FringeReview UK

and breathe…

Yomi Sode’s hybrid theatre is a compelling immersion of witness and poetry: we need more of it.

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Living Newspaper #4

We need this. Watch.

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Living Newspaper #5

Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch.

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Metaphysicals

A cross between cheerfully-spun recital and quicksilver treasury

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New Moon Monologues March

Don’t be lulled by the friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queen of Cups is absolutely a company to watch, and its showcase productions are literally unmissable

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Paradise

A sleeping classic in the making

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Pre-Raphaelites

A true Pre-Raphaelite gem-lit recital.

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Romantics

As ever consummate, fine performances, and probing memorably into women Romantic poets

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Sci-Fi Poetry

Utterly refreshing, breaking new ground.

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Sweet William

Naturally enriched by living with Shakespeare Michael Pennington unearths local habitations and names for him.

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The Love and War Trilogy

An enormously satisfying traversal

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The Mahabharata

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.

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The Rape of Lucrece

The definitive way to experience this troublingly great, disturbingly unresolved poem

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Troy Story

Again the most educative stand-up and a thrilling presentation. Oh and bloody funny on war, male sexuality and the Bechdel Test.

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Wilde Without the Boy

A jewel of inhabiting

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William Blake Letters From Heaven and Hell

An ideal inhabiting of Blake

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Women on War

Exemplary, revelatory.

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