FringeReview UK
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FringeReview UK 2025
A play deeper than the satire which propels it. And subtly layered enough to brush the epic. A stunning smack between the eyes and a must-see.
It’s impossible to believe Sienna doesn’t believe Emily’s not part of this at some level, and by the end, you’ll think so too.
We must be grateful for this compelling revival, and wait for more from the National’s Black archive.
Belly of the Beast should be a set text in schools. And should definitely tour there.
There’s a rapt self-communing in this production of Three Sisters. A must-see, it glows long after you’ve left it.
One of the most uneven of late plays, its heights have to be seen; and though there’s pitfalls, this absorbing production surmounts most. A feat.
Death & Co. The Laurel and Hardy of Suicide, the Little and Large of it Do see this timely, painfully funny, and absorbing new play.
Steve Coogan reigns supreme, and a cast like John Hopkins then Giles Terera are a gift to both Coogan and the show.
ETT’s gallimaufry stimulates, frustrates, occasionally fascinates. A more selective through-line would have revealed a mineral gleam, a new earth of tyranny.
This grips anyone who can’t let first love go, anyone who stares homeward even now, wild with all regret. Unmissable.
When Doll Common claims “Life’s like a storm. Don’t get in its way” one thinks of the stoicism of those in the eye of it, and their audience. A consummate revival.
Essential theatre, essential witness and mandatory for anyone who wants to know how human we have to be, from beginning to end.
How far you’d go to pursue either vengeance or to resolve one, asks just such questions of how we choose to box up our lives. The Gift is for all of us.
A transfixingly beautiful production, with often superb acting, especially from Lara Manela
