Traverse Theatre Archive

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Check out our coverage of shows at the Traverse Theatre…

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FESTIVAL 2026>>

2026 REVIEWS
Bog Witch (Avalon & Tellus Studio Present) Little Animals (Paul Ready And Fern Culture)

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FESTIVAL 2025>>

2025 FEATURES
Dan Colley: Lost Lear

2025 REVIEWS
Lost Lear (Matt Smyth / Riverbank Arts Centre / Mermaid Arts Centre) Red Like Fruit (2b Theatre Company) RIFT (Luna Stage / Richard Jordan Productions / Traverse Theatre)

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FESTIVAL 2024>>

2024 FEATURES
Three shows that are cooking

2024 REVIEWS

A History Of Paper By Oliver Emanuel And Gareth Williams (Co-produced By Dundee Rep Theatre and Traverse Theatre) Batshit (Leah Shelton / Quiet Riot) Cyrano (Roast Productions) In Two Minds (Fishamble: The New Play Company) My English Persian Kitchen (Soho Theatre And Traverse Theatre) Natalie Palamides: WEER (Soho Theatre) Same Team (Traverse Theatre) So Young (Traverse Theatre In Co-Production With Raw Material And Citizens Theatre)

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FESTIVAL 2023>>

2023 REVIEWS
Adults (Traverse Theatre Company) After The Act (Breach Theatre)

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FESTIVAL 2022>>

2022 REVIEWS
Exodus (National Theatre Of Scotland) Happy Meal (Roots / Theatre Royal Plymouth With ETT And Oxford Playhouse)

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FESTIVAL 2020>>

2020 FEATURES
Three To See and Stream 1-7 Sep: Things From Shedinburgh, Things To Stream, Real World Things To See

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FESTIVAL 2019>>

2019 REVIEWS
Frankenstein: How To Make A Monster (Battersea Arts Centre and BAC Beatbox Academy) How Not To Drown (Thick Skin, Traverse Theatre production with Tron Theatre, Lawrence Batley Theatre) Trying It On (Warwick Arts Centre and China Plate)

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FESTIVAL 2018>>

2018 REVIEWS
Breakfast Plays: Youthquake (Traverse Theatre Company) Mark Thomas - Check Up: Our NHS At 70 (Lakin McCarthy) Theatre Uncut: Women On Power (Theatre Uncut) What Girls Are Made Of (Traverse Theatre Company, Raw Material in association with Regular Music)

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FESTIVAL 2017>>

2017 FEATURES
Three To See on 17 Aug: Wild Bore, Hear Me Raw, Mental

2017 REVIEWS
An Evening With An Immigrant (Inua Ellams and Fuel) Lilith: The Jungle Girl (Sisters Grimm) Wild Bore (Soho Theatre and Malthouse Theatre)

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FESTIVAL 2016>>

2016 FEATURES
Speedy News #03: Awards, controversies and strikes Three To See on 13 Aug: Baby Wants Candy, All Quiet On The Western Front, Mark Thomas Three To See on 23 Aug: Jerry Finnegan’s Sister, Revolt, A Good Clean Heart TW:TALKS at Edinburgh Festival 2016: Mark Thomas, Brendon Burns, Susan Calman, Lucy Porter, Mark Watson

2016 REVIEWS
Breakfast Plays: Tech Will Tear Us Apart (?) (Traverse Theatre Company) Daffodils (Bullet Heart Club) Diary Of A Madman (Gate Theatre) Mark Thomas: The Red Shed (Lakin McCarthy in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse) Milk (Traverse Theatre Company) Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Royal Shakespeare Company)

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FESTIVAL 2015>>

2015 FEATURES
Another awards round up: Angels, Posters and more Kickstarting at the Fringe: The ins and outs of crowd-funding an Edinburgh show ‘A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing’ wins Amnesty prize

2015 REVIEWS
A Gambler's Guide To Dying (Gary McNair with Show And Tell) A Game Of You (Ontroerend Goed) A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing (Corn Exchange) Am I Dead Yet? (Unlimited Theatre) An Oak Tree (Tim Crouch) Crash (Traverse Theatre Company) Fake It Till You Make It (Bryony Kimmings Ltd, Soho Theatre and Avalon Productions) Swallow (Traverse Theatre Company) The Christians (Gate Theatre)

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FESTIVAL 2014>>

2014 FEATURES
Editors' Awards incoming, plenty more awards already in More winners in the theatre Fringe Three To See 2014: Theatre of death Trav shows dominate in first Fringe First batch

2014 REVIEWS
Spoiling (Traverse Theatre Company)

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FESTIVAL 2013>>

2013 FEATURES
First batch of Fringe Firsts and Herald Angels presented Flurry of awards presented alongside last batch of Fringe Firsts More gongs: Malcolm Hardee, Herald and Stage awards presented Second batch of Fringe First and Herald Angels presented Snap Of The Day 06: Grounded

2013 REVIEWS

Brand New Ancients (Kate Tempest and Battersea Arts Centre) Breakfast Plays - Clean (Traverse Theatre Company) Cadre (Chicago Shakespeare, Richard Jordan, Market Theatre Johannesburg, Adelaide Festival, Traverse) Ciara (Traverse Theatre & Datum Point) Grounded (Gate Theatre London) Have I No Mouth (Brokentalkers) I’m With The Band (Traverse & Wales Millennium Centre) Long Live The Little Knife (Fire Exit / David Leddy) TalkFest 2013 The Body Politic (Playwrights’ Studio Scotland And Made In Scotland) The Secret Agent (Theatre O / Young Vic Co-Production)

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FESTIVAL 2012>>

2012 FEATURES
Final Fringe Firsts and Angels presented First Edinburgh Festival awards presented for 2012 Mark Thomas: Quick Quiz More Awards: Fringe Firsts and Herald Angels More Awards: MTM and Stage Award nominations Playwrights lined up for Traverse's breakfast shorts The Stage presents its Acting Excellence Awards for 2012 Three To See 2012: Shows for the whole family Total Theatre Awards presented

2012 REVIEWS

All That Is Wrong (Ontroerend Goed, Laika, Richard Jordan Productions and Drum Theatre Plymouth) And No More Shall We Part (Hampstead Theatre) Angels (Blindhorse) As Of 1.52pm GMT On Friday April 27th 2012, This Show Has No Title (Daniel Kitson) Beats (Arches) Blink (Soho Theatre / nabakov / Escalator East to Edinburgh) Born To Run (Oran Mor supported by the National Theatre of Scotland) Dream Plays - Scenes From A Play I'll Never Write (Traverse Theatre Company) Mark Thomas - Bravo Figaro! (Phil McIntyre Entertainment Ltd) Mess (China Plate Presents Triggered@Warwick, commissioned by BAC/Parabola Arts Centre) Morning (Lyric Hammersmith) The Ballad Of Pondlife McGurk (Catherine Wheels in association with Brunton Theatre) The Curious Scrapbook Of Josephine Bean (Shona Reppe) The Letter Of Last Resort And Good With People (Traverse Theatre co-production with Tricycle Theatre and Datum Point / Paines Plough)

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FESTIVAL 2011>>

2011 FEATURES
First Fringe Firsts presented More Fringe Firsts presented Three To See 2011: Spins on the bard

2011 REVIEWS
Encounters - Theatre Uncut Last Orders (David Hughes Dance Productions) May I Have The Pleasure...? (The Arches Presents Adrian Howells) The Dark Philosophers (National Theatre Wales / Told By An Idiot) The Golden Dragon (ATC & Drum Theatre, Plymouth)

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