Edinburgh festival 2014 review: Title and Deed devastating monologue channels Beckett by Lyn Gardner

Assembly Mound, EdinburghWill Eno's one-man show, brilliantly performed by Conor Lovett, offers a stern examination of our inner loneliness Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19am on August 6, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: Show 6 modern Oepidal tale lacks complexity by Lyn Gardner

Summerhall @ Roundabout, EdinburghMark Ravenhill's vigorous but sketchy story asks what you do if you discover you're not who you thought you were Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:43am on August 6, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014: why run from zombies when you can ceilidh the night away? by Lyn Gardner

The audience anarchy provoked by The Generation of Z is overrated. I'd rather get happy with This Is Ceilidh Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 3:00am on August 6, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival review 2014: SmallWar the trauma of war made tangible by Lyn Gardner

Traverse, EdinburghA haunting one-man show about the not-so-small impact of war is hard to ignore and even harder to watch Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20am on August 5, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: Unfaithful love and longing in a taut four-hander by Lyn Gardner

The Traverse, EdinburghOwen McCafferty's play about a couple tempted into infidelity touches on the disappointments of middle-aged marriage Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:58am on August 5, 2014☆⚑

The Trial of Jane Fonda review as inventive as the average school play by Lyn Gardner

Assembly Rooms, EdinburghThe actor-activist's true-life meeting with a room of disgruntled Vietnam war vets has natural drama, but it's less trial than therapy session in this static product…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:51am on August 5, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014: a director responds to his bad reviews by Lyn Gardner

Lorne Campbell of Northern Stage has produced a fine, generous-hearted reply to the critical slating that greeted I Promise You Sex and Violence this weekend Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:47am on August 4, 2014☆⚑

Mark Thomas's Cuckooed: a clever, angry show about corporate spying Edinburgh 2014 review by Lyn Gardner

Traverse, EdinburghThomas recounts the infiltration of his group of anti-arms trade campaigners by a plant from BAE Systems in an excoriating, heartfelt monologue Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:21am on August 4, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: Horizontal Collaboration war crimes tribunal puts truth in the dock by Lyn Gardner

Traverse, EdinburghThe wife of a dead African warlord is called to testify before a UN court in a slippery thinkpiece that uses new actors every night Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:07am on August 4, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: Pioneer bold, inventive space drama by Lyn Gardner

Zoo Southside, EdinburghThere's a touch of Complicite about Curious Directive, whose swaggering show about a mission to Mars celebrates the human hunger for discovery Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:35am on August 4, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: Huff inspired house tour for little pigs by Lyn Gardner

Traverse, EdinburghThere's an extraordinary level of detail, and a few dark crannies, in this guided installation through a fairytale house Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42am on August 3, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha Cervantes with clowns by Lyn Gardner

Zoo, EdinburghFrom pillow sheep to psychic monkeys, this madcap debut from Little Soldier is cunningly constructed and wonderfully inventive Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:57am on August 3, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: Spoiling bantering introduction to an independent Scotland by Lyn Gardner

Traverse, EdinburghJohn McCann's two-hander about the first meeting between a newly autonomous Scotland's foreign minister and her English counterpart is witty but underdeveloped Continue re…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:59am on August 3, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: Kingmaker what if Boris Johnson ran for prime minister? by Lyn Gardner

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA thinly disguised Johnson pops up in this House of Cards-style comedy about a fictional leadership race Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:22am on August 3, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: On the Upside Down of the World an Englishwoman abroad by Lyn Gardner

Assembly Roxy, EdinburghThis one-woman show about class, culture and colonialism in New Zealand charts the adventures of a genteel judge's wife who much to learn about the new world and her…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:07am on August 2, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival review: Donald Robertson Is Not a Stand-Up Comedian clever bully story by Lyn Gardner

Traverse, EdinburghGary McNair marries standup and theatre in a small but smart comedy about using humour to battle bullies Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:53am on August 2, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: I Promise You Sex and Violence limp, toe-curling comedy by Lyn Gardner

Northern Stage at King's Hall, EdinburghDavid Ireland's play of excruciatingly bad taste is like a lame West End comedy, with added wanking, blow jobs and burkas Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:01am on August 2, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival review: The Carousel old-fashioned mother-daughter angst by Lyn Gardner

Traverse, EdinburghMaureen Beattie is superb in Jennifer Tremblay's intense but hard-to-follow tale of a woman's carousel ride through her past Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:22am on August 2, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: Men in the Cities fierce portrait of violence by Lyn Gardner

Traverse, EdinburghChris Goode's solo show ties together the stories of murderered British soldier Lee Rigby and three other men in crisis, for a powerful but despairing look at masculinity …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31am on August 1, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: Crazy Glue tragicomedy recalls Coward by Lyn Gardner

Assembly Roxy, EdinburghThis clowning tale of a marriage coming unglued is at its best when it lets us glimpse the petty cruelties of love Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:49am on August 1, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: Early Doors soap-opera antics in a pub by Lyn Gardner

Pleasance Pop-Up: The Pub, EdinburghThough stylistically scattered, this lively site-specific comedy at the Jinglin' Georgie pub offers a rough-and-ready buzz Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:34am on August 1, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014: A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts review a joyous, giddy celebration by Lyn Gardner

Northern Stage at King's Hall, EdinburghThis utterly loveable show sees the Secret Theatre ensemble jump through a series of impossible hoops to great effect Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:19am on August 1, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: Confirmation Chris Thorpe's electrifying monologue by Lyn Gardner

Northern Stage at King's Hall, EdinburghThorpe's dramatically charged show challenges our own biases and beliefs in a Ted talk-turned passionate provocation Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:15am on August 1, 2014☆⚑

Edinburgh festival 2014: essential theatre picks by Lyn Gardner

Hundreds of companies and thousands of performances; difficult decisions. We save you from sticking a pin in the programme All our Edinburgh 2014 coverage Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00am on July 31, 2014☆⚑

Charlie Ward review affecting and constantly surprising by Lyn Gardner

Cinema Museum, LondonSound&Fury's innovative installation movingly brings to life the role of Charlie Chaplin films in healing injured troops Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:17pm on July 30, 2014☆⚑