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Fringe Online 2021

Adam

An astonishing performance of a personal journey that whispers in anger leads you to positives humanity throughout.


Adorable Dora

Consummate, the complete Dolly-d up experience.


Adventurous

A play gently subverting all expectations. Feeling Adventurous? You should.


Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday

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.


and breathe…

Yomi Sode’s hybrid theatre is a compelling immersion of witness and poetry: we need more of it.


Anton Chekhov

The nearest we’ll come to meeting Chekhov. In Pennington’s masterclass.


Aphrodite

Dazzling: wise, clever twists about choice, male determination, and consequence.


Between the Cracks

Another hugely stimulating triple-hit from Creative Associates.


Branching Out

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.


Dazzling Divas

Issy Van Randwyck brings seven divas to life in this paean to tragic fulfilment.


Don’t Know Him From Adam

An interesting two hander well performed by a couple of experienced pros.


Eng-er-Land

Writer/performer Hannah Kumari leaves you alert and exhilarated


Evening Conversations/Life Laundry

Engrossing, it should provoke. Sudha Bhuchar absolves us by being bloody funny.


Hindu Times

A religious text for our times, told in the language of the now with universal messages.


Hole

Don’t miss the chance to see this transcendent actor prove she possesses another dimension altogether.


How I Learned to Swim

Ends in a hush of absorption as you lean in for every word.


Hymn

Its potency lies in a fine peeling apart by Adrian Lester and Danny Sapini, and the language that bridges it.


I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical

Flawless, a stunning pocket-sized musical you really must see.


Icarus

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.


Illusions of Liberty

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.


Jew… ish

One of the wittiest but also truthful comedies about love, identity, sexual politics and gefilte fish I’ve seen


Leaves

This haunting 45-minute tale is a superb small gem from Jermyn Street’s Footprints Festival.


Living Newspaper #3 Royal Court Theatre

Hot off Sloane Square a team of writers, actors and creatives twist the news to truth


Living Newspaper #4

We need this. Watch.


Living Newspaper #5

Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch.


Living Newspaper #6

Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch what this does with the future


Lockdown, Taboo and You

Four fine lockdown plays on zoom


Lone Flyer

An absorbing drama, absorbingly acted and produced.


Love in the Time of Corona

The finest drama to emerge from the pandemic


Mac and More

A consummate, intimate homage to theatre


Metaphysicals

A cross between cheerfully-spun recital and quicksilver treasury


Misfits

An important play, tackling the deadly serious with laughter that all too easily could lead to stark tragedy.


Mr and Mrs Nobody

A warm-hearted yet sharp-witted peek at how the Pooter half live


New Moon Monologues April

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


Ode to Joyce

A gem of an incarnation.


On Arriving

On Arriving takes sixty minutes it seems we’ve been immersed in a Greek Tragedy of ninety. See it.


Orpheus

A terrific reinvention, bringing gods and heroines up from the death of myth to an altered world.


Outside

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.


Persephone

Dazzling: wise, clever twists about choice, male determination, and consequence.


Plays for Today

A truly absorbing series. And free to stream on Soundcloud.


Pre-Raphaelites

A true Pre-Raphaelite gem-lit recital.


Push and Pull

A quietly thrilling evening, after it goes off with a bang and a bear.


Pygmalion

The most profound reinvention of this particular myth I’ve seen


Rapunzel

A great festive tale, told with gusto and guile


Romantics

As ever consummate, fine performances, and probing memorably into women Romantic poets


Sacrament

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.


Saviour

A remarkable one-person play, performed to literal fever pitch by its creator.


Scammed

A two handed exploration on the fear that comes from unknown calling.


Scaramouche Jones

Shane Ritchie’s phenomenal energy and slidings in and out of tongues, mesmerises.


Sci-Fi Poetry

Utterly refreshing, breaking new ground.


Stay Awake, Jake

Once you tune in, you’ll be held all the way to Carlisle.


Sweet William

Naturally enriched by living with Shakespeare Michael Pennington unearths local habitations and names for him.


Tennis Elbow

An audio treat from a master of toying with your senses.


The Girl Who Was Very Good at Lying

Andrews vividly conveys what it is to be an undone thing, someone unravelling tales to live.


The Love and War Trilogy

An enormously satisfying traversal


The Mahabharata

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.


The Mother Load

Three women, three pregnancies, three experiences, much laughter and revelation in a funny and engaging audio performance.


The Odyssey

As spellbinding as Circe and Calypso in one


The Peabody Chronicles

A delightful piece of online drama from an enchanting bunch of actors


The Rape of Lucrece

The definitive way to experience this troublingly great, disturbingly unresolved poem


The Shock of the Old

A wryly consummate musician.


The Water Cooler

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.


The Whole Shebang

See it again!


Tom Lehrer

Another sovereign tribute. Stefan Bednarczyk brings Tom Lehrer swaggering out of retirement.  


Troy Story

Again the most educative stand-up and a thrilling presentation. Oh and bloody funny on war, male sexuality and the Bechdel Test.


Twenties

A rights of passage story which manages to tell the salutary tale of enthusiasm over experience.


Two Horsemen

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

Vespertilio marks Barry McStay’s emergence as a writer of distinction. Anything he writes now should be looked out for.


We are the lions Mr. Manager

A great revisiting of the 70’s in an agit prop retelling two hander, of a time past but a prejudice still present


Wilde Without the Boy

A jewel of inhabiting


Women on War

Exemplary, revelatory.