Edinburgh News: theatre

‘Antigone’ continues to fascinate; from Jean Anouilh’s version of over half a century ago, through Tom Paulin’s Belfast-accented reworking as ‘The Riot Act’ and

Lyceum Youth give impressive performances in this series of works, although the writing remains quite simple.

Edinburgh's Festivals have received a funding boost, it was announced on Thursday as an ambitious programm

The circus is coming to town!  Not just any circus, but Cirque du Soleil, the circus of circuses.  Established in Quebec in 1984, Cirque du Soleil has dazzled and amazed almost 100 millio

The earth is trembling with the promise of a new wave as Strange Theatre present a mini-festival which kicks off this evening at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, centred on the company’s new

Ankur Productions is a Glasgow-based company committed to changing the way Black Minority and Ethnic people are represented in the arts, opening up a dialogue between diverse cultures so that a gre

John Steinbeck's play title of ‘Of Mice and Men’ is said to be influenced by Robert Burns - Steinbeck like Burns was a great sympathizer of the agrarian working folk’s lot and their never ending battle with the elements to scrape a living from the land. No better description of the plight of the American migrant workers in the late thirties exists than his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, which put words and stories to the photographic images of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans.

Emerging into the light at the end of a performance, and examining the drunken spider’s track marks that comprise the notes made in darkness, can suggest something about what has been seen; the fewer of these, the more the production has to say.
This rule of thumb is certainly the case with Gare St Lazare’s production of Samuel Beckett’s ‘The End’. Although a short story in first person form rather than a play, it encompasses enough of Beckett’s thought and style to form an epitome of the greater corpus. That said, a précis intended for the press scarcely does its concerns full justice.

Editta Braun, an influential Austrian choreographer who has been referred to as the ‘Grande Dame of contemporary dance theatre’, has been creating unconventional and unique pieces of vi

The Manipulate Festival at the Traverse Theatre had been due to continue this evening with a performance of Gobo.