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FringeReview UK 2024

A Chat With Adonai

Jacob Kay and Helen Baird are both exemplary and funny – there’s explosions of laughter. At 40 minutes there’s much matter hurled at the speed of dark. See it if you can, and check out the other Bitesize plays at Riverside.


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All’s Well That Ends Well

Don’t go expecting searing insights, but do go for a crack ensemble who will surely turn many to Shakespeare. An endearing and uplifting enterprise.


All’s Well That Ends Well

Ruby Bentall’s Helen enters near the top of the list.


Banging Denmark

This production’s 100 minutes are so absorbing you’re not quite sure if the time’s stopped, or just your preconceptions. Stunning, a must see.


Cowbois

Cranford’s gone Wild West, via the Court and RSC. Cowbois is of course daft. But it’s magnificent in its silliness, contains wonderful – and truthful – moments. Deadly serious can have you rolling in the aisles and still jump up for the revolution.


Dear Octopus

Two hours 45 starts slowly but you feel Smith’s arc move with its casual, supremely naturalist conversation to moments where time stands still. Outstanding revival.


Dugsi Dayz

Thrillingly promising, and ground-breaking work.


Heart’s Desire/L’Amore Del Cuore

Anyone admiring Churchill, ferocious comedy or excited by a rare UK foray into Italian theatre must see this.


In and Out of Chekhov’s Shorts

Outstanding. After this, there’s no other way to tell Chekhov dramatically that he’s not already nailed down in a play himself. Chekhov would have loved it.


Life With Oscar

Nick Cohen’s exceptional powers as writer and performer are mesmerising


Much Ado About Nothing

A triumph of tone, of textual intercourse and tight-reined spirits. Beatrice’s star is dancing. It’ll stay fresh as the feelgood Shakespeare this summer.


Phoney

Two university students running a phone sex business for a testosterone fun.


Princess Essex

The more we see of such uplifting, uproarious, yet probing works the better.


Sappho

A bit of theatrical democracy invoking pre-democracy crafts an exquisite irony for a rainy afternoon. Do see it.


Suite in Three Keys

A once-in-a-generation masterpiece of revival. This is what we’ve been missing.


The Comedy of Errors

The most intelligent Comedy of Errors I’ve seen since the NT production of 2012 and truer to the play’s temper.


The English Moor

Richard Brome’s 1637 The English Moor marks a new departure for Read Not Dead. You might say with this play it’s Read to be Dead.


The Hot Wing King

Hall, following Nottage in particular, emerges as one of the most exciting US dramatists.


The Pursuit of Joy

A playful, slight but absolutely authentic slice of travel living.


The Voice of the Turtle

An exquisitely-faceted gem.


Twelfth Night

Tom Littler again brings an intimate, wintry music to middle Shakespeare: it’s his unique gift. Never sour, never sweet without salt, and with very few reservations, a definitive close-up Twelfth Night.