Review: Glitch in the Myth
A timeless archetype reimagined through a woman's perspective, capable of resonating with audiences everywhere
Genre: Solo Show
Review: Sexy Rude Harp Concert
Across an hour of original (and quite rude!) songs and stories, Sexy Rude Harp Concert presents one woman’s journey to get railed, among other things...
Review: Shower Chair
We meet some people's deepest revelations through performance here, actors finding themselves becoming vulnerable through theatre, getting naked.
Review: Bambiland
A performance of a very challenging piece of theatre which targets war and our complicity in the industry of war.
Review: Barbara Fernandez Singing, Sagging and Shagging
Soaring vocals, belly laughs, and touching tales
Review: Bitty-Bat !
Jeffers’s mastery of the character seems effortless, but the amount of skill it takes to use those arms, manage in the flowing cape costume, and control facial expressions down to the tiniest detail is something once reserved only for cartoon characters.
Review: Boiler Room Six: A Titanic Story
Foreman’s story is a brilliant addition to the canon of Titanic literature, and indeed solo plays in general.
Review: Lies Where It Falls
A compelling and moving exploration of grief, trauma, and the long shadows cast by violence
Review: Son of a Bitch
Captured by social media at the worst moment in her life a mother’s frantic attempt to hold on to what matters most
Review: Becky Goodman: The Day My Sugar Daddy Dumped Me
Becky Goodman’s show is like if you spliced Fleabag with Steve Martin standup and then added a quality that we will only be able to refer to at future Fringes as BeckyGoodmanesque.
Review: Why am I (still) like this?
A fascinating expose of finding out you are ADHD and female at 30.
Review: How I Learned to Swim
A poetic and witty soul searching solo show melding words and soundscape to frame a journey through grief.
Review: Dave Ahdoot – Ethnically Ambiguous
This is effectively a TED talk with lots of good laughs – it lifts the lid on a world that not many have direct experience of and is held together by a big, warm personality.
Review: Making Marx
A wide-ranging attempt to open up a much ignored but significant figure at the pace of perfection.
Review: Fit Ye Sayin’ Quine?
A poetically beautiful piece of Doric wonder that tells the myths of a generation passing on the tales to the one two below with craft and creative joy.
Review: Jessie Cave: An Ecstatic Display
The show exudes the multitude of Cave’s interests and talents as a writer, performer, illustrator and puppeteer.
Review: Forked
A thought-provoking, captivating, and emotionally layered exploration of culture, laced with laughter and skilled caricature.
Review: BED – A one man show
A solo comedy theatre storytelling stand-up tour de france (and beyond)
Review: Materia
A strangely compelling oddity that plays with the possibilities of form to illuminating effect
Review: I Hope Your Flowers Bloom
A gentile evening with a fantastic narrative about love from a male perspective.
Review: Influence
A superb debut show, Influence enjoys quite a long run and suggests that Stockroom’s an exciting fresh venture. And that embedded with Collective Theatre’s acting studios and writing rooms provided, this company and theatre synergy is more like a gleaming hub where magic in non-magic shows is poised to happen.
Review: Furious
Daly is the Pied Piper of Edinburgh – Enchanting, witty, interactive and relatable. A one woman show that pokes fun at satirical characters from her past!
Review: WONDER DRUG: A Comedy About Cystic Fibrosis
Charlie Merriman is a gifted performer and story teller, with every part of him used to take us on his quest for the Wonder-Drug
Review: How to Find a Husband in 37 Years or Longer
One woman's coming of age story about failed relationships
Review: Manifest Destiny’s Child
A one man true story about social justice and how individuals can make meaningful change.
Review: Why Am I Like This
An exquisite and hilarious blend of personal experience, debunked myths and compelling storytelling.
Review: waiting for a train at the bus stop
Captivating, laced with humour but dark and heart-breaking.
Review: The Mitfords
The play will make you want to learn more about its subjects, and Emma Wilkinson Wright’s phenomenal performance that makes this show particularly gripping.
Review: A Funeral For My Friend Who Is Still Alive
t A funereal plan which ends up with an intriguing twist – no “body” arrives.
Review: Initial Consult
Despite what might seem to be heavy material, there is never a moment where you feel like you can’t laugh. It is all delivered with warmth, energy, and skill that is impossible to not be charmed by.
Review: Surfing the Holyland
A profoundly joyous and a joyously profound show, touching on all those issues of assimilation, marriage drift and acceptance; as well as self-discovery. For most of all as Erin Hunter brings out with sparkling wit and straight looks, this is about women’s agency. Dive in, you’ll surface with a whoop.
Review: I Love Michael Ball
Alexander Millington’s I Love Michael Ball is, in the words of one director, the absolute spirit of the Fringe. That is, brilliantly oddball, in fact deranged. Millington, wholly in command, is winningly able to return us to the sanity of sheer good singing. So make a date.
Review: Manic
A new solo show that combines puppetry, spoken word and theatre to bring an honest look at sex and trauma to Brighton Fringe 2023
Review: No I.D.
The celebration of acceptance and being wholly comfortable in your own body for the first time in your life transmits to everyone. It should make you more comfortable, knowing how Tatenda Shamiso radiates the joy of his, bestowing a kind of benediction. A quietly groundbreaking show.
Review: A Scar is Born
Zarifian tells of an interesting life, so far, and her charm, naïveté and gentle coquette style of performance, which gets progressively bold, is compelling.
Review: Breathless
A pitch perfect drama with crafted bittersweet comedy which explores the challenges of navigating life whilst not coping with a mental health disorder.
Review: Caitlin
A fascinating insight into the story of a woman who should never have been a walk on part in anyone’s drama
Review: Church Girl, Interrupted
An amusing hour spent in the company of a delightful former evangelical Christian.
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: Look no hands
A fascinating tale, a great bike and a glimpse into an unusual manifestation of PTSD
Review: Michelle Kalt: God Hates You
A good hour or so in the company of a very funny Swiss comedienne
Review: No Place Like Home
Part epic poem, part solo drama, with music, dance and video art - a problematic portrayal of gay club culture.
Review: One of Two
Wry, poetic and just plain angry - a comedy drama from a young Scot about him, his twin and why life has treated them differently.
Review: Fabulett 1933
Camp and tender musical portrayal of life for queers in 1933 Berlin through the forced closing of the decadent Fabulett club.
Review: Pauline
Beautifully poised homage to where you come from and how you would like that ancestor to be remembered.
Review: A Eulogy for Roman
An astonishing solo show of one man’s search for meaning within himself, with audience participation.
Review: Ellipsis
A mix of stand up and confessional which is funny and tragic in almost equal measure.
Review: Myra’s Story
One woman, many characters, several tragedies told with the earnestness of truth and the triumph of theatre.
Review: Tom Lehrer
Another sovereign tribute. Stefan Bednarczyk brings Tom Lehrer swaggering out of retirement.
Review: Deaf Ears: How I Learned To Hear
Friedman’s a spellbinding storyteller in the lives he’s immersed himself in listening to.
Review: An Evening With Flanders and Swann
A sovereign tribute. If you know Flanders and Swann, you’ll know Bednarczyk.
Review: Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday
A throwback performance to when Music Hall was King, Queen and Pearly Dreams.
Review: A Kiss From Back Home
A solo performance that brings effectively to the stage the soulful disappointment of a lost relationship.
Review: Being Posy
A solo performance which is written large in visible ink and all the more truthful for it.
Review: Good Girl
A solo piece that takes us through sexual awakening in a explorative and honest portrayal of waking up as a teenage woman from finding the itch, to seriously scratching it.
