Theatre

Theatre at the <a href="/events/edinburghfringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> and <a href="/events/eif">Edinburgh International Festival</a>.

The last witch burning in Scotland in the early 18th century, enacted at this year's Edinburgh International…
Political satire is hardly a new concept, but this piece by Tom Basden (if.comedy Best Newcomer 2007) manages…
In the world of magic, women are generally no more than ā€˜the lovely assistant’. Not so with French cult…
First written in 1997 by thirteen Brentwood students and their teacher, the play was brought to the Fringe…
ā€œSamuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouthā€.
Theatre Uncut is the brainchild of Hannah Price, artistic director of Reclaim Productions Ltd, who, when the…
No review can do justice to this spectacular, nay unique piece of theatre.
Adam Smith is given a curious Grand Tour by Les Labyrinths, taking in aspects of his life, philosophy and…
The secure thread of friendship runs through this gently comic play.
Introducing the double-bill Dalgety and Fragile, both by David Greig, director Emma Callander gave us a bit…
Blink is a love story - albeit an unusual one with dark undertones.  It involves a young man and woman…
One day you are young and the next you are old. Age slowly creeps up on us all, unbidden, unnoticed.
Edinburgh has had its fair share of drug addicts. We buried Thomas De Quincey the self-confessed opium…
How would you react if someone you knew and trusted turned out to have been spying on you for a major arms…
Waiting in a queue for a show is part of the Fringe experience, but being told that the running time is to be…
"Expect the unexpected" is how the Traverse describes Dream Plays (Scenes from a Play I'll Never Write),…
A sharp wee nugget set in the LA hills.
Wistful is the one word that probably best describes a series of songs about a love affair. The show is based…
Words with A. L. Kennedy in the Assembly Rooms' Drawing Room? Who could resist? Certainly not this reviewer,…
Of Rags and Bones is a poignant and disconcerting show performed and devised by Newbury Youth Theatre.