17 stories by "Stewart Pringle"
No panto for Wilton's this year, though only the most ardent of Roy Hudd fans would begrudge them this sparkling replacement, an
Best Of's get a bit of a bad rap. There's something just a little Motorway Service Station at 2am about a Greatest
Hard-drinking monologues are a fringe perennial, as are stories of young women struggling with the prospect or realities of motherhood. So it's
Jamie Wood is lost, or maybe he's just lost something. Or maybe we're all lost, all cut adrift after the concussive political
Dark story-telling is a crowded field, particularly at the Edinburgh Fringe, so it takes genuine originality to stand out. That's something Christopher
Oyster Boy was the debut show for talented all-female Haste Theatre, all the way back in 2013, and this revival is a
Chalk this one up to a terrifyingly bad idea come ever so good. John Robertson, the shock-haired Skeletor of improvised abuse, has
The live component of Transmission is apparently only the tip of the iceberg of a 'city-scale, augmented reality performance' including up to
There are few constants in the work of Ontroerend Goed. Enter the auditorium for one of their shows and you could be
This can't be the same Irvine Welsh. Master of the Scottish gothic, king of dialect, author of Trainspotting and Filth? It can't
The heart of grief is absence, the not-there-ness of someone close, the reduction of their living being into objects that have fallen
Caught somewhere between a tribunal play and an interactive theatre game, Foreign Radical is ambitious in both scope and scale. But, it's
"It's hack-work, pure and simple": Stewart Pringle on Julian Fellowes' insipid musical version of Kenneth Grahame's classic.
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Sweep away the desperate and derelict controversy that's frothed around its broadcast, and this TV adaptation of Mike Bartlett's 2014 future-history play
Revered in Dame circles as the 'King Lear of panto', Mother Goose is a deliriously odd confection that's a million miles away
As the mutant, rampaging nightmare that is 2016 lumbers into the high-tension wires of another year, leave it to Hackney’s panto to
So, you're off to the Edinburgh Fringe. You've got your venue sorted, and that's great. You're either looking forward to four weeks
