Timmy Creed quit the tough Irish sport damaged and disillusioned. But he returned to his club 'undercover' " to turn its toxic masculinity into a play. He swings a stick at our wimpy writer …
Roundabout, Summerhall, EdinburghDaniel Ward's bold autobiographical show for Middle Child Theatre describes life for a working-class black kid at an otherwise posh white grammar school Dani…
Zoo Southside, EdinburghUsing music, Greek myth and family history to explore dementia, this rousing gig/show is intimate and epic This storytelling concert is a tribute to the power of mus…
Assembly Hall, EdinburghThe #MeToo activist made herself a refuge, where orbs shimmer and we can be our best selves. What a pity she spends this frustrating show wafting around like a refuge…
The Nigerian architect turned dramatist on the impact of her play Hear Word!, her Edinburgh festival debut " and why directing is a lot like designing buildings Ifeoma Fafunwa is a playwrigh…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghSasha Frost sparkles as a curious and vulnerable Kay searching for her birth parents, but this unfocused production fails to capture the intimacy of the soul-searching…
Members of the Hoosiers, Maxïmo Park, Belle & Sebastian and Shed Seven talk about mental health, the pitfalls of the music biz and why they are swapping gigs for theatre audiences Fel…
Theatre Royal, BathA whole set of relationships unravel in a shrewdly observant play showing the ripple effect of marital hostilities This is only the second play by the admired novelist Wil…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghParading her sex life, friendships and militant subjectivity, the triumphantly profane comedian takes a step into the big league The men have gone sensitive, it…
The highly regarded Indigenous performer of stage and screen died in Scotland while touring with the Sydney Theatre Company The Indigenous actor Ningali Lawford-Wolf and star of Sydney Theat…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe best newcomer nominee of the 2015 fringe returns with a smart, satisfying look at the funny side of weddings That title, "Parryoke!": the pun, the exclamati…
Once based in a rundown boozer, DryWrite nights encouraged risk and giddy game-playing " their spirit is felt in Killing Eve and across British theatre today When Phoebe Waller-Bridge perfor…
A trio of performances " Daniel Bellus in Beat, Alexander Fox in Snare and Mick Berry's Keith Moon: The Real Me " put drums centre stage It must be something to do with being at the back al…
Robert Softley Gale's show Purposeless Movements turns the involuntary gestures of cerebral palsy into choreography Becoming a parent for the first time can be nerve-racking for anyone. Know…
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterThe TV host who provokes salacious slanging matches becomes newly pertinent in a revival of Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas's show It's interesting how the parame…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup, who was circumcised as an infant, gets het up in a show where the polemic overshadows the comedy Dick jokes are as old as comedy, but few " Richard…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMining the comedy of motivational seminars with a delectably clownish touch, this double act could make anything funny Self-help and motivational speaking have …
The uptick in hauling older scripts, from Tootsie to Moulin Rouge, to the stage has left playwrights with many hurdles Here is a question from Tootsie, the Broadway musical about an out-of-w…
Summerhall, EdinburghIn a series of autofictional shows, Traumboy and Traumgirl offer insights of varying quality amid the intimate revelations and erotic dancing 'I'm not the person most pe…
Trafalgar Studios, LondonPhotograph 51 playwright Anna Ziegler returns with a problematic two-hander that asks us to decide where the truth lies In Photograph 51, Anna Ziegler attacked the …
Performing at the fringe can cost a fortune " little wonder so many comics bunk in together. We drop in on Jon Richardson, Rose Matafeo and Josie Long, among others, to see how they live It …
The procedure left the comedian with sexual anxiety " and a tell-all show at the Edinburgh festival Journalistic etiquette decrees that any delicate questions are usually saved until near th…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThree neighbours in a Parisian apartment block squabble, fall in love and steal each other's biscuits in an appealing wordless comedy It won a Molière award in…
From Adult Swim to 'dank memes', modern comedy is confronting the illogicality of life in 2019 There is an episode in the first season of Broad City " the US sitcom about two twentysomething…
Shunned by hipsters, adored by local Scots, they're the fringe's biggest show. How did this retro cocktail of cheesy euphoria become such a phenomenon? Friday night in Edinburgh and a troupe…