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FringeReview UK 2017

Gary Williams launches the Holiday Season

A concert of Christmas songs and more


Holly Sings Judy

Holly Penfield creates an evening dedicated to Judy Garland's music.


Mikelangelo: Cave – Waits – Cohen

Three of the greatest sung by one of the finest


Nicky Gaynor tells us about love

Songs about love and how we find it


The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Lenny Henry’s magnificent, physically menacing deserves his place alongside Henry Goodman’s at least. If the cabaret and audience-rich production mightn’t replicate that production’s chill, it’s of its time, serves as a timely marker of a new nadir of western degradation. That gives it permanent Brechtian relevance.


These Trees Are Made Of Blood

A necessary piece of theatre, the band are superb; a couple of numbers will take residence in your ear. Theatrically it’s almost achieved too, and if it feels slightly clunky it’s that the brilliant conceit of political trickery can’t be sustained over the sombre facts the second act introduces us to. The end’s overwhelming. Two audience members sat quietly weeping together and could not move for minutes after. Others sat stunned.