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FringeReview UK 2026
If you’ve not seen a Noda production, see it. If you have, see it. It’s still the most intelligent spectacular I’ve seen in recent times.
1.17am, or until the words run out
A cracking debut that picks you up and never lets go. Like any play that gifts us believable characters, it leaves you wondering what life, not just Hunter Gordon, will do with them. Highly recommended.
Acting and often dialogue still compel in long bursts. It sets a seal on one of the swiftest slow-burn productions I’ve seen.
Georgie Dettmer’s voice should be one of the leading dramatists of resistance. Yet more, Dettmer has already much to say about how to live now and next.
Recognizing humanity is a mingled yarn mightn’t sound revelatory. Nor what we want to take away. But it’s what we need.
This is an event. Break in (without breakages!) if you have to, to see this. You’ll be standing in the aisles to swarm the barricades.
One of the few moments of Peter Brooks’ term “Holy Theatre” has arrived at the Wanamaker. A must-see.
Do Not Attempt This Conversation
Mo Maka’s play though brief is superbly constructed and taut. I can hardly wait for Maka’s next play.
It mightn’t quite be the droll, dry Churchill we know, but it’s certainly one we should greet. Absorbing.
Timely, timeless and as real as a selfie you might wish you’d never taken when you look again. 80 minutes blink by, but you won’t miss it. Stunning.
The Finborough have form with five-star solo shows. This is clearly another flued and sanded with the ferocity of pursuit. Outstanding.
Godot’s To-Do List, Krapp’s Last Tape
A performance of lessness writ large: a man shrinking from his environment, the memories taking over and kicking Krapp’s mere organic matter out.
Rosie Sheehy and Robert Aramayo are phenomenal and wholly believable. Norris’s next play will be worth seeking out, after such an outstanding debut.
One of the most remarkable reveals in recent theatre, and makes this play an absolutely compelling must-see.
Pacing is fleet, inexorable, even with those frozen minutes of contemporary video. Unmissable.
Mother Courage and Her Children
Brecht’s ferocious message that those who seek profit from war are often its victims too is driven home in the weight of dropped bodies, and Michelle Terry’s outstanding performance.
As ever, the Coronet and its guests have scored something unique in the British theatre-world.
Evans and his team have transported the magic so completely it’s taken up residence. Both outstanding and a delight
The Fastest Clock in the Universe
It hasn’t dated. As worthy of our attention as recent Ridley, and rivets us forever. A must-see.
An extremely fine, and important one-person play, brimming with comedic gambits to open the floodgates.
A bold yet tender exploration of what it is to be gay, Asian and humane. You come out cheering. A must-see.
A rich, suggestive and above all probing work about how we live with our ghosts so we can live with each other.
