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FringeReview UK 2020

15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid

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


A Midsummer Night’s Dream

With Baum’s direction they and we discover new thresholds, new anatomies


A Midsummer Night’s Dream

This surely is the greatest Dream since Peter Brook’s landmark 1970 production.


A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Might be the finest Globe Dream


A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A theatrical arcady on our doorstep


Antony and Cleopatra

Supremely worth it to see a pair so famous weighing equal in their own balance, perhaps for the first time.


As You Like It

Heartwarming, giddyingly vital yet clear with its own truth.


Coriolanus

A Coriolanus memorable for politics sinewed with personal forces: an active interrogation of democracy. And in Josie Rourke’s production Tom Hiddleston’s someone riven by intimations of his true self


From Henry VI Part 3 to Romeo and Juliet

Join and revel – they’re not anywhere near ended.


Hamlet

In Michelle Terry’s quicksilver, quick-quipping Hamlet, much has been proved, from interpretive to gender fluidity in tragic action, that sets a privilege on being in at a beginning.


Henry VI

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


King John

A tedious brief tragedy? King John is fun… It’s been said.


Kunene and the King

A strain of greatness.


Macbeth

A stylishly visceral production.


Much Ado About Nothing

A blissfully alive production.


Nora

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


One Man, Two Guvnors

Outstanding. An immediate comic classic.


Richard II

Do see this.


Richard III

A deeply revolving production.


Romeo and Juliet

Completeness is just one reason to cherish this clean-driven clear-headed production


Teenage Dick

Ambition treads on teenage dreams and their devastation.


The Madness of George III

This magnificent revival poses even more urgent questions. A twitch on the thread for all of us.


The Merchant of Venice

A fleet traversal memorable for insights the company bring during and after their performance of it


The Merry Wives of Windsor

One of the two most cogent, most fun Merry Wives of recent years.


The Odyssey

A stupendous undertaking


The Spanish Tragedy

The OFS are taking flight with the best scratch nights the Elizabethans never had.


The Taming of the Shrew

See it and you’ll never think of the Shrew without this groundbreaking stab at the dreams of men.


The Two Noble Kinsmen

We’re looking at a bright Book of Hours. Barrie Rutter’s done it profound service, adding a warmth and agency that opens up this pageant. This is hopefully just the first of many such he’ll bring to the Globe.


The Winter’s Tale

Enjoy its slow burn miracles.


The Winter’s Tale

Far more than a curate’s egg, this production reveals things we’ve never seen


Troilus and Cressida

We’re privileged to see this rarely-performed work moulded by OFS. A play for our times.


Twelfth Night

Tamsin Greig’s extremes as Malvolia mark the first intimations of the terrible and define this production. The ground’s shifted.


Women Beware Women

A stylish, timely production which redefines how we experience Middleton.