Review: Good-Bye
Wholly absorbing, wholly other, it’s a gem of the Coronet’s dedication to world theatre.
Review: Good-Bye
Wholly absorbing, wholly other, it’s a gem of the Coronet’s dedication to world theatre.
Review: The Beautiful Future is Coming
Beautiful Future engages throughout though the near future is where it beats quickest. Flora Wilson Brown’s play makes you wonder what life, not just the playwright, might do with her characters. Urgently recommended.
Review: Purgatorio
Groundhog Day - Saying goodbye to old memories, whilst finding new ones. A beautiful physical representation on our ability to accept who we truly are! Get down to Club Purgatorio!
Review: AFTER ALL
Weinachter is an interchangeable chameleon: not just a dancer, but a rare performer who can do it all! Her style and execution of ideas paints a beautiful memory of her idiosyncratic talents in exploring the beginning and end of life. Stunningly poignant.
Review: CREEKSHOW
An evocative and touching personal take on a hidden corner of London’s waterways.
Review: BUTCHERED
The physicality of Ez Holland and Nic Lawton has to be seen to be believed.
Review: Can I Be Bored Now ?
When was the last time you didn't use your phone for the whole day?
Review: Lovefool
Though it might be red-topped as a Fleabag for the abused, it’s so much more excoriating. It’s also a work profoundly moving, necessary and – particularly for Gintare Parulyte - an act of courage. Lovefool’s on till May 26th; do rush to this 55-minute must-see.
Review: Experiment Human
A Monkion experiment involving Benedict Cumberbatch
Review: OBLIGATION
Brilliantly bonkers - a visual ‘mise-en-scène!’
Review: Manic
A new solo show that combines puppetry, spoken word and theatre to bring an honest look at sex and trauma to Brighton Fringe 2023
Review: BANSHEE/ WITH ECHOES FILLING UP THE ORBIT, BUT DAMAGED (EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING)
An eclectic mix of challenge and theatre
Review: Sound of the Underground
It’ll remain one of the break-out, breakthrough, certainly ground-breaking shows this year.
Review: Not One of These People
Worth 95 minutes of anyone’s time, you come out heavier with the weight of where you’ve been.
Review: Caligari
a 1920's silent film about power and illusion retold by a talented young company of musician/actors
Review: Ghislaine/Gabler
A spell binding multi layered exploration of privilege, entitlement, and the desire to control…
Review: Seance
A short but extremely satisfying diversion
Review: Astra
There’s nothing remotely like it and Foyle’s team have broken through to the stars.
Review: The Wrong Planet
There’s a great act struggling out of this blissfully baggy monster.
Review: Artificial Intelligence Improvisation
Professional improvisers beware. The robots are after your jobs.
Review: Two Pairs of Eyes
An immersive ghost story
Review: So…
Brand new show by performance makers Jon Haynes and David Woods
Review: Because I Can
A challenging exploration of losing power and relevance as we age.
Review: How It Is Part 2
Immersive, outstanding, unrepeatable and unimaginable anywhere else
Review: Distance Remaining
A quirky film, beautifully acted about three separate lives.
Review: The Dream Train
Contemplative and beautiful to watch, 4 characters interact in juxtaposed realities underscored by Bach's Goldberg Variations
Review: Tethered
Grab it while you can
Review: I Am Echoborg
Still a groundbreaking show
Review: The Sensemaker
An astonishing, disturbing shapeshifting sliver of genius.
Review: Living Newspaper #4
We need this. Watch.
Review: An Ice Thing to Say
Being Human in the Anthropocene
Review: San Francisco Fringe Festival 2020 Sneak Peek!
Catch a taste of what's to come at the 2021 San Francisco Fringe Festival!
Review: A Separate Peace
Stoppard looks at society’s phantom limb ethic. Even when it’s gone it aches, and it aches to have someone opting out.
Review: Far Away
Our greatest playwright since Beckett and Pinter. An outstanding revival. Hesitating?
Review: He’s Dead
Was Tupac depressed?
Review: Midnight Movie
What we have is absorbing
Review: A Letter to a Friend in Gaza
Amos Gitai’s curating hope from the ruins, impelling the audience to construct a narrative.
Review: {BLANK}
Compelling and bleakly miraculous
Review: Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
The most consistently satisfying work of Tim Crouch I’ve seen.
Review: Timandra Harkness: Take a Risk
Timandra Harkness is an intelligent and interesting performer, calmly steering us through a show exploring the concept of risk taking, that didn't need to work hard to keep our attention.
Review: The Voices We Hear
A moving and intimate exploration of life and connection after an apocalypse in a unique zero waste venue
Review: The female role model project
Original, thought-provoking, ambitious, funny, absorbing, interactive and no sign of the 4th wall
Review: seven methods of killing kylie jenner
‘What are you gonna do now…. clap?’ Yes, standing.
Review: The Journey of the Little Prince
A journey back to a state of childlike wonder.
Review: Where Are You Really From?
Quirky, creative, and thoroughly entertaining exploration of cultural identity
Review: Lucy Hopkins: Secrt Circl
Ding dong the witch is bonkers
Review: May I Speak About Dance?
“A playfully contemplative lecture performance, posing challenging questions about the language of contemporary dance.”
Review: Flight
A lyrically told story of child refugees
Review: End Times: An Immersive Adventure
A Thought Provoking and Sagacious Escapade into an End of the World Immersive Experience
Review: Dismantle This Room
Dismantle this space? Yes. This theatre at least can take it.
Review: Loving Androids
A beautifully-constructed play, small in compass, big in scope and deft at managing the transitions
Review: Berberian Sound Studio
Thoroughly absorbing, full of walking shadows who throw vivid questions.
Review: Inside Bitch
Visceral and sometimes very very funny. Then not. Essential viewing.
Review: Shipwreck
A superb ensemble piece. Of all dramas on these interesting times in America, it’s the one truly necessary.
Review: The Lady From the Sea
A groundbreaking production. Even outside its unique terms it’s outstanding.
Review: When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other
This cast’s exemplary dedication deserves watching for their sheer performative belief.
Review: An Experiment with an Air Pump
A great painting by Joseph Wright of Derby - brought to life on stage.
Review: Hole
Wow drama, the original Greek tragoidia. It invokes the same powers, almost the same gods.
Review: Billy
Billy is a listicle advert for useless misogyny, a constructivist nightmare, an IKEA bookcase and a durational comedy. GET IT? Good!
Review: Square Rounds
Proud Haddock have delivered their own stamp on Harrison’s verse-play, and it’s mostly thrilling
Review: Thrown by Jodi Gray
Dreamlike and Sureal Creation
Review: The Stars
Walk-and-talk of Fame.
Review: No One is Coming to Save You
No One is Coming to Save You makes me want to see a lot more of Nathan Ellis.
Review: Creation (Pictures for Dorian)
A Transformative Night of Voyeurism and Exploring The Nature of Beauty
Review: Blaas (Blow)
Tender, otherworldly, explorative and extraordinary, this is an exquisite show that is more than worth the trip out of town.
Review: Rear View
Where live street theatre and guerrilla film-making mesh in perfect harmony.
Review: For King and Country
Terrific immersive fun. If you want to know what might have happened in an alternative December 1940, this is as exciting, informative and perhaps as authentic experience as you could encounter.
Review: Grimly Handsome
If you want theatre to change your life a little and wonder where our DNA and urges trek to, you could do infinitely worse than shiver here.
Review: Minefield
Minefield is for its unique and singularly consummate exploration of its themes, outstanding, in a class apart from any show you’ll see, perhaps even of Arias. Her work must be acknowledged here now.
Review: In Memory of Leaves
On a moored barge Natasha Langridge re-enacts her own In Memory of Leaves updated from a run last year to include this year’s tumultuous events. This is a fine, necessary work inevitably in progress. Let it settle in the water a bit more, and glitter.
Review: Thebes Land
It’s good to welcome the return of this cage. Franco-Uruguayan Sergio Blanco’s Thebes Land drops back into Arcola’s Studio 1 after its acclaimed run in 2016. It’s where this will go, what both prisoner Martin and writer T are left with, that begins to shine out of this extraordinary, ground-breaking work.
Review: The Majority
If Rob Drummond’s /Bullet Catch/ charmed and alarmed at NT’s The Shed and Brighton Festival in 2013, here Drummond starts his odyssey of political immersion in a prison cell; for throwing a punch at a neo-Nazi. Opening three days after the Charlottesville murder, the timing’s eerily prescient and more charged than even Drummond might have imagined.
Review: Anatomy of a Suicide
Is there a suicide gene? Alice Birch’s simultaneous triptych of three generations of women traumatised and depressed is so formally novel that its psychological heft gets subsumed in the sheer force of three narratives jarring for our attention. You must see this play; its dark releases a shaft of terrible light.
Review: The Brexorcist
A darkly satirical exploration of the events which surround us
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: 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: A House Repeated
A live action text adventure game
Review: Bildraum
The fall of civilisation and a celebration of nature
Review: 4D Cinema
A historical and technological exploration of Marlene Dietrich, autobiography and live performance.
Review: Cuncrete
The patriarchy of macho architecture gets a pasting
Review: In Fidelity
A fascinating look at love, cheating, and relationships with a live onstage date between audience members
Review: Infinity Pool: A Modern Retelling of Madam Bovary
A unique one woman, no woman show
Review: 20 Plays in 40 minutes
A 40 minute treat filled with uneven delivery but gusto and guts
Review: Here All Night
Sam’s all night shiner, Beckett’s Wake and Cabaret. Haunting, funny, unmissable.
Review: Dancing in the Dark
Inspired off-centre situationist drama from acclaimed Wired Theatre about family, grief and sexual identities.
Review: This Is How We Die
A stream of words and sound that is overwhelmingly intense
Review: Sex, Strokes, Death, Denial
Jack Duffel's new play mixes extreme naturalism with verse in a play creatively probing death and displacement in the family
Review: Portraits in Motion
A beautiful live portrait exhibition
Review: Insomnia
Superbly conceived speculative gambit by ZLS Theatre. Prepare to be immersed.
Review: The Bula Loop
A searing but warm-hearted examination of autism in the family.
Review: Experience & the Girl
A story about how love, lust and everything in between can transcend religion.
Review: Theatre Show
Intriguing - a brilliantly deconstructed piece of comedic theatre!