Review: Babette’s Feast
Maxwell’s script of Babette's Feast helps conjure Buckhurst’s cast into conjurers. They’re both dream-inducing and hyper-alert, their timing and balletic movements spellbinding and unforgettable. It’s one of the finest recent productions from a theatre raising the most consistent magic in London.
Review: Christopher Nibble.
"The Guinea pigs of Dandeville are munching the poor over-stretched dandelion population out of existence and heading for eco-disaster!!
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: Seeing Stars
Here’s Tycho Brahe to lead us by his gold nose. You can never start star-gazing too young; this Rust and Stardust production is a dazzling place to start. Enchanting, informative and exhilarating in equal measure; Conlon and Sommers’ singing sets a magical seal on this star-breaking look at the universe.
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: 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: Motherhood: (Un)speakable, (Un)spoken
Moments into this 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: Guy Masterson : Love and Canine Integration
Poo, pooches and a pretty girl in a shaggy dog story with a difference.
Review: The Moira Monologues by Alan Bissett
Humour and pathos from one of Scotland’s foremost comedic performers.
Review: Yoke’s Night
An evening of drugs, mayhem and macabre dealings where all is more than what it seems.
Review: Team Viking
"A while ago my best friend Tom died of heart cancer. His last wish was for me to give him a Viking Funeral. So I did."
Review: Grimm: An Untold Tale
An entertaining and illuminating play about forgotten figures in history
Review: Operation Love Story
A charming, intimate and disarmingly direct story of matchmaking in the big city
Review: The Ruff Guide to Shakespeare
Thirty seven plays and Shakespeare’s life story in under fifty minutes.
Review: Pianomorphosis
More enchanting storytelling from this rising star on the Scottish music scene.
Review: Jeu Jeu La Foille: Frontal Lobotomy
Burlesque, poetry, puppetry and the history of frontal lobotomy
Review: The Good, The Bad and The Weegie
Another success from the Cairns’ stable and a real hidden gem of the Fringe.
Review: The Unknown Soldier
A solo play that will stay with you long after you have left the theatre
Review: Pinocchio
Join Bard & Troubadour on a truly magical journary for all ages, as Pinocchio faces scoundrels, set-backs and sea monsters on his quest to become a real boy, in this loving recreation of the classic Italian fairy tale.
Review: Sajeela Kershi: Shallow Halal
Safe but often riotous stand-up act pokes gentle fun at religion
Review: First Love
Conor Lovett lightens his pitch Becket’s exploration of lust, sexual disgust and the intolerable consequences of generation.
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 Big Stiffy
Absurd and off-the-wall, this surreal funeral party is a bizarre experiment that really does pay off
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.
Review: Hip
Hip is a must see show. A Brighton-spirited séance with tequila, nibbles, tenderness and laughter.
Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
feel the female power of Crookshank, representing the women in our century
Review: Groomed
Patrick Sandford's groundbreaking play, acted by himself, of his own childhood abuse, acted alongside a sax player...
Review: Joanna Neary : Faceful of Issues
A quite brilliant hour of character acting from a master of her craft
Review: Shakespeare Untold : Double Bill
Two very different plays, two very different actors. But the same outcome – an audience enthralled.
Review: Dial Medicine for Murder
Chilling tale of one convicted serial killer. And another one that got away.
Review: butyou’reaman or: The Seven Men I Came Out to in India
"we are left itching for more, not wanting to leave this magical hour"
Review: The Night Shift With Gloria Hole
An insightful telling of a drag queen’s life and her changing role within the community.
Review: Fraxi Queen of the Forest
A 'MUST SEE' for children aged 8+. A triumph of whimsical physical theatre
Review: Since Maggie Went Away
A tale of grief, loss and discovery. Family history at its most complex and interesting.
Review: The Tale of Tommy O’Quire
Stunning storytelling. One to take your inner child to should you not have any real ones to hand.
Review: The Sunset Five
A wonderful hour of devised theatre with a charming cast, strong musicianship, and lots of laughs
Review: 64 Squares
Enter the brain of ‘B’, and discover some of the most exciting physical theatre on the Fringe.
Review: The Adventures Of Nellie Bly
Stop the press! Follow life in the fast (Lois) Lane with this interpid girl reporter!
Review: The Naked Stand-Up
A celebration of aging, inner beauty and cellulite not for the faint of heart
Review: The Element In The Room: A Radioactive Musical Comedy About The Life And Death Of Marie Curie
The very height of (science) experimental theatre. Radium: rah-rah-radical ...
Review: An Oak Tree
From little acorns ... a story of loss, regret .. and the possibilties of roads not taken.
Review: Deeply Leisured With Queenie Bon Bon
A sex worker professional raising awareness about her career choice through an entertaining series of anecdotal stories using humour, psychology and an understanding of the needs of human beings.
Review: The Epicene Butcher and Other Stories for Consenting Adults
A very adult series of stories, unusually told
Review: Sex with Animals
A surprisingly touching fringe show starring two (mostly) faithful penguins, a horny bonobo called Shadynasty, and an oversexed rock.
Review: Socialist Fairytales
The rest of us have gone out blackberrying and Seward’s come back with a unicorn’s feather.
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