Review: Moral Panic
A film censor navigates turbulent times in his work and at home - a comic one-hander with some horror thrown in.
Genre: Fringe Theatre
Review: Hangmen
Assured, idiomatic performances. And Martin McDonagh’s distinction resonates in a manner peculiar to him alone.
Review: Absent Friends
If you can book, beg or otherwise snaffle a ticket, you won’t find a more satisfying production anywhere in Brighton this month. Outstanding.
Review: The Chalk Garden
Not quite the last drawing-room comedy. But the Janus-faced prophesy of plays that took thirty years to catch up.
Review: Di and Viv and Rose
A first-rate revival of this heartwarming play, surprising you with grief, and joy
Review: Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil
An enticingly dramatic radio play which seeks successfully to bring the drama of lower league football to a much wider audience.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Outdoors, this has grown prodigously. Some actors give transcendent performances up there with London’s finest. Out in the slant air this proves magical.
Review: Sweating the Small Stuff
An episodic call to concentrate on the big stuff rather than the wee things which hits more than it misses.
A fascinatingly delivered riff on one woman’s journey for recognition and soul which includes a brush from a smear test.
Review: For All the Love You Lost
A fascinating portrait of the anxiety of youth, the loss of somebody close and that endings are not always assured, even in a theatre.
Review: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The standard story set up by a highly entertaining pair who deliver a very high standard of performance.
Review: Rosetti’s Women
A lovely, dramatic presentation that covers the racy relationships, from the perspectives of three of his women, of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Review: Rituel
A fascinating performance where the machismo of life is beautifully sent off into the clouds.
Review: Femme Ta Bouche
A melodramatic revelation and epic journey of self-discovery that is prescient and worthy of a pedestal upon which to put itself.
Review: Plasters
Two actors in a relationship, both on and offstage, struggle to find meaning for themselves.
Review: Myra’s Story
One woman, many characters, several tragedies told with the earnestness of truth and the triumph of theatre.
Review: The Merchant of Venice
This production needs a run. It’s potentially a great interpretation.
Review: Misfits
An important play, tackling the deadly serious with laughter that all too easily could lead to stark tragedy.
Review: Dracula
You should see this with some fine acting and a storyline making more sense of Dracula than Stoker does himself.
Review: The Mother Load
Three women, three pregnancies, three experiences, much laughter and revelation in a funny and engaging audio performance.
Review: The Macbeths
A scintillating film of claustrophobic terror in the company of the most infamous fictional duo on the stage.
Review: Between Two Waves
A play about the Climate Crisis, family, photography and being screwed by insurance.
Review: Angela
A tender, beautifully pitched exploration of the individuality of a life, despite what illness may eventually steal.
Review: I am all the Rooms of the House
A domestic poem about what is in all of our experiences now, but with exceptional poetry to accompany and illuminate the mundane.
Review: Adam
An astonishing performance of a personal journey that whispers in anger leads you to positives humanity throughout.
Review: We are the lions Mr. Manager
A great revisiting of the 70’s in an agit prop retelling two hander, of a time past but a prejudice still present
Review: The Water Cooler
A unique take on the problems of today which does manage to bring new perspective to the issue we face regarding race and mental wellbeing.
Review: Walk of Shame
A slow burning expose of the shame we should feel at how we treat those who exercise the liberty we expect them to have
Review: Lament for Sheku Bayou
An astonishing story lamented and told in an extraordinary fashion that resonates and poetically demands change.
Review: Strange Rocks
A wholly theatrical exploration of what finding a body on a shore might contemplatively lead you to consider.
Review: User Not Found
A fascinating online exploration of what might happen when someone dies and leaves someone else in charge of their digital footprint.
Review: Groomed
A scorching autobiographical tale of abuse that manages to tell us the story of the abused as well as introduce us to the teacher responsible.
Review: Contractions
A fascinating take on a fast paced modern play that truly picks apart the commercialization of our employee status.
Review: Maim
A hymnotic theatrical panic for the land, which exposes us to the language and the lyrical beauty of our own country.
Review: Daddy Drag
Proof that whilst you cannot fit a person into a show, you can truly theatrically lift a lid on his behaviour, the effect he leaves behind and the void that others cannot fill
Review: Whatever Happened to the Jaggy Nettles?
A glorious story of Punk, friendship and betrayal from the seventies, played out proud and loud by a fantastic addition to Scotland’s creative scene
Review: The Good Dad (A Love Story)
Intricate, fiercely intelligent, this play packs far more force than some twice its length. Sarah Lawrie’s intensity is magnificent.
Review: Adrift
A powerful reminder that life really is a beautiful mystery in a theatrically impressive story of a young woman who has battled the demons of negative mental health
Review: Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody
Voldemort the Musical Parody is back, funnier and slicker with all our favourite characters and songs.
Review: Flo & Joan : Before the screaming starts
Following their Sell Out 2018 run Flo & Joan are back and better than ever.
Review: My Mum’s a Twat
A one woman show, using her teenage voice to tell the story of being rejected by her Mum who chose a powerful cult over her family.
Review: I’ll take you to Mrs Cole
A wonderful family show, adapted from the book of the same name, and I guarantee you will be singing the theme song under your breath for days.
Review: Swim
A dreamy piece of theatre combining storytelling, live music and visuals exploring grief, swimming and friendship.
Review: Goddess
A fun comedy solo show telling the true story of the performer’s previous job as a receptionist at a Tantric Massage parlour, and how she got there.
Review: I Run
A vivid solo performance of a man running furious, powerful and heartbroken into the grief of his dead daughter.
Review: Sary
Sary is a two handed based loosely on the tale of Sary Weaver from around the 1800s. This original writing from Sam Chittenden takes inspiration from this tale, uses the evocative and visually rich dialects of Sussex at this time.
Review: Jake
An exceptional, multilayered piece that will keep you on the edge of your seat - if not on your toes!
Review: Little Rabbit
Susan's trapped in her house by rising flood water. But she's not allowed to leave the house or even be seen......
Review: With Child
Claire Pointing expertly performs 6 talking heads characters who are all visibly pregnant; but only one refers to their pregnancy and impending motherhood.
Review: Catching Comets
This was a solo performance telling a story about love, about fear, about the protections that we build up around ourselves that isolate us more than they serve.
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: How to be Brave
Siân Owen’s one woman play set in Newport is a lively, fun and heart wrenching ride
Review: Beep Boop
A one man mime and physical comedy theatre show with a live digital soundscape, exploring society’s uneasy obsession with online life and the curious delusional pull away from an actually lonely reality.
Review: White Girls
An innovative and original insight into volunteering in the jungle of Calais and how naivete turns through experience into knowledge; a journey we all benefit from.
Review: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery: The Baker Street Irregulars and the case of the Stolen Portrait
A charming and enthusiastic young person’s company tell their tale of detection with flair.
Review: My Life Closed Twice
Joe 'meets' the girl in the Red Hoodie, who helps him learn to live with the cacophony of voices in his head.
Review: 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War
An impressive and dramatic look back at four young men who left Prestonpans and went to fight in the 1930’s conflict which is usually filled with mystique and mythology
Review: Where Are You Really From?
Quirky, creative, and thoroughly entertaining exploration of cultural identity
Review: Cuckoo
A fascinating examination of the South Korean financial crisis with video, a solo performer and not one but three cuckoos.
Review: Those Magnificent Men
Find out what happens to these Magnificent Men; for they were, and are.
