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Review: My Hamlet

The amazing Linda Marlowe has devised a new way of keeping herself company as a solo performer: she’s brought in a bunch of puppets and their black-garbed manipulators from Tblisi, Georgia. Co-produced with Roger McCann […]

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Review: Penelope

The patient Penelope, wife to the travelling Odysseus, has long been a figure of fantasy in contemporary drama. Coruscating Irish playwright Enda Walsh turns the myth round to show us four of her rejected suitors […]

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Review: My Romantic History

In the first misfire of the Traverse season, DC Jackson’s My Romantic History proves an over-extended 100-minute rom com in the wake of last year’s delightful Midsummer by David Greig. It’s funny for a while, […]

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Review: While You Lie

Sam Holman's new play doesn't pull its punches. It's a merciless look at two disintegrating relationships with a side plate of sexual violence and an induced pregnancy before the husband immediately rapes the mother. I'm […]

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Review: Speechless

The astonishing story of “the silent twins” was told in a book by Marjorie Wallace, and this overwhelming new play by Linda Brogan and Polly Teale (who also directs) distils the dramatic essence. June and […]