Reading Time: 2 minutesEuripides’ Bacchae premiered in 405 B.C, winning first place in the City Dionysia drama competition. In the two millennia that have followed, the play has been reimagined countless times, in countless different iterations. This particular adaptation brought to life by Company of Wolves interprets the show as a one man monologue, adapted and performed by Ewan Downie.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Thursday the 5th of March, The Edinburgh International Improv Festival commenced for the eighth-year running. Since 2019, EIIF has welcomed Improv Comedians from all over to the hazardous streets of Edinburgh. And the festival has a great deal of heart.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe time is finally here: the doors of the long-awaited Soho Theatre Walthamstow are open. And on arrival, the space itself is a spectacle. With the trademark palette of the much-loved venue on Dean Street, this brand-new big sibling looks like it belongs in the West End.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBased in Nancy, France, Ballet de Lorraine are a company known for flipping the script on the traditions of dance, incorporating modern music and blending styles to bring something new to the artform. In this piece, the choreographers Marco da Silva Ferreira and Adam Linder fully utilise the company’s talents, bringing us two pieces which take inspiration from history and reimagine them for our current times.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhatever its sci-fi thriller marketing might suggest, at its heart The Murmuration of Starlings is a gentle exploration of memory loss, with The Predator representing dementia’s creeping influence.
Reading Time: 2 minutesChekhov's Fun and Facts May Vary are two improv groups performing at the Edinburgh International Improv Festival. We are treated to two thirty-minute sets, where the audience gives some prompts and then gets to sit back and enjoy the madness of the genre.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat better way to spend the joy of world book day surrounded by fellow book and theatre lovers. Matilda, The Roahl Dahl classic reimagined by the Royal Shakespeare Company, has been a staple in London's West End for over a decade now, and returning to Edinburgh for the first time since 2019 the Scottish folk have welcomed it back with open arms.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Henry Patterson, a performer, broadcaster and rising musical theatre talent bringing a fresh twist to the traditional talk show format with his new live series, House Seats.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFreshers’ week is a great setting for comedy: new identities, awkward friendships, and the chaos of young adulthood colliding for the first time. The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret, written by George Ryder and Brodie Husband and presented by Linnet Theatre at the Jack Studio Theatre, taps into this world with a playful and recognisable energy that initially feels both warm and authentic.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten and directed by LeCoq and RADA trained Tommaso Giacomin, The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin is labelled an ‘absurdist, existential examination… marinating in the violence, complicity and paradox of modern life’.