Live Literature – FringeReview

Review: Moby Dick

Herman Melville's classic comes to life.

Published May 9, 2025May 9, 2025 by Strat Mastoris

Review: What Lies Beneath: The Story of Masquerade

What Lies Beneath: The Story of Masquerade

Published April 28, 2025April 28, 2025 by Paul Levy

Review: Oliver!

There’s not a moment in this two-hours-40 where you’re not at the edge of your seat. The best musical revival this year. Don’t wait till it transfers to the West End.

Published July 25, 2024July 25, 2024 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Trumpeter

Verging on expressionism it’s extraordinary.

Published July 12, 2024July 13, 2024 by Simon Jenner

Review: Northanger Abbey

We should fall in love right here. A joyous must-see.

Published January 25, 2024January 25, 2024 by Simon Jenner

Review: Play On Shakespeare Globe Wanamaker

An invigorating not to say complicit evening by the end. Whilst I have questions about the limits of the texts used, and the understanding of how the texts developed and still – with some academics – the deeper questions of syntax which some adaptors clearly work with – this is exciting.

Published July 15, 2023July 15, 2023 by Simon Jenner

Review: Room

As a condensation and enactment of Woolf’s seminal text this can’t be improved on. The outstanding one-person show I’ve seen this Fringe.

Published May 19, 2022May 20, 2022 by Simon Jenner

Review: How It Is Part 2

Immersive, outstanding, unrepeatable and unimaginable anywhere else

Published April 23, 2022April 24, 2022 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: Jeeves and Wooster Perfect Nonsense

A professional-standard production, and magnificent start to the 2020s.

Published July 18, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: William Blake Letters From Heaven and Hell

An ideal inhabiting of Blake

Published July 16, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: Pre-Raphaelites

A true Pre-Raphaelite gem-lit recital.

Published July 13, 2021July 13, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: Wilde Without the Boy

A jewel of inhabiting

Published July 2, 2021July 3, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: Mayhem at the Cabaret Voltaire

Potentially a terrific show

Published June 22, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: Sci-Fi Poetry

Utterly refreshing, breaking new ground.

Published June 22, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: Pandora’s Jar/Honour Among Thebes

The most educative stand-up and a thrilling presentation. Oh and bloody funny on the tragedies.

Published June 19, 2021June 19, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: Frankenstein

Imaginative, Exquisitely Haunting and Moving - Visual Storytelling at its best!

Published October 27, 2020October 28, 2020 by Jo Tomalin

Review: The Odyssey

A stupendous undertaking

Published October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters

Don’t take your Nan to this show.

Published August 18, 2019 by Didi Craze

Review: John Greening The Silence

The Crypt organisers as well as John Greening really have hit on an ideal recitation.

Published July 19, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys and The Laments

In nearly every way an outstanding pair of productions.

Published July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Odditorium

An eclectic mix of strange and unusual entertainment

Published June 6, 2019 by Sue Bradley

Review: Your Alice

A trip down the Rabbit Hole like you've never seen.

Published August 14, 2018 by Nikki Muller

Review: The Terrors of the Night

Nashe’s 1594 The Terrors of the Night directed by Jason Morell is a stunning one-off. This imaginative enterprise should be developed perhaps with at least one more actor, and certainly enjoy a niche run. It’s a triumph (both early modern and modern senses!) viscerally realized here with music and floating candles. Let it again feast our horrors, curiosity and uneasy laughter.

Published May 22, 2017May 22, 2017 by Simon Jenner

Review: Wife

A one woman show following wives through history, art and legend

Published May 19, 2017 by Lynn Ruth Miller

Review: The View from Castle Rock

A story that is both touching and at times humorous.

Published August 22, 2016 by Glenys McIntyre

Review: Brideshead Revisited

Bryony Lavery’s adaptation of Brideshead, the first for the stage dazzles with stagecraft and storyline but something’s lost tail-chasing the detail.

Published June 8, 2016 by Simon Jenner

Review: Loud Poets

Bold, loud, passionate and engaging – poetry for the masses with a wonderful energy

Published May 18, 2016 by Guy Wah

Review: Outside the Box: A Live Show about Death

A thought provoking, funny and moving performance by a masterful story teller, requiring us to think carefully about death and dying before it is too late.

Published May 16, 2016 by Zelah Senior

Review: Matthew Reilly’s Ice Station Live

A dynamic and gripping production.

Published February 20, 2016 by Alison Hunter

Review: Under Milk Wood (Semi Skimmed)

Guy Masterson's legendary performance in 60 minutes

Published August 26, 2015 by Lynn Ruth Miller

Review: Jon Ronson Literature Talk

An amusing and lively talk about Frank Sidebottom

Published July 21, 2014 by Alice Booth

Review: David Sedaris: An evening with David Sedaris

A highly amusing trip through the mind of a slightly twisted comic genius

Published August 7, 2013 by Alice Booth

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