982 stories by "Mark Fisher"
Live theatre, NewcastleKema Sikazwe " AKA actor and rapper Kema Kay " performs a sunny, charming but vulnerable musical monologue about growing up in the northeast of England
Kema Sikazwe's …
Dundee RepJohn McCann's imaginative play follows its characters' search for answers to tough questions during lockdown " watched over by a pair of very unusual seagulls
For the seagulls, the…
Traverse theatre, EdinburghActor Amy Molloy delivers an elegant monologue that reveals itself as something greater in this supremely thoughtful show
Kate Regan is a woman defined by the men …
Holyrood Park, EdinburghThis open-air performance brings together a multi-generational company celebrating release from pandemic confinement
When your stage is the size of a football pitch a…
Summerhall, EdinburghTrevor Lock uses audience participation to satisfy our yearning for community in a show that prioritises connection over action
What did we miss most during the pandemic…
Old College Quad, EdinburghKatharine Mehrling delivers the German master's songs in ravishing style, accompanied with restraint by pianist Barrie Kosky
We're nearing the end of a medley from…
Available onlineGregor Samsa's sudden bodily dislocation becomes a means of exploring digital-era dilemmas in Hijinx's irreverent adaptation
A few days before the first lockdown, Glasgow's V…
Traverse theatre, EdinburghOn an hour-long circuit guided by headphones, graffiti, sculptures and shops wheedle their way into the dialogue
If this were a regular show it would be something …
Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghAngelina Chudi gives a powerful performance as she tackles the contradictory, confusing experience of meeting an abuser
We've all done it. You bump into a signifi…
Army @ The Fringe, Drill Hall, EdinburghIn this warm and witty solo show, Lubna Kerr, the Scottish daughter of middle-class Pakistani immigrants, recounts a lifetime's encounters with other …
Harbottle Park, Byker, Newcastle upon TyneThe story of a relationship unfolds as a thoughtful exploration of attitudes to what we eat in Chris Bush's clever two-hander
At first glance, Chris…
Harbottle Park, Byker, Newcastle upon TyneChatterbox Charli is on a quest to find her voice and stay free in Phoebe Eclair-Powell's warm and funny family play
"Why does everyone say I'm trou…
Army @ The Fringe, EdinburghThe friendship of two female soldiers is the poignant basis of this intense, immersive audio play that takes you on a tour of the local area
When you watch news r…
Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghFocusing on four survivors of the massacre at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, this stirs the emotions but doesn't grapple with the most pressing or difficul…
Newhailes House, MusselburghGrid Iron has brilliantly transposed this Norwegian tale, of a man who leaves his family to live in a tent, to the grounds of a National Trust for Scotland proper…
Traverse theatre, EdinburghDementia and grief are among the difficult subjects explored in Frances Poet's dislocating play
I don't think Frances Poet intends her play to be depressing. She h…
Tynecastle Park, EdinburghThis musical play about a women's football league making boots for troops at the Somme is moving and polemical
It was a day of celebration. The players from the No…
This August the Scottish capital is much quieter but performers and audiences at this modest jamboree are full of spirit
On the wall in my kitchen is a calendar made by Edinburgh theatre cri…
Available onlineA park bench, inside a car and a room in your house are the three settings for Darkfield's play which lacks a killer payoff
Theatre-makers are used to being in control of the…
MultiStory, EdinburghA young singer loves clubbing, which clashes with her hopes of success at the Eisteddfod in Lisa Jên Brown's exuberant two-hander
Globalisation leaves us in a quanda…
Summerhall, EdinburghMamoru Iriguchi and Afton Moran raid their dressing-up box to give us a cheery guide to the evolutionary history of reproduction, and what it says about gender fluidity …
Traverse theatre, EdinburghThe Edinburgh festival's theatre programme begins with Enda Walsh's flamboyant and funny new play about a man receiving an inappropriate form of drama therapy in a…
Available onlineThe former Guardian critic, along with Evening Standard scribe Fiona Mountford, take to the limelight in this fruity vintage marital drama
Victor Kiam liked his shavers so mu…
Grosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterSuzanne Ahmet turns on the charm as Elizabeth in this outdoor production of Austen's great love story and wry comedy of manners
"If life is not all ab…
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeThis delightful promenade show uses pretty-as-a-picture design, undercut with creepy asides, to bring ETA Hoffmann's famous tale alive
Who knew there was…
