Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghFocusing on four survivors of the massacre at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, this stirs the emotions but doesn't grapple with the most pressing or difficul…
Newhailes House, MusselburghGrid Iron has brilliantly transposed this Norwegian tale, of a man who leaves his family to live in a tent, to the grounds of a National Trust for Scotland proper…
Traverse theatre, EdinburghDementia and grief are among the difficult subjects explored in Frances Poet's dislocating play I don't think Frances Poet intends her play to be depressing. She h…
Tynecastle Park, EdinburghThis musical play about a women's football league making boots for troops at the Somme is moving and polemical It was a day of celebration. The players from the No…
This August the Scottish capital is much quieter but performers and audiences at this modest jamboree are full of spirit On the wall in my kitchen is a calendar made by Edinburgh theatre cri…
Available onlineA park bench, inside a car and a room in your house are the three settings for Darkfield's play which lacks a killer payoff Theatre-makers are used to being in control of the…
MultiStory, EdinburghA young singer loves clubbing, which clashes with her hopes of success at the Eisteddfod in Lisa Jên Brown's exuberant two-hander Globalisation leaves us in a quanda…
Summerhall, EdinburghMamoru Iriguchi and Afton Moran raid their dressing-up box to give us a cheery guide to the evolutionary history of reproduction, and what it says about gender fluidity …
Traverse theatre, EdinburghThe Edinburgh festival's theatre programme begins with Enda Walsh's flamboyant and funny new play about a man receiving an inappropriate form of drama therapy in a…
Available onlineThe former Guardian critic, along with Evening Standard scribe Fiona Mountford, take to the limelight in this fruity vintage marital drama Victor Kiam liked his shavers so mu…
Grosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterSuzanne Ahmet turns on the charm as Elizabeth in this outdoor production of Austen's great love story and wry comedy of manners "If life is not all ab…
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeThis delightful promenade show uses pretty-as-a-picture design, undercut with creepy asides, to bring ETA Hoffmann's famous tale alive Who knew there was…
Available onlineIn Gary McNair's jovial audio play, a woman rediscovers a connection with her home town and her dead father by following a Scottish football team for a season Who doesn't lov…
Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough In Laura Wade's clever play, her heroine becomes a 50s housewife but 21st-century gender politics lurk under the Formica surface In the row behind me, a w…
The Irish playwright is known both for feverishly claustrophobic plays " including his latest, Medicine " and big commercial hits. If a project doesn't feel right, he fires himself Lockdown,…
Bard in the Botanics, GlasgowShakespeare's play on the unreliability of appearances works well in the wings of a theatre, but this 90-minute streamlining perhaps cuts too much You can see wh…
Pitlochry Festival theatreLockdown loneliness, eco-crisis and land ownership are explored with varying degrees of subtlety in an uplifting show The National Trust should see about hiring Col…
Pitlochry Festival theatreBrian Ferguson performs with mesmerising verve in this poignant, desperately funny portrait of existential misery 'I am alone," says the narrator of Dostoevsky's 18…
Crucible, SheffieldWood's 1978 play about a young woman's quest to win a local talent show handles weighty issues, including sexual exploitation, breezily It is a world of mirror balls and …
Crucible, SheffieldDrifters and deadbeats populate four lesser-known Williams shorts in this un-sultry Northern Broadsides anthology Northern Broadsides has a history of putting a northern E…
Bristol Old Vic and onlineMalaika Kegode embraces audiences with her warm, honest poetry, backed by musicians Jakabol " but her true-life tale quickly takes a dark turn A sense of homeliness…
Liverpool EverymanMajid Mehdizadeh (AKA Luke Jerdy from Hollyoaks) explores modern-day manhood and the contagion of everyday violence Male violence is like a virus. That is how it comes acro…
Pitlochry Festival theatreA Caledonian witch holds a Roman officer captive in David Greig's drama of attraction and philosophical opposites Pitlochry Festival theatre already has a claim to…
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe prolific playwright is on fine form with an uncanny story that smartly contrasts national crises past and present Domestic life was quiet during lockdo…
Available onlineAnimation and street dancing power Mixed Up, a film about validating feelings, while The Super Special Disability Roadshow gives voice to a young audience There's a video for…