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The Tempest review – Tim Crouch’s high-concept treatment roughs up the magic

Some spells are cast by this production, in which the director plays Prospero, but it also wearingly replays the same tricks

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30

The Tempest review: Caliban wears a Gazza shirt in fascinating and fresh take

3/5 Tim Crouch’s take on Shakespeare’s final play doesn’t always come together but is filled with plenty of magical moments

Evening Standard · Jan 30

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Jeremy Allen White channels the Boss in a hotly tipped new biopic, and Pennywise the clown returns to terrorise unsuspecting children in a spooky horror prequel series

The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2025

Toto Kerblammo! review – Tim Crouch offers up doggy delight and human heartache

A pet marooned with his owner in a ‘place between worlds’ whispers to the audience through headphones in this skilful play for over-nines

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2024

Social justice and British voices take centre stage at 77th Avignon theatre festival

We bring you a special edition from the 77th international theatre festival in the southern French city of Avignon, where change is in the air under its new Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues. As the first non-French leader to take the reins of the festival, Rodrigues has brought in a majority…

France 24 · Jul 14, 2023

British theatre director Tim Crouch is an Englishman in Avignon

Dressed casually in flipflops and a loose white shirt, British theatre director and actor Tim Crouch has a lot to smile about. He has two plays in the Avignon festival this year, the first time he’s ever performed in France. And the French adaptation of one of his plays happens…

Radio France Internationale · Jul 11, 2023

There’s a first time for everything, especially at the Avignon Festival

Every July, for three weeks, the southern French city of Avignon plays host to theatre and performing arts shows from around the globe. There is a special kind of excitement in the air for the spectators, performers and directors who are discovering the festival for the very first time.

Radio France Internationale · Jul 8, 2023

Avignon festival ‘a pocket of utopian resistance’, says new director

Actor, writer and director Tiago Rodrigues, from Portugal, is the first foreigner to head up the Avignon Festival, now in its 77th year. In addition to maintaining the tradition of presenting innovative performing arts projects from around the globe to the diverse public that attends the festival, he is also…

Radio France Internationale · Jul 5, 2023

The Edinburgh fringe is too long, too expensive and too gruelling. It must change or die

I’ve spent my whole professional life loving and writing about the fringe. But rocketing rents, a lack of diversity and its overwhelming scale are pushing this world-class cultural crucible to crisis point. No wonder artists are asking themselves: is it worth the candle?

The Guardian - UK · Aug 29, 2022

Edinburgh Fringe reviews: An odyssey of chaos hits the mark

The National Theatre of Scotland pulls a rabbit out of the hat with this Edinburgh International Festival production of Medea

The National (Scotland) · Aug 21, 2022