Theatre at the <a href="/events/edinburghfringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> and <a href="/events/eif">Edinburgh International Festival</a>.
Theatre
Tennessee Williams is a master of creating brutal and brittle characters often trapped in a suffocating…
Not much of a joker, was he, that George Orwell?
“I have a degree in shitology,” says Tolu, not a claim many of us would want to make.
Adam Smith is given a curious Grand Tour by Les Labyrinths, taking in aspects of his life, philosophy and…
Welcome to Israel, a land of endless sun, orange groves, bullets and bombs.
In the Baillie Room up a few flights of stairs at the Assembly Hall, the stage is set with a bench and tea…
Three theatrical trunks of a certain age dominate the space, from behind which Sian Williams emerges in quasi…
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"
1984, George Orwell
There aren’t many shows when the performer comes out to the queue as a kind of personal warm up act, but that…
Shakespeare at the Fringe can tend to be a rather odd affair. In the dark, upside down, backwards in a bunny…
Even on a less-than-promising Edinburgh August morning, a fair field of folk were gathered outside the…
Two men wait, and while they wait, they talk. Tom (Will Andrews) has a degree but works as a security guard.…
Reviewing this last part of Rona Munro’s triptych of plays on Scotland’s first three Stewart kings feels…
Chris Goode is no stranger to the Edinburgh Fringe and has picked up more than his share of Fringe First…
The human design has flaws. Hearts break, memory fades, bodies fail and ultimately nothing lasts infinitely.
How do you reconcile the love of your family with what they do for a living? That’s the circle that Scottish…
When you go to a show called "The Devoured", about the destruction of a family in the Holocaust you know it's…
It is well known that the brothers Grimm harvested folk tales, publishing more than two hundred enduring…
It seems a mad prospect to bring an adaptation of the classic Powell and Pressburger film to the stage.…
The stage front is decorated with sheet music stands, as if expecting a troupe of musicians to take up their…