There are great theatre shows on offer all year round at the King's Theatre and Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.

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Myth

Myth

10 Apr 2008

DANCE Tramway, Glasgow, Thu 17–Sat 19 Apr According to Jung, the self is only created when the conscious and the unconscious unite, and a failure to embrace our unconscious brings on fragmented turmoil. It’s this notion of ‘finding a balance within…

New Territories

New Territories

14 Feb 2008

PHYSICALTHEATRE Tramway, Glasgow, until Mon 8 Mar Scotland’s annual international festival of Live Art, which returns this month features a series of standalone pieces that fall somewhere between dance, installation and contemporary…

She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer

31 Jan 2008

CLASSIC Could an 18th century play ever provide a better insight into contemporary relationships than last night’s episode of Eastenders? Director Jonathan Munby thinks so. Apparently, it’s all in the framing: in this new production for the King’s…

Walden

Walden

31 Jan 2008

ADAPTATION In 1845, the American writer and philosopher Henry Thoreau, horrified by what he perceived as materialist consumerists’ destruction of and distance from nature, was driven to relocate to a hut in the woods with a mere 27 possessions, the…

Great Expectations

Great Expectations

17 Jan 2008

ADAPTATION The Byre Theatre, St Andrews, Thu 31 Jan–Sat 9 Feb, then touring ‘What is it that makes a person? How possible is it to escape your past? Are you trapped by it or does it give you a platform from which to move forward?’ These are the…

Antigone

Antigone

(3 stars)18 Oct 2007

CLASSIC Tron Theatre, Glasgow, until Sat 27 Oct In March 2003, 41% of British people were opposed to the Iraq war, taking to the streets in protest, however this did little to break Blair’s resolve. Over four years later and with Iraq still in…

Can of Worms

(3 stars)23 Aug 2007

When a government minister is pictured committing an act he’d rather keep under wraps, can he keep the evidence hidden? And will his aide keep quiet? Dealing with torture, scandal and government cover-ups, all through the unlikely medium of slapstick…

Corpus Christi

(3 stars)23 Aug 2007

Terrence McNally’s controversial retelling of the New Testament places Jesus in 50s Texas and involves the son of God in a sexual relationship with Judas, whose consequent jealously results in the betrayal. Despite slick direction and clever ensemble…

Dogfight

Dogfight

(4 stars)23 Aug 2007

Serial streaker, Mark Roberts, narrowly avoided an Asbo for his ‘performance’ at the Ryder cup. Thankfully, a judge with a sense of humour and an ounce of brain power dismissed the case but it’s this legislating against the insignificant things while…

Get Your War On

(3 stars)23 Aug 2007

“I’m not very analytical. You know I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about why I do things”, honest words from President Bush, as he spells out his failings to the electorate and yet they still voted him in for a second term. Join the Rude…

Minutes to Midnight

(3 stars)23 Aug 2007

When a nuclear bomb wipes out the rest of the world, it’s up to the residents of Fernborough to prevent the destruction of civilisation. Creating a mass of fun, eccentric characters, including a pie eating doctor accused of terrorism and ex-media mogul…

Mouse

(3 stars)23 Aug 2007

Proctor finds hiding behind his computer screen and solving problems from afar the best way to get through life, so how will he respond when he is forced to step up to the mark? A man in a black suit on a bare stage will struggle to hold an audience’s…

On Wonderland

On Wonderland

(4 stars)23 Aug 2007

'If I’m not the same, the next question is: “Who in the world am I?”’. So said Alice when she fell down the rabbit hole and wound up in Wonderland, in the novel from which this play’s central character Moia’s (Kerry-Jayne Wilson) condition, micropsia…

Phaedre

Phaedre

(3 stars)23 Aug 2007

Stuffy studio venue after stuffy studio venue can drive the average Festival–goer mad, so why not escape the city for the rugged ramparts of the medieval Craigmillar Castle, where Racine’s classic Phaedre comes to life through skulls, sword fights and…

Sheepskin

(3 stars)23 Aug 2007

As sheep farmer Jeremy struggles to protect his flock from a foot and mouth outbreak, God comes to him in a Moses-like moment and promises to protect the sheep if he is obeyed. It’s a relatively dry subject that transformed here into a journey into the…

Superpatriots and Morons and Pregnant With Emotion

Superpatriots and Morons and Pregnant With Emotion

(2 stars)23 Aug 2007

This bill features two plays performed in rep, highlighting the current political situation in Zimbabwe. The first depicts Mugabe and his response to those who oppose him and the second a woman whose baby refuses to be born under the current…

The Florists

(2 stars)23 Aug 2007

Take one florist with no flowers, a sad sack, his terminally ill sister and his mail-order bride, mix them all up in a fairly implausible, badly written script and you’ve got the premise of this bizarre and pointless comedy. If the play left out the…

The Man Across the Way

The Man Across the Way

(3 stars)23 Aug 2007

Police are being given more money to conduct surveillance on suspected terrorists and the public are being asked to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity. It is understandable in the context of the war on terror but you have to wonder…

The Psychic Detective (And Those Disappeared)

The Psychic Detective (And Those Disappeared)

(3 stars)23 Aug 2007

With the Scottish Arts council adopting ‘cultural entitlement’ as their current buzzword, local company, Benchtours’ solution to fulfilling funding criteria takes the form of a customised 40ft articulated truck, which, following its stint at the Fringe…

Unnatural Acts

(3 stars)23 Aug 2007

Think of a cross between Gimme Gimme Gimme and a recent Coronation Street storyline and you’ve got the basic gist of this play. Marsha, a lonely thirtysomething, and Elliot, her gay flatmate, both want to bring meaning to their career and…

An Air Balloon Across Antarctica

An Air Balloon Across Antarctica

(3 stars)16 Aug 2007

We all cope differently with grief, however we can probably assume that very few of us are likely to grab a hamster, jump in a hot air balloon and journey across Antarctica in the style of this slightly surreal play’s protagonist. Talking hamsters with…

Dead Living

Dead Living

(3 stars)16 Aug 2007

Multinational corporations usually come under fire in climate change debates, but just last month, one such giant, Coca-Cola Enterprises, announced plans to cut down the amount of water it uses by six percent and reduce energy used for lighting by 50…

Fuerzabruta

Fuerzabruta

(4 stars)16 Aug 2007

A man runs frantically on a conveyor belt headlong into unavoidable obstacles; nymph-like beauties writhe, close enough to touch, on water-covered perspex; women somersault across floating tinfoil walls bathed in an aura of multicoloured light as wind…

I Am My Own Wife

I Am My Own Wife

(4 stars)16 Aug 2007

Is it right for us to turn someone’s life, warts and all, into art after their death? When Doug Wright set out to write this play, he intended to create an appreciative portrait of a person he admired, however when he discovered discrepancies in her…

Lie Detector Truth Detector

Lie Detector Truth Detector

(4 stars)16 Aug 2007

Peter Yates’ play is made up of three thematically linked short plays. In the first a man accused of terrorism undergoes a lie detector test; in the second two security guards in a shopping mall abuse the authority of their uniforms, while the third…

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