FringeReview UK

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If you’ve not seen a Noda production, see it. If you have, see it. It’s still the most intelligent spectacular I’ve seen in recent times.

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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.

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Last and First Men

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

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Murder Games

A hidden gem, and a marriage-which-is-not-a-marriage, made in opera heaven.

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Rinaldo

Very highly recommended for anyone who enjoys taking the pith of Handel. Seriously.

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Safe Haven

There’s a perennial feel not just to the humanity at the play’s core; but the work itself. In these dark days, a must-see.

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Soldiers of Tomorrow

Vital, necessary theatre. Not a play but a testimony.

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Teatro dei Gordi: Visite

As ever, the Coronet and its guests have scored something unique in the British theatre-world.

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The Gambler

Chiten Theatre intensifies to a point of light here something barbarous, atavistic, and goes to the heart of nihilism. Still outstanding.

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The Magic Flute

OrQuesta provide the pattern of how to mount a vocally full-scale, full-length opera in an intimate space. An outstanding Magic Flute.

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The Playboy of the Western World

An impossible balance, but having seen Playboy at farce-speed, it’s good to weigh in with a loquacious backbeat of despair. Wholly absorbing.

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The Story of Peer Gynt

The Norwegian Ibsen company - and here Kåre Conradi - are doing for Ibsen what Conor Lovett and Gare St Lazare are doing for Beckett. And both are to be found at the Coronet.

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Uccelini

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

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Ukraine Unbroken

An absorbing evening; essential theatre.

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Under the Shadow

Far richer than any ghost play haunting the tour circuit, it’s a blistering, scary must-see.

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