Fringe Online
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Fringe Online 2021
A creatively choreographed homage to the essential work of an essential crew from an essentially creative part of our crafts
An astonishing performance of a personal journey that whispers in anger leads you to positives humanity throughout.
A throwback performance to when Music Hall was King, Queen and Pearly Dreams.
An Evening With Flanders and Swann
A sovereign tribute. If you know Flanders and Swann, you’ll know Bednarczyk.
Yomi Sode’s hybrid theatre is a compelling immersion of witness and poetry: we need more of it.
A tender, beautifully pitched exploration of the individuality of a life, despite what illness may eventually steal.
Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil
An enticingly dramatic radio play which seeks successfully to bring the drama of lower league football to a much wider audience.
Three very fine and one outstanding work, Scratches – the best kind of play on depression, self-harm, black holes. Because it’s screamingly funny and deeply connected to why we do theatre.
An innovative and bright response to the pandemic in cartoon and monologue that is as diverse as great to watch.
Contemporary political ethics (or, how to cheat)
A subtle and effective examination of democracy from out of the mouths of the naïve and academic
Evening Conversations/Life Laundry
Engrossing, it should provoke. Sudha Bhuchar absolves us by being bloody funny.
The ultimate guilty pleasure, and not necessarily in a good way, as the slavery past of Glasgow is blown open in a gentile narrative manner
A religious text for our times, told in the language of the now with universal messages.
Don’t miss the chance to see this transcendent actor prove she possesses another dimension altogether.
Its potency lies in a fine peeling apart by Adrian Lester and Danny Sapini, and the language that bridges it.
I am all the Rooms of the House
A domestic poem about what is in all of our experiences now, but with exceptional poetry to accompany and illuminate the mundane.
After all the gods and their lack of choice, we come to the final instalment, the human dimension. Where we have one. A heartfelt, satisfying finish.
A finely-calibrated solo play of what it’s like to enter that tunnel of near-undiagnosable but very real illness. Corinne Walker’s both authoritative and quicksilver. Do catch it.
One of the wittiest but also truthful comedies about love, identity, sexual politics and gefilte fish I’ve seen
Living Newspaper #3 Royal Court Theatre
Hot off Sloane Square a team of writers, actors and creatives twist the news to truth
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch what this does with the future
An important play, tackling the deadly serious with laughter that all too easily could lead to stark tragedy.
As we saw in March, don’t be lulled by friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queens of Cups again proves they’re a company to revel with and wait for heart-stopping reveals
On Arriving takes sixty minutes it seems we’ve been immersed in a Greek Tragedy of ninety. See it.
A terrific reinvention, bringing gods and heroines up from the death of myth to an altered world.
As with Inside, Outside not only fits us, they help us to move on, and become in their modest, unassuming and utterly transcendent way, part of how we learn to.
Pandora’s Jar/Honour Among Thebes
The most educative stand-up and a thrilling presentation. Oh and bloody funny on the tragedies.
A revelation, superbly written and acted. Comparisons have been made with A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing. I can think of no higher praise either. You must see this.
An excellent piece of radio drama of a folk tale that has an adult theme but also a childlike sensitivity what enchants throughout.
An excellent piece of radio drama of a folk tale that has an adult theme but also a childlike sensitivity which enchants throughout.
An amusing and highly engaging short film about someone having to deal with their own menstruation.
A curious short film blend of choreography and couch surfing between two movement artists in Berlin and Montreal.
Naturally enriched by living with Shakespeare Michael Pennington unearths local habitations and names for him.
A universal story without words for children about a squirrel who looks after a baby hedgehog.
The Girl Who Was Very Good at Lying
Andrews vividly conveys what it is to be an undone thing, someone unravelling tales to live.
A scintillating film of claustrophobic terror in the company of the most infamous fictional duo on the stage.
A dramatic sense of arrival the way the Odyssey here ended: a clash of even vaster ferocity, keening, treachery, humour, mischievousness, sacrifice and grief, joy and the agency of women.
Three women, three pregnancies, three experiences, much laughter and revelation in a funny and engaging audio performance.
The definitive way to experience this troublingly great, disturbingly unresolved poem
A unique take on the problems of today which does manage to bring new perspective to the issue we face regarding race and mental wellbeing.
A fascinating poetic musing on the COVID pandemic focused on the resilient experience of women of colour, delivered with great panache.
Three musings on loss and bereavement beautifully captured in poetry, monologue and song.
Another sovereign tribute. Stefan Bednarczyk brings Tom Lehrer swaggering out of retirement.
Again the most educative stand-up and a thrilling presentation. Oh and bloody funny on war, male sexuality and the Bechdel Test.
A rights of passage story which manages to tell the salutary tale of enthusiasm over experience.
The glaring energy of this piece can’t disguise how it strikes profundity in its funny-bone.
Vagabonds My Phil Lynott Odyssey
An original off-kilter approach to elegy, tribute and becoming yourself.
Vespertilio marks Barry McStay’s emergence as a writer of distinction. Anything he writes now should be looked out for.
A slow burning expose of the shame we should feel at how we treat those who exercise the liberty we expect them to have
A great revisiting of the 70’s in an agit prop retelling two hander, of a time past but a prejudice still present