Edinburgh festival 2024: 20 theatre shows making a scene this summer
With subjects ranging from the deadly serious to the downright silly, this year’s shows include plays about addiction, politics, funk and Come Dine With Me
December 2023
The week in theatre: Macbeth; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Ulster American – review
Ulster American review – Woody Harrelson and Andy Serkis perfectly awful in anarchic comedy
November 2023
‘I gasped when I read it’: Woody Harrelson, Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland on Ulster American
The trio are about to fall out violently in the shocking yet hilarious play about misunderstandings over the Troubles and Brexit. They talk woke fever, big pharma and playing chimpanzees
October 2023
Woody Harrelson returns to London stage in ‘riotous’ Ulster American
The Hollywood star will appear alongside Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland in David Ireland’s black comedy
November 2022
The week in theatre: Not One of These People; Not Now; Super High Resolution – review
Questions of who can speak for whom animate both Martin Crimp’s new AI work and David Ireland’s brilliant Belfast dialogue. And a star is born in Nathan Ellis’s white-hot NHS play
May 2022
Not Now review – sparky comedy about Belfast, belonging and the Bard
An aspiring actor considers a move from Northern Ireland to Londonin this witty two-hander by Cyprus Avenue’s David Ireland
