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
Review: Dandy Darkly’s All Aboard!
Deliciously provocative, cynical, creative, poignant, entertaining, uplifting, impactful show. Do not miss it!
Review: Mao That’s What I Call Music!
Des Kapital presents a strange brew of pop karaoke and Communist China
Review: Accordion Fight Show
The bizarre burlesque of a man in leather thong playing accordion - mostly with other clothes on
Review: Casting Off
Three generations of women 'Cast Off' all stereotypes of what they can, should and be able to do.
Review: Peter Goers is Hard Rubbish
"Goers has a story to tell, a joke (or three) and some genuinely interesting anecdotes"
Review: Dandy Darkly’s Myth Mouth
Wickedly mischievous, creative, joyous, boisterous, lyrical, brash, poetic, funny and entertaining show!
Review: Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel – Pheasant Laughter
Beguiling badinage and ballads from two doyens of the Fringe.
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.
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.
Review: Souvenir
Uproarious “kamikaze cabaret” history of Brighton Theatre Royal told through song and amusing anecdotes.
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.
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?
Review: Tina C’s President -C
Witty, wonderful and warming politics meets drag queen meets country singer...in a tent on an intersection.
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.
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.
Review: Tomás Ford’s Craptacular!
A crazy hour of anarchic cabaret karaoke with audience participation from Tomás Ford.
Review: Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel – Out To Lunch
Beguiling badinage and ballads from two doyens of the Fringe.
Review: Joan, Babs & Sheila Too
A stunning traversal of Joan Littlewood’s life by Gemskii and Conscious Theatre. Without her, there would never have been A Taste of Honey, Oh What a Lovely War, or much of postwar British theatre.
Review: Here All Night
Sam’s all night shiner, Beckett’s Wake and Cabaret. Haunting, funny, unmissable.
Review: Limelight
Showstopping numbers stud this heartwarming, touching new play with numbers by Liz Tait.
Review: Blues and Burlesque
Blues and Burlesque: Pete Saunders, strikes whilst the iron is hot, calling on the seductress Ivy Paige to host an evening of sultry blues, bawdy comedy and strip tease
Review: Dusty Limits: Grin
Dusty Limits resents his first album of original work written with the brilliant Michael Roulston
Review: Bom-Banimals at Bom-Bane’s Restaurant
A new up close and extremely personal musical experience from Jane Bom-bane's famous restaurant.
Review: Puddles Pity Party – Potluck
With soaring vocals and a quirky persona, Puddle's party is anything but pitiful
Review: Daniel Cainer: 21st Century Jew
"witty, eloquent and wise, and worthy of its standing ovation"
Review: The Night Shift With Gloria Hole
An insightful telling of a drag queen’s life and her changing role within the community.
Review: The Hundred Watt Club
Charismatic cabaret stuffed full of acts that you'll want to seek out elsewhere ..
Review: Geraldine Quinn – MDMA: Modern Day Maiden Aunt
Geraldine Quinn’s chameleonic voice rules the stage in Modern Day Maiden Aunt: an ode to choosing your own path.
Review: Puddles Pity Party
Gigantic, sad clown with the voice of an angel wordlessly stomps around a tiny stage in Adelaide and brings happiness to all* — coulrophobics, this is your chance to be cured.
Review: Mylie’s Relationship Status Is Complicated: A Facebook Romance
Searching for love on Facebook presented in song and storytelling by a brilliant cabaret performer with highly entertaining humour and a great selection of pop songs.
Review: Bacchanalia
Bacchanalia (plural noun): any drunken revelry; orgiastic rites associated with Bacchus; a land of Hope and Gloria
Review: Lynn Ruth Miller : Not Dead Yet
A lesson in life from one of the most interesting characters at this year’s Fringe.
Review: From Berlin to Broadway
The life and music of the fascinating Kurt Weil brought to life in a cabaret by the talented Bremner Duthie.
Review: Divallusion with Christina Bianco and Velma Celli
Powerhouse voices of all the Diva greats by Christina Bianco
Review: The Five-Thirty Cabaret at the Famous Spiegeltent
Burlesque, cabaret, illusion and the downright outrageous. Just avoid the front row.
Review: Terry Garoghan is The Man in Slacks
"Garoghan looks like he still has plenty more tricks up his sleeve"
Review: The Kransky Sisters: Piece of Cake
Sisters Mourne, Eve and Dawn return with another Piece of Kransky Cake and reimagined songs off the wireless for Adelaide audiences.
Review: French Kiss
French chanteuse and upper class socialite charms the prols with her wit and vocal dexterity
Review: Damsel In Shining Armour
This show was a great example of how cabaret can be – fun and stylish, sassy and inventive with a talented performer..
Review: The Full Bronte; A Literary cabaret
A highly entertaining run through the Bronte’s with music and audience participation that is hard to lick
