FringeReview UK

Aether

Exciting, boppy, mind-enlarging, sometimes thrilling

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Arcadia

As bright as stained crystal and warm as the filament Thomasina reaches for: outstanding.

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Archduke

High entertainment for the theatre’s blazing midsummer.

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Ashes and Diamonds

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

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Between the River and the Sea

Recognizing humanity is a mingled yarn mightn’t sound revelatory. Nor what we want to take away. But it’s what we need.

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Cable Street

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.

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Dear Liar

Stella Powell-Jones and her team make the strongest possible case. A must-see for all lovers of theatre, wit, and wincing put-downs.

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Glorious!

Wendi Peters sends you out singing: with all the right notes in the wrong order. Solidly recommended.

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Magic

Brave, timeless, and troubled, Magic sometimes refuses to give up its secrets too. Absorbing.

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Mrs President

Mrs President will continue to haunt and I suspect, develop. Be haunted though.

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Nayatt School Redux

Whatever they are, you hope The Wooster Group haunts us forever.

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Safe Haven

There’s a perennial feel not just to the humanity at the play’s core; but the work itself. In these dark days, a must-see.

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Slaughterhouse-Five

A triumph and a must-see.

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Soldiers of Tomorrow

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

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Teeth ‘n’ Smiles

As Teeth ‘n’ Smiles ends, we’re left to feel the long withdrawing roar of the 1960s, and the bleaker horizons and disillusion Hare saw by 1975. A must-see.

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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 Wooster Group. Nayatt School, Redux

Renowned for their avant-garde, multimedia approach blending archive, technology, film, sound, and live performance, the company has profoundly influenced generations of artists and theatre-makers internationally.

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Ukraine Unbroken

An absorbing evening; essential theatre.

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