Review: Kin
Well performed and highly skilled, Kin is a wonderfully entertaining, and theatrical show that draws you in immediately.
Review: Kin
Well performed and highly skilled, Kin is a wonderfully entertaining, and theatrical show that draws you in immediately.
Review: Cirkopolis
Highly skilled entertainment. Lyrical, dramatic, beautiful, spirited, exciting and intriguing!
Review: Death City
Stunningly choreographed Korean dance where death lingers round every wrist flick.
Review: The Drive
Intriguing new play - friendship, memories of two women on an unexpected road trip.
Review: Batacchio
Elegant, imaginative and very entertaining - with deliciously quirky moments!
Review: The Dreamer
A visual treat! Creative, inventive and visceral physical theatre.
Review: The North
Creative quirky piece - whimsical on the surface with deeper meaning.
Review: Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika
Seeing Part Two reinforces the impression that in its virtues and a few vices, there’s nothing like this in theatre. An epic conveying a generational anger undergoing criminal abandonment, it blazons all corners of a nation. And the almost national multitude of cast and creatives Marianne Elliott’s assembled stands proud in this, almost beyond praise.
Review: Jane Eyre
It’s what you’d not expect that thrusts this version before anything else you’ll imagine before hurrying back to the novel. An extraordinary exhausting ultimately incandescent in all senses version of this classic.
Review: Definition of Man
XX + XY = ?
Review: Dark Matter
Consciousness. Where does it arise from? What happens when it begins to decay?
Review: Broken Air
Stretching time and space with help of a balloon, a suitcase, one shoe and countless grains of sand
Review: Lucy Hopkins: Ambition
Powerful Women Are About
Review: Sleeping Trees: Sci-fi?
Rollicking furiously paced exquisitely skilled physical comedy
Review: Borderline
"....saving you the need to go to Calais or any other refugee camp"
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: AY/NA Ceyda Tanc Dance Company
This world class contemporary dance is filled with both quick and unhurried graceful movement requiring real control, which is displayed in genuine abundance. Yet the themes are so highly contemporary and their skill-set so excellent that they surpass any contemporary dance performance I have seen, whilst holding to their very own distinctive form and style.
Review: Enter the Dragons
Classic clowning exploring the subject of female ageing
Review: If I Could I Would
A lighthearted acrobatic delight
Review: Scorched
The onset of dementia takes Jack Dobson on a hazardous journey of remembering
Review: Great Train Robbery
Through an ingenious mix of clowning, physical theatre and wonderful singing, this comic four shed new light on ‘what really happened’ and ‘how they participated.’
Review: Raising Lazarus
A thought provoking and original show that is both funny and hard hitting
Review: Agamemnon
Steven Berkoff's version of Aeschylus' classic. War, murder and blood aplenty.
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: Out of Blixen
Everything in Out of Blixen is realized with a magical economy. Kathryn Hunter’s s in her fluid element here, morphing into twelve-year-old girls and seasoned dowagers to her own directed paces The Europhilic Print Room has transformed the Coronet’s circular space into a consistent vision of theatre.
Review: The End of Things
A fascinating performance, more about the spaces between than the importance of the things we treasure.
Review: Motherhood:(Un)speakable, (Un)spoken
Ninety seconds into this newly-revised one-woman play, Joanna Rosenfeld - emerging in a poke of fingers from a cagoule of brown paper - over-voices herself giving witness to tens of verbatim experiences we hear. This tells us the baby’s a parasite, sucks all your nutrients, calcium from your teeth for instance, causes injury, often permanent, can kill. This is - literally - epic interior theatre.
Review: The Comedy About a Bank Robbery
The Comedy About a Bank Robbery redefines the category, by edging beyond even recent work and revealing a classic structure entering a hall of mirrors and going mad. The musical as well as general ensemble is the most remarkably timed I’ve ever seen in a theatre, and the set designs and shifts the most frantically split into milliseconds. This is an outstanding and redefining farce in every way.
Review: The Ugly One
Is beauty really only skin-deep?
Review: Coal
An incredibly poignant homage to the working class
Review: Only Bones
Comic body animation receives huge ovation
Review: Of, or at a Fairly Low Temperature
Comic dancer nails macho posturing
Review: Closer
By Circa
Review: Hummingbird
Love, murder and stunning physical theatre set in 1950s America
Review: Nel
A fast paced jam packed show, a cinematic experience without technology, a multisensory treat.
Review: The Vagina Dialogues
Women share all in a glorious celebration of feminity
Review: 360 Allstars
"Rarely have I seen such enthusiasm and sheer joy in a crowd"
Review: Trashed
This is what the Fringe is really about
Review: Hot Brown Honey
The Controversial Hit of the Fringe
Review: The Mission
Creative work from a new ensemble!
Review: The Living Room
Unique and extremely compelling physical and vocal theatre!
Review: Taiwan Season: Lost in Grey
Dynamic and meaningful dance theatre!
Review: Taiwan Season: NuShu
Sensitive and impactful!
Review: Death of Her Brother
A visually evocative piece of performance art that examines loss and relationship
Review: At War with Love
A poignant, deep and vibrant use of Shakespearean sonnet dressed in the context of World War One
Review: Shhhh – An Improvised Silent Movie
Not a word from start to finish.
Review: Bird
Visually beautiful, enjoyable, sensitively performed!
Review: The Six-Sided Man
Engrossing, complex, physical theatre, finely acted!
Review: Finders Keepers
Deliciously grubby physical theatre for all ages set in junkyard
Review: The Cat In The Hat
Standard yet enthusiastic fare of Thing One, Thing Two and a day out the rain
Review: The Tiniest Frog Prince in the World
Charming, imaginative, delightful children's show.
Review: The Jungle Book : Cobwebs and Moontalk
Where’s that elephant got to?
Review: 5 out of 10 Men
Bold drama and physical theatre! Excellent!
Review: Stunning The Punters (and other stories)
Gripping trilogy from George Dillon
Review: The Hogwallups
Inventive and entertaining theatrical circus skills!
Review: Awoken
A dark, intriguing piece set in the no-man's land between dream and reality
Review: The Bathtub Girls
The lowest of crimes. The highest of praise.
Review: Stunning The Punters
Arguably, no single person in English theatre has a better understanding and presents a fuller expression of physical theatre than George Dillon. His vocal range is phenomenal whilst his physical presence is captivating. Superlatives become redundant.
Review: Strap-on
Role-play gets out of hand and into the courts..
Review: Punch and Judy
Bawdy bloodbath as masked serial killer has a bad day.
Review: Wolf Meat
Profoundly silly and farcically serious show with just the kind of anarchy that offers coke to audience members. Contains brief and ghastly nudity.
Review: How to be a Girl
This is a relentless one act play about the pressure placed on girls by the media. It unpicks the irony of being advised to resist peer pressure and be independent, yet being told what to buy, how to look and how to behave.
Review: Parlour Games
Electrifying, Gothic-inspired physical theatre piece is a joy from beginning to end
Review: Sonder by Broken Chair Theatre Company
An outstanding, raw and refreshing feat of physical theatre - A fast and furious adrenaline ride into Pandora's box
Review: Giftig
Recommended to anyone with a heart
Review: Slap & Tickle
A darkly hilarious romp exploring how society deems women 'ought to behave'.
Review: Save Me A Balloon
"it's full of joie de vivre and a real pleasure to watch."
Review: BackStories
"very strong body language story"
Review: Helen
Helen of Troy is beautiful, sexual, demanding - but above all, she's a survivor
Review: Worst Case Scenario
23 reasons to see this refreshing and engaging show
Review: Hip
Hip is a must see show. A Brighton-spirited séance with tequila, nibbles, tenderness and laughter.
Review: East
Sizzling standout revival of Berkoff's first play
Review: Purposeless Movements
A poignant exploration of cerebral palsy from some who know
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: Plan B for Utopia
A brilliant mix of theatre and dance addressing ideas about Utopia.
Review: Cell
Poignant, entertains and enlightens about a serious topic
Review: Vegas Nocturne
At times sharply observed, at others bizarre, late night cabaret from Vegas
Review: Fall
An inventive, creative, and beautifully constructed physical theatre adaptation of Macbeth.
Review: Jurassic Park
Inventive and Entertaining Physical Comedy!
Review: Wild at Heart
"Mad in all the right ways"
Review: The Cherry Orchard: Beyond the Truth
A fantastically bizarre physical theatre piece based on a Chekhov classic.
Review: 4×4 Ephemeral Architectures
Breathtakingly beautiful and entertaining!
Review: Borderlands
Meditative and mysterious performance set in the beautiful grounds of Dryburgh abbey
Review: Ben Fairey: Floe-Joe’s Faces
There's nothing quite like this on the Fringe.
Review: Falling in love with Frida
An intimate and evocative performance that layers text, music and dance.
Review: The Encounter: Complicite / Simon McBurney
Creative, raw and electric!
Review: Dragon
Mesmerizing Dragon!
Review: Crusoe
Impactful , entertaining and suave!
Review: The Frantic Canticles of Little Brother Fish
An hour of inspiration, silliness, originality and elegant storytelling.
Review: The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon
A fantastically unique and magical piece of physical theatre.
Review: Institute
Brilliant absurdist physical theatre!
Review: Perceptual Landscape
A beautiful challenge to our perceptions of reality.
Review: L’Enfant qui…
Magical, earthy theatrical circus!
Review: Emperor of America
A delightful romp through the Midwest in the company of adorable vagabonds
Review: Dolls
A stunning display of circus skills.
Review: Fraxi Queen of the Forest
A 'MUST SEE' for children aged 8+. A triumph of whimsical physical theatre
Review: Hitch
"Good Evening. Consider, if you will, a group of scoundrels and vagabonds who like to play with rope .."
Review: Ada
A devised piece celebrating the life and work of Ada Lovelace
Review: Arc and Every Action
Ockham’s Razor presents two contrasting pieces with their breathtaking circus narrative.