Review: Large Trash Print
This very fine 2007 work by Jonathan Brown strikes a blow for tolerance and inclusivity now as it did a decade ago. Brown’s superlative writing and acting is ridiculously confined to this city.
Review: Large Trash Print
This very fine 2007 work by Jonathan Brown strikes a blow for tolerance and inclusivity now as it did a decade ago. Brown’s superlative writing and acting is ridiculously confined to this city.
Review: In Memory of Leaves
On a moored barge Natasha Langridge re-enacts her own In Memory of Leaves updated from a run last year to include this year’s tumultuous events. This is a fine, necessary work inevitably in progress. Let it settle in the water a bit more, and glitter.
Review: Return to the Scene of the Crime
Intense and entertaining!
Review: Wandering Bones
The true tale of an unpleasant 19th century Lothario and the murder of his unwitting wife.
Review: Wondr
Snappy writing and brilliant solo performance on the theme of digital technology
Review: LadyFace
A character comedy carousel from chameleon woman-host LadyFace, AKA Lucy Farrett
Review: The Gardener
Poignant storytelling. With biscuits.
Review: Prison Psychologist
A dark, intense and intimate story of love and tragedy. Worth getting up early for...
Review: Lemonade
An exuberant exploration of female exploitation in Hollywood
Review: Dust
Be careful what you wish for… an unflinching examination of suicide
Review: Rightly or Wrongly, forBetter or Worse, the Fact is This is Tom Little
A wild ride of delicious word-play and storytelling from this instantly endearing comedian
Review: Bonnie Fechters
Intimate, heartfelt and inspiring.
Review: The Testament of Mary
A powerful and challenging reimagining of a story you thought you knew.
Review: Frankie Vah
Moving, fast paced and riveting - a cautionary tale of pride and fall.
Review: All Kidding Aside
An enjoyable hour of gentle comedy.
Review: Bump
Meet Lily as she confronts her choices in the waiting room of an abortion clinic
Review: Replay
Absorbing and masterful storytelling; a poignant coming to terms with loss
Review: Stegosaurus
Powerful insights into the world of eating disorders
Review: Awake
Deft and fluid storytelling. Well worth seeking out.
Review: Frank Carson – A Rebel Without a Pause
That’s a cracker. It’s the way he told ‘em.
Review: The Science of Cringe
Picture a Venn diagram where behavioural science, character comedy and storytelling are intersecting the hell out of each other.
Review: It’s No Job for a Nice Jewish Girl
A debut solo show exploring the drive to fit in, with a bit about being a pop star.
Review: Knock, Knock
Niv Petel’s physical solo uses a unique point of view to draw back the thick curtain of politics in the Middle East.
Review: One Romanian Asking Questions
A comedian’s comedian
Review: Mental
Brave, honest autobiographical piece about mental health
Review: Michael Brandon – Off-Ramps
A well-told insight into a life in Hollywood
Review: Shell Shock
And astounding performance in both a measured and frantic performance that brings PTSD from Tommy's living room into your conscience.
Review: Moving On
Chris Kent , charming and surreal
Review: Cacophony
Energetic, bold, entertaining and fun!
Review: Jenny Bede: Eggtime
"Fast-paced, full-on and painfully funny"
Review: Show Up
"Improvised Comedy at its very best"
Review: The Conscious Uncoupling
Weaving comedy memoir and love letters in a story about breaking up
Review: The House
Enter the unique world of Jane’s dark comedy characters – five characters who are once again inspired by her roots in The Lakes
Review: Show Me The Money
A compelling take on what it means to be a professional artist.
Review: Pike St.
Vulnerable and triumphant: theatre at its very heart
Review: Big Bite-Size Lunch Hour: Izzy’s Manifestos
"fine and authentic character acting"
Review: Mikelangelo: Cave-Waits-Cohen
"It fills our hearts with the songs we love sung by a man who transforms the lyrics into a personal love song to us all."
Review: Yvette
Powerful one woman show, with strong writing.
Review: Bombshell
Tiff Stevenson at her best
Review: Souvenir
Uproarious “kamikaze cabaret” history of Brighton Theatre Royal told through song and amusing anecdotes.
Review: High Rise
Self-made man shares the secret of his excess.
Review: Why we become witches
Witch is the way to go.
Review: Easy Targets
One-person shows are another person's poison.
Review: Obama and Me
Eight years. Three continents. Two lives. One story.
Review: Wacht!
A Dutch museum attendant says nothing during a twenty minute performance - and it speaks volumes.
Review: Ensonglopedia of Science
A song about science for each letter of the alphabet - and more.
Review: Good Grief: Stories at 207 West 88th
Tales from a New York apartment building.
Review: Wife
A one woman show following wives through history, art and legend
Review: Gratiano
'The Merchant of Venice' updated to post-Fascist Italy
Review: Scorched
The onset of dementia takes Jack Dobson on a hazardous journey of remembering
Review: Raising Lazarus
A thought provoking and original show that is both funny and hard hitting
Review: The Empress and Me
A one-woman show about the amazing true story of Princess Der Ling,
Review: Tina C’s President -C
Witty, wonderful and warming politics meets drag queen meets country singer...in a tent on an intersection.
Review: Mary and Me
A near masterclass of solo performance, based on emerging new writing.
Review: Bedroom Rockstar
A very personal solo view of life, your family and the importance of music
Review: Sea Wall
An intimate tragedy played out right in front of you
Review: Whose Sari Now?
This is consummate storytelling, and Moorthy’s narrative variables attest to pitch and speed, a charactering that gifts all it can to the individual and in some cases real tales. There’s much here we cannot forget.
Review: Guerilla Aspies
This is an absolutely necessary and enagaging show about Aspergers we need to see back. The audience was packed, and exhilarated, Wady making contact with nearly everyone but in a creative and – yes – neutrotypical way.
Review: Cracked Tiles
An amusing and poignant solo show look at the value of inheritance
Review: The Oldest Living Cater Waiter: My Life in Three Courses
Well crafted, brilliantly performed and utterly watchable!
Review: Based on Actual Events
Inspiring, dramatic and comedic!
Review: Queer Heartache
Riveting, intense, funny and entertaining!
Review: A Cabaret: Maiden, Mermaid, Crone
Entertaining, elegant, funny and a bit raunchy!
Review: A Q & A With Donald Trump and Boris Johnson
Delightful, enlightening and cutting
Review: The Magnetic Diaries
An intelligent and challenging poetic narrative exploring modern day female depression.
Review: The Road to Huntsville
Would you kiss the corpse of a murderer?
Review: Guy Masterson : Love and Canine Integration
Poo, pooches and a pretty girl in a shaggy dog story with a difference.
Review: Mairi Campbell: Pulse
A storytelling journey about finding your true musical self
Review: Of, or at a Fairly Low Temperature
Comic dancer nails macho posturing
Review: Telemachy
Generation Lost bites back
Review: Chopping Chillies
" an enthralling tale, full of charm and atmosphere"
Review: Twonkey’s Mumbo Jumbo Hotel
Pointless, stupid and hilarious
Review: Deal with the Dragon
Gritty, poetic and very now!
Review: Nosferatu’s Shadow
Poetically written and beautifully performed
Review: Gratiano
Il Duce meets the Merchant of Venice in a literary mash up that works well
Review: Evil
Evil "personified" onstage shows us who the real monsters are
Review: Zero
The story of exposed abuse told simply and effectively from a stool on a stage.
Review: Clare Plested; Flock Up
A great hour in the company of weird, wonderful and very funny women.
Review: O is for Hoolet
Fascinating one-woman spoken word show about the Scots language
Review: The One Legged Man Show
Moving, funny, revealing and intelligent
Review: Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
"an incredible show which authentically reproduces the novel onto the stage."
Review: A Dream of Dying
A poignant, witty and thoughtful look at making choices.
Review: The Unknown Soldier
A solo play that will stay with you long after you have left the theatre
Review: Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London
An intimate audience with an extraordinary woman of history
Review: Revolution in the Magic Square
I never knew Socialist Magic could be so much fun
Review: Hess
Powerful, subtle and nuanced - you could have heard a pin drop.
Review: Every Brilliant Thing
An entertaining, amusing look at depression.
Review: Denton and Me
Well crafted, well performed, intriguing!
Review: Here There Be Dragons
One man and his dog In Hollywood and rural Georgia
Review: Bloody Beautiful
Hungarian murderess finds her voice.
Review: Thanks A Lot: My Gratitusical
Ms. Beryl Swiver celebrates herself.
Review: Still Got It
One-man masterclass.
Review: Aurora and Larry
Siblings raised in a hippie commune find themselves, and each other
Review: Nick Paul: Impossible Feats of Fake Magic
Tricks you've seen before, done better than you've seen before.
Review: Mr. Mark Twain Answers All Your Questions
A history lesson from an angry old gagmeister.
Review: Tell Me on a Sunday
Shannon Nelson sparkles in rite-of-passage one-woman musical.
Review: The Thermos Museum
Quirky and strangely warming
Review: The End
Conor Lovett rivets with a naturalistic pitch in this cut-down stand-up Beckett diminuendo of an ex-inmate’s prospects. More tour de force in a tour de farce of Beckett’s genius.
Review: The Other
The desperate plight of refugees - seen through the eyes of a child.
Review: Hercules
"the entirely imaginary visuals he creates are amazing."