Dana Rufolo in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, for the International Meetings at the Teatrul Național 2023
This year’s annual theatre festival in Cluj-Napoca was a showcase for several of the productions of the Teatrul Național –
This year’s annual theatre festival in Cluj-Napoca was a showcase for several of the productions of the Teatrul Național –
Sasho Ognenovski reports on the sixty-eighth incarnation of this major theatre festival in Novi Sad, Serbia. This year’s festival raised
Sasho Ognenovski reports from Ravenna, Italy Theatre has only one future and that is a process by which modes of
Children’s Shows (comedy, clown) Pleasance Courtyard – Beneath 1 hour Suitability: 5+ (4 and older) Group: Rubbish Shakespeare Company
Comedy (satire, sketch show) Pleasance Courtyard – The Grand 1 hour Suitability: 14+ (Guideline) Group: NewsRevue 28 August 2023
Comedy (improv, family-friendly) Pleasance Dome – AceDome 1 hour Suitability: 8+ Group: Any Suggestions Improv 28 August 2023 Jamilah
Children’s Shows (magic) Assembly George Square Gardens – Palais du Variete Suitability: 3+ (4-12) Group: Showmen Productions 28 August
Nora Al Mazrouei in Edinburgh 28 August 2023 This is about an expensive toy rabbit called Edward. He is
Greenside @ Nicolson Square – Emerald Theatre 50 minutes Suitability: 5+ (5 and older) Group: Dynamik Theatre 28 August 2023
Children’s Shows (musical theatre, family-friendly) theSpace @ Niddry St – Lower Theatre Suitability: 3+ (3 and older) Group: Flying High
theSpace @ Niddry St – Upper Theatre (Thrust) 1 hour 10 minutes Retrospective review: run finished Maggie Rose in Edinburgh
Jeremy Malies ***** Five-star review Within seconds the sound effects (voices, radios, and alerts) tell us that the action, at
Summerhall – Main Hall Group: LUNG in Association with The North Wall 75 minutes Retrospective review: run finished. 28 August
Tampere is a quiet university city with beautiful brick buildings erected in its industrial era, broad streets, trams, buses as
theSpaceTriplex – Studio 50 minutes Group: And Tomorrow Theatre Company Retrospective review: run finished. 23 August 2023 Jeremy Malies in
40th Almada Theatre Festival (4 – 18 July, 2023) In 2019 when – little imagining what was waiting for
Paradise in Augustines – The Sanctuary Retrospective review: run finished. Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 21 August 2023 Multi-award winning musical
Assembly George Square Studios – Underground 18:00. Duration 1 hour. To 28 August 20 August 2023 Maggie Rose in Edinburgh
Roundabout @ Summerhall – Roundabout 13:10, 14:40. Duration 1 hour. To 27 August (not 22) 20 August 2023 Maggie Rose
Summerhall – Cairns Lecture Theatre 18:55. Duration 1 hour. To 27 August (not 21) 20 August 2023 Maggie Rose in
Searchlight Theatre Company Charlotte Chapel 23-26 August at 14.30. Duration 75mins. **** Four-star review 20 August 2023 Jeremy Malies in
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall – Theatre 2 12:15. Duration 30 minutes. To 26 August (not 20) Jeremy Malies in Edinburgh
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose – Big Yin 12:10: 1 hour 20 minutes To 27 August 18 August 2023 Maggie Rose
While, as far as I am aware, there are no complete Shakespeare plays being performed on this year’s Fringe, a
Edinburgh International Festival Traverse Theatre 80 minutes To 27 August [May be sold out at time of publication] 17 August
After The Act (A Section 28 Musical) Traverse Theatre – Traverse 1 10:00, 13:00, 16:00, 19:00, 22:00 1 hour 30
“The Climate Fables – The Trash Garden” Greenside @ Nicolson Square – Fern Studio 14:00 – 55 minutes 17-19 August
Underbelly, Bristo Square – Ermintrude 13:15: 1 hour 15 minutes To 27 August (not 21) 17 August 2023 Maggie Rose
Traverse Theatre – Traverse 1 10:00, 13:00, 16:00, 19:00, 22:00 1 hour 20 minutes Group: Traverse Theatre Company To 27th
Traverse Theatre – Traverse 1 10:00, 13:00, 16:00, 19:00, 22:00 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes To 27 August (not 21st)
Greenside @ Nicolson Square – Lime Studio 20:50 hrs: 55 minutes Aug 16, 18, 22, 24, 26 15 August 2023
theSpace @ Symposium Hall – Annexe 15:00 – 50 minutes To 26 August **** Four-star show Jeremy Malies in Edinburgh
Jeremy Malies in Edinburgh “The Ballad of Truman Capote” theSpace @ Niddry St – Upper Theatre (Round) 18:05 – 50
Jeremy Malies in Edinburgh 12 August 2023 ZOO Southside – Studio 18:55 hrs – one hour To 27th August (not
Jeremy Malies in Edinburgh 11 August 2023 ***** Five-star review If there is a show in Edinburgh that has
Jeremy Malies in Edinburgh 10 August 2023 There are two shows about Tennessee Williams in the city but no productions
Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 9 August 2023 Geoff Sobelle’s “Food” is being performed at the Studio in Potter’s Row. In
Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 8 August 2023 Christiane Jatahy’s Dusk (original title Between Dog and Wolf) based on the film
Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 8 August 2023 A Fringe trend in recent years is the growing number of Italian theatre
Jeremy Malies in Edinburgh 8 August 2023 This Brechtian piece begins in 1943. It tells the story of persecution and
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila – Temple 14:30 – 1 hour Group: Rec Room Arts and Art
Maggie Rose in Italy 25 June 2023 This year’s 51st Venice Theatre Biennale (15 June to 1 July), directed by
Dana Rufolo in Vienna 19 June 2023 Vienna’s May-June Wiener Festwochen date back to 1951 when the city decided to
Simon Jenner in East Sussex 15 May 2023 If someone prophesied that John Lyly’s 1583 Galatea would be the
Dana Rufolo 18 December 2022 The eighth edition of the International Theatre Festival “Interferences” took place under the aegis of
Dana Rufolo in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 11th International Meetings at the National Theatre (Teatrul National). 28 September through 2 October 2022
Jeremy Malies at Greenside @ Infirmary Street 12 September 2022 The Glass Imaginary by a company called The Improvised Play
Jeremy Malies at Pleasance Courtyard 9 September 2022 This is a school play-within-a-play with a difference and not just because
Jeremy Malies at Gilded Balloon Teviot 7 September 2022 Was this the Henry Naylor who has previously enthused the part
Jeremy Malies at Paradise in Augustines 5 September 2022 “A rock concert in a courtroom” was the tagline. This was
Jeremy Malies at Army @ The Fringe – Drill Hall 3 September 2022 It’s 1994 and the Bosnian War is
Nora and Jem Jem Al Mazrouei at Pleasance at EICC (Lennox Theatre) 31 August 2022 [Children’s Shows (family theatre)]
Nora Al Mazrouei at Assembly George Square Gardens (Piccolo) 31 August 2022 [Children’s Shows (family)] [Group: The Highland Joker]
Latifa and Jem Jem Al Mazrouei at Pleasance Courtyard (Cabaret Bar) 31 August 2022 [Children’s Shows (magic comedy)] [Group:
Latifa, Nora and Jem Jem Al Mazrouei at Pleasance Courtyard (Forth) 31 August 2022 [Children’s Shows (hip hop/breakin’, music]
Jeremy Malies at Pleasance Courtyard 26 August 2022 They say only organists go to organ recitals. So were we all
Margaret Rose at Summerhall 19 August 2022 Manic Street Creature, gig theatre at its finest (see my review of Bloody
Margaret Rose in George Square 19 August 2022 Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London is a woman’s story, written and performed
Margaret Rose at Summerhall 19 August 2022 Home is Not the Place sees writer and performer Annie George telling her own
Margaret Rose at Greenside 17 August 2022 The early Italian Commedia dell’arte troupes played to queens, kings and ordinary folk
Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 14 August 2022 Motherload at the major (curated) venue Summerhall has been devised by the London
Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 14 August 2022 Silkworm, playing at Assembly’s Roxy venue, was a recipient of the Assembly’s ART
Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 14 August 2022 Assembly is back in its stride post lockdown with the major venues in
Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 12 August 2022 The Scottish Storytelling Centre showcases Scottish culture year round, inviting, as the programme
Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 8 August 2022 For four decades, international artist and celebrity Alan Cumming has successfully turned his
Maggie Rose at the Edinburgh Fringe 7 July 2022 After a three-year absence, I’m back at the Edinburgh Fringe eager
Dana Rufolo on the Tagus River 31 July 2022 The 39th edition of the Almada, Portugal Theater Festival which began
Maggie Rose’s festival diary 15 July 2022 Reflecting on their second year at the helm of the Venice Theatre Biennale,
Annie Loui in Perugia 22 July 2022 In the atmospheric Piazza del Duomo in Spoleto, a thousand Italians and visitors
Maggie Rose in Milan 7 June 2022 Present Indicative was a month long international festival celebrating the hundredth anniversary
21 April 2022 Ben Brooker at the Festival Theatre and Dunstan Playhouse. Wudjang: Not the Past Bangarra Dance Theatre and
For the second time since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, the Theatertreffen festival has fallen victim to an extended
Maggie Rose in Venice 1 August 2021 I was very fortunate to attend nearly all the shows at this year’s
Sylvie Flammang in Portugal 5 August 2021 The Festival de Almada took place in July, smack in the middle of
Jeremy Malies in Midlothian 5 September 2021 Edinburgh has an “after the Lord Mayor’s show” feel to it this year
Jeremy Malies at the Brighton Fringe 5 June 2021 I once sat with a friend leafing through the Brighton
Jeremy Malies at the Brighton Fringe 29 May 2021 Having decided to put himself on stage in The Lady
Jeremy Malies at the Brighton Fringe 30 May 2021 Michael Caine once said that the Sixties only happened to
Ben Brooker at the Adelaide Festival 5 April 2021 Living in Adelaide as I do, it can be easy
Margaret Rose in Venice at the Biennale di Venezia 27 September 2022 After a full lockdown in Milan from
Jeremy Malies at the Brighton Festival. 1 June 2020 Rhum and Clay Theatre Company have adapted Orson Welles’s 1938
Malcolm Page at the Adelaide Festival 1 June 2020 The Adelaide Festival ran from 28 February until 15th March
Ben Brooker at the Adelaide Festival 1 March 2020 While completing The Magic Flute in 1791, Mozart was commissioned
The ninth edition [2019] of the annual festival at the Teatrul Naţional Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is entitled ‘Together’. Works by Argentinian
Former Moscow critic-correspondent John Freedman, who has contributed articles to both Plays International and Plays International & Europe, was a
Claudia Woolgar in the Netherlands 1 September 2019 The Edinburgh Festival dominates the European summer cultural scene with its
1 September 2019 The thirty-sixth Festival of Almada was a joy-filled, festive community event — as it was in
Elisabeth Kelvin in Vienna 1 September 2019 Romeo Castellucci’s second contribution to the 2019 Wiener Festwochen production, Le Metope
Jeremy Malies in Midlothian 30 August 2019 Coming out of my first play at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Austria 1 June 2019 Since 1993, the annual summer Raimundspiele Gutenstein festival has been dedicated
Jeremy Malies in East Sussex 1 June 2019 In her director notes for the Brighton Festival, Malian composer Rokia
Robert Schneider in Kentucky 1 March 2019 This was eclectic even by Humana standards. There was a topical play
Margaret Leask in Sydney 1 March 2019 Billed as “an epic new Australian story about love, refuge and reconciliation”,
Malcolm Page at the Adelaide Festival 1 March 2019 The plethora of arts festivals around the world are still
Jeremy Malies in Midlothian 30 August 2018 My twelfth trip to Edinburgh for this magazine and the schedule is
Jeremy Malies in East Sussex 15 August 2017 As part of the Brighton Festival, the Brighthelm Centre hosted Palmyra
Jeremy Malies in East Sussex 12 May 2018 There was much psychosis on view in a radical version of
Jeremy Malies in the West End 12 April 2018 “Normally it’s only princes who build opera houses” is one
Jeremy Malies in Brighton 4 May 2018 High on my priorities for the Brighton Fringe was Myra, a one-woman
Mohammad Reza Aliakbari in Tehran Government encounters artists: Fadjr International Theatre Festival. Fadjr International Theatre Festival is an event
Jeremy Malies in Edinburgh 27 August 2017 If drama is about the essence of what it means to be human