49 stories by "Margaret Rose"
Milan’s international festival, FOG, continues with productions from Italy and many parts of the globe. In late March I caught Frankenstein (History of Hate), a production by the much-accl…
In March, FOG – Milan’s annual performing arts festival – hosted Handle with Care, a production by Ontroerend Goed, the well-known performance-group from Ghent in Belgium. Ontroerend G…
FOG, Milan's performing arts festival, is back with some rare treats for theatregoers keen to discover the best in cutting-edge work on international circuits, as well as emerging artists, w…
On the opening night of Miracle in Milan at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler, the excitement of the audience, flocking into the 968-seater auditorium, was tangible. Seventy-five years after the e…
In late January and early February, Filippo Timi's Hamlet² played to full houses at the 500-seater auditorium of Milan's Franco Parenti theatre. One of the finest actors in contemporary I…
Neapolitan poet and dramatist Enzo Moscato passed away in 2024 at the age of 75. Together with Annibale Ruccello and Manilio Santanelli, he came to fame in the 1980s as one of the leading ex…
A Place of Safety, A Journey in the Central Mediterranean, produced by the Kepler-452 Company played at the Angela Melato Studio, Piccolo Theatre, from 6 to 20 December. Founded in Bologna i…
Before the Storm is set in a rather dilapidated dressing room where an elderly actor waits to go onstage for his last performance in August Strindberg's Storm. As he waits, he reflects on hi…
In late November, Emma Dante brought her latest show, L'Angelo del focolare (The Angel of the Hearth) to Milan's Piccolo Teatro. Over the last thirty years, this Sicilian writer and di…
Two major productions of Richard IIIÂ are touring Italy in the present season, a sign perhaps that the dark side of the human psyche, which this notorious Shakespeare villain embodies, is …
Writer-actor Alan Bissett's When Billy met Alasdair imagines what happened when Alasdair Gray (1934-2019 ) and Billy Connolly (1942-) met in 1981 at a book launch of Lanark, Gray's celebrate…
At the Edinburgh Fringe, the solo show, A Poem and a Mistake, is playing for the entire month of August at the iconic Assembly Rooms. I was curious to see how contemporary American playwrigh…
Works and Days the latest production of the FC Bergman collective, played at the Lyceum Theatre as part of The Edinburgh International Festival from 7 to 10 August. The show includes stunnin…
Out of the many venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Summerhall Arts is one that shines for its programme of innovative theatre, cabaret, dance or music. In 2019 the Bristol-based compan…
Summerhall, one of Edinburgh's busiest venues, known for its innovative, cutting-edge programme, has had a tough time over the last year. The premises have been sold, making its future as an…
The Edinburgh International Festival this year, welcomes several international trailblazers like FC Bergman and William Kentridge, alongside a cluster of new political plays about censorship…
As I read the title of Jonny Woo's latest show, Suburbia, I wondered how this celebrated performer, cabaret and legendary drag artist, who has lived most of their life in London and New York…
Playing at the Scottish Storytelling Centre during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cassandra, written and performed by Ailsa Dixon. This solo show, a compelling mix of music and spoken word, …
Here at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as Gary McNair's A Gambler's Guide to Dying, I caught the world première of Karis Kelly's Consumed. The play won the prestigious Women's Prize for Play…
For this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Traverse Theatre has, as usual, put together a line-up of Scottish plays and others from the rest of the UK, Ireland and around the world. As t…
The expression 'Athens of the North', the title of the play in the present review, conjures up an Edinburgh in the Enlightenment period, a time when classical culture was much valued, 18th c…
'Dare to Discover' is the leitmotiv of the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe running from 1st to 25th August. In the introduction to 384-page programme, Tony Lankester, the recently appointed Chief Exec…
Playwright, actor, director and novelist Davide Enia had his first success as a theatrical storyteller in 2002 with his one person play, Italy Brazil 3 to 2, which he wrote, performed and di…
At Milan's Franco Parenti theatre, Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink (Schegge di memoria disordinata a inchiostro policromo) runs from 20 March to 13 April. This new play by Gian…
In February I caught Antonio Syxty's staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan's Leonardo Theatre in a production by Manifatture Teatrali Milanesi. Syxty's interpretatio…
