Review: June
An intimate play exploring some often overlooked issues in gay culture.
Review: June
An intimate play exploring some often overlooked issues in gay culture.
Review: J.E.N
This is how it ends, and I am glad I was there to see
Review: Child of Sunday
A touching and tender way to beginf a day at the Fringe.
Review: One Room Sleep One Night
There’s No Sleeping in This Room
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: Colleen Lavin: Do The Robots Think I’m Funny
“ Murderbot is going to asses my performance,” says Lavin at the top of the show, “And then you’re going to decide if you care.” At least in this case, the robot did find Colleen Lavin to be very funny. I have to say I agree.
Review: CREEKSHOW
An evocative and touching personal take on a hidden corner of London’s waterways.
Review: The Last Flapper
Zelda is portrayed as a sympathetic, misused woman without taking away her teeth or her sense of humor.
Review: This Is Not A Play (It’s A Pathetic Cry For Help)
A stunning solo performance of an exquisitely intricate script
Review: Must be this Gay to Ride
A one woman exploration of the gender agenda, which asks some universal LGBT truths in a fascinating monologue.
Review: 60 Minutes of Our Lives
A very entertaining show that is unpredictable, well written and well performed!
Review: Angry Black Woman 101
Moving, relevant, meaningful, entertaining and enlightening show, told by a charismatic performer.
Review: Pretty Beast
Vibrant performance, which runs the entire range of emotions, told with humor, poignance and searing sadness.
Review: Cocky
McLaughlin’s performance and writing are wonderful - poignant and meaningful - told with with humor, pathos and humanity.
Review: Dave, Muhammad and I at the Americana Hotel
Heartfelt and serious story, sincere performance
Review: My First Miracle – adventures in bipolar disorder
Entertaining, vulnerable, insightful and brave. Polished performance
Review: Young Oscar, Wilde in San Francisco
Fascinating story and performance about the compelling character of Oscar Wilde
Review: Zav
A bittersweet, well-written monogloue
Review: Almost 13
Moving and important solo theatre
Review: An A to Z of Fish and Chips
"a pleasing show that may just leave you restless to plunge a little wooden fork into a saveloy."
Review: Fata Morgana
This show is a real hidden gem
Review: The Elephant in The Room
A powerful personal journey across boundaries and cultures
Review: Age is a Feeling
An outstanding and absorbing solo show shaped each day by audience choices
Review: Hard Shoulder
An intensely personal story performed with passion and complete abandon
Review: Able (ish)
A gentle thought provoking personal story
Review: Ghislaine/Gabler
A spell binding multi layered exploration of privilege, entitlement, and the desire to control…
Review: Bee Master
a warm hearted and informative show
Review: She-Wolves
Informative story-telling about historic women rulers and how they have been represented and mis-represented through time.
Review: A Eulogy for Roman
An astonishing solo show of one man’s search for meaning within himself, with audience participation.
Review: Am I Invisible Yet?
In a scintillating solo performance, we all willingly get up again
Review: Spirit of Woodstock 2 – The Sequel
There’s no greater writer/performer working in Brighton, or Sussex, and Spirit of Woodstock Parts I and 2 is Jonathan Brown’s most dazzling show to date.
Review: A Room Of One’s Own
Are you afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Review: OD’D
Highly skilled and theatrical solo acrobatics with balls, silks and centrifugal force- a mesmerizing performance from Finland.
Review: Eight Hundred Dollar Value
A film development that struggles in a theatre
Review: The Event
A solo show which deconstructs theatre, our lives and how artifice might be presented or might not in a remarkable performance by the man who created it, sold it on and still can be marveled at doing it.
Review: Under Heaven’s Eyes
Dynamic, provocative, emotive and heartfelt performance and writing.
Review: Eng-er-Land
Writer/performer Hannah Kumari leaves you alert and exhilarated
Review: The True Story of the Little Girl who thought she was The Second Coming of Jesus Christ
Every little girl dreams of being special, but Ellie Rose doesn’t just dream – she knows she’s special.
Review: Harvey Greenfield is Running Late
You can't please all of the people all of the time
Review: The Rape of Lucrece
The definitive way to experience this troublingly great, disturbingly unresolved poem
Review: Anton Chekhov
The nearest we’ll come to meeting Chekhov. In Pennington’s masterclass.
Review: Living Newspaper #7
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch a group of young dramatists take on the future
Review: Living Newspaper #6
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch what this does with the future
Review: Living Newspaper #5
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch.
Review: Outside
As with Inside, Outside not only fits us, they help us to move on, and become in their modest, unassuming and utterly transcendent way, part of how we learn to.
Review: New Moon Monologues April
As we saw in March, don’t be lulled by friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queens of Cups again proves they’re a company to revel with and wait for heart-stopping reveals
Review: Living Newspaper #4
We need this. Watch.
Review: Living Newspaper #3 Royal Court Theatre
Hot off Sloane Square a team of writers, actors and creatives twist the news to truth
Review: New Moon Monologues March
Don’t be lulled by the friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queen of Cups is absolutely a company to watch, and its showcase productions are literally unmissable
Review: Stay Awake, Jake
Once you tune in, you’ll be held all the way to Carlisle.
Review: Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday
A throwback performance to when Music Hall was King, Queen and Pearly Dreams.
Review: The Fabulous Fox Sister
Michael Conley’s stunning stand-alone glows in the dark
Review: Just Like Giving Blood
Upton’s notches of logic are nudged with brilliance, the actual narrative a granular run-up to an enormous yes.
Review: 15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid
Groundbreaking. The smallest producing theatre in the West End through lockdown has become the largest.
Review: A Kiss From Back Home
A solo performance that brings effectively to the stage the soulful disappointment of a lost relationship.
Review: The New Tomorrow
There’s a generosity here, a big hug. Theatre itself affirms the value of life to those who might yet shape it for the better.
Review: MILF
A series of exploratory monologues that really make you think about the value of gender
Review: Isolation
A desperate portrait of the strain of the absence from a mother of her child during the pandemic.
Review: Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
A complex and impressive study of one iconic literary figure dealing with an iconoclastic time in his kitchen.
Review: Fatbaws
A very impressive self filmed and performed allegory of the threat posed by those who try to invade our gardens and rule the roost.
Review: Alone
A subtle and highly effective reawakening of a woman who always was.
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: The Tin Drum
Nico Holonics’ blaze-through avatar is unlikely to be surpassed.
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: all of it
A miniature classic of snatched meaning. Catch it.
Review: The Monster and Mary Shelley
A solo celebration of the mind that brought Frankenstein from its fevered edges to realisation on the page
Review: Really Want to Hurt Me
A must-see.
Review: The Drift
An impressive solo show about how integrated Scotland believes it is but shows us the reality of the length it needs to go, in order to achieve that aim.
Review: Cherry Soup
True, and not so true, tales of the South Downs.
Review: You’re Good for Nothing…I’ll Milk the Cow Myself
Poignant, meaningful, vibrant and entertaining!
Review: That’s Not How It Happened
Charismatic performer, entertaining, comedic and moving!
Review: The Readiness Is All: A Solo Hamlet
Inspired, engrossing, creative, imaginative, and well performed!
Review: Get Uncomfortable
Provocative poetic performance, raw, gripping, beautiful, moving and visceral.
Review: I Favor My Daddy
Finessed crafted solo show, masterful performance!
Review: Sam Morrison: Hello, Daddy!
Accomplished and fruity comedy from a young gay comedian who’s already mastered stand up.
Review: The Cardboard Kitchen Project
A relatable story and an entertaining performance
Review: I’m A Phoenix, Bitch
Guy Masterson finds the perfect show...
Review: Myra
Uncomfortable confrontation with a murderess.
Review: I Run
A vivid solo performance of a man running furious, powerful and heartbroken into the grief of his dead daughter.
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: 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: Fake News
A Skilled and Impactful Piece of Storytelling Theatre
Review: Fempire: Mess
delightfully madcap
Review: Madame Komondor Will See You Now
Whoever you are, whatever you’ve got, Madame will see you now. It’s sex therapy with some very good punchlines.
Review: Manifesting Mrs Marx
Exhilarating solo performance in an intimate venue
Review: Deer Woman
A rightfully angry production that gives voice to a story that needs to be more widely heard
Review: Mustard
Visceral performance of heartbreak from an exciting theatre maker
Review: Alaska
Accomplished solo storytelling about mental health issues, with dance and song.
Review: Paul G Terry Piano Recital
Terry has his own accent, should be enjoyed by many. Mesmerising for a summer’s day.
Review: Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth
A chilling physical exploration of an iconic literary figure.
Review: I’d Had Enough So I Killed Him
“A powerful and confrontational solo dance performance”
Review: Betsy: Wisdom of a Brighton Whore
If you can, make this your last stop on the Fringe.
Review: Proxy
A powerfully performed dive inside a disturbing tabloid tale
Review: Jonathan Powell Recital St Michael’s and All Angels Brighton
A stunning world-class recital.
Review: salt.
We’re offered ‘salt to heal, salt to remember… above all for your wounds.’ Take it.
Review: The Birth of Death
“A profoundly moving and disarmingly funny journey, looking at death and how we approach it…”
Review: Ross & Rachel
Don’t hesitate.
Review: Turn the Night
An innovative solo performance framed in the context of a karaoke night where underlying tensions get exposed and examined.
Review: Quintessence
There’s a superb cliff-edge to this outstanding production.