325 stories by "Jake Orr"
Five years in the making, The Light Princess " by musical forces Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson with direction from the equally formidable Marianne Elliot at the National Theatre " is going…
Stuck for what to see for the first few weeks of October? See the roundup of the best theatre from A Younger Theatre’s Jake Orr and Eleanor Turney. Bite-sized and bursting with top tip…
In the same month that Lloyds TSB undergoes a spilt to Lloyds Banking and TSB Bank, with the latter releasing this video telling its story, FanSHEN opens its Cheese [a play] in a disus…
This review does not name the play in Show Two, but it does describe and give suggestions as to the show, which some readers may wish to avoid if they are seeing Show Two. The woman sitting …
Who has been producing the best theatre videos and trailers in September so far? See below for another roundup fresh from YouTube and Vimeo. As always you can see the full list on our YouTub…
This review does not reveal the name of Secret Theatre Show One, but it does describe the visual elements and does give a very small clue as to the text used. We’re plunged into total …
Chris Thorpe and Hannah Walker, following their last show, The Oh Fuck Moment, bring another audience-exposing theatre piece that challenges our perspectives, this time in the form of I Wish…
(3/5 Stars) A pristine white floor and wall mark the start of Vincent Dance Theatre’s Motherland at the Edinburgh Fringe. This white expanse is covered in dirt and blood by the end …
A beach. A skull. A voice. Pan Pan Theatre’s take on Samuel Beckett’s 1959 radio play Embers is no easy experience. The piece focuses on Henry (Andrew Bennett) as he sits on t…
Lasting 30 minutes and with not a single word uttered from leading man Michael Gambon, you’d think that you were being taken for a ride with Samuel Beckett’s Eh Joe as part of…
(4/5 Stars) A creature resembling a woman is wrapped in plastic sheets, her eyes are ablaze with the sort of curiosity you see from a cat, but there’s a darkness there too. Wrapped in …
(3/5 Stars) Untied Artists’s For Their Own Good looks at our relationship with death. Not the happiest of topics, but having won a Fringe First at this year’s Edinburgh Fri…
(3/5 Stars) Jokes are funny, are they not? That’s the purpose of them, to make the receiver of the joke to laugh, which will make them release endorfins, make themselves feel better, f…
Tom Frankland and Keir Cooper are bringing Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quijote into the modern day. Finding and sharing the quests of those who have tried against all odds to achieve una…
(3/5 Stars) Being six metres below sea level, the chances of East Anglia slowly disappearing with the rising of sea waters is inevitable. The stretches of land that extend into the horizon, …
(3/5 Stars) I know I shouldn’t be, but I can’t help but to sometimes feel a little sceptical when it comes to new writing at the Fringe. There’s so much new writing from co…
(2/5 Stars) Rhum and Clay Theatre’s newest work, The Man in the Moone, follows the adventures of a man who is determined to reach the moon. Having proposed a paper that outlines the th…
Teatro Cinema’s Histoire d’amour is no easy piece to write about, nor is it an easy piece to watch. After the novel by Regis Jauffret, a man falls in love with a woman on the sub…
(3/5 Stars) Space is integral to any performance, and in the case of work being programmed at the old veterinary college, Summerhall, a consideration of which space you’re inhabiting i…
(3/5 Stars) At what point does the act of doing something become a performance? Is it when an audience is placed in front of the work? Or when careful constructs are formulated around an ide…
(3/5 Stars) All female company Smooth Faced Gentlemen brings Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus to Bedlam Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It’s difficult to not pass…
(4/5 Stars) Made In China are innovators within contemporary theatre in the UK. It’s a company which continually tests its audience, pushing themselves as performers and makers closer …
Hamlet, perhaps the greatest Shakespearian play for any actor to tackle. With a history of being played by some of the finest actors to ever walk our stages, it is often seen as the highest …
(1/5 Stars) Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a phenomenal piece of writing. Following the journey of Oscar as he attempts to track down…
(4/5 Stars) In Amit Lahav’s director’s notes for Gecko Theatre’s latest production, Missing, he suggests that “I honestly don’t know what Missing will …
