2,878 stories by "Lyn Gardner"
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghWe often lose sight of our younger selves as we grow older, as the person we once were becomes hidden behind the wrinkles, the folding skin and dull eyes. Sometimes …
The big openings this week are in Edinburgh, but there's still a Wild Bride in Cornwall and a radical musical in LondonThe big openings this coming week are all in Edinburgh. Forest Fringe b…
Traverse, EdinburghThe setting is poverty-stricken 19th-century Spain, and Beatriz is preparing for her sister's wedding. But the family celebration is halted when the house is invaded by so…
Bluebeard becomes a darkly anarchic cautionary tale in a promising debut show from this young companyWho are they? Milk Presents: producer Ruby Glaskin, director Lucy Doherty and production …
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghPuppets can do whatever human actors can do " and much else, besides. After all, most actors don't come with detachable parts. The puppet on the table before us, pre…
Avoid the front row at the latest show by Belgian provocateurs Ontroerend GoedOscar Wilde once said: "My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure." But what is a successf…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe venue that gave us Potted Potter now offers potted Pinter in Julian Sands's one-man celebration of the great playwright. The show " a mixture of biography, …
St George's West, EdinburghHere's one that comes straight from the heart. Well, Glasgow actually, which is where the Junction 25 youth theatre call home, and where they create shows hewn fro…
A storm of inventive storytelling, this physical theatre ensemble have a bright futureWho? Idle Motion " physical theatre ensemble founded in 2007, and currently company-in-residence at Oxfo…
Assembly MoundOn Tuesdays, Pauline is a domestic goddess. At least that is what her elderly widowed dad calls her when she makes her weekly visit to the provincial town where she grew up to …
TraverseWhat a blast. Economics has never been more playfully dissected than it is in this latest piece from The Team, the young American experimental company whose previous outings on the f…
Traverse@University of Edinburgh medical schoolLike the cockroach motel where they check in but don't check out, some who enter Gilbert Prendergast's Conservatoire of the Anatomy of Music ar…
Traverse, EdinburghTainted Love is the song that propelled former Soft Cell vocalist Marc Almond to fame in the 1980s, and in Mark Ravenhill and composer Conor Mitchell's song cycle he …
St George's West, EdinburghIt may last less than 20 minutes, but Fish and Game's filmic journey about childhood and learning, mothers and memory, is a bittersweet fairytale that will haunt y…
This ensemble, who have been under the surface devising ways of mixing theatre with science, break through with an icy showWho? Young ensemble of 28 actors and technicians who came out of Wa…
Traverse@Lyceum Rehearsal Room, EdinburghWith the money markets in meltdown, Bluemouth Inc's interactive dance show inspired by the dance competitions of the Depression era " in which the co…
C Soco, EdinburghI've yet to see a Belt Up show that completely knocks me out, but I've never seen a piece by this talented York company that wasn't mischievously intriguing. Outland is cert…
As Edinburgh roars into life, theatres across the UK are following suit. From Scotland to Stockton-on-Tees " don't miss outBy the time you read this, I will have been swallowed up by the Edi…
As previews begin on the Edinburgh fringe, festivals and outdoor theatres around the country offer summer treats from circus to ShakespeareThe Edinburgh fringe kicks off next week, but altho…
Soho, LondonA smart piece of programming from Soho's new artistic director, Steve Marmion, Ed Harris's promising play feels like the flip side of the theatre's recent hit, Realism. It even h…
Almeida, LondonWriting about these dozen short plays from all over the world, presented by Belarus Free theatre, presents a bit of a challenge. As many will know, even by performing these pl…
Festival season heads to the coast, musical fever spreads with Fela! and a handful of Edinburgh shows limber up in LondonAs the schools break up and everyone heads off on their holidays, Bri…
Hampstead Theatre, LondonWhat happens in a marriage when private beliefs and public duty are at odds? How can you reconcile loving a man caught up through his job in doing something, even ta…
Newhaven, SussexStreet theatre brings communities together, and no more so than in down-at-heel Newhaven, once the gateway to Europe. That heritage " and the town's future " were celebrated …
Lyttelton, LondonWhen the curtain rises on Katie Mitchell's revival of Thomas Heywood's 1603 drama of property and marriage, adultery and revenge, it looks as if we might be in for one of th…
