ED2016 THEATRE

Theatre at Edinburgh Festival 2016

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ED2016 THEATRE FEATURES

Three To See on 28 Aug: The Ruby In The Smoke, Bethany Black, We Are Ian27 August 2016

Three To See on 27 Aug: Adler & Gibb, E15, Doug Segal26 August 2016

Three To See on 26 Aug: Brush Theatre, I Who Have Hands More Innocent, Jayde Adams25 August 2016

Three To See on 25 Aug: Hamlet In Bed, Annie Siddons, Guitar Multiverse24 August 2016

Casting Call Woe: Audition nightmares relived23 August 2016

Gideon Irving: From the living rooms of the world to the Edinburgh Fringe23 August 2016

Three To See on 24 Aug: The Marked, Lucy McCormick, Aunty Donna23 August 2016

Shôn Dale-Jones: Hoipolloi and The Duke23 August 2016

Three To See on 23 Aug: Jerry Finnegan’s Sister, Revolt, A Good Clean Heart22 August 2016

Speedy News #04: Chilcot readings, Fringe feuds, more awards22 August 2016

Delia Olam: Finding Tahiri22 August 2016

Three To See on 22 Aug: Grimm An Untold Tale, The Lounge, Knightmare Live21 August 2016

Photo Shoot: Gideon Irving21 August 2016

Three To See on 21 Aug: Superwomen Of Science, Angel by Henry Naylor, The Blind Date Project20 August 2016

Three To See on 20 Aug: Mark Watson, Sh!t Theatre, Margaret Thatcher Queen Of Game Shows19 August 2016

Three To See on 19 Aug: Lucy Porter, The Unknown Soldier, Lolly 218 August 2016

Three To See on 18 Aug: Susan Calman, Mercury Fur, John Robertson17 August 2016

Recipe Corner: Chopping up some chillies with Clair Whitefield17 August 2016

Guy Masterson: The dos and the don’ts of going solo16 August 2016

Three To See on 16 Aug: Mark Thomas, Glasgow Girls, Royal Vauxhall15 August 2016

Speedy News #03: Awards, controversies and strikes15 August 2016

Three To See on 15 Aug: Rose Matafeo, zazU, Alix In Wundergarten14 August 2016

Three To See on 14 Aug: Gideon Irving, The Glass Menagerie, Two Man Show13 August 2016

Sean Kempton: The horror of audience participation12 August 2016

Three To See on 13 Aug: Baby Wants Candy, All Quiet On The Western Front, Mark Thomas12 August 2016

Afsaneh Gray: What is Britishness?11 August 2016

Three To See on 12 Aug: Mairi Campbell, This Is Not Culturally Significant, Trainspotting11 August 2016

Three To See on 11 Aug: Poggle, Finding Joy, Tomorrow Maybe10 August 2016

Three To See on 10 Aug: Sofie Hagen, Pierre Novellie, Ghost Quartet9 August 2016

Robert Shaw: Inside intelligence on the Fringe’s new play thriller9 August 2016

Holly&Ted: Girl power pond style5 August 2016

Henry Maynard: Darkness and puppets4 August 2016

Sarah Hehir: Zeroing in on zero hours contracts30 July 2016

Lucy Garland: Making a path through the forest30 July 2016

Tim Carlsen: Creating Moko30 July 2016

Three To See 2016: Shows that are something unusual30 July 2016

Three To See 2016: Shows with twins30 July 2016

Three To See 2016: Shows with parental involvement30 July 2016

Three To See 2016: Musicians gone theatrical29 July 2016

Stephen Greer: Your guide to Glasgow at the Fringe29 July 2016

Kid Carpet: Building castles on the Fringe28 July 2016

ED2016 THEATRE REVIEWS

600 People (Third Angel) A Boy Named Sue (Sue Productions) A Common Man: The Bridge That Tom Built (The Flanagan Collective / Dominic Allen) A Good Clean Heart (Neontopia / Wales Millenium Centre) A Midsummer Night's Dreaming (ST@UIBE) A Number by Caryl Churchill (Gone Rogue Productions) A Regular Little Houdini (Flying Bridge Theatre Limited) A Royal Flush (Cat O'Nine Tails and New Celts Productions) Absence Of Separation (Theatre Ellipsis / PBH's Free Fringe) Ada/Ava by Manual Cinema (Underbelly Productions and Manual Cinema) Adler & Gibb (Tim Crouch / Royal Court Theatre) Agent Of Influence: The Secret Life Of Pamela More (Fluff Productions) Alix In Wundergarten (difficult|stage and The Other Room) All Aboard The Marriage Hearse (Joanne Hartstone) All Might Seem Good (Bear Pit Theatre) All Quiet On The Western Front (Incognito Theatre) Angel By Henry Naylor (Pipeline Productions) At War With Love (Chiaroscuro Theatre) Bend In The River (Deep Water Theatre Collective) Bildraum (Atelier Bildraum) Blank (Aurora Nova) Blush (Snuff Box Theatre in association with Underbelly Untapped) Boris: World King (KPS Productions and Seabright Productions present Three's Company) Breakfast Plays: Tech Will Tear Us Apart (?) (Traverse Theatre Company) Broken Fanny (Emma Jerrold / Something For The Weekend) Bubble Revolution (Polish Theatre Ireland) Bubble Schmeisis (Nick Cassenbaum) Bucket List (Theatre Ad Infinitum) Callisto: A Queer Epic (Forward Arena) Camille (Kamila Klamut) Canon Warriors (Experimental Theatre Club) Captured (White Slate Theatre) Chains On Sink Plugs (David Nicol) Chopping Chillies (Guy Masterson - Theatre Tours International) Circleville, Circlevalley (Experimental Theatre Club) Cold / Warm (So Be It) Cosmic Fear Or The Day Brad Pitt Got Paranoia (Empty Deck) Daffodils (Bullet Heart Club) Dame Nature: The Magnificent Bearded Lady (Havoc Theatre) Dark Vanilla Jungle (Fear No Colours) Dead Awaken (CalArts Festival Theater) Deal With The Dragon (First Sprout Theatre) Dear Home Office (Phosphoros Theatre) Deep-Fried Language (7blue) Diary Of A Madman (Gate Theatre) Discretion Guaranteed (Gingerly) Dolly Wants To Die (Lung) Doubting Thomas (Grassmarket Projects) Dublin Oldschool (Project Arts Centre) Dusty Horne's Sound And Fury (Honourable East End Company) E15 (LUNG) Early Doors (Not Too Tame) Electric Eden (Not Too Tame) Empty Beds (Pennyworth Production) Epic Love And Pop Songs (Phoebe Eclair-Powell / Jamie Jackson / Pleasance in association with Showroom) Equations For A Moving Body (Hannah Nicklin) Erik Satie's – Faction (Avalon Promotions Ltd) Escape From The Planet Of The Day That Time Forgot (Company Gavin Robertson) Every Brilliant Thing (Paines Plough) Family Values (Ghost Light Theatre Group) Faslane (Jenna Watt in association with Showroom and Contact) Fémage à Trois (Loquitur Theatre) Finders Keepers (Hot Coals Theatre) Finding Joy (Vamos Theatre) Fingertips (In The Attic) Fossils (Bucket Club) Frankenstein (Canny Creatures and Fringe Management) Frenemies (Sedos) From The Mouths Of The Gods (The Flanagan Collective and Joanne Hartstone) Ghost Quartet (Ghost Quartet) Girl's Night Out (Eme Essien) Glasgow Girls (Pachamama Productions, National Theatre Of Scotland and Regular Music) Gratiano (Grist To The Mill Productions) Grey Matter (SPASM) Grimm: An Untold Tale (Fiercely Spun) Gulliver's Travels (Familia De La Noche) Hamlet In Bed (Richard Jordan Productions and Brian Long Productions) Hang (Yellow Jacket Productions) Happy Dave (Smoke And Oakum Theatre) Happy Together (The Lincoln Company) Hero Worship (Sonic Boom Theatre Company) House And Amongst The Reeds (Clean Break) How (Not) To Live In Suburbia (Annie Siddons) How Is Uncle John? (Creative Garage) Howie The Rookie (Revived Emmanuel Dramatic Society) I Keep A Woman In My Flat Chained To A Radiator (Theatre, Apparently) I'm Doing This For You (Never Mind the Noise / Haley McGee) I, Who Have Hands More Innocent (Ines Wurth Presents) Immortal (GreenTea Productions) In Our Hands (Smoking Apples) Inferno (UCLU Runaround) Infinity Pool: A Modern Retelling Of Madame Bovary (Bea Roberts) Intergalactic Nemesis: Twin Infinity (The Robot Planet) Jerry Finnegan's Sister (CAT Productions) Jules Verne's Extraordinary Voyages: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Not Cricket Productions) Just Let The Wind Untie My Perfumed Hair...Or Who Is Tahirih? (Joanne Hartstone) Karen Hobbs: Tumour Has It Last Dream (On Earth) (Kai Fischer in association with National Theatre Of Scotland) Leaf by Niggle (Puppet State Theatre Company) Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons (Walrus) Letters To Windsor House (Sh!t Theatre) Life According To Saki (Atticist) Life By The Throat (Most Wanted) Lines (Pangean Productions) Lost In Blue (Debs Newbold and Nimble Fish) Lucy McCormick: Triple Threat (Soho Theatre in association with Underbelly) Lucy, Lucy And Lucy Barfield (How Small How Far) Luna Park (StoneCrabs Theatre Company) Made Up (Fast Food Collective) Mairi Campbell: Pulse (Greengold Projects and Authentic Artist Collective) Mark Thomas: The Red Shed (Lakin McCarthy in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse) Mercury Fur (Fear No Colours) Milk (Traverse Theatre Company) Mimes In Time (Dream Gun) More Scouse, Saddam? (Sad Ham Productions) Mr Incredible (Longsight Theatre) Mule (Omnibus) My Name Is Gideon: Songs, Space Travel And Everything In-Between (All For One) My World Has Exploded A Little Bit (Natural Shocks) Nel (Scratchworks Theatre Company) Northanger Abbey (Box Tale Soup) Not The Horse (Naughty Corner Productions) Nowhere Now (At Large Theatre Company) Nuclear Family (Sunday's Child and Fever Dream) Octopus (Fine Mess Theatre / Paper Tiger Productions) Often Onstage (Figs In Wigs) One Day Moko (Portable Union) Our Writer (York DramaSoc) Overshadowed (Sunday's Child) Owltime (Morphe) Pale Imitations (AMLD Theatre Company) Paperclips And Ammunition (7blue) People Of The Eye (The Deaf And Hearing Ensemble and Erin Siobhan Hutching) Philip Pullman's The Ruby In The Smoke (Reprint Productions) Pond Wife (Holly&Ted) Putting The Band Back Together (Unfolding Theatre) Queen Lear (Ronnie Dorsey Productions) Remember To Breathe (Figure 8 Productions / Scary Biscuits Promotions) Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Royal Shakespeare Company) Save + Quit (Hairpin Productions) Scorch (Prime Cut Productions) Shaedates: Or How I Learned To Love Myself (Shaelee Rooke) Shakespeare In The Garden: Twelfth Night, Or What You Will (C Theatre) Shakespeare Syndrome (Mermaids: The University Of St Andrews Performing Arts Fund) Skin Of The Teeth (Fat Content Theatre) Skrimshanks (Flabbergast Theatre) Stamp (Spun Glass Theatre) Still Here (Theatre For Justice) Stuff (Sean Kempton) Swansong (DugOut Theatre) Swivelhead (Pipeline Theatre Company) Taiwan Season: Solo Date (Tainaner Ensemble) Tank (Breach) Team Viking (James Rowland) The Blind Date Project (Aurora Nova in association with Andrew Carlberg and Bojana Novakovic) The Chicken Trial (ACE Production) The Company Of Wolves (Twisted Tales) The Convolution Of Pip And Twig (PEP) The Craig Chalmers Experience (Sometimes How) The Gin Chronicles: A Scottish Adventure (Interrupt The Routine) The Girl With The Hurricane Hands (And Other Short Tales of Woe), (Studiospace / Free Festival) The Glass Menagerie (American Repertory Theatre) The Humble Heart Of Komrade Krumm (Babolin Theatre) The Inevitable Heartbreak Of Gavin Plimsole (Sharklegs) The Lounge (Inspector Sands) The Marked (Theatre Temoin) The Master And Margarita (Sleepless Theatre Company) The ME (The Sun Apparatus Theatre Company) The Mission (The Outbound Project) The Other (Gaël Le Cornec / Footprint Project) The Road To Huntsville (Stephanie Ridings) The Rules Of Inflation (Balloons Theatre) The South Afreakins (Impi Theatre Company Presents...) The Starship Osiris (Willis & Vere) The Surge (The King's Players) The Toyland Murders (Kite Tail Theatre Company) The Unknown Soldier (Grist To The Mill Productions Ltd) The Vaudevillains (Les Enfants Terribles) This Is Not Culturally Significant (Out Of Spite Theatre) Three Jumpers (Unearthed Theatre) Torch (Flipping The Bird) Trainspotting (Kings Head Theatre and In Your Face Theatre) Two Man Show (RashDash) Unseen (Ashley McLean) Us / Them (BRONKS) Van Gogh Find Yourself (Walter DeForest / PBH's Free Fringe) Villain (Bruised Sky Productions) Waves (Alice Mary Cooper) We Are Ian (In Bed With My Brother / The Pleasance) Where Do All The Dead Pigeons Go? (Scott Turnbull Presents) Wil Greenway: The Way The City Ate The Stars (NJC Productions) Wind Resistance (Edinburgh International Festival / Karine Polwart) Wonderman (Gaggle Babble / National Theatre Wales) World Without Us (Ontroerend Goed / Theatre Royal Plymouth / Vooruit / Richard Jordan Productions / Summerhall) Wrecked (Fever Dream) xx (Poltergeist Theatre) Yokai (The Krumple) Yokes Night (Stay Up Late Collective) Yuri (August012) Zero (Popcorn Productions) Zero Down (Angel On The Corner Theatre Company)