1,523 stories by "Thom Dibdin"
Stretching: An otherworldly take on very human dilemmas is aided by some outstanding performances in Lone Light Theatre and New Celts Productions' 100.
Jordan & Skinner, who made a huge impact with their one-woman show Sanitise, return with a two-handed, non-verbal piece, At a Stretch. It's an everyday story
Andy Cannon brings his storyteller’s arts to Shakespeare’s Macbeth in a one-man show that is aimed perfectly at audiences aged seven or
Powerful: There is no shortage of unfettered emotion in the National Theatre of Scotland's Adam at the Traverse.
Slow but compelling: Bringing Beckett to the Edinburgh International Festival, Irish Production Company Clare Street gives a fittingly understated treatment to Krapp's Last Tape.
Chillingly relevant: Assessment is a chilling exploration of the future of pensions in a time of austerity. What is your life worth? asks critic-turned-playwright Robert Dawson Scott in this…
Essence of Fringe: Intelligent, driven and ridiculously entertaining, Michael Daviot's historical one-man-show 1917: A Phantasmagoria is as close to the ideal Fringe show as you could imagin…
Mythic emotion: Meet Me At Dawn, a new play by Zinnie Harris presented by the EIF at the Traverse, is a sombre but beautifully open-hearted depiction of love, loss and regret.
Uncompromising: Take the original Trainspotting movie and put it in IMAX. Turn the sound up to 120%, the acting to 130%. and have all the gore, faeces and bile flying out of the screen, righ…
Urgent: There is undeniable promise in The Last Queen of Scotland. It is told in a voice largely absent from the stage, and presents a story which seems to have been largely forgotten, but r…
Wild: The EIF's Rhinoceros is a thoroughly contemporary take on a modern classic, combining knockabout comedy with a deep consideration of human society.
Director Michael Colgan has Barry McGovern take his Krapp at a luxurious pace, in a production which is at once playful and
Zinnie Harris is somewhat ubiquitous at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, updating Ionesco, retelling Aeschylus and here, with Meet Me at Dawn,
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera adaptation of Steven Berkoff’s Greek, a tale of joyfully racist cockneys and the rotting underbelly of the collapsing English
Playwright Jo Clifford has a 90-strong body of work. For her 91st script, written with Chris Goode, and her second self-delivered one-woman
Brilliant children's theatre: Brave Macbeth from Captivate Theatre at Gilded Ballon venues is everything a children's musical should be - and educational too.
Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour made an international name for himself by sending his plays around the world in his own stead, when he
Warmly fierce: There is a deep humanity to Eve, at the Traverse, that makes it both challenging and reassuring, giving it an ultimate message of hope.
When Jihan lost her smile, her town lost its colour, the sun stopped shining and everyone became sad. In his attempts to protect her, her father
Hidden away in a private room, up under the eaves of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, Scott Silven’s At the Illusionist’s Table is a
Bursting out with song and powerful monologues that reflect the experiences of the seven-strong ensemble cast, The Fall tells of events at
In the second of his exclusive features for Æ, Bruce Cannon turns to the birth (and growth) of the fringe " and how it effected his own career.
With three shows playing at the EIF it is a busy month for playwright Zinnie Harris. She tells Thom Dibdin about modernising
In the first of two special features exclusive to Æ, Bruce Cannon remembers the beginnings of the Edinburgh Festival and fringe.
An employee of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society who embezzled more than £220,000 has been named as former financial manager Lynn Taylor.
