. In the experimental puppet show Evocation, inspired by work of Symbolist
Dislocation finds a compelling physical language in The North. A pair of female dancers in fuzzy reindeer antlers move with hyper-articulate strangeness
Whalebone is a spirited, sensitive meditation on female bodies and identity, on the personal infirmities and societal scrutiny of the physical self.
In the charming Words and Music, Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed presents himself as a wholly engaging cross between a seer and
A bawdy picaresque spirit animates Cirk La Putyka's Batacchio and it makes for a wackily entertaining show. We're introduced to the proceedings
In Tumble Tuck, writer-performer Sarah Milton evokes the fraught and chlorine-scented world of competitive swimming. She's Daisy, an uncertain girl in a
Circus company Feathers of Daedalus' steampunk re-imagining of Coppelia " the classic comic ballet about a clockwork doll and her maniacal maker
Transit is an acrobatic tour de force that's signed, sealed and delivered with joyful aplomb by redoubtable young Canadian company Flip FabriQue.
Czech choreographer Lenka Vagnerova's Gossip starts out with insidious confidence and appeal. A solitary dancer with a fixed grin, white blazer and
An all-female company of circus artists play cleverly with the invocation of spectacle and its denial in the fascinating No Show. Demonstrations
Despite the trappings of jollity, site-specific show Party Game is an invitation to boredom amongst the bunting. The audience gather inside a
Wild Bore is an excellent, wayward interrogation and piss-take of theatre criticism " and theatre more generally " by comedians Zoe Coombs
A junk shop yields a few comic gems in Mireille and Mathieu's Arm, plus some musty jokes that could do with being
The banking class' ability to wreck the economy, blight the lives of others and carry on regardless with their pockets lined is
Shiraz, sick and sweat are some of the main components in Eggs Collective's rowdy but lovable Get a Round, a three-woman show
How can you articulate the physical experience of pain when it seems beyond the reach of language? How can someone express the
Glaswegian company Vox Motus use miniature models on a revolving diorama to stage Flight, an adaptation of Caroline Brothers' novel Hinterland. It
Something's rotten inside The Box and it's not the watermelon that lurks ominously next to a plastic sheet in Milly Thomas'
Sigma combines the astonishing skills of two female jugglers from the Gandini company " Kati Yla-Hokkala and Kim Huynh " with the
Aboriginal dance troupe Djuki Mala, formerly known as the Chooky Dancers, hail from Elcho Island in Australia's north outback. They found YouTube
Transgender performer Kate O'Donnell's wise and witty one-woman show isn't just about personal change. It asks important questions about the extent to