Theatre

Theatre at the <a href="/events/edinburghfringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> and <a href="/events/eif">Edinburgh International Festival</a>.

Robert Lepage and his creative team, collectively known as Ex Machina, reconstruct memories from his past in…
There are times, as a reviewer, when I find myself making a mental note to check afterwards how much the…
There is nothing I hate more in this world than people that do nothing other than speak of themselves.
There are elements to the 2013 EIF programme which are forever 1970s’s America, with performances by Philip…
A remote cottage on the wild, windswept north-east coast of Scotland is the perfect place for murder. Staged…
Alfred Jarry's original production of Ubu Roi in 1896 caused riots on its opening night and has since shaped…
Lou Salome must be regarded as one of the most interesting women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth…
The first black man to be born in America out of slavery chose his own name. He called himself Freeman.
In the current climate of economic recession and general "cutting back" on outings this summer, numbers…
The Trepidation of the Tower Traipsing Troglodytes leaves us speechless.
A former soldier of the Great War is given a strange task – to exhume a body two years dead. What is…
The idea of finding some humanity behind a man who is down in history as one of the most divisive figures to…
Greeted by space hostesses in amazing uniforms followed by space drill for passengers embarking on SS…
Martin McCormick has a problem with his teeth – he lies through them. “Trust me”, he asks the audience, all…
Neil Forsyth’s fictional Dundonian character, Bob Servant, hilariously deals with the serious issue of spam…
“Discuss the regulars. They sit in a line like ugly, huddled birds, eyes wet with alcohol. They whisper…
Before the USA dragged the willing and the unwilling into the quagmire of Iraq, one play captured the '…
Oscar Wilde wrote two things while serving his two year imprisonment after being convicted of gross indecency.
After a string of award winning stage plays (After the End, Osama the Hero, and Love and Money) as well as a…
I walked into the darkened theatre.  The atmosphere hit me like a slug from a .45.  I dropped into…