Literature – FringeReview

It’s reading Beckett in flashes of lightning and laughter. Conor Lovett stuns in this cut-down stand-up Beckett-novels-for-beginners-and-enders three-hour whistlestop. A tour de force as well as a tour de farce of Beckett’s genius.

Published June 21, 2024June 21, 2024 by Simon Jenner

Review: That Witch Helen

The face that launched a thousand ships finally gets to speak

Published May 24, 2024May 28, 2024 by Strat Mastoris

Review: Green Knight

An Arthurian legend

Published May 14, 2023May 14, 2023 by Strat Mastoris

Review: Wuthering Heights

A show you must see

Published May 18, 2022May 20, 2022 by Simon Jenner

Review: Ghost Boy: a playwright’s progress

If you want a single account of the heady days of 1960s-70s British theatre, this has to be it

Published April 9, 2022April 10, 2022 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Woman in Black

As fine a touring production as you’re likely to see

Published August 31, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: Paradise

A sleeping classic in the making

Published August 20, 2021August 20, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: Hamilton and Me: An Actor’s Journal

In rapid, elegant, idiomatically kerned language, Giles Terera proves himself a superb expositor of where it happens.

Published August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: Troy Story

Again the most educative stand-up and a thrilling presentation. Oh and bloody funny on war, male sexuality and the Bechdel Test.

Published July 24, 2021July 27, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: Jekyll & Hyde

The most viscerally convulsive realisation of Jekyll or Hyde imaginable

Published June 22, 2021June 23, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: Fiction Romance

Now the way to think of Twelfth Night’s Antonio

Published June 13, 2021June 13, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Tin Drum

Nico Holonics’ blaze-through avatar is unlikely to be surpassed.

Published February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: A Christmas Carol

The most original, potent and uplifting Christmas Carol I’ve ever seen

Published December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road

A selection of the political songs and writings of the great Scottish folklorist

Published August 26, 2018 by Jenni Davidson

Review: Elise

A Fascinating Portrayal of the Lost Women of the Beatnik Era

Published August 22, 2018 by Heather Bagnall

Review: Gie’s Peace

Inspiring Stories of Courageous Women - An Exploration of War Through Storytelling and Music

Published August 22, 2018August 22, 2018 by Luke Tudball

Review: The Turn of the Screw

A Contemporary Puppet-Assisted Twist on a Classic Tale

Published August 18, 2018 by Luke Tudball

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