Festival

Ştefana Pop-Curşeu is the Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Cluj and is instrumental in the theme chosen for

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

theSpaceTriplex – Studio 50 minutes Group: And Tomorrow Theatre Company Retrospective review: run finished. 23 August 2023 Jeremy Malies in

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

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

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

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