‘Sir, are you aware those are women’s clothes?” Even the most basic interactions can be fraught when...
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‘Sir, are you aware those are women’s clothes?” Even the most basic interactions can be fraught when...
It’s a sight for sore backs. Fringegoers accustomed to fold-out chairs like those in the Underbelly’s Buttercup...
The clue is in the fingers. Rubbery, bulbous things, they look as if they would leave a...
Celebrity biographical dramas are ten a penny but it takes audacity for a performer to emulate the...
There’s no doubting composer Huang Ruo and director Basil Twist’s ambition in Book of Mountains and Seas....
The male gaze is often talked of as a passive thing: a point of view, influencing the...
‘The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born.” Many of us will...
‘We wouldn’t ever do anything for attention!’ Some people blow their wedding budget in Las Vegas or...
Fringe favourite Ontroerend Goed have a longstanding fascination with the audience. In one-to-one encounters such as The...
If the Guardian’s Dining Across the Divide column were a show, it would look very like Swiping...
It is not through any shortcomings of the cast that Matthew Dunster’s modern-dress reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s...
This story of a pirate radio station is also the story of a marginalised community. When they...
It is probably best not to ask too many questions. I mean, you could imagine Lou Doyle...
When he burst on to the stage of the new Abbey theatre in Dublin in 1967, Frank...
Academic texts have been written about the bond between knights and their steeds in chivalric romances. US...
‘Shall we give ourselves a night off from being funny?” There are unassuming performance styles, then there’s...
It starts with a shriek. A deliberate false alarm, this sets the spooky tone of Ellie Keel’s...
If you’re on TikTok, you’ll probably recognise Hannah Lowther. Known affectionately as the “Tesco TikToker”, she found...
Fans of the former Saturday Night Live writer Julio Torres know him to be the current torchbearer...