Fringe Online
Years: 2020
Fringe Online 2020
Brenton powerfully concertinas a continent’s politics and one artist’s refraction of it. Wong is outstanding
This surely is the greatest Dream since Peter Brook’s landmark 1970 production.
Stoppard looks at society’s phantom limb ethic. Even when it’s gone it aches, and it aches to have someone opting out.
A Series of Metaphors About A Plague
A serious and fascinating use of meeting technology to examine both theatre and the use of connection in this new modern world.
A triptych of solos, presented from people stuck in their houses who dare us to join in their creative deliciousness in an imaginative, terrifying and fantastic manner.
In the most spectacular production imaginable, Lucian Msamati’s supremely crafted lead sets off the quicksilver of his rival Adam Gillen.
Andrew Lloyd-Webber 50th Birthday Live from the Royal Albert Hall, 1998
The great discovery was the multi-roling Marcus Lovett, sexy and lethal, able to attack several roles and convince you he was born for them, even into them.
Supremely worth it to see a pair so famous weighing equal in their own balance, perhaps for the first time.
Barber Shop Chronicles is a breath-taking revelation for those of us who had small inkling of a world in miniature.
Nothing so convincing has been done with this legend. It deserves many revivals.
An engrossing hour in the company of two scallywags involved in a modern smuggling tale that goes wrong and right by the end.
Comics in Quarantine Solving Problems
An Englishman and an American join forces to solve your's and the World's problems
A fascinating take on a fast paced modern play that truly picks apart the commercialization of our employee status.
A Coriolanus memorable for politics sinewed with personal forces: an active interrogation of democracy. And in Josie Rourke’s production Tom Hiddleston’s someone riven by intimations of his true self
The notorious tale of the making and unmaking of Peter Marino's West End-Blondie-Madonna musical “Desperately Seeking Susan”
A very impressive self filmed and performed allegory of the threat posed by those who try to invade our gardens and rule the roost.
The acting scales cliff-edges of unreason. One remembers the scale of betrayal and loss of redemption
Frankenstein (alternate version)
The acting scales cliff-edges of unreason. One remembers the scale of betrayal and loss of redemption. Benedict Cumberbatch here is Frankenstein, Jonny Lee Miller the Creature. The alternate version aired first is still available.
Funny and interactive kids’ magic show with Magic Gareth
Magic Gareth zooms into family living rooms to engage and mystify kids
A scorching autobiographical tale of abuse that manages to tell us the story of the abused as well as introduce us to the teacher responsible.
An intriguing few minutes of a short performance followed by the workshop that created it and which you can use to create your own growth spurt.
In Michelle Terry’s quicksilver, quick-quipping Hamlet, much has been proved, from interpretive to gender fluidity in tragic action, that sets a privilege on being in at a beginning.
An effective cabaret style run at the issues facing women in the 21st century with a popular theatrical style of the previous century which entertains is unsure of itself.
I am falling in love with you and it’s making me do stupid things
A brilliant solo piece in lockdown showing a woman looking for love, who thinks she may have found it, but then are we thinking she is after THE man or hedging her bets?
Will leave you in a heap and wonder what else Lauren Gunderson has written that comes near this.
I told my mum I was going on an RE trip
A verbatim run around the issues of terminations with the voices of young people who know, which does touch you as a parent and reminds you of the responsibility of parenthood.
An enticing and haunting exploration of living with a mental health condition that excels in its ability to make the claustrophobic nature of mental ill health clear.
A desperate portrait of the strain of the absence from a mother of her child during the pandemic.
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
A salutary reminder of how a great musical talent and collaboration started
A superb realization of Lorraine Hansberry's unfinished masterpiece - a classic of Ibsenite proportions
Epic eavesdropping casts that ultimate spell: reading ourselves by flashes of lightning.
A wonderful children’s half hour of magic and a big personality that is a delightfully child friendly experience
A complex and impressive study of one iconic literary figure dealing with an iconoclastic time in his kitchen.
Completeness is just one reason to cherish this clean-driven clear-headed production
A classic film in a theatrical homage which retains the sparkle of the original and adds exceptional performances onstage to add to the spectacle.
Helen McCrory plumbs the erotic despair of Hester Collyer’s abandoned woman in this absorbing revival of Rattigan’s masterpiece.
This magnificent revival poses even more urgent questions. A twitch on the thread for all of us.
A fleet traversal memorable for insights the company bring during and after their performance of it
The Albert Hall’s sovereign production, unlikely to be surpassed particularly with the special encore.
A fantastical run through the falls of Empires and how we, as subjects, can and should rise up and take the advantages back for the common good.
The OFS are taking flight with the best scratch nights the Elizabethans never had.
We’re looking at a bright Book of Hours. Barrie Rutter’s done it profound service, adding a warmth and agency that opens up this pageant. This is hopefully just the first of many such he’ll bring to the Globe.
Do catch it, and match the feelgood price with nudging theatres towards opening night.
Tells us more truthfully then any play has, the heroism that hardens, the sacrifice that endures.
First-rate theatre. In Joshua James’ Ben Gunn and above all Pasy Ferran’s Jim, we see stars rising quicker than Arthur Darvill’s superb Silver can point them out.
Tamsin Greig’s extremes as Malvolia mark the first intimations of the terrible and define this production. The ground’s shifted.
A delight for the ears as two haunting characters of Shakespeare’s Hamlet explore things Kingly before one makes his final, and first entrance.
Outstanding. Surely the definitive study of the dignity of physical labour, and breaking of its amity.
