Marylebone theatre, LondonDarren Raymond’s update drops Rylance’s impostor into a Jamaican-Nigerian wedding, with clever rhyming couplets but less political stingSpitting posh platitudes through false teeth so bucked they might enforce a liquid diet, r…
Continue ReadingStephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe playwright explores our relationship with technology, asks if robots have souls and even questions the value of art in this sci-fi courtroom dramaFor play number 92, Alan Ayckbourn returns to his preoccupation of …
Continue ReadingThe Ali G and Borat creator is reported to be taking the lead in The Popinjay Cavalier, a swashbuckling comedy Tarantino is developing for early 2027He will soon be seen resuming his old Staines rudeboy persona in the film Ali G: Who Iz I?, but Sacha B…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonA dance teacher for toddlers dreams of bigger things in Julia Grogan’s frantic one-woman showThe mind of a performer, hungry for her big break, is cracked open in Julia Grogan’s one-woman follow-up to her drama Playfight. At first, …
Continue ReadingThe ex-marketing manager’s win, for his spoof Sycamore Gap-inspired whodunnit Rewilding, arrives just as he’s gearing up for a new season of hit sketch show SNL UK – which he calls ‘the hardest job of my life’For the last month, Chris Cantrill has been…
Continue ReadingSwinton takes a dead man’s identity, Glasgow’s heir to Billy Connolly heads on tour and Gillian Anderson, Keira Knightley and Natalia Osipova all hit the stage• See all of our unmissable autumn arts recommendations here Continue reading…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Chicken Shop Date co-writer gives a gossipy, erudite account of his relationship with how he looks in this assured debutAt a fringe noticeable for the polish even of its rookie standups, here’s another debut showing no…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comic’s unique tale of assimilation and romance-related limbo has a high joke rate and emotional intelligenceI want to tell Omar Badawy to take a breath. This debut moves at a frantic, almost dizzying pace, so much so …
Continue ReadingAssembly George Square Gardens, EdinburghFour clowns stir up a strange stew of ideas about faith in this playful and highly physical comedy‘Anyone ever been born before?” That’s a rare bid for relatable crowd work in this buzzy, bizarre hour by a bunch…
Continue ReadingNominated in three previous years, the rambunctious standup – one half of The Delightful Sausage – wins the prize for his show Rewilding while Marty Gleeson is named best newcomerThe annual Edinburgh comedy award has been won by the standup Chris Cantr…
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