Timberlake Wertenbaker’s “Our Country’s Good” at the Lyric Hammersmith: Slightly Updated Classic Grounded by an Awkward Production
Although the idea of deporting people to Rwanda as a punishment is now, following the defeat of...
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It Takes Artistry to Make Theatre for Young Audiences: New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024
Theatre for broadly understood young audiences (0-16 years) is one of the most important cultural...
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Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing at the Old Vic: Spirited and Highly Enjoyable Revival of Semi-Autobiographical Love Drama
Adultery is the great staple of modern British playwriting. The anguish of marriage, and the...
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“My Mother’s Funeral”
Every year at the Edinburgh Fringe, Paines Plough, a UK touring company specialised in...
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“The Popess” Visits The Edinburgh Fringe Festival
New plays can derive from many sources: a vivid imagination, novels, diaries, real-life episodes,...
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“Malvolio’s Fantasy.” A Glitzy Retelling Of Twelfth Night
A cast of young actors from diverse parts of the globe brought Malvolio’s Fantasy to the Space...
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 Overview
With nearly 4000 shows at hundreds of venues in the city, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a kind...
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“L’Addition,” S’il Vous Plait
As part of Here and Now, a new Arts Council England showcase, Tim Etchells, artistic director of...
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Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape” In The Digital World Of Zoom Theatre
On screen an image of worlds within worlds opens this Zoom version of Samuel Beckett’s stage play...
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“The Amazing Doctor She Medicine Show”
The title of the play, The Amazing Doctor She Medicine Show, leaves one wondering who on earth was...
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Climate Change Shakespeare. “A Midsummer’s Tempest”
On this year’s Edinburgh Fringe a raft of reimaginings of Shakespeare’s plays, by emerging and...
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Bologna To Edinburgh Non-Stop
The five-hundred-year history of Italy’s Commedia dell’Arte is neatly packed into Masquerade, a...
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Scottish Nursery School Kids Bring A Comedic Shakespeare To The Fringe
A unique feature of Edinburgh’s Fringe festival is its inclusive nature. Professional and...
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Luke Wright, A Spoken-Word Poet At The Top Of His Game
Spoken word poetry has a huge following in the UK, and Luke Wright is one of the most talented...
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“Freak Out!” A Heady Cocktail About Climate Change
On the Edinburgh Fringe the number of plays investigating climate change is growing each year, and...
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“In Two Minds.” Female Led Irish Storytelling
In Two Minds, produced by Dublin’s celebrated multi-award winning Fishamble, is playing at...
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“Penthesilea” After Von Kleist. Let’s Rock
Director of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), Nicola Benedetti, chose ‘Rituals that...
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“Hamstrung.” Yorick’s Untold Story
Hamlet, along with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and Macbeth, are probably the...
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“The Outrun”
Amy Liptrot’s bestselling memoir, The Outrun (2016) has recently been genre hopping. In January...
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“Dorian the Musical:” This Rock Adaptation Of Oscar Wilde’s Classic Missteps At Every Turn
In the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Oscar Wilde wrote: “There is no such thing as...
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