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
Confirmation
Brit performer Chris Thorpe joins forces with director Rachel Chavkin of revered New York experimentalists The TEAM for this brave and disturbing show. Thorpe details his account of trying to shake his 'confirmation bias' – that's our natural inclination to interpret the world in line with our prejudices – by attempting to understand the world view of a white supremacist.
Battersea Arts Centre, Oct 6-25
This Is How We Die
Christopher Brett Bailey’s furious and unlikely hybrid of a show is 40 minutes of lip-blisteringly nihilistic beat poetry followed by 15 minutes of howling instrumental post-rock. A big highlight of this year’s free Forest Fringe programme.
Battersea Arts Centre, Oct 29-Nov 14
The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland
This amazingly named black comedy from veteran experimental humorists Ridiculusmus in fact consists of two plays that overlap and run simultaneously, eerily approximating the sensation of hearing voices.
Battersea Arts Centre, Oct 14-18
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Olivia Poulet from ‘The Thick of It’ gives a wondrous turn as a desperate, manipulative film producer hawking an appallingly offensive script in this excellent revival of Mark Ravenhill’s 2005 satirical monologue.
Arcola Theatre, May 2015, exact dates TBA
Spoiling
John McCann’s fiery two-hander comedy about a Scottish politician sticking it to the perfidious Sassenach is very broad, but it’s a real insight into how anger at the Tories has informed the independence debate.
Theatre Royal Stratford East, Aug 29-Sep 13
The best Edinburgh Fringe theatre shows coming to London
We select the best theatre shows transferring to London from Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014 as well as the shows we hope will get on the bandwagon
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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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