The James Plays
It would have been stupendously embarrassing for everyone involved – that’s the National Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival – if Rona Munro’s epic trilogy of plays about the Stewart kings of Scotland had turned out to be bobbins. Fortunately, they’re really not, and the titanic trio will form a major highlight of the NT’s autumn programme.
National Theatre, Olivier, Sep 10-Oct 29
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The annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe – the world’s biggest arts festival – is entering its final week and, let’s be honest, you’ve probably left it a little late to book a ticket. But fear not; the Time Out Theatre team has been up there for the last fortnight. Here are our top tips for shows making the journey south to London, and five shows we’d like to see transfer.
Five great shows that should head to the capital...
Ross Sutherland’s intensely emotional show is a brilliant exploration of the link between nostalgia and mortality.
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Playwright Duncan Macmillan
(‘1984’, ‘Lungs’) has written a wonderfully uplifting play about depression for revered touring company Paines Plough.
A sprawling monologue by theatrical magpie Chris Goode about men entrapped and broken by society. It’s elemental stuff.
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This bonkers lo-fi comedy about leaving home and moving to London would be brilliant even if it didn't have the world's funniest racist Welsh rap in it.
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