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Theatre Reviews

Edinburgh Fringe reviews 2019: On the Other Hand, We're Happy / Daughterhood / The Shark Is Broken

Veronica Lee

On the Other Hand, We’re Happy Summerhall ****

This affecting co-production between Paines Plough and Theatr Clywd of Daf James’s play takes a sideways look at adoption.

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Evita, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre review - a diva dictator for 2019

Marianka Swain

Following a triumphant resurrection of Jesus Christ Superstar, now playing at the Barbican, the Park works its magic on another of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Seventies rock operas.

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Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Deer Woman / Pathetic Fallacy / Blind Date

David Kettle

Deer Woman CanadaHub ★★★   

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Edinburgh Fringe 2019 review: Birth

David Kettle

Physical theatre company Theatre Re are virtually Fringe royalty these days, with a several-year history of fine shows under their belts, plus success internationally and at the London Mime Festival.

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Go Bang Your Tambourine, Finborough Theatre review - out-dated and long-winded

aleks Sierz

Theatre legends die hard. Playwright Philip King, who passed away in 1979, was once hailed as the monarch of the farceurs, and his best-know play, See How They Run (1944), features the immortal line: "Sergeant, arrest most of these vicars!".

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Edinburgh Fringe 2019 review: Crocodile Fever

David Kettle

Chekhov famously pronounced that if you’re going to bring a gun on stage, you’ve got to use it. Is the same true for a chainsaw? To discover the answer, just head along to Meghan Tyler’s wild, over-the-top, gruesome Crocodile Fever at the Traverse Theatre.

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Edinburgh International Festival 2019 review: La reprise

David Kettle

Who’d have thought a play about a homophobic hate crime could be so much fun? Well, maybe that’s overstating things a little.

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Edinburgh Festival 2019 review: Rich Kids - A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

David Kettle

You can’t question Javaad Alipoor’s ambition.

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Edinburgh Festival 2019 reviews: Enough / Spliced

David Kettle

Enough ★★★★   

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Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear the Musical, National Theatre review – gleefully subversive family musical

bella Todd

A great hunk of rotting meat hangs centre stage, suspended over a rusty wheelbarrow. A figure in a bloody butcher’s apron picks through the stalls, searching for cans of ‘xxxtra cheap lager’. From the direction of the band, sinister Wurlitzer sounds begin to stir the air.

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★★★★★

A compulsive, involving, emotionally stirring evening – theatre’s answer to a page-turner.
The Observer, Kate Kellaway

 

Direct from a sold-out season at Kiln Theatre the five star, hit play, The Son, is now playing at the Duke of York’s Theatre for a strictly limited season.

 

★★★★★

This final part of Florian Zeller’s trilogy is the most powerful of all.
The Times, Ann Treneman

 

Written by the internationally acclaimed Florian Zeller (The Father, The Mother), lauded by The Guardian as ‘the most exciting playwright of our time’, The Son is directed by the award-winning Michael Longhurst.

 

Book by 30 September and get tickets from £15*
with no booking fee.


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