Even if it’s their Edinburgh debut, the award-winning all-male company BalletBoyz are anything but newbies in their double bill Them/Us. We're presented with a strong cast of six who explore …
Shinehouse Theatre's Fish (part of Summerhall's Taiwan Season) is essentially a storytelling piece in which puppets have little importance, regardless of the effort that went into the detailed puppetry. It's …
Co-created by performer Duane Cooper and director Blake Habermann, Solitary is a lesson that you don’t need huge set design to create an expressionist atmosphere of madness: a simple piece …
Performed by Pat Kinevane, Fishamble's Before is one of the most beautiful shows I’ve seen in a long time. Combining pain and humour with storytelling, dance and song to depict …
The National Theatre of China's beautiful physical theatre piece, A Life on the Silk Road, tells a vivid story of Zhang Qian’s heroic quest through dancing, martial arts, puppetry, live music …
The Sauna is a wonderful story of life and death, and a unique piece of physical theatre with live soundscape by Finnish company Teatteri Metamorfoosi. Part of From Start to Finnish, …
Achilles is a physical and emotional tour de force, an adaptation of the famous Trojan War’s events by Scottish artist Ewan Downie and Company of Wolves. Blending storytelling, dance and song …
A chaotic look at war and the companionship formed between soldiers, War Pig contains some hilarious moments - but gratuitous set pieces (intended to provoke and outrage) often fell flat and disengaged …
The Dreamer is the visual spectacle and technical tour-de-force you'd expect from physical theatre company Gecko, but somewhat more difficult to emotionally engage with - for me, at least - …