FringeReview UK

Aether

Exciting, boppy, mind-enlarging, sometimes thrilling

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Ashes and Diamonds

Exceptionally humane, humanly absorbing. It’s always 11.15. Till it isn’t

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Bury the Hatchet

Killer theatre whetted, ground and gleaming. It will turn heads. Again. Unmissable.

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Dido and Aeneas Arcola, Grimeborn Festival

Ensemble OrQuesta should be tracked down, and The Magic Flute queued for.

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Edward II

Alex Pearson has devised an Edward II that’s fleet, clear, crisply compelling and as sly as Marlowe: something other productions could profit from.

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Ewartung, The Murderous Delusions of Gavrilo K

Unmissable for those interested in the wilder shores of late Romanticism, once it’s staged again

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Flush

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.

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Foal

The Finborough have form with five-star solo shows. This is clearly another flued and sanded with the ferocity of pursuit. Outstanding.

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Local

A firm Finborough recommendation.

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Murder Games

A hidden gem, and a marriage-which-is-not-a-marriage, made in opera heaven.

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Soldiers of Tomorrow

Vital, necessary theatre. Not a play but a testimony.

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The Dasslers

The Dasslers wields a potential beyond its current limitations – both in this brief production and in its current form. And Radford, clearly setting out his dramatic stall in history’s cross-currents, is a voice to watch.

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The Old Ladies

A small classic, if not on the scale of The Truth About Blayds, it’s yet another gem. And a must-see.

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The Olive Boy

An extremely fine, and important one-person play, brimming with comedic gambits to open the floodgates.

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Uncle Vanya

An absorbing Uncle Vanya: fleet, energised, sharply-etched.

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Wife to James Whelan

It should transfer, though nothing can beat this space for delivery. Outstanding, a must-see if ever there was one.

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