Review: Flashdance
It’s Joanne Clifton’s night. She lives Alex, dangerously pushing every routine with an extravagance, a hunger, sexiness and raw power that makes it one of the most memorable dance performances in a musical I’ve ever seen.
Genre: Dance and Movement Theatre
Review: Flashdance
Review: The Suppliant Women
In one of the most radical productions ever mounted of Aeschylus indeed any Greek tragedy we’re literally taken to its roots: as in Greece, a community chorus of fifty, twenty-one of them the suppliant women of the play’s title. In this outstanding production, everything to resurrect this astonishing vision has been invoked.
Review: #Jesuis
A highly impressive piece of dance and physical theatre which explored our world and its response to the attacks it has suffered.
Review: La Cage aux Folles
La Cage aux Folles one might say comes home to Brighton’s Theatre Royal in this revival by Bill Kenwright Productions directed by Martin Connor. There’s no mystery why Brighton gets two weeks of this.
Review: Death City
Stunningly choreographed Korean dance where death lingers round every wrist flick.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream’s ideal for open air summer nights: The Brighton Shakespeare Company produces the most joyous, certainly sweetest Dream I can remember. It’s fresh, certainly but also enormously warm-hearted. You feel the ‘silver bow new-bent in heaven’ has unloosed a shower of happiness.
Review: Now you see it
A rich and spellbindingly disconcerting piece of physical theatre, which captures the looping, cyclical, ordered chaos of our lives.
Review: Blindfold: The Night of the Hunt
Four actors led by writer/director Sofia Stavrakaki enact what’s clearly a prison of a circus, people forced to perform a ritual of trouping for the delectation of a whip-cracking elite. A summary hardly does justice to the atmosphere this production evokes or the meta-language burning through the glares of hallucinated prey. You’ll know whether it’s for you if you like Beckett or European theatre
Review: Plan B for Utopia
With its low tech props, starkly minimal staging, and exquisite performance, Clevillé has constructed a piece that teeters between being hilarious, heart breaking, and intensely hopeful.
Review: Nuclear War
Simon Stephens has been exploring music and now dance in this piece inspired by his collaboration with choreographer Hofesh Schechter. Maureen Beattie’s intensely committed central performance is worth absorbing, the ensemble make flesh as much of Stephens’ text as could be asked. This feels like a text that needs to risk pushing through more specificity without fear of losing its suggestiveness.
Review: The End of Things
A fascinating performance, more about the spaces between than the importance of the things we treasure.
Review: Amadeus
In the most spectacular production imaginable, the antagonisms between the black-suited and marzipan fight it out in this extraordinary sumptuous and consummately musical production. Far from seeming out of place, Adam Gillen’s Young Ones-style shrilling brat with his technicolour frock-coats seems almost more attuned than Salieri to his milieu. It’s naturally the corresponding gravity this production looks to though: Lucian Msmati’s supremely crafted lead sets off the quicksilver of his rival to an unprecedented extent.
Review: At War with Love
A poignant, deep and vibrant use of Shakespearean sonnet dressed in the context of World War One
Review: Until the Lions
A powerful and breathtaking production, featuring outstanding performances from members of the Akram Kham Company
Review: Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
Lee Hall’s and Vicky Featherstone‘s sell-out Edinburgh Fringe musical comes to the Theatre Royal. It more than bears out the accolades heaped on it.
Review: Smoke and Mirrors
Smoke and Mirrors is a must see. An exquisitely conceived, ultra contemporary blend of circus and dance, it's a wake up call, an intensely radical act.
Review: May We Go Round
Allow yourselves to be taken on an energetic, compelling, hilarious journey and witness two young talented and feisty women come into their own definitions of femininity.
Review: Farewell, My Concubine – The Movement of the Martyr
A stunning retelling of a Chinese legend.
Review: Follow the Faun
A forty-five minute acid trippy escapade of movement, music, lights and human connection
Review: Falling in love with Frida
An intimate and evocative performance that layers text, music and dance.
Review: Hitch
"Good Evening. Consider, if you will, a group of scoundrels and vagabonds who like to play with rope .."
Review: Ticket to Bollywood
An explosion of enthusiastic colour illuminating a culture which entrances from your very first experience
Review: 64 Squares
Enter the brain of ‘B’, and discover some of the most exciting physical theatre on the Fringe.
Review: Exalt and 5 Tangos
Lovely double bill of fascinating contemporary dance followed by a classic dance text
Review: The Warriors – a love story
Review: Hot Cat
Review: Invisible Empire
A very interesting and engaging live interrogation of conformity that had five actors claim to use movement and song to explore why we conform and why we ought to break free from convention
Review: The 63rd International Choreographers’ Showcase
This was a bite size assortment of performances and an interesting introduction to dance for theatre goers interested in learning more about different forms of artistic expression.
Review: I Heart Jack
An ageing cabaret singer, a young socialite, and a gigolo named Jack tell their stories through an interesting mix of mediums
Review: Translunar Paradise
There is something magically uplifting about this show which will stay with you for days.
Review: Korean Drum – Journey of a Soul
Dance and drums combine to give us the noisiest show on the fringe
Review: Asta Nielsen is Dead
Who needs a voice when [Re:ArtzZ) use physicality & mime to bring the house down?
Review: Cento Close
A movement piece based on everyday movements. Which can make some of the movements look a little .. well, like the ones we do every day.
Review: Another Someone
Rashdash Theatre blend sharp choreography with delicate acting and powerful singing, producing a show that dabbles in a myriad genres.
