She cast an armchair as Mr Bennet in a Pride and Prejudice reboot. Now Isobel McArthur's been let loose on lusty romp The Fair Maid of the West. So is she worried about outraging mothbally a…
New version of the Anglo-Saxon epic features a massive cast of singers, actors and members of the community Ian McMillan is contemplating the greats who have gone before him. He is one of fi…
As he stages Gary McNair's twist on the tale of Pip, the director reflects on 16 years of spotting and developing raw talent while running the Tron Andy Arnold is a director with staying pow…
Queen's Hall arts centre, HexhamAn 83-year-old resident rails against the lack of liberty, settling herself on a bench outside and refusing to return despite legal threats and offers of hot-…
Royal Court, LiverpoolJames Graham's funny and violent TV adaptation belies a sensitive study of male mental health, as right-wing economics hits a group of road layers' lives The emotional …
Nottingham PlayhouseWith excellent performances, Tom Wright's play about the man who became a Victorian freakshow attraction is an at times uneasy mix of circus and polemic Entrances don't g…
Curve, LeicesterThis staging of Kafka's story is physically exciting, even tireless, but it hits an early peak of terror then has nowhere to go for two hours It is linguistically playful, po…
Octagon theatre, BoltonIn Holly Race Roughan's thrilling and dynamic production, Arthur Miller's classic about a Brooklyn longshoreman and his family roils with primal passions If Arthur Mil…
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughAlan Ayckbourn has fun imagining the hazards of malfunctioning android lovers and misbehaving auto-maids " but there's a deeper message too about human des…
His Majesty's Theatre, AberdeenAll-female production tells Bram Stoker's story from the perspective of women trying to escape patriarchy " it's often urgent, but sometimes sucked of energy L…
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotHorror-movie witches haunt the unhappy couple throughout this touring co-production. It's one of many interesting ideas that are dropped too soon There is…
Pitlochry festival theatreIsla Cowan's quietly intelligent new drama goes inside a three-way relationship and each person's different attachments to their rural cottage retreat On the face o…
Pitlochry festival theatreAt a dinner party attended by a child ghost and a goading TV pundit warning of apocalypse, a middle-class literati find themselves on the brink of social upheaval P…
On Edinburgh fringe stages, pop is eating itself with a series of pastiches and tributes that riff on TV hits and surreal celebrity reimaginings This review goes out in honour of Gerard Slev…
The festival's musicals this year range from theatrical introspection to a rip-roaring improvisation inspired by Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash hit The world's most popular musicals have often b…
Summerhall, Edinburgh This brainy solo show follows Woof's intuitive thinker, standing in to deliver a lecture for her hyper-rational neuroscientist husband And she starts off chatting to us…
Two inventive productions, Dimanche and Concerned Others, use puppetry and object-theatre to tackle vast environmental and social subjects Such is the enormity of the problems facing humanit…
C Aurora, EdinburghThe long-ago disappearance of a great-aunt is explored in Nishla Smith's captivating performance, enhanced by hand-painted animations For decades, Nishla Smith's family ha…
Attachment: The Leech Show is a merry romp about an influential reviewer and sums up the industry's paradoxical attitude to theatre criticism Advice has been circulating among fringe compani…
Zoo Playground, EdinburghInspired by the work of Nobel-winning Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich, this is a disturbing but blackly funny piece Every performance of The Last of the So…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDevastating testimonies from field hospitals, jungles and mountain outposts are performed verbatim-style in Tiago Rodrigues's disquieting show It feels like an intrusi…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghObehi Janice's one-woman show collects her adventures in the dating game but they don't lead anywhere that interesting Obehi Janice had friends at school who, like her…
Two new shows at the festival question senses of hearing and sight in engaging and eccentric ways Seeing is believing, right? That is a phrase used repeatedly by Mamoru Iriguchi and co-star …
Imaginary friends, runaway horses and Roger McGough's take on the Wind in the Willows are among the treats for younger audiences at the festival Summerhall, 11.30am, until 20 August Continue…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghUpset by racist attacks in their town, a young couple attempt to get to know the culprits in Eve Leigh's new play Anyone running a far-right festival would …