50 stories by "Adam Foster"
The post office in Coolatully is all boarded up. The local pub only stocks ready salted crisps and is struggling to break even. This used to be the sort of place you could leave your windows…
Robert Holman is a playwright rarely revived. The Park Theatre's staging of his 2008 play Jonah and Otto will be the first of his works to be produced in London since Making Noise Quietly…
Things are going well for Vinay Patel. After a succession of short plays his debut full-length play, True Brits, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. A relative newcomer t…
Some years ago Victoria Melody and her husband Mike bought a plant. The logic being that if they could keep it alive they might one day go on to buy a dog. And then, eventually, a child -exc…
Ria Parry is in a reflective mood as she nears the end of rehearsals for Albion, the new play by Chris Thompson which opens at the Bush Theatre next week. "It's funny when you look back and …
Alfred Hitchcock once said that the length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. At a little over two hours and thirty minutes, Chris Urch’s first…
The need to distinguish between genres is simultaneously vital and irrelevant at the Edinburgh Fringe. Choosing whether an all-male, all-singing, all-dancing, promenade staging of The Wizard…
There are two things you need to know about Catherine Ireton: one, she comes from Ireland; two, she has the most remarkable singing voice. Living in Limerick in 2005, Ireton got hit on in a …
Mark Ravenhill admired Sean Holmes' Secret Theatre company so much that he wrote to him asking to be involved. He said yes and Show 6 is the result. When it first launched, advance informati…
Confirmation could just as well be called confrontation. Because that’s what it is and how it feels. Devised by Chris Thorpe in collaboration with Rachel Chavkin of Brooklyn-based ense…
This is no ordinary love story. On the way into Summerhall's Red Lecture Theatre we are handed a pair of wireless headphones, arousing an anticipation of the auditory experience to come. Whe…
As we come into the Demonstration Room, Greg Sinclair has a box on his head. He has been instructed to do so by a group of children. The 11am performance slot at the Edinburgh Fringe is syno…
On 22 May 2013, ITV News obtained footage of a man addressing a camera on a south London street. He makes a series of political statements before walking towards the body of Drummer Lee Rigb…
Geddes Loom is a band which got lost in the theatre section. In its debut piece, Prelude to a Number, it tries to make sense of the chaos of the universe. You certainly couldn't …
Mental takes place in a bed in a residential building just outside the city centre. The walk back takes about 20 minutes. In the shadow of Arthur’s seat we cross a road by some traffic…
There are endless brilliant things about Every Brilliant Thing. The play sees writer Duncan Macmillan reunited with Paines Plough following their critically acclaimed collaboration on Lun…
Two years ago, Chris Goode and Company made a piece in which the words of children were spoken by a cast of adults. In Travesti, the new piece from Unbound Productions, something similar hap…
Bottleneck is a masterly demonstration of pulling-the-rug playwriting. Written by award-winning playwright Luke Barnes and produced by HighTide Festival Theatre, the play was one of the brea…
What are you reading this on? Your phone? A laptop? A tablet, maybe? In a world so reliant on technology, do you ever look at the screen in your hands and wonder what you'd be without it? Th…
speak in a parallel universe they try to words but the words exactly they just stop when they try to speak they just stop as you say yes they stop not so much stop as start start when it sta…
"All of our brains are programmed to see patterns", Ross Sutherland tells us in Standby for Tape Back-Up, "even when no patterns exist". They say that after a break-up, it's as if every song…
Change is progression. That's the assessment of The Hemline Index, which examines the extent to which women have changed in the last thirty years. The Hemline Index of the title, in case …
Have you ever wondered what happens after the lie-detector results are revealed on the Jeremy Kyle show and the participants are left to their own devices? In this nasty new play by Richard …
Sat around a table littered with mugs of tea, discarded flyers and the Fringe programme, three performers while away another afternoon in their squalid Edinburgh flat. It's a set-up you'll f…
If you were to stand opposite the person you loved most, knowingly for the last time, what would you say? That's the impossible question at the centre of Liam Borrett's stunning debut play, …
