Drama
A staple for us and for many if you fancy a more traditional play. When we first started Everything Theatre it was specifically to review drama. We’ve branched out over the years, but it will always be a favourite of ours.
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A Womb of One’s Own, Pleasance Dome (10Dome) – Review
One in three women will experience abortion in their lifetime. They often face aggressive pro-life campaigns and hostile medical personnel. And because intervention is still seen as a taboo, many of these women are prevented from making a free choice…
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Love (Watching Madness), Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker Three) – Review
A blistering autobiographical play about bipolar disorder
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World’s End, King’s Head Theatre – Review
Beautiful drama of two unusual families
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Spray, Assembly Roxy (Central) – Review
A weird and wonderful social satire
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Who Cares, Summerhall (Main Hall) – Review
A sobering piece of verbatim theatre.
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Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd, Summerhall (Roundabout) – Review
Richard Gadd turns to theatre to share his gripping ordeal in the claws of a frightening stalker.
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The Castle, Greenside @ Infirmary Street (Olive Studio) – Review
Taking on Kafka is always a challenge, so anyone attempting that feat always deserves admiration. Taking on the work he never truly completed is even more of a feat, but one that Old Dog Theatre do with enough imagination that,…
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Drowning, Pleasance Courtyard (Pleasance Above) – Review
In 1991 four Austrian nurses, played by Evelyn Edwards, Andrea Helene, Aurora Henning and author Jessica Ross, were charged with the killing of 49 patients between 1983 and 1989. Although this was the number of those ascertained, it is believed…
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The Claim, Summerhall (Roundabout) – Review
Heart-breaking and suffocating
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The Good Scout, theSpace @ Surgeons Hall – Review
Sexuality and fascism meet in a true story that doesn’t quite fly