50 stories by "Adam Foster"
Legend would have it that an apple once fell from a tree, hit someone’s head and helped them discover gravity. As in all such legends, this is almost certainly not true, but in Tim Fol…
In an age of Tinder and teenage trips to Malia, attitudes to sexuality are more liberal than ever. Phoebe Waller-Bridge tackled the subject at last year's Fringe with her award-winning Fleab…
The team behind 2012′s The Horror! The Horror! return with an appendage " and the final curtain of its title hangs like a guillotine over Alfred Brownlow’s variety troupe. Audien…
Invited to write a wish on kite-shaped paper and hang it on a twinkling tree, the opening moments of Cirque Tsuki: Birthday hint at the sort of intimacy and interactivity that can make this …
Sometimes it's easier not to talk. That's the logic of So It Goes, a wonderful piece of wordless storytelling by Le-Coq trained company On The Run. There are words of course, they just aren'…
"You can still be a feminist and like getting cum on your face," says Amy Cade, a porn actress, escort and sex worker based in Berlin. Her sister, Rosana, is a shaven-headed lesbian. They ar…
Just as Jaws isn't really about sharks, How to Achieve Redemption as a Scot Through the Medium of Braveheart isn't about the independence referendum. Not really. Rachael Clerke's offbeat per…
Just as the three sisters long for Moscow, Welsh-girl Buddug James Jones pines for the big smoke. Having grown up on a farm in West Wales she's desperate to leave, but knows doing so will sp…
While the content of this two-hander by Daniel Huntley Solon might once have been progressive, its form is oddly outdated. That tension lies at the heart of Sex, With Benefits which sees…
How would you react in a crisis? That's the question at the centre of Eden Gate, an immersive promenade performance by Produced Moon. It's Edinburgh. 2017. The human race is being ravaged by…
Ah, the Scottish Referendum. With the vote on Scottish independence only weeks away, you'd think there'd be more shows at this year's Fringe looking to unpack some of the complexities surrou…
West-End wunderkind Nick Payne returns to the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs with another play about science. Directed with great clarity by Constellations collaborator Michael Longhurst and p…
Now in its 20th year, Connections is the National Theatre's festival of new plays for young people. The productions selected to be performed here are the culmination of a year's activity in …
‘Where are all the big plays?’ asked the Monsterists back in 2005. In Beth Steel’s Wonderland they have a massive one. In 2005, a group of playwrights led by David Eldridge…
What would it look like if you put a go-pro in the guts of the trenches? Probably something like this. In this ceaselessly inventive live animation performance, Dutch theatre ensemble Hotel …
We know Greg Wohead is not Ted Bundy. We know that he stumbled upon Ted Bundy's confession tapes by accident on YouTube and couldn't stop listening. We know that he decided to make a show ab…
A Belfast pub. Jimmy (Patrick O'Kane) and Ian (Declan Conlon), two middle-aged men, are meeting for the first time. Jimmy is at the bar, sipping on a pint, when Ian walks in. Their eyes meet…
Fleabag is filthy. A potty-mouthed provocation of a play that deftly unpacks the complexities of contemporary feminism. But for all its mind-in-the-gutter hilarity, it is ultimately guilty o…
 Anya Reiss has form when it comes to adaptations. Her version of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening, a co-production between Headlong, West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Nuffield The…
A middle-aged man wakes up to a broken marriage, a beckoning bedsit, and the realisation that he has done nothing to make himself memorable. Sound familiar? Yes, exactly. I Found My Horn was…
This is theatre as endurance sport. Not on account of its length "Â I’ve had far longer nights in the theatre "Â but I have not hitherto experienced a more intense theatrical event…
I don't speak German. Not a word. So it was with some trepidation that I travelled to Berlin a couple of weeks ago to see Hedda Gabler directed by Stefan Pucher at the Deutsches Theat…
Eugene O’Neill is one of the most celebrated playwrights of the twentieth century and the first American dramatist to win the Nobel Prize for literature. But while this trilogy of earl…
The legend of Don Juan has been the subject of countless versions, adaptations and interpretations, from Patrick Marber to Mozart. Only last month Don Jon, a feature film written and directe…
*This review does not reveal the name or author of Show 3, but does contain some narrative, visual and locational spoilers* "If you don't mind me saying doctor, this could appear s…
