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Review: MacPlebs
A chaotic, hilarious, and utterly daft and delightful comedy retelling of a classic.
Review: Alice Diamond And The Forty Elephants
The scope and ambition of this production was beyond admirable, as boundless energy filled the room.
Review: How to Mate: The TED XXX Talk
Steve Porters is not to be missed, a groundbreaking drag king all around.
Review: Outpatient
A relatable exploration of mortality and finding the humour within the darkest hours of life through karaoke, running and love.
Review: Margolyes & Dickens: The Best Bits
It is pure joy to watch Margolyes read and enact characters from Charles Dickens and tell her stories with humour and wit.
Review: Oran
Theatre as it ought to be – exciting, visceral, challenging and filled with entertainment.
Review: B.L.I.P.S.
Circus and storytelling combine for this funny and sad solo show of living with psychosis
Review: One Man Poe: The Black Cat and The Raven
These classic Poe tales are told with nuance and striking ability by Smith
Review: Because
And that's when we realise, this is the life of someone who hears voices or has intrusive thoughts.
Review: The Martyrs
any zeitgeisty theatre director should jump at the chance to produce this play fully staged.
A musically riveting, dramatically rather episodic production where the dancers and singers make the best of it
Review: Read the F***ing Manual
Thought provoking theatre on the importance of taking care of yourself and others in a hostile world. The potential to be a play for our times.
Review: Orchestra of Sound
Innovation…entertainment…imagination….you won’t believe your eyes and ears!
Review: I Am Not Black
This play must be seen. Look out for it and if if pops up anywhere near you. Make sure you catch it.
Review: My Mother’s Funeral: The Show
A powerful piece of sharp, witty and, at times painful, theatre
Review: PENTHESILEA
A bold and sensual retelling of this dramatic story of Penthesilea, the Queen of the Amazons.
Review: Never Get To Heaven In An Empty Shell
A delightfully droll journey into the depths of ourselves and the London Underground.
Review: Abrasion
If high school health class had been this entertaining, I would have paid far more attention.
Review: Fan/Girl
This is an entertaining and upbeat evocative show that is very well written and performed.
Review: Every Brilliant Thing
The dichotomy of innocence and suicide is fascinating, dealth with much nuance, without falling into cliches or stereotypes.
Review: Forked
A thought-provoking, captivating, and emotionally layered exploration of culture, laced with laughter and skilled caricature.
Review: The Years
This production reminds us it’s often the least theatrical, least tractable works that break boundaries, glow with an authority that changes the order of things.
Review: The Grapes of Wrath
Absorbing and essential, Grapes of Wrath is here as complete as you could wish.
Review: The Promise
Clare Burt’s Wilkinson, racking asthmatically across the play, is indelible, crowning the evening in an arc of sacrifice, Essential theatre-going, an education.
Review: John Fowles adapted Mark Healy The French Lieutenant’s Woman
This is BLT. How they manage it might stupefy a newcomer. A must-see.
Review: After Sex
Deservedly hugely popular. With uber-smart dialogue, Dromgoole ensures that under the brittle wrap, there’s an ache and overriding desire for connection.
Review: Oliver!
There’s not a moment in this two-hours-40 where you’re not at the edge of your seat. The best musical revival this year. Don’t wait till it transfers to the West End.
Review: The Hot Wing King
Hall, following Nottage in particular, emerges as one of the most exciting US dramatists.
Review: ECHO
Ultimately, the most telling line ”We are all immigrants across time” defines what remains an extraordinary experience
Review: Bindweed
Laura Hanna is outstanding in a play that ought to establish itself and playwright Martha Loader; and should enjoy a much longer run.
Review: All’s Well That Ends Well
Don’t go expecting searing insights, but do go for a crack ensemble who will surely turn many to Shakespeare. An endearing and uplifting enterprise.
Review: Alma Mater
Kendall Feaver’s very integrity might not satisfy those who enjoy outcomes dispelled in light. But that’s the point.
Review: Mnemonic
Mnemonic is treasurable, eloquent, a rare passport. It remembers what hope, connectedness and peace smelt like. It’s worth remembering that.
Review: The Constituent
This extremely fine play is even more prescient than Penhall and Warchus intended, with an earlier election. The Constituent though, will survive it till August.
Review: Surrender
The writing will snare you, Phoebe Ladenburg will hold you, and you’ll lean over the fourth wall.
Review: Some Demon
A superbly uncomfortable edge-of-seat revelation. Groundbreaking, it’s also definitive on something we often see far too dimly.
Review: The Beckett Trilogy
It’s reading Beckett in flashes of lightning and laughter. Conor Lovett stuns in this cut-down stand-up Beckett-novels-for-beginners-and-enders three-hour whistlestop. A tour de force as well as a tour de farce of Beckett’s genius.
Review: Constellations
This superb revival suggests Constellations will certainly travel for a long time.
Review: The Caretaker
Three remarkable performances edge The Caretaker to new ground. Justin Audibert’s directorial debut at Chichester proves both thrilling and prescient.
Review: The Bible in Early Modern Drama: Robert Owen The History of Purgatory
Dr Will Tosh leads a discussion The Bible in Early Modern Drama. Absorbing.
Review: Kafka
It’s Klaff’s improvisatory edge, founded on absolute technique and clear-headed text, that finds an exit where none was signposted. Magnificent.
Review: Heart’s Desire/L’Amore Del Cuore
Anyone admiring Churchill, ferocious comedy or excited by a rare UK foray into Italian theatre must see this.
Review: The Hills of California
For nearly any other playwright, this would count as something of a masterpiece.
Review: The Kite Runner
Spellbindingly translated to the stage and here with more power even than before. Don’t miss it.
Review: As You Like It
A first-rate outdoor revival, and easily rivalling what the Globe have to offer.
Review: Suite in Three Keys
A once-in-a-generation masterpiece of revival. This is what we’ve been missing.
Review: Geneva Convention
As this gets quieter, it shouts more loudly. Exciting as this is, it will devastate when it finds its arc. This might ascend into something crucial.
Review: That Witch Helen
An absorbing retelling. Whatever Ridewood and Sibyl Theatre tackles next will be worth waiting for.
Review: Women’s Writes
We’ve been lucky to sit in on the first stage of a very promising conversation collaboration, and theatre piece.
Review: Richard III
In a female-led cast led by the eponymous Richard III (Michelle Terry) it’s striking that the trio of cursing women is this production’s highlight
