Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025: Provisional Futures in a World on Fire
For the last thirty years of my attendance, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has always been too big...
Read MoreDuška Radosavljević is a writer, dramaturg and academic. She is the author of the award-winning Theatre-Making: Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century (2013) and editor of The Contemporary Ensemble (2013) and Theatre Criticism: Changing Landscapes (2016). She teaches at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 25th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Essay, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
For the last thirty years of my attendance, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has always been too big...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 25th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Emma Frankland’s No Apologies achieves something genuinely rare: a radical reimagining that...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 25th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Anemone Valcke and Verona Verbakel’s The Ego emerges from Ontroerend Goed’s theatrical...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 25th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
What is the purpose of performing arts when the stakes are literally life and death? Pussy...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 25th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
The Belgian Company Ontroerend Goed have been coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for so long that I...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 24th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Emma Howlett’s Aether arrives with impressive academic credentials—consultations with...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 24th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
What does it take to get you up on your feet and into the groove? Whatever your disposition,...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 24th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Oli Mathiesen’s dance piece The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave has been described by this...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 2nd Jul 2025 | Adaptation, Denmark, Review
Imagine Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, staged as a sort of salon game, in a real couple’s home serving as...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 18th May 2025 | Denmark, Review, Theatre and Politics
There is a big screen hanging above the stage on which four faces in four individual frames are...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 15th May 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
’To be or not to be’, that is a question with a completely new ring to it in Teatro La Plaza’s...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 14th May 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
This Guardian pick of the year 2025 recently closed at London’s Almeida theatre, but it is...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 29th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Review, United Kingdom
With nearly 4000 shows at hundreds of venues in the city, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a kind...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 18th Jun 2024 | Denmark, Festivals, Review
The 12th annual edition of CPH Stage Festival has come to a close. The cultural highlight that...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 22nd Aug 2023 | Edinburgh 2023, Review, Scotland
There is a show at this year’s Fringe called Distant Memories of the Near Future written and...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 20th Aug 2023 | Edinburgh 2023, Review, Scotland
Lucy McCormick used to do music gigs and re-enactments, but she has now put her past and her...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 19th Aug 2023 | Denmark, Edinburgh 2023, Review, Scotland
There is a little red brochure going around the Edinburgh Fringe titled #Danish. It represents the...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 18th Aug 2023 | Belgium, Edinburgh 2023, Review, Scotland
It was exactly ten years ago that Big in Belgium – a season of work from Flanders – was first...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 17th Aug 2023 | Edinburgh 2023, Review, Scotland
You would not have been wrong to expect a feast in this show set at a giant dining table, fully...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 16th Aug 2023 | Edinburgh 2023, Poland, Review, Scotland
Thanks to the early 20th century ethnographic research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, the word...
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