Chloe Jackson has just one more fight to win before she gets the chance to live her dream - to box for Team GB at the Olympics. So begins Bitch Boxer, one of five plays that have been brough…
Britain's "most promising playwright" is considering her hopes for her work. "My main aim," she says after some time, "is to avoid working in an office." Penelope Skinner was 30 when her fir…
Chloe Jackson has just one more fight to win before she gets the chance to live her dream - to box for Team GB at the Olympics. So begins Bitch Boxer, one of five plays that have been brough…
Britain's "most promising playwright" is considering her hopes for her work. "My main aim," she says after some time, "is to avoid working in an office." Penelope Skinner was 30 when her fir…
"How can I make my friends into feminists?" ran one of the more odd questions put to Amanda Palmer during a sit-down Q&A in the midst of this show. One answer, if you happen to be an int…
A former cowshed beside Edinburgh Airport is transformed into a multi-level concrete bunker. Downstairs, the faithful obey the call to prayer. Upstairs, General Duncan watches an incident un…
Claudia O'Doherty is hard to resist. Having burst on to the stage with a blast of 90s techno, the petite Australian dynamo doesn't let up, karate-chopping her way through an eccentric hour t…
Much more than a walk with a torch, but perhaps a bit less than the spectacular promised or hoped for. Experienced on the final dress rehearsal, with less human pixels than will be the norm,…
Peep has the dubious draw of being the only show on the Fringe where the audience can spy on the actors entirely unseen by them.
Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker is known for her work with huge and perilous sets.
I moved to Edinburgh in 1992 and lived there for two years. Looking back, it seems that I served a sort of apprenticeship there. The city defined me.
It's as if the ancient world's heroes and heroines have been subjected to an acid attack in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Time and cynicism have corroded the reputations of Greece and …
What are we talking about? A new, French translation of Swedish writer August Stringberg's classic 1888 play, Miss Julie, at the Barbican. Don't worry " it comes with surtitles.
It's as if the ancient world's heroes and heroines have been subjected to an acid attack in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Time and cynicism have corroded the reputations of Greece and …
Heralded as the new Sam Mendes ever since he got the job as associate director on Mendes' Richard III, starring Kevin Spacey in 2011.
Following a fine tradition of absorbing first-person narrative into third-person drama, the playwright Simon Stephens makes Mark Haddon's brilliant cult novel an ensemble piece about putting…
As one of the first women on the arts scene of belle epoch Paris, Camille Claudel made quite an impression when she arrived at Auguste Rodin's studio at the age of 19 to work as his assistan…
A blurb describing After the Rainfall, a new production by Curious Directive, says that the drama explores "ant migration patterns". It does, in depth, but don't let that put you off.
Much more than a walk with a torch, but perhaps a bit less than the spectacular promised or hoped for.
Every politician needs a soundbite. For Matt Cooper MP, it's "This party will not be broken on my watch". Unfortunately for him, the party in question is the Liberal Democrats and it's break…
Alexandra Spencer-Jones' adaptation of Anthony Burgess' classic novel won rave reviews last year when it debuted at the Fringe. A year on, it seems even more relevant as a commentary on the …
Are the kids alright? Not really, to judge by the Traverse's theatre programme. In Simon Stephens' Morning, which concludes with words "There is only terror. There is no hope", the troubled …
Edinburgh is a city that plays with your sense of altitude. One minute you think you're walking at street level, the next you're crossing a cobbled lane hundreds of feet below. It's as if th…
Johnny O'Callaghan's story of an out-of-work actor who quit Hollywood in despair for Uganda only to adopt a child is a true story " about himself. And now it will be shown at the Edinburgh F…
Five years ago Joel Horwood's adolescent drama I Caught Crabs in Walberswick won a Fringe First and transferred to London's Bush Theatre. Now the playwright, 31, has teamed up again with Ips…