Traverse
Consumed
★★★☆☆ Energetic
Consumed at the Traverse is a fiercely funny domestic comedy that turns into something else entirely. If it isn’t completely successful, it’s always interesting.
Standing in the Shadows of Giants
★★★☆☆ Heartfelt
Show business excess and hard-won personal discovery coincide in Standing in the Shadows of Giants, the co-production between the Traverse and The Hale.
Lost Lear
★★★★☆ Affecting
Deeply sad, gently comic and profoundly human, Lost Lear from the Riverbank and Mermaid Arts Centres at the Traverse is an emotional affair.
The Beautiful Future Is Coming
★★★★☆ Wise
Bristol Old Vic’s The Beautiful Future Is Coming by Flora Wilson Brown at the Traverse is a beautifully performed rumination on the climate emergency and human responses to it.
Lucky Tonight!
★★★☆☆ Competitive fun
Lucky Tonight! at the Traverse is part play, part quiz, and while one part is more successful than the other, it is undoubtedly great fun.
RIFT
★★★★☆ Immediate
RIFT from American company Luna Stage – and making its UK debut at the Traverse – is a harsh slice of life, performed notably well.
She’s Behind You
★★★★★ Utter joy
Let’s just get this out of the way at the start. Johnny McKnight’s She’s Behind You at the Traverse is just brilliant.
Red Like Fruit
★★★★☆ Raw theatricality
Red Like Fruit, from 2b theatre company of Nova Scotia at the Traverse, deals with difficult themes in a way that is both subtle and impressively staged.
A Gambler’s Guide to Dying
★★★★☆ Sublime storytelling
A Gambler’s Guide to Dying at the Traverse is every bit as funny, sad and compelling as it was ten years ago.
Lear
★★★★★ Magnificent
Lear by Ramesh Meyyappan at the Traverse is a stunning piece of work – raw and delicate, disciplined and chaotic, frightening and beautiful.
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