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Theatre Reviews

Edinburgh Fringe 2023 reviews: Distant Memories of the Near Future / Soldiers of Tomorrow

David Kettle

Distant Memories of the Near Future, Summerhall 

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Edinburgh Fringe 2023 reviews: Dark Noon / Concerned Others

David Kettle

Dark Noon, Pleasance at EICC 

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Edinburgh Fringe 2023 reviews: The Insider / Sensuous Governing

David Kettle

The Insider, ZOO Southside 

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Dimanche, Edinburgh International Festival 2023 review - troubling and bewildering

David Kettle

A toy car – in fact, a mobile home with comically enormous antenna on top – shudders over arms and shoulders as if they were mountain ranges. A colossal polar bear comforts its curious cub. A lifesize puppet grandmother is chased up and down stairs by her over-enthusiastic stairlift.

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Edinburgh Fringe 2023 reviews: Maureen / Common Dissonance

David Kettle

Maureen, House of Oz 

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Makeshifts and Realities, Finborough Theatre review - Edwardian dramas with a pinch of Chekhov

Gary Naylor

We’re in (pretty much literally so in this most intimate of venues) an Edwardian sitting room, time hanging heavily in the air, gentility almost visibly fading before our eyes.

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Edinburgh Fringe 2023 reviews: PLEASE LEAVE (a message) / Shadow Kingdom

David Kettle

PLEASE LEAVE (a message), Underbelly, Cowgate 

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Edinburgh Fringe 2023 reviews: Without Sin / An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World / Two Strangers Walk into a Bar...

David Kettle

With its throbbing crowds and its performers baying for attention (and for audiences), the Edinburgh Fringe can be a hectic, raucous place. But for anyone who needs a break from the crammed-full, in-your-face stand-up gigs, thankfully three shows provide far calmer, more intimate experiences – involving just you and one other.

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La Cage Aux Folles, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre review - 40 years on, the drag show still entertains and educates

Gary Naylor

Forty years ago, the world was very different for gay men. AIDS was devastating their communities, especially in the big cities where hard-won enclaves of acceptance were being hollowed out, one sunken-eyed friend after another. Media screamed “Gay Plague” and some politicians barely suppressed their glee at the “perverts’” comeuppance.

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Edinburgh Fringe 2023 reviews: The Grand Old Opera House Hotel / YOU ARE GOING TO DIE

David Kettle

The Grand Old Opera House Hotel, Traverse Theatre 

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Advertising feature

★★★★★

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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