Tag Archives: theatre

Ho's script shows that at the end of it all, grown men will still talk about sex and ladies as they did when they were horny teens.

The debut stage production of a 1985 BBC teleplay questions whether the two warring sides of human nature can ever be reconciled. The answer it suggests doesn't bode well. Yet as a polished, powerful, challenging piece of art itself, it offers a silver lining of hope too.

Tuneful songs and strong performances enliven this tragic love story set in the time of the conquistadors. The show flutters nervously along two parallel tracks, one reflecting the real butchery and horror of the conquest, the other of semi-cartoonish family fare.

Whether it's Lord Byron's whereabouts on a certain few days or the entropic fate of the universe, the search for knowledge drives us all.

Is your soul alive? Then let it feed on life.

William Somerset Maugham’s masterpiece reveals the withering devastation wreaked by obsessive, twisted love’s sadism and masochism. Though the work has been transferred to the medium of film three times, it has never before made it to the stage.

This fictionalization of the post-election meeting between Barack Obama and Donald Trump provides laughs and grimaces in equal measure.

How close would you be to your neighbors if their politics were the opposite of yours?

Two new musical comedies based on genre films make their world premieres at the Fringe.

The jive-talking 'brothers' of the original 'Airplane!' movie have been replaced by millennial sisters who speak in incomprehensible shorthand while taking duck-faced selfies.