Already active across a number of north European theatre contexts " from her base in Lithuania to Sweden, Norway and Germany " American- and Russian-trained director Yana Ross has just made …
Who better to breathe new life into Shakespeare's Tempest than Tim Crouch " a magician extraordinaire of the 21st century British theatre? There are several strands of his career that land r…
For the last thirty years of my attendance, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has always been too big to grasp in its entirety. In 2025, with a record 4,000 registered shows, the challenge is no…
Emma Frankland's No Apologies achieves something genuinely rare: a radical reimagining that feels both vital and sumptuous. Her premise echoing as a refrain throughout the piece" "Kurt Cobai…
Anemone Valcke and Verona Verbakel's The Ego emerges from Ontroerend Goed's theatrical lineage with characteristic Belgian fearlessness and appetite for (self-)reflection. What begins as an …
What is the purpose of performing arts when the stakes are literally life and death? Pussy Riot's Riot Days confronts this question with unflinching directness, transforming the concert h…
The Belgian Company Ontroerend Goed have been coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for so long that I can no longer imagine how their work would seem to someone on first encounter anymore. Not tha…
Emma Howlett's Aether arrives with impressive academic credentials"consultations with Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Stanford universities lending gravitas to TheatreGoose's latest offeri…
What does it take to get you up on your feet and into the groove? Whatever your disposition, Little Bulb's Listen Dance delivers a "raucous evening of social dance and live music" with absol…
Oli Mathiesen's dance piece The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave has been described by this young MÄori choreographer as an "acid house remix that screams f**k you to the pandemic." With …
Imagine Ibsen's A Doll's House, staged as a sort of salon game, in a real couple's home serving as a set for the classic drama of duty versus love. Fix+Foxy's innovative production, conceive…
There is a big screen hanging above the stage on which four faces in four individual frames are apparently chatting to each other as we walk in. At the same time two other persons are busyin…
'To be or not to be', that is a question with a completely new ring to it in Teatro La Plaza's production performed by eight actors and actresses with Down's syndrome and cognitive disabilit…
This Guardian pick of the year 2025 recently closed at London's Almeida theatre, but it is definitely worth anthologizing for prosperity. I hope this also gives me the licence to write freel…
With nearly 4000 shows at hundreds of venues in the city, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a kind of beautiful chaos that is impossible to distil by a single person in a single article. To b…
The 12th annual edition of CPH Stage Festival has come to a close. The cultural highlight that transforms the city into a dynamic hub of theatrical creativity and innovation had originally s…
There is a show at this year's Fringe called Distant Memories of the Near Future written and performed by copywriter and storyteller David Head. It is billed as a piece which imagines an AI …
Lucy McCormick used to do music gigs and re-enactments, but she has now put her past and her friends behind her and is bent on exploring being in the present. This of course must include us.…
There is a little red brochure going around the Edinburgh Fringe titled #Danish. It represents the seventh season of work presented by the Danish Arts Foundation in Edinburgh, and this year …
It was exactly ten years ago that Big in Belgium " a season of work from Flanders " was first presented at the Edinburgh Fringe. This panorama of eight new experimental pieces came on the ba…
Thanks to the early 20th century ethnographic research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, the word 'guslar' may be more familiar " if at all in the English-speaking world " as a term indicatin…
You would not have been wrong to expect a feast in this show set at a giant dining table, fully dressed with crisp linen, wine glasses and silverware, a low hanging chandelier and subtly sig…
There are multiple ways to admire this production of a Greek classic, directed by Singaporean Ong Keng Sen for the National Theatre of Korea, specifically their opera section. The Korean Cha…
Laurie Anderson's new show " currently on its European tour " is full of meteorological precipitation. The multimedia backdrop, designed by the artist, features various kinds of downfall or …
It's about two years since I moved to the Oresund region, the liminal place between southern Sweden and eastern Denmark " also known as the greater Copenhagen area. Though I have begun to le…