ED2014 THEATRE

Theatre at Edinburgh Festival 2014

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ED2014 THEATRE FEATURES

Editors' Awards incoming, plenty more awards already in22 August 2014

Total Theatre Awards return21 August 2014

Vladimir Shcherban: Belarus Free Theatre20 August 2014

Philip Whitchurch: Re-imagining the Bard18 August 2014

More winners in the theatre Fringe17 August 2014

Erin Kamler: Fuelling debate on the theatre Fringe15 August 2014

Photo Shoot: Claustrophobia15 August 2014

Rebecca Hill & Bradley Leech: Women’s stories, men’s voices14 August 2014

Jason Hewitt: Cleverly crafting claustrophobia11 August 2014

Trav shows dominate in first Fringe First batch10 August 2014

Incubator Theatre plans silent protest over cancelled show9 August 2014

Tamsin Clarke: Remembering a revolutionary9 August 2014

Underbelly confirms 'The City' will not go ahead7 August 2014

Paines Plough pop-up in a Roundabout for their Fringe programme7 August 2014

Photo Shoot: Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies7 August 2014

Photo Shoot: Figs In Wigs6 August 2014

Jessica Sherr: Playing with Bette Davis5 August 2014

Three To See 2014: Theatre of death4 August 2014

Figs In Wigs: Fringe show offs3 August 2014

Three To See 2014: New plays2 August 2014

David O'Doherty to perform extra gig tonight to support fellow Fringe show2 August 2014

Chavkin and Thorpe for Fringe Central Welcome Address31 July 2014

Underbelly postpones controversial Israeli-backed show, seeks alternative venue31 July 2014

Three To See 2014: War-themed theatre picks31 July 2014

Ramin Gray: Completing the Bard31 July 2014

Three To See 2014: Storytelling theatre shows28 July 2014

Lucy Benson-Brown: Cutting Off Kate Bush24 July 2014

Three To See 2014: Shakespearean Twists22 July 2014

Northern Stage moves southwards to a new home at the Fringe21 July 2014

Apphia Campbell: Voicing the inspiration of Simone21 July 2014

Three To See 2014: ThreeWeeks endorsed Theatre21 July 2014

Allen Barton: Years To The Day20 July 2014

HiBROW and Odeon take the Fringe to the UK's cinema screens19 July 2014

ED2014 THEATRE REVIEWS

#First World Problems (The Lincoln Company) ...and This is my Friend Mr Laurel (KPS Productions) 147 Questions About Love (Volcano Theatre) 15% Of The Seagull (Mayer And Martin) 3,000 Trees - The Death Of Mr William MacRae (Grey Coast Productions) 300 To 1 Free (Panesh Prods / PBH's Free Fringe) 3000 Trees By George Gunn (Grey Coast Productions) A Game Of Soldiers (McArdle Media Limited) A Slight Ache (Turlygod) Ablutions (FellSwoop Theatre in association with Bristol Old Vic Ferment) According To His Need (Reds Theatre Company) Altamont (Peppermint Muse) An Audience With Shurl (Dramatic Change) An Extraordinary Light (Breathe Out Theatre) And The Horse You Rode In On (Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club) Animal Farm (Theatre Tours International, Guy Masterson, Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre - Georgia) Antiquithon (Cie des Femmes à Barbe) Away From Home (Hartshorn-Hook Productions and Working Production Theatre) Awkward Conversations with Animals I've F*cked (Ten Dead Men) Baba Brinkman – The Rap Guide To Religion (Soho Playhouse Inc / Rap Guide Media) Backstage (Spring Glory Chinese Opera) Backstage In Biscuit Land (Touretteshero) Banjo Man (Quina Chapman / Free Festival) Bannockburn (Two Sassenachs) Barge Baby (Bricks and Mortar) Beans On Toast (Patch Of Blue) Before Us (Stuart Bowden) Belfast Boy (Purple Penguin Productions) Beowulf - The Blockbuster (Pat Moylan Presents A Show In A Bag Production) Birdwatchers' Wives (Caroline Smith / Escalator East To Edinburgh) Bitesize Chekhov (d'Animate) Blood At The Root (Penn State University) Blood Orange (Electric Theatre Workshop) Bottleneck (HighTide Festival Theatre) Can't Stay Away! (Fourth Monkey) Candy Cigarettes (The Rat Pit and Hot Hail) Casual Encounters (NoLogo Productions) Chatroom (No Prophet Theatre Company) Chlorine (Three Reasonable Woman) Civil Rogues (The Pleasance) Claustrophobia (To The Moon in association with Theatre Bench) Danny Ward - Infra Dig (Edcom etc) Dead Letters (PropUp Theatre) Death Shall Have No Dominion (InterAct Wales) Doing Time With Number 5 (Late Bloomers Production) Domestic Labour - A Study in Love (30 Bird / Escalator East To Edinburgh) Don't Let Go (Manic Chord Theatre) Dr Longitude's Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie (Les Enfants Terribles) Dracula (Action To The Word) Drunk Lion (Chris Davis / Free Festival) Dylan Thomas - Clown In The Moon (Miles Productions) Eden Gate (Produced Moon) Enigma Emmy Goering (Hitler's Diva) (Modernes Theater Wien mit Karin Pettenburger) Ernest And The Pale Moon (Les Enfants Terribles / Pins & Needles) Every Brilliant Thing (Paines Plough and Pentabus) Fearnot Wood (UCLU Runaground) First Class (Aulos Productions and Relief Theatre / Free Festival) FOMO - The Fear Of Missing Out (The Present Tense Ensemble) Forget Fire (Pepperdine University - Malibu) Fragile (Old Joint Stock Theatre Company) Frank Sent Me (Em-Lou Productions) Frankenstein - UnBolted (Last Chance Saloon) Freak (Theatre 503 and Polly Ingham Productions) God Is In My Typewriter (Anna-Mari Laulumaa) God's Own Country (Fine Mess Theatre Company) Government Inspector (Incognito Theatre with the Pleasance) Grimm (Hypnotist Theatre Company) Guinea Pigs On Trial (Sh!t Theatre / Escalator East To Edinburgh) Guttermouth (Richard Barton Company) Hamlet (Secret Theatre) Happy (No Prophet Theatre Company) Head In The Clouds - The Peregrinations Of Marie Marvingt (Broken Spectacles) Henry V - Here & Now (King Cobra Theatre) Honest (Organised Crime Theatre Company) How Does A Snake Shed Its Skin? (Slip Of Steel / Susanna Hislop) Hyde & Seek (Elsewhere and Otherwise in association with Peppermint Muse) In Control (Aireborne Theatre Leeds) Inheritance Blues (DugOut Theatre) Iron Crack (Electric Impact) Kingmaker (The Spontaneity Shop) Lands Of Glass (Unfolding Theatre) Larkin About (Antonius Players) Lavender Junction (Peppermint Muse) Lear's Daughters (The Footfall Theatre Company) Lie Back And Think Of England (Rachel Lincoln) Life With Crayons (Bilborough College Players) Linwood No More (White Stag Theatre) Little On The Inside (Clean Break) Lungs (Paines Plough) Manuelita (Popelei Theatre) Mary Stewart (Theatre Alba) Medea (Big Shoes Theatre Company) Mental (The Vacuum Cleaner) Mmm Hmmm (Verity Standen) Mock Tudor (by Lily Bevan) My Name Is Saoirse (Sunday's Child) Naked in Alaska (Legendary Hearts) Nathan Penlington - Choose Your Own Documentary (CYOD ltd) Newtons Cauldron (The Catherine's Club in association with Mermaids) Notoriously Yours (Five Point One - Australia) Occupied (Pembroke Players) Odd Shaped Balls (Chris Sheridan) On The Upside Down Of The World (New Zealand Season / Auckland Theatre Company) Our Jackie Out Of Water (Helen Paris & Caroline Wright / Escalator) Paradise Lost (Paul Van Dyke) Pentimento (Denise Stephenson) Pioneer (Curious Directive/ NNF/ Watford Palace Theatre/ Escalator East To Edinburgh) Pomegranate Jam (CalArts Festival Theater) Punk Rock (Centre Stage) Puzzle The Puzzle (Point View Art Association presents Made In Macao) Queen B (Nottingham New Theatre) Race By David Mamet (South African Season / The Playhouse Company and Assembly) Replay (Onstage Tonight Productions) Riding The Midnight Express With Billy Hayes (Barbara Ligeti, Jeffrey Altshuler and Billy Lowe) Safeword (Urban Fox Theatre Company) Shakespeare For Breakfast (C theatre) Shakespeare In The Garden - A Midsummer Night's Dream (C Theatre) Shakespeare, His Wife And The Dog (Bated Breath) Show 6 (Secret Theatre Company) Show Off (Figs in Wigs / Escalator East To Edinburgh) Shrew (Ami Jones) Silk Road (EH Productions) Simply The West (Cosmic Biscuit Theatre) Sins Of Seven Tables (The New Salisbury Players) Sirens (Ontroerend Goed) Sleeping Trees Treelogy (Sleeping Trees) Smoking Ban (RedBellyBlack) So It Goes (On the Run) So What If I Dance? (Dragon Literature) Sochi 2014 (FULLfuse Theatre / The King's Head Theatre) Soften The Grey (6FootStories) Somebody I Used To Know (Everything I Own) Spectrum (New Celts Productions and Seam Theatre Company) Spoiling (Traverse Theatre Company) Standby For Tape Back-Up (Ross Sutherland with Show And Tell) Swimming (Menagerie / Mercury Theatre, Colchester / Escalator East To Edinburgh) Symphony by Ella Hickson, Nick Payne and Tom Wells (nabokov and Soho Theatre) Talk About Something You Like (Byron Vincent / Escalator East To Edinburgh) Tape (Gone Rogue Productions) Tea For Tabitha (Blanket Theatre / Free Festival) Tea Time Story (Ornamental Theatre) Thank You For Staring (Patrice Gerideau) The 3rd Sector (Pure Theatre LLP) The 56 (FYSA Theatre) The Alchemist (Oxford University Dramatic Society) The Anima Project (Wrong Shoes Theatre Company) The Art Of Falling Apart (Big Wow, Richard Jordan Productions, Unity in association with Pleasance) The Babysitters (Thrust Stage) The Bunker Trilogy - Agamemnon (Jethro Compton Productions) The Bunker Trilogy - Macbeth (Jethro Compton Productions) The Canterbury Tales (Close Up Theatre) The Capone Trilogy - Loki (Jethro Compton Productions) The Capone Trilogy - Lucifer (Jethro Compton Productions) The Capone Trilogy - Vindici (Jethro Compton Productions) The Day Sam Died (Armazem Theatre Company) The Domino Effect (Mulberry Theatre Company) The Duchess Of Malfi (UCLU Runaground) The Duck Pond (withWings Theatre Company) The Eradication Of Schizophrenia In Western Lapland (Ridiculusmus / Jon Haynes, Patrizia Paolini, Richard Talbot, David Woods) The Exchange (Anvil Creek Theatre) The Flood (Badac Theatre Company / Escalator East To Edinburgh) The Generation Of Z - Edinburgh (New Zealand Season / Royale Productions) The God Box - A Daughter's Story (The God Box Project) The God That Comes (2b Theatre Company) The Hive (The Human Zoo Theatre Company) The House Of Bernarda Alba (Fourth Monkey Theatre) The Importance Of Being Earnest As Performed By Three F*cking Queens And A Duck (Out Cast Theatre) The Lieutenant Of Inishmore (In Your Face Theatre) The Most Serious Ailments Of St Krank's (Babolin Theatre in association with Worboys Productions) The Noctambulist (Raving Mask Theatre) The Penelopiad (Cambridge Shortlegs) The Piece Of Paper Paradox (Blue Moon Theatre Company) The Post Show (The Berserker Residents) The Quant (Jamie Griffiths) The Secret Wives Of Andy Williams (Old Trunk Productions) The Seussification Of A Midsummers Night Dream (Red Bonnet Productions) The Sonneteer (Sebastian Michael and Tom Medcalf with Optimistic Creations) The Tulip Tree (Oriel Theatre Company) Theatre On A Long Thin Wire (Future Ruins) To Chekhov With Love (Syracuse University Department Of Drama) Totally Devoted (Sweet Thames Productions) Trainspotting (In Your Face Theatre) Travesti (Unbound Productions) Unsung (Red Mane Productions) Upper Lip (Broken Holmes Productions) Vincent Goes Splat (Wil Greenway) Warrior (Black Dingo Productions) Wastwater (The Human Animal) We Never Land (Sonic Boom Theatre Company) We Were Kings (in motion) What Do You Mean (Ego Actus) Working Title - The Orpheus Project (Nomanstime Automatics) Woyzeck (Splendid Productions) Woyzeck! (Time Zone Theatre) Wuthering Heights (Director: Peter McMaster, Performers: Gary Gardiner, Nick Anderson, Murray Wason) X And Y (Black Dingo Productions) Your Fragrant Phantom (White Slate Theatre) Zelda - The Last Flapper by William Luce (The Women's Theatre Association IF)