FringeReview UK

15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid

Groundbreaking. The smallest producing theatre in the West End through lockdown has become the largest.

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A Separate Peace

Stoppard looks at society’s phantom limb ethic. Even when it’s gone it aches, and it aches to have someone opting out.

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Beauty and the Beast

Nothing so convincing has been done with this legend. It deserves many revivals.

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By Jeeves!

A thoroughly enjoyable period-style musical.

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Cyrano de Bergerac

James McAvoy is peerless and his companions are Asterix-hot.

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Frankenstein

The acting scales cliff-edges of unreason. One remembers the scale of betrayal and loss of redemption

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Frankenstein (alternate version)

The acting scales cliff-edges of unreason. One remembers the scale of betrayal and loss of redemption. Benedict Cumberbatch here is Frankenstein, Jonny Lee Miller the Creature. The alternate version aired first is still available.

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Henry VI

The most effective condensation of the pith of the trilogy we’re likely to see.

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It’s A Wonderful Life – The Radio Play

Merry Xmas Bedford Falls - HeeHaw!

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Jane Eyre

You’ll never see a better adaptation of this classic

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Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

A salutary reminder of how a great musical talent and collaboration started

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Krapp’s Last Tape/Eh Joe/The Old Tune

It’s Jermyn Street. If you can, see it.

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Love Love Love

Epic eavesdropping casts that ultimate spell: reading ourselves by flashes of lightning.

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Nora

Stef Smith’s brilliant riff on Ibsen’s original is revelatory

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One Man, Two Guvnors

Outstanding. An immediate comic classic.

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Rockets and Blue Lights

A paean to endurance, love, and wrenched freedoms.

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Small Island

A reboot for the future, a passport for change.

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Teenage Dick

Ambition treads on teenage dreams and their devastation.

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The Odyssey

A stupendous undertaking

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The Tin Drum

Nico Holonics’ blaze-through avatar is unlikely to be surpassed.

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The Visit

Kushner’s just brought The Visit home with him.

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Treasure Island

First-rate theatre. In Joshua James’ Ben Gunn and above all Pasy Ferran’s Jim, we see stars rising quicker than Arthur Darvill’s superb Silver can point them out.

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Uncle Vanya

The definitive Vanya for our times

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