Coming to both Peaky Blinders and Rambert Dance for the first time I was perhaps not the intended audience for this spectacle. However, this was no matter for this two-hour thrilling performance of swagger and euphoria, rendering every watcher fully immersed from the moment the curtain went up. The story loosely follows the plot of […]
You Bury Me is ‘a love letter to Cairo, to Egypt, to the revolution and everyone who fought for it’, and masterfully portrays this through the raw experiences of six teenagers, fighting to grow up in a city being torn down in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. This winner of The Women’s Prize for […]
Translations is an Irish play by Brian Friel concerning the destruction of traditional Gailic language in the fictional town of Baile Beag, and the anglicisation of place names in the early 19th century. The opening scene is a quaint illustration of local Irish education by the lame focal character Manus, teaching bashful Sarah all that […]
Zinnie Harris’ original plays put female characters at the centre of the narrative, taking a previously unsympathetic female lead and reworking the narrative. Known for her interpretations of classic drama such as The Dutchess (of Malfi) and A Doll’s House, Harris’ takes on Shakespeare’s most abhorred Lady Macbeth which would seem a tough and challenging case, but Harris has […]
The criticism of theatre’s prohibitive costs and elitist framework that circulates the news every so often in a political dry spell has largely been addressed by the majority of shows now offering £10 cheap seats at the back. However, this has done little to make theatre more accessible, with the problem now running deeper than […]
Is there an Edinburgh University student who was not force-fed, during their school years, the ‘tragic hero’ of Macbeth, the ‘daddy issues’ of Hamlet or the ‘star-crossed lovers’ of Romeo and Juliet? How useful is this predictable curriculum, and is it still relevant in twenty-first-century education and theatre? Shakespeare wrote at least 38 plays, and […]