Theatre
Theatre at the <a href="/events/edinburghfringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> and <a href="/events/eif">Edinburgh International Festival</a>.
Of all the constituencies who might find themselves drawn to this production, it is undoubtedly the smallest…
Terminus is a play for three actors in
rhyming couplets. Not the easiest form, nowadays at least, for…
You have to spare a thought for poor old Chekhov. There he is, a writer who created a whole genre that…
As I write this, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics is sprawling across my TV screen, making me…
There are times, as a reviewer, when I find myself making a mental note to check afterwards how much the…
This is the second visit to Edinburgh for Lynn Manning’s engrossing one-man show, which tells the story of…
Visitors to this website of more than a couple of years’ vintage will remember that we used to have a scoring…
The Battle of Pots and Pans is based on a battle that took place in l745 in the southeastern Scottish town of…
A new company, Dragonfly, bring to the Fringe a tender-hearted, if rather predictable, story about family…
There are surely times, especially these
days, when "care assistants" and even nursing staff wonder where…
It could be anyone's living room. Less tidy,
with a layer of dust, it could be this reviewer's. In a theatre…
Maria Tarnowska's case attracted
considerable public attention even among the crowded events of 1913.
"There's an awful lot of tech on that set."
First impressions set up expectations which may or may not be…
Historians will tell you what we know of
the past comes largely from lucky finds; Cameron Stewart's re-…
I know it’s unworthy, but the first thing I thought when I
walked into the Traverse 2 to see this 100-minute-…
Not much of a joker, was he, that George Orwell?
Let’s start with a confession and a promise. The confession
is that, before this, I had never seen anything…
Crossing the River Jordan focuses on three stories involving Palestinian confrontation with Israeli guards at…
Billy Connolly has been very open about it. The late John Peel included his own experience in his uncompleted…
One of the great joys of the Fringe are the unexpected surprises occasionally thrown in the way of…