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: 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: 3 minutesThe Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s performances of “Borrani & Beethoven” were on Thursday 5th March at The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh and on Friday 6th March at City Halls, Glasgow.
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.