FringeReview UK

#We Are Arrested

Peter Hamilton Dyer carries this celebration of the conscience to be fully human

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4.48 Psychosis

Do see this bold, beautiful attempt on Kane’s masterpiece

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A History of Water in the Middle East

Hugely absorbing it’s entertaining too.

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A Kind of People

Bhatti nails truth to the doors of injustice. It’s well we heeded it.

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Ali and Dahlia

A phenomenally well-written first play

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Amplify

An exciting initiative showcasing new work by womxn

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Amsterdam

Did I say sucker-punch? It’s what the Orange Tree do every time.

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Angry Alan

Funny, sassy, disturbing, necessary.

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Berberian Sound Studio

Thoroughly absorbing, full of walking shadows who throw vivid questions.

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Blood Wedding

In several ways, this is about as good as it gets.

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Cougar

You must see this.

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Creditors

We’re unlikely to see a better production of this still rarely-performed disturber of ourselves.

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Cyprus Avenue

Devastating drama about the DNA of bigotry; and it all starts in surreal farce.

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Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography

A fine piece, skidding along silicon into our dark

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Fleabag

Original, raw, brilliantly funny and devastating. This production is Fleabag neat. Its harrowing streak of genius burns like a healing scar torn.

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Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.

For a time you feel that beyond Churchill’s world, nothing else quite seems to exist.

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Glengarry Glenn Ross

Riveting must-see revival of Mamet's breakthrough play

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Hansard

A masterfully conceived vehicle to stalk politics now

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Hunger

An exemplary, scrupulous production so starkly contemporary, it makes Hunger contemporary forever

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INK Festival Feast From the East

I’ve not seen a festival of short plays to compare with these.

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Inside Bitch

Visceral and sometimes very very funny. Then not. Essential viewing.

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Laundry and Bourbon/Lone Star

Yet again NVT deliver small gems of Americana. See it.

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Mary’s Babies

Maud Dromgoole’s proved more than adroit, skilful, and deliciously risk-taking. A must-see.

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Midnight Movie

What we have is absorbing

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Miss Julie

It’s unlikely we’ll get a cleaner version, or a more absorbing production any time soon

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On Bear Ridge

Absorbing and horribly timely.

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Pictures of Dorian Gray

Be surprised.

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Pilgrims

Elinor Cook’s always worth a diversion for. This drama deserves friends and revivals.

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Richard II

A savage anointing, a revelatory reading.

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Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes

Rodrigues is a dramatist we need to see far more of.

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salt.

We’re offered ‘salt to heal, salt to remember… above all for your wounds.’ Take it.

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seven methods of killing kylie jenner

‘What are you gonna do now…. clap?’ Yes, standing.

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Shadows

Speaks with a fierce innocence

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Shook

If you’ve an appetite for exceptional new writing, just see it.

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Superhoe

A searing new talent.

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Swive

A Hilliard rather than Holbein, it’s the velocity of Elizabeth’s survival that enthrals

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Tabby McTat

It really is purrfect for summer

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The Antipodes

Baker pushes dangerously at just what theatre is.

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The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys and The Laments

In nearly every way an outstanding pair of productions.

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The End of History…

A play you want to return to.

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The Father

Florian Zeller's masterpiece, in a production and central performance that would do it justice anywhere.

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The Ice Cream Boys

A deeply satisfying play

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The Mikvah Project

A brave and beautiful play

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The Sad Shepherd

A necessary production you’re unlikely ever to see anywhere else.

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The Seven Ages of Mam

13.10 is a good lunchtime to watch a Mam’s legend in.

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The Son

An explosively powerful play

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Three Shorts – Fruit / When I Call Your Name / Embracing Nature

An assured showcase of shorts

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Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

The most consistently satisfying work of Tim Crouch I’ve seen.

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When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other

This cast’s exemplary dedication deserves watching for their sheer performative belief.

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White Pearl

The finest new play from the Court this year, gleaming and deadly

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Compelling and bleakly miraculous

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‘Master Harold’… and the boys

A mostly terrific revival.

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