THEATRE AT THE FESTIVAL

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THEATRE - LATEST FEATURES

  • QQ: Charlotte Donachie / Charlotte Donachie, appearing in 'Six...
    theatre : 1. What is your 2008 show all about? Well, if you want to see the six very different,...2008-07-30»
  • QQ: Jenny Rowe / Jenny Rowe, actress in 'Pebbles On The...
    theatre : 1. What is your 2008 show all about? It's about Leo, who finds himself on Brighton beach...2008-07-30»
  • Wrights Write, Right?: Michael Flexer / ThreeWeeks meets Fringe playwrights
    theatre : The most exciting thing about the Edinburgh Festival's theatre programme, for my money at...2008-07-25»
  • Wrights Write, Right?: Al Smith / ThreeWeeks meets Fringe playwrights
    theatre : The most exciting thing about the Edinburgh Festival's theatre programme, for my money at...2008-07-27»
  • Wrights Write, Right? Eleanor Bennet / ThreeWeeks meets Fringe playwrights
    theatre : One of our favourite things about the Festival is the sheer quantity of brand new plays,...2008-07-31»
  • 13 To See: Theatre / 2008 Festival Preview
    theatre : The Edinburgh Festival is all about innovation, variety and experiment. Nowhere is this...2008-07-31»
  • Free Festival: The only way to do it / Amy Dowd speaks to Anna Victoria about...
    theatre : I’d much rather have fifty people watching our play for free than six people who have...2008-08-02»
  • ‘Wrights Write, Right? Joel Horwood / ThreeWeeks meets Fringe playwrights
    theatre : One of ThreeWeeks’ favourite things about the Festival is the wealth of new writing and so...2008-08-08»

THEATRE - LATEST REVIEWS

  • Our Country's Good /Rattlesnake! Theatre Company
    For a play concerning itself with big issues such as guilt, justice and forbidden love, the characters that make up the...2008-09-09»
  • The Terrible Infants /Les Enfants Terribles
    'The Terrible Infants' is, on the face of it, a series of morality tales for children, but the show is infinitely more...2008-09-09»
  • Kunst Ist Scheisse /The Caravan of Love
    Kunst Ist Scheisse (which means 'Art Is Shit', translation-fans!) is anything but. It uses a burlesque cabaret show as a...2008-09-09»
  • I Went To The House But Did Not Enter /Edinburgh International Festival
    This 'staged concert' makes for a very tedious evening. It consists of three tableaux based on works by TS Eliot,...2008-09-09»
  • Lament For The Little Boats /Land and Sea Theatre Company
    192 fishermen died in the Eyemouth Disaster of 1881 after a terrible storm wreaked havoc on the east coast. Taking...2008-09-09»
  • Valentine /Paper Zoo Theatre Company
    This is best experienced if you’ve got someone’s hand to hold throughout the performance. A mixture of poetry and songs...2008-09-09»
  • The Devil’s Ship /Edinburgh International Festival/Bazi Theatre Company
    I wish that I could have tried harder to grapple with this play, but I found it very difficult to understand what was...2008-09-09»
  • Tokyo Bound /Sepia Scipio
    Chiaki Yamauchi's one-woman performance could have become claustrophobic but she balanced a natural humour with the...2008-09-09»
  • The Life And Times Of A Modern Day Mary /Kimberlandace Productions/Laughing Horse Free Festival
    I really wanted to give this show a chance, as I am usually not a fan of monologues, especially the sort about one’s own...2008-09-09»
  • Romeo And Juliet /Belt Up (Nothing To See/Hear)
    Ye Gods, what perturbing revels were here! The audience flew through night time streets chasing the brawling Mercutio...2008-09-09»
  • Stalemate /Downside School
    When you don't buy the characters' motivations there's often one or two sources of the problem: poor acting and...2008-09-03»
  • Lovers’ Suicides at Imamiya /The Chikamatsu Project
    I wanted this production to be as impressive in its content as it was in its style, but unfortunately it was not to be....2008-09-03»
  • Shaker (Re-stirred) - Laughing Horse Free Festival /One Handed Women
    John Godber's play about four waitresses working in a cocktail bar, was probably funny when it was written, back when no...2008-09-03»
  • InvAsian Festival: Tara's Trio of Plays (Part 2) /clubWEST Productions
    The second installment of Tara's Trio of Plays is ‘Sonata’, a very slow-moving tale of three women discussing the...2008-09-03»
  • Teechers /Big Spirit Theatre Co
    Down your drink if you're playing the Fringe Programme Drinking Game, it's one of three productions of John Godber's...2008-09-03»
  • St Joan /Theatre Alba
    Only the brave consider tackling outdoor theatre in Scotland even in the summer, so when the heavens opened it was with...2008-09-03»
  • Ruhe /Edinburgh International Festival/Muziektheater Transparant & Collegium Vocale Gent
    Mesmerising, beautiful, disturbing and thought-provoking, this performance made me reassess my attitude to war. With the...2008-09-03»
  • The Opposite Sex /Monifieth Amateur Dramatics
    The two husbands, in this comedy of quarrelling couples, are played by the brothers Barton, yet they act and look as...2008-09-03»

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