Drama
Swedish writer August Strindberg’s 1888 drama about the taboo of sex between the upper and lower classes has…
The plush, comfortably seated Red Theatre of Summerhall, the smart new arts and Fringe venue that was the…
With the darkness of Goya and hints of Chagall, two pan faced, black clad characters with touches of red and…
Margaret Rutherford was an extraordinary English character actress, renowned for energetic, feisty roles, …
Neil Forsyth’s fictional Dundonian character, Bob Servant, hilariously deals with the serious issue of spam…
This production of Salome ticks so many boxes, yet leaves you wondering "Why didn’t I enjoy that?".
Blink is a love story - albeit an unusual one with dark undertones.
It involves a young man and woman -…
Anyone who has witnessed someone dealing with the sentence of a terminal illness knows the pain of seeing the…
Edinburgh has had its fair share of drug addicts. We buried Thomas De Quincey the self-confessed opium eater…
Inspired by the true wartime stories of her grandmother in Paris, Caroline Horton wrote her one woman play, “…
For those of a certain generation and set of experiences, both in Edinburgh and beyond, Wojtek the ‘Polish’…
Summerhall’s Demonstration Room, an old Dick Vet lecture theatre, is the suitably strange setting for Clout…
An icy chill shuddered down my spine as I approached Paradise On The Vault on Merchant Street.
It is very hard to see 4.48 Psychosis solely as a play. It is, and always has been, so much more than that. I…
David Lean’s 1945 film Brief Encounter, starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, received five Oscar…
Seeing the words ‘coming of age’ is usually a guarantee that I would give a production a body swerve. Too…
The Fringe can go from glitter and glamour to paper and cardboard at the turn of a corner, but in the case of…
They are everywhere. And I have seen my fair share of them. So, when I spied a show in the Fringe guide…
How to turn some 600 pages of print into a fast-paced piece of theatre? Answer; take two highly talented…
Producers, writers, actors are continually exploring what constitutes a theatrical experience and All That is…