Brighton Fringe

2 Queers in Tears

"This is not your regular love story."

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60 Minutes of Mood Swings

"Will it ever change?"

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A Year And A Day

Consummate story-telling

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ACT Playwriting Course

Mark Burgess and his students should feel immensely satisfied. And of course the students themselves divinely dissatisfied as they develop their craft.

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ART

What's the value of a work of art?

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Chopped Liver and Unions

You’ll want to cheer at the end, along with everyone else.

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Company RAus’s Dido

A multimedia portrayal of Dido's love and loss, in sound, light and solo dance

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Copernicus Now

A Comedy about Heliocentrism

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Dawn Again: A Rap Opera

Elliot has a problem: two girlfriends, both giving birth on the same day in the same hospital

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El Viaje

The inspirational story of a Cuban refugee, set to song and music

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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.

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Homestead

An adaptation of Lorca's 'the House of Bernarda Alba'

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J’ai un Bleu

J’ai un Bleu manages to covey through movement what words simply cannot express. The objectification of the female form.

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Kemble’s Riot

Whose side are you on?

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Laughing Horse Clean Pick of The Fringe

The Best Comedy Selection in town

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Little Women

There’s heartbreak and joy here. If you don’t know it, be surprised and moved at this hidden fringe gem, realised by this team in delicately-cut facets.

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Love and Information

An outstanding production of young showcase theatre

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Macready! Dickens’ Theatrical Friend

Nineteenth century actor and impresario is brought to life by Mark Stratford

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Magpie

This really has no place in the Brighton Fringe. Perhaps the Festival. What is a slice of the darkest Sean O’Casey doing at a 9pm slot? Outstanding.

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Making Marilyn

A must-see.

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Marvin and the Dodgyspinners

Worth considering when it returns

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Only Bones V1.9

One meter, one projector and one performer – Intrigued? You should be!

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Picnic at Hanging Rock

Will haunt NVT’s Studio as much as it will you.

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Plastic and Chicken Bones

A warning for humanity

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Pretty, Witty Nell

An outstanding gem.

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Rootless Tree

Two women's unorthodox relationship during The Great Depression

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Six Characters In Search Of Pirandello

"There is someone in my life, and I know nothing about him" (Pirandello)

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St Nicholas Richard Bowen Guitar Recital

Recommended for languorous afternoons such as the burst of May outside.

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Steve Parry: The Last of the Famous International Amateurs

A man in the middle of a mid-life crisis

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Strange Orbits

Humanity faces an existential crisis

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Super Connected

Epic music, film and theatre production with a warning

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That Witch Helen

The face that launched a thousand ships finally gets to speak

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That Witch Helen

An absorbing retelling. Whatever Ridewood and Sibyl Theatre tackles next will be worth waiting for.

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The ballad of Mulan

A Chinese folk tale has echoes of 'All Quiet On The Western Front'

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The Life & Rhymes Of Archy & Mehitabel

Don Marquis's wonderful creations, brought to life!

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The Tower

Do we ever really lose our mothers?

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The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey

Of the 115 (mostly London) shows I’ve seen this year so far, it ranks as the most profound, and one of the very finest.

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Twisted Tales

One mat, six players and bundles of talent in this dynamic ensemble. Bringing Total Theatre back!

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Un/Dressed

An introduction to Forum Theatre

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Women’s Writes

We’ve been lucky to sit in on the first stage of a very promising conversation collaboration, and theatre piece.

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You’re Not Doing It Wrong If No-one Knows What You’re Doing

How families shape you - until you find your own particular shape

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