325 stories by "Jake Orr"
(3/5 Stars) Behind such medical breakthroughs as the Polio vaccination, cloning, HIV diagnosis and studies into genome identifying are a number of leading scientists, recognised for their ac…
(4/5 Stars) Having shined during the BE Festival and subsequently toured as part of the Best of Be Festival, Spanish performance makers Atresbandes bring their hilarious performance Solfatar…
We’re soon to hit the halfway point at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which seems a perfect moment to pause and take stock of everything that we at A Younger Theatre have seen and achi…
(2/5 Stars) As a ten-year-old boy stands on the roof of his school, he contemplates his relationship with his father and his school friends, and he thinks of the lies and truths which we tel…
(2/5 Stars) Honoré de Balzac’s 1833 novel Eugénie Grandet is, for the first time, brought to the stage in an adaption from Jonathan Choat for Hartshorn-Hook Productions at this ye…
(4/5 Stars) As a platform for young people in the arts, it seems terrible that this is the first time A Younger Theatre has had the chance to experience the work of the Glasgow-based young p…
(2/5 Stars) Le Mot Juste’s No Place Like combines a number of verbatim conversations with observations and experiences from the company’s own life with elderly people in care hom…
(3/5 Stars) Having been at the Edinburgh Fringe for the past nine days, there seems (to me at least) to be a distinct lack of theatre pieces that are making good use of music. There’s …
(4/5 Stars) In the year that Alan Turing is given a formal apology from the Government, emerging theatre company Idle Motion brings the story of cracking the Enigma code and the lives of tho…
(4/5 Stars) It’s not often a piece of theatre can pierce me like an arrow and strike my heart. This was the sensation I felt after leaving Babakas’s Our Fathers at Summerhall,…
(3/5 Stars) The average life expectancy in the UK has now hit 79.5 years we are told in The Paper Birds’s new piece, On The One Hand. Depicting the relationships between several…
(4/5 Stars) Throwing yourself back into the bunker for the continuation of The Bunker Trilogy is yet again a thrilling experience under the direction of Jethro Compton. Where Agamemnon broug…
(3/5 Stars) We are the generation of the internet. It’s been suggested that 70% of young people are only ever an arm stretch away from a device which can access the internet at all tim…
(2/5 Stars) What would happen if you woke up one day to find that your feet had had enough of being pushed into the ground and decided to rebel against you? What if they decided that now it …
(4/5 Stars) LittleBulb Theatre is a rare theatre company. Its work is infectious and adventurous, giving joy to its audience, wrapping them in excitement. Like a glow-stick handed to you at …
(4/5 Stars) Rarely at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival will you experience a piece of ‘total theatre’: a piece that manages to transport the audience totally into its world. Restric…
[post-author-rating] (4/5 Stars) There’s an awful lot of puppetry at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, which is to be expected given the fact that puppetry is back in fashion for the…
(4/5 Stars) When was the last time a piece of theatre actively challenged your political beliefs? When did a performance make you rebel against a system and to stand up against democracy? I …
(2/5 Stars) Andrew Sheridan burst onto the stage with his phenomenal debut play Winterlong in 2011, winning the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. The play went on to be performed at the…
(3/5 Stars) The affects of war are never fully known. To what extent can a solider returning from long periods of war-time activity integrate back into society and the life he once had? This…
(3/5 Stars) Death. The word is enough to cause my insides to churn with the sinking realisation that yes, death lies ahead, and yes, death has already laid his hands upon my family, and will…
(4/5 Stars) The manic noise of fairground tunes set the scene for Tin Shed Theatre’s Dr Frankenstein’s Traveling Freak Show playing at C Nova at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.…
(2/3 Stars) With the likes of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, otherwise known as whistleblowers, facing charges of espionage by the US Government, ImmerCity's Edinburgh Fringe performanc…
Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation marks the UK debut for this critically acclaimed American playwright. Presented as part of the Royal Court’s Local programme which g…
Having graduated from Drama School in 2009, I have, like most graduates, struggled for work. Not knowing quite the path that I was meant to take, I have stumbled and fumbled my way into this…
