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The author’s tales of her ancestors’ flight to the new world draw parallels with today’s migrants in a show that honours the graceful economy of her prose
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From a burlesque that belittles the patriarchy to an unholy reworking of the Bible, righteous anger bubbles over into artistic brilliance at the 2016 festival
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Producers of West End box office hit condemn secondary ticketing websites as a ‘plague’ on desperate fans
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Plan your Edinburgh schedule with this digest of our tips and reviews. Shows are listed by start time
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Edinburgh theatre roundup – a week of masks and music
Kate KellawayTennessee Williams devastates afresh, refugees face a treacherous journey and papier-mache masks thrill in a wild and windy festival city
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Edinburgh is hosting heaps of US comics including Bill Burr, Ari Shaffir and Mary Lynn Rajskub, star of TV’s 24. Do they have much in common?
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare's great shapeshifter
Michael BillingtonThis year’s crop of Dreams – taking in Blitz spirit and colonial India – shows how Shakespeare’s comedy is fertile ground for infinite interpretation. But it is Benjamin Britten’s opera version that digs deepest into its inner strangeness -
It takes time to create a buzz around a festival show, and soon the run is over. Bringing a hit back can give companies a publicity head start – and a cash boost to their next venture. But there’s no guarantee of glory second time around
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The Edinburgh festival provides many with their first theatre experience and the same goes for the West End’s Potter spectacular. There are no rules for enjoying a show – all you need is your imagination
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Damian Lewis performs Antony’s funeral oration for Julius Caesar from act III, scene 2 of Shakespeare’s tragedy
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Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy from King Lear, in which Edmund reflects upon being an illegitimate son and plots against his half-brother, Edgar
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Laura Carmichael speaks Portia’s lines from the courtroom scene in The Merchant of Venice, in which she tells the moneylender Shylock to be merciful
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David Morrissey speaks the opening lines from Richard III in which the scheming Richard lays out his plan to turn his brothers, Clarence and the newly enthroned King Edward IV, against each other
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Eileen Atkins speaks Emilia’s lines from Othello, act IV scene 3. Emilia, Iago’s wife and Desdemona’s maid, counsels Desdemona on marital fidelity
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Samuel West speaks Henry V’s soliloquy on the night before battle, in which he reflects upon the public’s expectations of the king
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The choreographed portraits in a video series featuring Zenaida Yanowsky, Robert Cohan and Jonzi D create an impressionistic portrait of the profession
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Ant and Dec? Perpetual laughter. Boris Johnson? Strangle the vowels. Andy Murray? Just growl. Alistair McGowan and Rory Bremner try and make a mimic of Stephen Moss
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The Canadian comic is at the Edinburgh fringe with his protest show about a joke that saw him ordered to pay $42,000. It’s not a well-argued defence
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Comedians kick off Iraq Out and Loud, the reading of all 6,000 pages of the Iraq war report in a small shed at the fringe
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Shappi Khorsandi felt as if she’d walked on the moon. Isy Suttie watched a man change a dressing on a wound as she spoke. Omid Djalili fell off the stage. So how did the first gigs of Paul Merton, Susan Calman and other top comics go?
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Actors often take their characters’ painful experiences away with them off stage. Kate Fleetwood, Michelle Terry and Ben Miles explain how playing murderers, heroin addicts and monarchs marked them deep inside
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It has hosted one of the world’s longest-running LGBTQ festivals and after 30 years, Dixon Place still makes space for the city’s avant garde performers
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Theatre and TV director who oversaw a brilliant five-year period at the Liverpool Everyman in the 70s
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Many fringe productions have shorter runs this year, in a bid to save money and stress. But is it really the best option?
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How should you act when you come face-to-face with a potential partner? Make sure you’re brutally honest. Isy Suttie and Stephen Wight demonstrate six ways to check your compatibility
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The Edinburgh international festival will be officially launched on Sunday night with a staggering outdoor artwork that delves into the city’s birth from volcanic eruptions
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Hugh Quarshie stars as Othello and Joanna Vanderham is Desdemona in Iqbal Khan’s gripping production at Stratford in 2015
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In a new play written for the Guardian, the award-winning writer of political smashes This House and The Vote, goes inside the Brexit bunker as its sweaty-palmed task force prepares to trigger Article 50
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