325 stories by "Jake Orr"
About five minutes into Antler's This Way Up, as the rest of the audience convulsed with laughter around me, I suddenly found myself feeling agitated, inexplicably irritated and vaguely angr…
When we think of Shakespeare we are drawn to his words and poetic form, but how often do we see a production through the images that are created from the text? Polish theatre company Song of…
Mess by Caroline Horton, presented by China Plate at the Traverse Theatre, looks at anorexia through the whimsical and light-hearted tale of Josephine (Horton herself) and Boris (Hannah Boyd…
In the programme notes to Gulliver's Travels, Silviu Purcarete says, “My performance borrows only the title of Swift's novel, and is in fact an independent production inspired by the b…
The thing about a Curious Directive show is that you never quite know what to expect until you're watching it. You can presume there'll be some mind-blowing science that is unpacked through …
Finlay Robertson's debut play Strong Arm takes a look at Roland Poland, a 20 stone young man, as he takes on the mental and physical challenge of changing his body from fat man to bodybuilde…
Luke Barnes is certainly proving that his writing talent is on top form at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has two plays running: the first is the fantastic Bottleneck presented by…
Middle Child Theatre present their take on the last 25 years of political change and the repercussions upon young people today in their production 25: 13 Red, 12 Blue. Set in Hull and fol…
The Flanagan Collective bring their own take upon the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with their Little Festival of Everything, a collection of shows that explore the possibilities of theatr…
Grit is an intimate and thought-provoking puppetry piece by Tortoise in a Nutshell theatre company, exploring war and conflict in Syria. Using a combination of puppets, projections and shado…
Theatre is distinctly a live experience, but it is also a communal event where we sit amongst fellow audience members and enjoy a performance collectively. Too often we forget that there is …
Tadashi Suzuki, the notable Japanese director and founder of the Suzuki Company of Toga, is given a rare presentation of his theatre work as part of the Edinburgh International Festival with…
Any lover of theatre will be able to look back and pinpoint a moment in their theatre-going and tell you that a production that was the best thing they have seen. They’ll remember cert…
The Polish theatre director Tadeusz Kantor first came to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival back in the early nineties with The Dead Class, a piece fuelled by his stylistic design to create…
The abstract artist Roger Hilton is the central figure and inspiration in Third Man Theatre’s Botallack O’Clock, a sublime performance piece that looks into the darkness of an…
How often do you find yourself transported back to your childhood? Where the imagination runs wild and is free to invent stories and monsters aplenty. It’s the childhood we all had but…
An old man caught in a routine that sees the same actions repeated each and every day: he wakes, he gets his slippers, makes coffee, drinks coffee, he repeats, again and again. Caught in thi…
Delivered in a mixture of Spanish and English, Panta Rei Theatre Collective’s imaginative and surreal production of Don Quixote! Don Quixote! is brought to the Edinburgh Fringe …
Morning, the new play by Simon Stephens, is not just a play that enforces Stephens’s reputation as one of the most contemporary writers of our generation, but also – we hope R…
RashDash present The Ugly Sisters at St Stephens, the venue being run by Northern Stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Giving an alternative perspective on the story of Cinderella, the tw…
This Edinburgh Fringe Festival there is no denying where some of the most exciting and provocative work can be found. Summerhall burst onto the Fringe last year and is proving to be a hit ag…
The doors have opened on Northern Stage’s adventure at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as they take over St Stephens Church. Bringing an eclectic mix of shows from artists and comp…
Part of the Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Season, One Hour Only is written by Sabrina Mahfouz and presented by Made From Scratch Theatre Company. It shines a light on the darkness of prostitu…
Actress Silvia Gallerano perches on the edge of a stool that is taller than she is. Microphone in hand, she is completely naked aside from the shocking red lipstick adorning her lips. She mu…
Clout Theatre, a graduate company of the Lecoq-theatre school, present their physical and comedic How A Man Crumbled at Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The piece, a comb…
