983 stories by "Mark Fisher"
★★★☆☆/★★★★☆ Traverse/Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghIn two new works, the playwright contrasts how the disenfranchised struggle to w…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghSome signature sex gags raise the odd laugh and a late religious theme intrigues " but really, the end can't come too soonWhen Frank Skinner was on the way up as an …
Gilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghThe IT Crowd actor turns playwright with this subtle monologue play in which three studio sitters bare their emotional woundsThe trick to writing a monologue …
Traverse, EdinburghThe activist-comedian takes the temperature of universal healthcare and delivers a grave diagnosisMark Thomas is standing centre stage, feet splayed, shoulders feeling the…
Unusual musicals abound at the fringe, from an F1 spin on Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash hit to a satire on 'inspiration porn'For a mainstream art form, the musical comes in many odd shapes. Kud…
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThis gripping production revives 17th-century court transcripts " and thumbscrews " to show just how little society has changedBy rights, a verbatim report of a …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghSerena Manteghi gives a high-voltage performance but the story feels far too familiar in Christopher York's play for the Stephen Joseph theatreIt's not only the…
Traverse, EdinburghIn David Ireland's brilliantly brutal satire, things get horribly out of hand when two men and a woman meet to discuss putting on a West End playTwo men are debating wheth…
Traverse, EdinburghJulie Hesmondhalgh's superb turn as narrator lights up these comic tales about the universal significance of loveIn festivals past, the Traverse has showcased a beguiling …
Traverse, EdinburghA parent-teacher meeting becomes a microcosm for privilege and exclusion in a subtle, well-acted three-handerThe entrance of Sarah Morris's Donna is delayed. "I thought I'…
Traverse, EdinburghPolly Frame's bereaved mother is consumed by thoughts of revenge as MartÃn Zimmerman's mesmerising tale of a school massacre hits homeIn the Alice in Wonderland logic o…
Part philosophical meditation, part fantasy, Marguerite Duras's 1982 novella La Maladie de la Mort comes to the stage in a hi-tech Edinburgh festival show There's something about Marguerite …
Williamson Park, LancasterLucy Jane Parkinson's D'Artagnan is equal parts swagger and vulnerability in a jolly, summery promenade productionBeing a horse, Christopher Bianchi's Planchet find…
Tron, Glasgow Love-struck pop hits punctuate the regency matchmaking in this raucous, yet surprisingly faithful, all-female adaptationIt's not Jane Austen's fault. When the author published …
Pitlochry Festival theatreLiz Carruthers directs a sprightly, good-looking revival of Barrie's romantic 1902 hitValentine Brown is trying to persuade Phoebe Throssel that age is no barrier t…
Octagon, BoltonThe audience enjoy a Cliff singalong on the top deck as they soak up the feelgood hit of the summerSometimes the stars align and fate smiles on a production. When Elizabeth Ne…
State cinema, Leith In an atmospheric derelict venue, the Golden Trailer Collective explore anti-terror detentions in a play that could commit more to its eccentricitiesA cuckoo festival wit…
Theatres in Scotland played host to the dazzling stagecraft of Robert Lepage, a striking Titus Andronicus and raucous but close-harmonising schoolgirls This summer, I was lucky to get two bi…
Traverse, Edinburgh, and North Edinburgh Arts CentreBaba Yaga, a delirious take on Slavic folklore, and the masterful one-man show Stick By Me offer joyful explorations of rules and how to b…
He has blazed his way through theatre and opera. Now, the great director Calixto Bieito is reflecting on his fears in a highly personal concertThe scene is northern Spain, some time in the e…
Corn Exchange, HaddingtonCharlie's Angels meet the Andrews Sisters in this entertaining and melodic meditation on griefYes, it is aimed at the over-eights, but Eddie and the Slumber Sisters …
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghStewart Laing directs August Strindberg's drama about a man wheedling his way into his ex-wife's marriageIf the men's rights movement is looking for a spokesman, it co…
Traverse, EdinburghA mother's fear that her toddler has been abused sends her into a nightmarish state of anxiety in Frances Poet's playWhen Iago causes Othello to doubt himself, it only tak…
Citizens, GlasgowGeorge Costigan is magnificent as the patriarch of the fraught Tyrone family, imprisoned in a jail of their own making The Connecticut summer house of the Tyrone family in E…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghTony Cownie roughs up and relocates Hannah Cowley's 18th-century play, adding vulgar jokes and rebellious energyImagine an inverted version of Cinderella, in which the…
