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FringeReview UK 2021
Even more than 2019, a carnival riot of joy – with enough misdirection to evoke moonshine
Jumbo’s Hamlet strips out accretions and ghosts you into asking who or what Hamlet is. See it if you possibly can.
After all the gods and their lack of choice, we come to the final instalment, the human dimension. Where we have one. A heartfelt, satisfying finish.
Building out of Macbeth a recurring epic of structural violence not ended with one overthrow, sets the seal on this outstanding production.
Immerse yourself in Blanche McIntyre’s quizzical production. You’ll come nearer to this play.
A terrific reinvention, bringing gods and heroines up from the death of myth to an altered world.
Pandora’s Jar/Honour Among Thebes
The most educative stand-up and a thrilling presentation. Oh and bloody funny on the tragedies.
A fleet, brilliantly upending, wholly relevant take on the Verona-ready toxicity feeding male violence and young depression
Naturally enriched by living with Shakespeare Michael Pennington unearths local habitations and names for him.
A dramatic sense of arrival the way the Odyssey here ended: a clash of even vaster ferocity, keening, treachery, humour, mischievousness, sacrifice and grief, joy and the agency of women.
The definitive way to experience this troublingly great, disturbingly unresolved poem
Do see this Tempest, not only subtly outstanding, but pulsing with human connectivity and warmth.
Again the most educative stand-up and a thrilling presentation. Oh and bloody funny on war, male sexuality and the Bechdel Test.
With Michelle Terry as Viola, one of the most touching and truthful Twelfth Nights I’ve seen.