Arifa Akbar is the Chief Theatre Critic at The Guardian. She specializes in arts and entertainment, with a focus on theater, film, and cultural movements, often exploring themes of climate change and societal issues. Arifa's work has been featured in prominent outlets including Yahoo Sports Canada, Playbill, and Literary Review.
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Arifa Akbar This production by Flabbergast Theatre , which specialises in physical comedy, shows you what a good fit clowning is for Samuel Beckett's work.
By: Arifa Akbar
There are 3,649 shows at the fringe this year, but how many embody its spirit of radical experimentation? I took a journey through foam, lube and gore to find out ...
By: Arifa Akbar
Arifa Akbar Somewhere in Edinburgh, a man is drinking his own urine . Elsewhere, the story of a religious sect that commands its followers to use “butt plugs” plays out as a musical.
By: Arifa Akbar
Arifa Akbar Alison Steadman has cast a long shadow over the suburban gargoyle-cum-bored-housewife in Mike Leigh's social satire about 1970s social mobility.
By: Arifa Akbar
Outhwaite’s performance as Beverly, a precision-tooled showcase in hidden anger and longing, is a triumph in this eternally resonant suburban drama
By: Arifa Akbar
Arifa Akbar There have been 600 books written about Marilyn Monroe since she died in 1962. So we are told by Monroe (Pixie Lott) herself in Sharleen Cooper Cohen's play.
By: Lyndsey Winship, Kate Wyver, Tim Jonze, Brian Logan, Arifa Akbar, Chris Wiegand
From Taiwanese steampunk dance to Australian climate comedy, here are 13 quick-fire fringe reviews
By: Arifa Akbar
Arifa Akbar For a play that pivots around the liberating disguises inside Arden's bucolia, this production of the Bard's pastoral comedy
By: Arifa Akbar
Arifa Akbar Jermyn Street's basement theatre provides the perfect space for Simon Stephens' postapocalyptic play about two men hiding in a bunker after an unnamed global catastrophe.
By: Arifa Akbar
Two men shelter from catastrophe in this Beckettian tale of memory, companionship and survival, which is intelligently performed but light on tension
