Reading Time: 5 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Freddie Haberfellner, writer-performer of multi-award-winning play F*ckboy, which explores gender dysphoria, bodily autonomy and celebrity crushes and is produced by No Tits Theatre.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn International Women’s Day, the Women’s Voices Arts & Culture Festival opened its programme at the Playhouse Theatre with an evening dedicated to the formidable legacy of Lynn Seymour, a dancer whose dramatic intensity helped reshape narrative ballet in the twentieth century.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the civic imagination, a balcony suggests authority: a ruler greeting the crowd, a politician delivering promises, a monarch acknowledging applause. In Why I Am and Why I Am Not, the balcony of the old town hall becomes something else entirely. It becomes a place for ordinary declaration.
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn a tale from a bygone Scottish era, there is still be a story relevant to the present Set in 1960s Glasgow, Sailmaker focuses on a Scotland that no longer exists. While elements still linger, the country…
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: 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 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’.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWalking into the Studio at The Other Palace to take our seats, Emma Wilkinson Wright was already on stage, as Liz Truss, hard at work at her ministerial desk.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe year-round Edinburgh theatre scene has had a resurgence in absurdism. Theatre practitioners are experimenting and audiences are invested, while critics continue to flail at its mere presence. This is an exciting backdrop, one filled with potential, for Gutter Theatre’s debut production of Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.