The Belgian Company Ontroerend Goed have been coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for so long that I can no longer imagine how their work would seem to someone on first encounter anymore. Not tha…
Over the summer months, all of the publicly funded state and municipal theatres, as well as Landesbühnen and some privately owned theatres have an institutional holiday season of six to eig…
Emma Howlett's Aether arrives with impressive academic credentials"consultations with Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Stanford universities lending gravitas to TheatreGoose's latest offeri…
What does it take to get you up on your feet and into the groove? Whatever your disposition, Little Bulb's Listen Dance delivers a "raucous evening of social dance and live music" with absol…
Oli Mathiesen's dance piece The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave has been described by this young MÄori choreographer as an "acid house remix that screams f**k you to the pandemic." With …
Slowly, very slowly, the audience begins to arrive. Taking their seats, shedding jackets, arranging bags and glancing at programmes. But already, there's a stir: the imposing figure of actor…
At the Edinburgh Fringe, the solo show, A Poem and a Mistake, is playing for the entire month of August at the iconic Assembly Rooms. I was curious to see how contemporary American playwrigh…
Works and Days the latest production of the FC Bergman collective, played at the Lyceum Theatre as part of The Edinburgh International Festival from 7 to 10 August. The show includes stunnin…
Out of the many venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Summerhall Arts is one that shines for its programme of innovative theatre, cabaret, dance or music. In 2019 the Bristol-based compan…
Summerhall, one of Edinburgh's busiest venues, known for its innovative, cutting-edge programme, has had a tough time over the last year. The premises have been sold, making its future as an…
There are shows that may, on the surface, feel wafer thin, shows where nothing much seems to happen, only as the conversations unravel, they reveal characters whose experiences give the prod…
The Edinburgh International Festival this year, welcomes several international trailblazers like FC Bergman and William Kentridge, alongside a cluster of new political plays about censorship…
As I read the title of Jonny Woo's latest show, Suburbia, I wondered how this celebrated performer, cabaret and legendary drag artist, who has lived most of their life in London and New York…
Playing at the Scottish Storytelling Centre during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cassandra, written and performed by Ailsa Dixon. This solo show, a compelling mix of music and spoken word, …
Here at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as Gary McNair's A Gambler's Guide to Dying, I caught the world première of Karis Kelly's Consumed. The play won the prestigious Women's Prize for Play…
For this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Traverse Theatre has, as usual, put together a line-up of Scottish plays and others from the rest of the UK, Ireland and around the world. As t…
The expression 'Athens of the North', the title of the play in the present review, conjures up an Edinburgh in the Enlightenment period, a time when classical culture was much valued, 18th c…
'Dare to Discover' is the leitmotiv of the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe running from 1st to 25th August. In the introduction to 384-page programme, Tony Lankester, the recently appointed Chief Exec…
As a child of the 90s, I engaged in a popular post-school ritual growing up: plopping down in front of the TV to watch the hit animated show Pokémon. Since its inception in 1996, the phe…
In the opening page of the 2025 Tampere Theatre Festival brochure, the artistic team (Hilkka-Liisa Iivanainen, Taija Helminen, Tanjalotta Räikkä and executive director Hanna Rosendahl) ref…
Sitting through 5 and a half hours of performance might seem like an exercise of will and determination, rather than an enjoyable experience. All that can go wrong actually might, and gettin…
The 2025 Grec festival, the first under the new directorship of Leticia MartÃn Ruiz, opened on 26 June and ran through to 4 August. 97 productions attracted 127,724 spectators for the 202…
My colleague Jonathan and I were walking towards Leidseplein and the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, laughing kind of nervously. We were in consensus: 3 hours and 45 minutes is a long time…
Stepping into From Dust feels less like attending a performance and more like consciously entering a dream. In this virtual reality opera, Michel Van der Aa extends his innovation in i…
Arrival and Anticipation On Thursday, June 19, I participated in Michel van der Aa's From Dust. The performance was presented as a virtual reality opera, scheduled into precise 20-minute tim…