Genre: Cabaret
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Review: Oh What a Lovely War
Musically directed by Ellie Verkerk the six-strong cast play instruments throughout. They’re a phenomenal team, singing beautifully a capella or in solo. With six young actors mostly fresh out of drama school absolutely at the top of their first game, we’re treated to acting both hungry to prove and yet touched by the world they’ve entered. This is an outstanding production.
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Review: Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria
Fringe-historical gold, which means very good indeed. It doesn’t mean Copenhagen, with Frayn’s subtle collisions and collusions. It’s a different, desperately joyous animal that signs its truth and shames the world.
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Review: Charmaine Wombwell: Ma’s Monster
part clown, part Buffon and zany comedy character with loads of humility, charm and warmth.
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Review: The Imitator
Julián Fontalvo imitates the voices 70 famous singers as he tells his life story.
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Review: Des Kapital
Revolutionary songs sung by a lusty audience in the heart of Hove. A revolution in itself. If you’ve any sympathy, antipathy or subversive sense of humour towards a way at laughing at history’s atrocities, and thinking there must be a better way - this is the show for you.
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Review: Sound of the Underground
It’ll remain one of the break-out, breakthrough, certainly ground-breaking shows this year.
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Review: Rocky Horror Show
The most lucid-voiced Rocky I’ve seen and on balance strongest cast for a long time. Two great reasons to return, or adventure for your first awakening on Planet Transexual.
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Review: LEON the Magician: Table Tennis is Magic
This show serves up a unique and highly entertaining hour of magic and more
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Review: Fruit Flies Like a Banana
No banana could fly as fast as these three virtuoso performers in this must see show as they combine virtuoso musicianship with acrobatics and dance
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Review: Rebel
You may not know where you are going, but they promise it won’t be boring… and they deliver
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Review: Spill Your Drink – A Deaf Cabaret
A rude, riotous celebration of Scottish deaf talent for everyone to enjoy.
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Review: Oracle: Do You Want to See The Future?
Mentalist Lorenzo Novani reaches into the ideas and minds of the audience
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Review: Tom Lehrer
Another sovereign tribute. Stefan Bednarczyk brings Tom Lehrer swaggering out of retirement.
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Review: The Marching SKAletons and Dead Beat Poets
An 8-piece day of the dead inspired parade band plus the Dead Beat Poets
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Review: Branching Out
Three very fine and one outstanding work, Scratches – the best kind of play on depression, self-harm, black holes. Because it’s screamingly funny and deeply connected to why we do theatre.
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Review: Glenda and Rita Live at The Rialto
Alexander Joseph and Ro Robertson team return in triumph.
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Review: Sitting Pretty
When you see this show return, it’ll be outstanding, and in the frame for awards.
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Review: Living Newspaper #6
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch what this does with the future
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Review: San Francisco Fringe Festival 2020 Sneak Peek!
Catch a taste of what's to come at the 2021 San Francisco Fringe Festival!
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Review: Love, Loss and Quarantine
The Pandemic sheds a new light on relationships, as beautifully told in song
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Review: Hysteria
An effective cabaret style run at the issues facing women in the 21st century with a popular theatrical style of the previous century which entertains is unsure of itself.
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Review: Paul Zenon: Trust Me!
Three shows rolled into one - a master standup, a master storyteller and a master magician
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Review: 100% Cotton
Jake Thakeray meets Victoria Wood in an hour of delightfully risqué comedic songs.
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Review: Flo & Joan : Before the screaming starts
Following their Sell Out 2018 run Flo & Joan are back and better than ever.
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Review: The Dots
Chaotic comedy cabaret - a tour-de-force performance, combining brilliant vocals and genuinely funny routines.
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Review: Kit and McConnel
Another bit of beguiling badinage and ballads from two doyens of the Fringe.
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Review: Splintered
Highly effective and gripping Caribbean LGBTQI+ storytelling that effectively reminds us that all rights are to be treasured and campaigned for
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Review: Shirley The Middle Aged Siren
The Story of a Gal from New York who has washed up on a nearby beach near you
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Review: David Hoyle: Tuesday Night is David Night
How to share a Tuesday night with the gender-transcending enfant terrible David Hoyle.
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Review: Too Young to Stay In, Too Old to Go Out!
Nigel Osner delivers an audacious rendition into the vulnerable and egregious lives of those growing in years
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Review: Square Rounds
Proud Haddock have delivered their own stamp on Harrison’s verse-play, and it’s mostly thrilling
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Review: Dandy Darkly’s All Aboard!
Deliciously provocative, cynical, creative, poignant, entertaining, uplifting, impactful show. Do not miss it!
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Review: Mao That’s What I Call Music!
Des Kapital presents a strange brew of pop karaoke and Communist China
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Review: Accordion Fight Show
The bizarre burlesque of a man in leather thong playing accordion - mostly with other clothes on
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Review: Casting Off
Three generations of women 'Cast Off' all stereotypes of what they can, should and be able to do.
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Review: Peter Goers is Hard Rubbish
"Goers has a story to tell, a joke (or three) and some genuinely interesting anecdotes"
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Review: Dandy Darkly’s Myth Mouth
Wickedly mischievous, creative, joyous, boisterous, lyrical, brash, poetic, funny and entertaining show!
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Review: Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel – Pheasant Laughter
Beguiling badinage and ballads from two doyens of the Fringe.
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Review: These Trees Are Made Of Blood
A necessary piece of theatre, the band are superb; a couple of numbers will take residence in your ear. Theatrically it’s almost achieved too, and if it feels slightly clunky it’s that the brilliant conceit of political trickery can’t be sustained over the sombre facts the second act introduces us to. The end’s overwhelming. Two audience members sat quietly weeping together and could not move for minutes after. Others sat stunned.
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Review: Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer: The Chap-Hop Decade
Returning to his roots, festival fave and Brighton’s own Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer celebrated 10 years of the musical genre he founded, Chap Hop.
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Review: Souvenir
Uproarious “kamikaze cabaret” history of Brighton Theatre Royal told through song and amusing anecdotes.
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Review: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Lenny Henry’s magnificent, physically menacing deserves his place alongside Henry Goodman’s at least. If the cabaret and audience-rich production mightn’t replicate that production’s chill, it’s of its time, serves as a timely marker of a new nadir of western degradation. That gives it permanent Brechtian relevance.
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Review: Fall of Duty
Not so much another First War narrative but a parallel rediscovery of singalong music, song and dance, stars and tears in their eyes. Tightness of video, the engagement of audience and extremely well-counterpointed denouement makes this a memorable show. And did I mention the Childs can sing?
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Review: Tina C’s President -C
Witty, wonderful and warming politics meets drag queen meets country singer...in a tent on an intersection.
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Review: The Shakespeare Revue
A consummate delight in this now rarest of forms; a tight song-and-dance of words. New material sizzles, inserted towards the end, the whole box of Bards from Bernard Levin’s Quoting Shakespeare to McKee’s arrangement of Shakespeare lines for a musical lights-out dances on the edge of hilarity before falling headlong into it.
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Review: The Entertainer
Gawn Granger carries the memory of greatness and it’s this elusive elixir Archie, consummately but seedily played by Branagh, which stands in for those lost ideals Osborne’s first great character Jimmy Porter grasped at. It’s the toppling of Archie Rice’s own inner idol, or failure to do so, that sends this absorbing production out whistling into the dark.
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Review: Tomás Ford’s Craptacular!
A crazy hour of anarchic cabaret karaoke with audience participation from Tomás Ford.