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...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 16th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
A unique feature of Edinburgh’s Fringe festival is its inclusive nature. Professional and...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 16th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Spoken word poetry has a huge following in the UK, and Luke Wright is one of the most talented...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 16th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
On the Edinburgh Fringe the number of plays investigating climate change is growing each year, and...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 15th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Ireland, Review, Theatre and Science, United Kingdom
In Two Minds, produced by Dublin’s celebrated multi-award winning Fishamble, is playing at...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 14th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Netherlands, Review, United Kingdom
Director of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), Nicola Benedetti, chose ‘Rituals that...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 14th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Hamlet, along with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and Macbeth, are probably the...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 13th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Amy Liptrot’s bestselling memoir, The Outrun (2016) has recently been genre hopping. In January...
Read MorePosted by Gill Foster | 19th Jul 2024 | Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
In the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Oscar Wilde wrote: “There is no such thing as...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 4th Jul 2024 | Dramaturgy, Review, United Kingdom
Every day this week I’m watching a football match, and now — after April’s production of Lydia...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Jun 2024 | London, Review, United Kingdom
The death of Marilyn Monroe, on 4 August 1962, is a wet dream for conspiracy theorists. Like the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Jun 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Good timing — as the UK’s general election campaign goes into its final week, this large-scale...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Jun 2024 | Nigeria, Review, United Kingdom
Following the huge success of Benedict Lombe’s Shifters, which transfers soon to the West End, the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Jun 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom, United States of America
Sanaz Toossi’s English at the Kiln Theatre: Pulitzer Prize-winning play shows the impacts of a second language on identity
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Jun 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics
Faye is okay. Or, at least she says she’s okay. But is she really? And, if she really is okay,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th May 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
When does creativity become mannered? When it’s based on repetition, and repetition without...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th May 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender
“Welcome to motherhood, bitch!” By the time a character delivers this reality check, there have...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th May 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics
It’s often said that contemporary American playwrights are too polite, too afraid of giving...
Read MorePosted by Ahram Online | 7th May 2024 | Interview, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
In a darkly lit arts studio in London, five young actors highlight their scripts and go over...
Read MorePosted by Xunnan Li | 5th May 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Amidst the bustling metropolis of London, a group of aspiring theatrical talents (Kelly Guibal, Flavia Di Saverio, Thelma Osorio Euan, Maria Luc, Hana Tamaru, Arianna Folini) took to the stage at The Hen & Chicken Theatre in March 2024 to present their musical production, “Don’t Get Me Wrong”. Through their performance, they delved into the intricate tapestry of challenges and joys experienced by those navigating life in the vibrant yet daunting urban landscape of the UK’s largest city.
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 4th May 2024 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Readers who don’t think much of football won’t be surprised to hear that this tale of murder and...
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