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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.
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.
Stoppard looks at society’s phantom limb ethic. Even when it’s gone it aches, and it aches to have someone opting out.
Barber Shop Chronicles is a breath-taking revelation for those of us who had small inkling of a world in miniature.
This work never loses its charge, its own rapturous arrival Spall gives the performance of his career so far.
Renders huge black experience into a narrative that bears it, because so well-constructed, so character-driven and so inhabited by Michael Balogun whose blaze of awakening is both benediction and clarion.
Will leave you in a heap and wonder what else Lauren Gunderson has written that comes near this.
Performances and play that should turn us upside down. Do make a detour for this brave. tremulously beautiful coming of love.
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
Scenes with girls owns a buzz, a life, a difference about loving that gives it a sliver of unique.
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.
There’s a generosity here, a big hug. Theatre itself affirms the value of life to those who might yet shape it for the better.
