Summerhall, one of Edinburgh's busiest venues, known for its innovative, cutting-edge programme, has had a tough time over the last year. The premises have been sold, making its future as an…
There are shows that may, on the surface, feel wafer thin, shows where nothing much seems to happen, only as the conversations unravel, they reveal characters whose experiences give the prod…
The Edinburgh International Festival this year, welcomes several international trailblazers like FC Bergman and William Kentridge, alongside a cluster of new political plays about censorship…
As I read the title of Jonny Woo's latest show, Suburbia, I wondered how this celebrated performer, cabaret and legendary drag artist, who has lived most of their life in London and New York…
Playing at the Scottish Storytelling Centre during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cassandra, written and performed by Ailsa Dixon. This solo show, a compelling mix of music and spoken word, …
Here at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as Gary McNair's A Gambler's Guide to Dying, I caught the world première of Karis Kelly's Consumed. The play won the prestigious Women's Prize for Play…
For this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Traverse Theatre has, as usual, put together a line-up of Scottish plays and others from the rest of the UK, Ireland and around the world. As t…
The expression 'Athens of the North', the title of the play in the present review, conjures up an Edinburgh in the Enlightenment period, a time when classical culture was much valued, 18th c…
'Dare to Discover' is the leitmotiv of the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe running from 1st to 25th August. In the introduction to 384-page programme, Tony Lankester, the recently appointed Chief Exec…
As a child of the 90s, I engaged in a popular post-school ritual growing up: plopping down in front of the TV to watch the hit animated show Pokémon. Since its inception in 1996, the phe…
In the opening page of the 2025 Tampere Theatre Festival brochure, the artistic team (Hilkka-Liisa Iivanainen, Taija Helminen, Tanjalotta Räikkä and executive director Hanna Rosendahl) ref…
Sitting through 5 and a half hours of performance might seem like an exercise of will and determination, rather than an enjoyable experience. All that can go wrong actually might, and gettin…
The 2025 Grec festival, the first under the new directorship of Leticia MartÃn Ruiz, opened on 26 June and ran through to 4 August. 97 productions attracted 127,724 spectators for the 202…
My colleague Jonathan and I were walking towards Leidseplein and the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, laughing kind of nervously. We were in consensus: 3 hours and 45 minutes is a long time…
Stepping into From Dust feels less like attending a performance and more like consciously entering a dream. In this virtual reality opera, Michel Van der Aa extends his innovation in i…
Arrival and Anticipation On Thursday, June 19, I participated in Michel van der Aa's From Dust. The performance was presented as a virtual reality opera, scheduled into precise 20-minute tim…
For Part I of this review, go here. Yet again, I find myself at the edge of Amsterdam, at the theater of Likeminds in Amsterdam Noord, for my Visit #3 of Welcome to Asbestos Hall. Once mo…
It is the third day of the Holland Festival, and I make my way to what feels like the edge of Amsterdam Noord to visit Welcome to Asbestos Hall at the Likeminds stage. It is the work of this…
Jumping from one story to another or from a specific timeline to an entirely different one seems, nowadays, to be specific to our phones' world, rather than to theatre stages, but Dziewczyna…
A provincial theatre celebrates an anniversary. In the dressing room " two men: a comic and a tragedian, not on the guest list. On the table " cheap vodka, a jar of pickles. The tragedian, t…
The first new production of Mark Rosenblatt's Olivier-award-winning Giant since its London premiere in September 2024 opened in Barcelona on 5 July as part of this year's Grec festival. Acto…
"Can we just disband the Seoul Foundation for the Arts and Culture entirely and start over?" A ripple of supportive chuckles spread through the audience following this comment at a recently …
Inherited Voices: A Theatre of Borrowed Authority Recently, I've found myself drawn to a popular podcast on YouTube where an Iraqi theatre director interviews artists, writers, and intellect…
Is there such a thing as the seven-year itch? Named after Billy Wilder's 1955 comedy, which starred Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, in which a psychiatrist argues that almost all men need to h…
To read PART I of this report, go to this link. Â Two "in yr face" Tragedies: Double Bill It is only fitting that ancient tragedy, pioneer of the dramatic exploration of death, defeat, tr…