sat 13/09/2025

Theatre Reviews

Dance Nation, Almeida Theatre review - a tarantella through the convulsions of the teenage psyche

Rachel Halliburton

Lycra, jealousy and pubescent ambition are put under the spotlight in Clare Barron’s provocative probe into the American competitive dancing scene.

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Love's Labour's Lost, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review - in praise of a fantastical Spaniard

Tom Birchenough

If ever there was a play of “well bandied” words, it’s surely Love’s Labour’s Lost.

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Pericles, National Theatre review - a fizzingly energetic production

Rachel Halliburton

A break-dancing mini Michael Jackson, a transvestite Neptune, and a hero who wears his hubris as proudly as his gold-tipped trainers, are unconventional even by Shakespeare’s standards, but they all play a key part in this joyful act of subversion.

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Edinburgh Festival 2018 reviews: Home / The Prisoner

David Kettle

 

Home ★★★   

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h 100 Young Influencers of the Year: Hannah Greenstreet on Three Sisters

Hannah Greenstreet

Dear RashDash,

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Edinburgh Festival 2018 reviews: La maladie de la mort / The End of Eddy

David Kettle

 

La maladie de la mort ★★★  

Toxic masculinity in all its appalling variety is a hot topic across Edinburgh’s festivals this year – just check out Daughter at CanadaHub and even Ulster American at the Traverse for two particularly fine and shocking examinations.

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Edinburgh Festival 2018 reviews: Orpheus / Bottom / Backup

David Kettle

 

Orpheus ★  

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Emilia, Shakespeare's Globe review - polemic disguised as a play

Laura De Lisle

It feels like Michelle Terry’s first summer season at the Globe has been building up to Emilia for a while now. The theme is Shakespeare and race, so Othello was something of a given. It's joined by The Winter’s Tale, as if the Emilias of these two plays have been waiting for their chance to step into the spotlight.

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Edinburgh Festival 2018 reviews: Nigel Slater's Toast / Status

David Kettle

 

Nigel Slater's Toast ★★★★  

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Edinburgh Festival 2018 reviews: Daughter / Huff / First Snow/Première Neige

David Kettle

Launched just last year to celebrate the country’s 150th anniversary, CanadaHub has quickly become one of the Edinburgh Fringe’s most exciting and intriguing venues, presenting a small but richly provocative programme of work from across that vast country. Here are just three of its offerings this year.

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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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