Review: Operation Mincemeat
This is the finest new musical I’ve seen for many years. End of. The hype, the Oliviers and Tony call it right. See it.
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Review: Doohickey!
Easily the most accessible, sensory friendly, and fulfilling immersive theatre production for all ages
Review: Learning to CELEBRATE! When Life Hands You a Dysfunctional Family
An interactive party and one-person show through which Scoggins demonstrates the power inherent in choosing what, when, and how we celebrate.
Review: GULP!
"An expertly polished clown performance, confident and expressive through every jump, spin, fall, and crash!"
Review: Quartet in Autumn
Absorbing, a must-see for anyone asking questions of where we begin our endings.
Review: Toast: Stories from the End of the World
Some engaging, lean in science fiction dark comedy theatre
Review: Thikra: Night of Remembering
Dark, intriguing, ritualistic dance from UK superstar choreographer Akram Khan
Review: One Foot in the Dark
Two dance pieces combining contemporary and tradition styles with poetry
Review: Can’t Kill the Spirit
An earnest exploration of activism and conviction, elevated by moments of genuine historical resonance.
Review: The Dasslers
The Dasslers wields a potential beyond its current limitations – both in this brief production and in its current form. And Radford, clearly setting out his dramatic stall in history’s cross-currents, is a voice to watch.
Review: Wench
Standing ovations for this new behemoth of a piece, performed with complete control by the beautiful and intense Felix Le Freak.
Review: All-New Nik Coppin
It could be good, it could be bad. It could be great. But either way, it will be a lot of fun.
Review: Ben Hur – Cue Fanfare
Exceptional and Outstanding epic which never ceases to amaze and amuse!
Review: The Wooster Group. Nayatt School, Redux
Renowned for their avant-garde, multimedia approach blending archive, technology, film, sound, and live performance, the company has profoundly influenced generations of artists and theatre-makers internationally.
Review: Sherlock Holmes vs Arsène Lupin: A Drag Crime Caper
A legendary detective meets a master criminal . . .
Review: Theatre of Wholiness
A visually rich communal happening caught between ritual theatre and contemporary self-help philosophy
Review: The Love We Think We Deserve
It could grow into something both exceptional and even more necessary.
Review: Godot’s To-Do List, Krapp’s Last Tape
A performance of lessness writ large: a man shrinking from his environment, the memories taking over and kicking Krapp’s mere organic matter out.
Review: Oh To Believe in Another World
Shostakovich 10 with William Kentridge film; a fascinating combination
Review: That’s just the way it’s (un)done
A shattering piece, often grotesque and intentionally so, it is also sensual, thoroughly entertaining and infused with a sense of fun
Review: Nocturne Musical
An original musical rooted in Norwegian folklore filled with enchanting song, humour, puppetry and physical theatre.
Review: Lilla Multipass: Woman (33)
Who can really have the most tote bags to “take down the patriarchy”?
Review: The Dance of Time: A New Black Comedy
Here’s hoping it returns, clearly a play with a future as long as Tom’s is apparently short.
Review: Foal
The Finborough have form with five-star solo shows. This is clearly another flued and sanded with the ferocity of pursuit. Outstanding.
Review: Murder, Margaret and Me
Brave, bold and really worth seeing above much else: even in a busy Festival.
Review: Allegra
As an example of a Peter Quilter soufflé, this is the best of his I’ve come across; and Maureen Lipman gleams with a supreme gravity-defying performance. Irresistible.
Review: Patti Smith: An Evening of Words and Music
The Patti Smith plus Quartet raise high the roof beam(s)
Review: Teatro dei Gordi: Visite
As ever, the Coronet and its guests have scored something unique in the British theatre-world.
Review: I’m sorry to disappoint you all
Two friends tangled together. Cocooned in their high rise flat and swallowed by the vastness of the city, an unravelling begins
Review: Are you even Indian?
A British-born Indian woman and an Indian-born man love, spar and dance
Review: When Gary Left Annie (Almost)
A beautifully written romantic comedy with a slightly neurotic, awkward energy that makes ordinary people feel strangely lovable.
Review: Chunxiang’s Schoolroom Prank
A traditional Kunqu comedy from The Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu
Review: Jane Eyre
Polly Teale has released the daemons, but Nettie Sheridan’s ensemble has delivered Jane Eyre’s feeling to a pitch remarkable even for BLT.
Review: Neddy Goes to Glasto
Corrina O’Beirne masters the demotic, the lyrical, the witty and metaphorical, all at once. A must-see.
Review: Ashes and Diamonds
Exceptionally humane, humanly absorbing. It’s always 11.15. Till it isn’t
Review: History has no safe word
A haunting journey through Pompeii, power and the voices that refuse to stay buried.
Review: The Quest for Love, Murder and Revenge in Space!
Some clever comedy and a very committed cast
Review: Flush
Timely, timeless and as real as a selfie you might wish you’d never taken when you look again. 80 minutes blink by, but you won’t miss it. Stunning.
Review: Evangeline
First-rate Fringe music-theatre. Artistic content, particularly songs and verse, as well as direction and acting ensures this will clearly travel. Do see it.
Review: Escaped Alone
It mightn’t quite be the droll, dry Churchill we know, but it’s certainly one we should greet. Absorbing.
Review: Blatt/Darwin/Holford Baroque Violins/Piano Recital St Nicholas Church
You forget the performers here for the most part, the best compliment I can pay them. A gem.
Review: Magic
Brave, timeless, and troubled, Magic sometimes refuses to give up its secrets too. Absorbing.
Review: Vapists-Lantern Theatre – Farringdon Present-ish
Intriguing and stylish late night black comedy
Review: Fate Train
A play not just about Myth. Its about how we carry grief,how stories help us to survive it,and how art can turn something painful into something shared.
Review: Dictations, The Heart of the Sea
An astonishing fusion of voice, dance and music in a theatrical explosion in a celebration of joy.
Review: Kohlhaas
How far would you go for justice? A gripping solo-performance and a story for our times.
Review: Mind and Breathe
Brecht meets Beckett in this sharp combination of existential exploration and jet black humour
Review: Chekhovian
See it for the Chekhov, and come away forgetting for the most part these are students. They’re already Chekhovian.
Review: The Final Episode
Two original twists, a fine, fresh writer/performer/director and something I certainly look forward to seeing developed.
Review: Uccelini
A rich, suggestive and above all probing work about how we live with our ghosts so we can live with each other.
Review: Two Halves of Guinness
As a gentle voyage around the frothy half of Guinness we know, and the dark we don’t, it deserves awards, and another tour.
Review: Carmen
A must-see for anyone compelled by ballet; something we’re not likely to see in Brighton for years.
Review: Maurizio Baudino Recital St Nicholas Church, Brighton
Throughout Maurizio Baudino’s playing is international standard and in the best sense you're not attending to him, but the music. Superb.
Review: Between the River and the Sea
Recognizing humanity is a mingled yarn mightn’t sound revelatory. Nor what we want to take away. But it’s what we need.
Review: The Splitting of Latham
Another example of why theatre is inclusive and all the better for it.
