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FringeReview UK 2020
Brenton powerfully concertinas a continent’s politics and one artist’s refraction of it. Wong is outstanding
Family Album is possibly the most disastrous production this already unfortunate play has ever sustained. More, Coward would declare it’s a travesty; of genius. Hands Across the Sea is pitch-perfect in a slightly outré version of what Coward meant.
This surely is the greatest Dream since Peter Brook’s landmark 1970 production.
Victoria Hamilton still dominates, but Albion’s a fine ensemble piece. Goold has given Albion the air it needs: an unsettling parable on forcing an identity of ourselves.
In the most spectacular production imaginable, Lucian Msamati’s supremely crafted lead sets off the quicksilver of his rival Adam Gillen.
Supremely worth it to see a pair so famous weighing equal in their own balance, perhaps for the first time.
Barber Shop Chronicles is a breath-taking revelation for those of us who had small inkling of a world in miniature.
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
The acting scales cliff-edges of unreason. One remembers the scale of betrayal and loss of redemption
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.
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.
Will leave you in a heap and wonder what else Lauren Gunderson has written that comes near this.
A superb realization of Lorraine Hansberry's unfinished masterpiece - a classic of Ibsenite proportions
Performances and play that should turn us upside down. Do make a detour for this brave. tremulously beautiful coming of love.
Epic eavesdropping casts that ultimate spell: reading ourselves by flashes of lightning.
The Almeida’s another country. They do shows differently there. A bold communing of theatre stories with the fresh poignancy of what’s happened during 2020
An enduring little classic of Englishness on the turn, out of the ideal-exhausted Seventies and on the edge of darkness.
Completeness is just one reason to cherish this clean-driven clear-headed production
Scenes with girls owns a buzz, a life, a difference about loving that gives it a sliver of unique.
Helen McCrory plumbs the erotic despair of Hester Collyer’s abandoned woman in this absorbing revival of Rattigan’s masterpiece.
I want to know what life, not just Paul Minx will do with his characters afterwards. So will you.
Intricate, fiercely intelligent, this play packs far more force than some twice its length. Sarah Lawrie’s intensity is magnificent.
This magnificent revival poses even more urgent questions. A twitch on the thread for all of us.
A fleet traversal memorable for insights the company bring during and after their performance of it
The OFS are taking flight with the best scratch nights the Elizabethans never had.
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.
Tells us more truthfully then any play has, the heroism that hardens, the sacrifice that endures.
We’re privileged to see this rarely-performed work moulded by OFS. A play for our times.
Outstanding. Surely the definitive study of the dignity of physical labour, and breaking of its amity.
Bleakly funny, with flickers of tragedy, to make you see how redemptive kindness is
