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FringeReview UK 2026

1.17am, or until the words run out

A cracking debut that picks you up and never lets go. Like any play that gifts us believable characters, it leaves you wondering what life, not just Hunter Gordon, will do with them. Highly recommended.


Aether

Exciting, boppy, mind-enlarging, sometimes thrilling


Ashes and Diamonds

Exceptionally humane, humanly absorbing. It’s always 11.15. Till it isn’t


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.


Bitch Boxer

A superb revival. Catch it.


Cable Street

This is an event. Break in (without breakages!) if you have to, to see this. You’ll be standing in the aisles to swarm the barricades.


Deep Azure

One of the few moments of Peter Brooks’ term “Holy Theatre” has arrived at the Wanamaker. A must-see.


Escaped Alone

It mightn’t quite be the droll, dry Churchill we know, but it’s certainly one we should greet. Absorbing.


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.


Guess How Much I Love You?

Rosie Sheehy and Robert Aramayo are phenomenal and wholly believable. Norris’s next play will be worth seeking out, after such an outstanding debut.


Heart Wall

One of the most remarkable reveals in recent theatre, and makes this play an absolutely compelling must-see.


Iphigenia

Pacing is fleet, inexorable, even with those frozen minutes of contemporary video. Unmissable.


Last and First Men

A brave and bewitching venture, typically unique to this space.


Nayatt School Redux

Whatever they are, you hope The Wooster Group haunts us forever.


The BFG

Evans and his team have transported the magic so completely it’s taken up residence. Both outstanding and a delight


The Covetousness

A lost Kunqu classic reborn for the contemporary stage.


The Olive Boy

An extremely fine, and important one-person play, brimming with comedic gambits to open the floodgates.


Uccelini

A rich, suggestive and above all probing work about how we live with our ghosts so we can live with each other.


Ukraine Unbroken

An absorbing evening; essential theatre.