“A Gambler’s Guide To Dying” Set In Glasgow’s Gorbals, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
For this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Traverse Theatre has, as usual, put together a...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 14th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, Scotland
For this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Traverse Theatre has, as usual, put together a...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 13th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, Scotland
The expression ‘Athens of the North’, the title of the play in the present review, conjures up an...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 13th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, Scotland, United States of America
‘Dare to Discover’ is the leitmotiv of the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe running from 1st to 25th August....
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 20th Jul 2025 | Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Italy, Review
Director and writer Romeo Castellucci decided not to use one of the usual venues of the Theatre...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 16th Jul 2025 | Festivals, Italy, Review, Transmedia, United States of America
Celebrated American actor Willem Dafoe, the new artistic director of the Venice Theatre Biennale,...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 8th May 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
Playwright, actor, director and novelist Davide Enia had his first success as a theatrical...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 16th Apr 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Disability
At Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre, Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink (Schegge di...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 10th Mar 2025 | Directing, Italy, Review
In February I caught Antonio Syxty’s staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan’s...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 5th Mar 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Science
Rarely have I spent such an intense ninety minutes watching a show, as I did the other evening at...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 2nd Mar 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
In his short story, A Report to an Academy, written and published in 1917, Franz Kafka imagines...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 4th Feb 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Gender
Some of the outstanding works by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood are finally being staged in...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 24th Jan 2025 | Immersive Theatre, Italy, Review
Director Romeo Castellucci is coming to the end of a four-year collaboration with Milan’s...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 20th Oct 2024 | Festivals, Italy, Review
The city of Milan hosts two annual Fringe events, the first in June, and the second, in late...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 4th Sep 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Every year at the Edinburgh Fringe, Paines Plough, a UK touring company specialised in...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 31st Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Italy, Review, United Kingdom
New plays can derive from many sources: a vivid imagination, novels, diaries, real-life episodes,...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 31st Aug 2024 | Adaptation, Edinburgh 2024, Review, Scotland
A cast of young actors from diverse parts of the globe brought Malvolio’s Fantasy to the Space...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 29th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
As part of Here and Now, a new Arts Council England showcase, Tim Etchells, artistic director of...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 19th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
The title of the play, The Amazing Doctor She Medicine Show, leaves one wondering who on earth was...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 18th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
On this year’s Edinburgh Fringe a raft of reimaginings of Shakespeare’s plays, by emerging and...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 16th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Italy, Review, United Kingdom
The five-hundred-year history of Italy’s Commedia dell’Arte is neatly packed into Masquerade, a...
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