FringeReview UK

Alterations

We must be grateful for this compelling revival, and wait for more from the National’s Black archive.

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Chekhov Three Sisters

There’s a rapt self-communing in this production of Three Sisters. A must-see, it glows long after you’ve left it.

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Dr Strangelove

Steve Coogan reigns supreme, and a cast like John Hopkins then Giles Terera are a gift to both Coogan and the show.

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Heisenberg

If flawed it’s a fascinating, intimate piece given new life and with luck a new performing tradition. The most compelling two-hander now playing.

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Macbeth

ETT’s gallimaufry stimulates, frustrates, occasionally fascinates. A more selective through-line would have revealed a mineral gleam, a new earth of tyranny.

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Men’s Business

A quietly phenomenal, ground-breaking play, blistering in sumps of silence. See it.

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Rhinoceros

Don’t miss this. It’s provoking, wholly in spirit, with moments of great power.

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Robert Icke Manhunt Royal Court Theatre Downstairs

Compelling and required viewing.

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The Devil May Care

Do see this particularly for an outstanding performance from Burrows and an exceptionally fine one from Woodhouse. This adaptation remains an exhilarating reminder of what a difference a century makes.

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The Importance of Being Oscar

Alastair Whatley takes the joy of the sorrow, and makes it his own. Unmissable if you can squeeze in.

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The Inseparables

A transfixingly beautiful production, with often superb acting, especially from Lara Manela

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The Passenger

Essential theatre: a must-see.

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Vaughan Williams, J.M. Synge Riders to the Sea

Betteridge’s prologue is certainly worth seeing even if you know the work, and won’t need persuading. And after the opera, the rest is surf, and silence.

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WILKO: Love and Death and Rock ‘n’ Roll

This could potentially be outstanding.

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