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Brighton Fringe 2022

A Very Great Mischief

Winner of the Rialto New Writing Scratch 2020. Look out for this play when it returns.


Accidental Birth of an Anarchist

A thoroughly absorbing play whose polemical agency is none the less tempered by the people it’s refracted through.


Airswimming

Superb revival of Charlotte Jones’s play about two women incarcerated for fifty years for bring different. With a standing ovation of such force that convention had to be broken with the actors forced back on stage.


Anne Boleyn

If it’s drama you’re after in Brighton Fringe, this is one of the two or three essential stops. Thrilling, authoritative, with Greene the jewel in a sparkling ensemble.


Betsy: Wisdom of a Brighton Whore

If you can, make this your last stop on the Fringe.


Cock

A superb revival of Bartlett’s warmest, most ground-breaking, perhaps most enduring play so far.


Cocky and the Tardigrades

Bonkers brilliance. Cocky couldn’t have been premiered with two more stunning actors, and the author’s flawless stepping-in remains remarkable.


Consent

Raine balances articulate ferocity with its opposite: a broken plea. Scott Roberts’ revival improves on the NT premiere. In his hands Consent’s a small classic.


Damien

Outstanding on all counts. Do see it before it closes.


Future Pub

Future Pub by Small Acts


God of Carnage

Acting here is tighter than any version I’ve seen. This revival of a modern classic has to be the best of the Fringe so far.


Horsepower

Exceptional, both as dramatic writing, design and performance.


Love and Money

Compelling Study of human fallibility


Moral Panic

A film censor navigates turbulent times in his work and at home - a comic one-hander with some horror thrown in.


Room

As a condensation and enactment of Woolf’s seminal text this can’t be improved on. The outstanding one-person show I’ve seen this Fringe.


So…

Brand new show by performance makers Jon Haynes and David Woods


Spirit of Woodstock 2 – The Sequel

There’s no greater writer/performer working in Brighton, or Sussex, and Spirit of Woodstock Parts I and 2 is Jonathan Brown’s most dazzling show to date.


The Last

Chittenden’s done a great service not only to Mary Shelley’s novel, but to the way we imagine. And Amy Kidd’s exemplary.


The Wrong Planet

There’s a great act struggling out of this blissfully baggy monster.


Two Pairs of Eyes

An immersive ghost story


Underdogs

The latest play by Brian Mitchell (Lord God, Ministry of Biscuits) and Joseph Nixon (The Shark is Broken)