FringeReview UK

#We Are Arrested

Peter Hamilton Dyer carries this celebration of the conscience to be fully human

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4.48 Psychosis

Do see this bold, beautiful attempt on Kane’s masterpiece

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A History of Water in the Middle East

Hugely absorbing it’s entertaining too.

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A Kind of People

Bhatti nails truth to the doors of injustice. It’s well we heeded it.

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A Letter to a Friend in Gaza

Amos Gitai’s curating hope from the ruins, impelling the audience to construct a narrative.

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A Very Expensive Poison

Prebble’s one antidote for these distracted times.

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After Edward

This has to be the smartest debut from this venue since Jessica Swales’ Bluestockings: no wonder the playscripts sold out early.

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Afterglow

It’s conquered both sides of the pond. We need this.

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Ali and Dahlia

A phenomenally well-written first play

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American Idiot

It’s still revolutionary.

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Amsterdam

Did I say sucker-punch? It’s what the Orange Tree do every time.

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Angry Alan

Funny, sassy, disturbing, necessary.

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Appropriate

A play that can only deepen with each production.

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Benidorm Live

Heartwarming. It has the brash conviction of it origins, out and proud of it.

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Cougar

You must see this.

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Cyprus Avenue

Devastating drama about the DNA of bigotry; and it all starts in surreal farce.

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Downstate

A masterly, unsettling play that in this production never puts a foot wrong. And wrong-foots us all.

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Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography

A fine piece, skidding along silicon into our dark

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Europe

Europe’s border challenges have rarely been realized with this power.

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Faith, Hope & Charity

Grounded in quiet with a huge howl

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Fiver

An enchanting speed-read of our connectedness, a reminder that a fiver can change your life. Irresistible.

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Fleabag

Original, raw, brilliantly funny and devastating. This production is Fleabag neat. Its harrowing streak of genius burns like a healing scar torn.

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Ghost

You’ll know the film. Despite the volume, you should know this.

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Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.

For a time you feel that beyond Churchill’s world, nothing else quite seems to exist.

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hello/goodbye

You must queue to see this. It’s quite wonderful.

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How Love is Spelt

Absolutely recommended.

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INK Festival Feast From the East

I’ve not seen a festival of short plays to compare with these.

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Inside Bitch

Visceral and sometimes very very funny. Then not. Essential viewing.

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I’m Not Running

Compelling dissection of what hampers the mindset of our main progressive party.

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John Greening The Silence

The Crypt organisers as well as John Greening really have hit on an ideal recitation.

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Little Baby Jesus

Anyone seeing this play will be grateful they’ll never feel quite the same way about London, young people or language again.

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Little Miss Sunshine

It’s a quiet heartbreaker, with stoicism and love the only answers. Do see it.

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Loving Androids

A beautifully-constructed play, small in compass, big in scope and deft at managing the transitions

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Mary’s Babies

Maud Dromgoole’s proved more than adroit, skilful, and deliciously risk-taking. A must-see.

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Midnight Movie

What we have is absorbing

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My Brilliant Friend Parts One and Two

Cusack and McCormack give the performances of their lives

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Noughts & Crosses

A must-see cry for love and tolerance

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Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Outstanding.

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Pilgrims

Elinor Cook’s always worth a diversion for. This drama deserves friends and revivals.

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Rotterdam

Rotterdam’s an outstanding play about sexual identity, choices, and above all what it means to transition.

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Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes

Rodrigues is a dramatist we need to see far more of.

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salt.

We’re offered ‘salt to heal, salt to remember… above all for your wounds.’ Take it.

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seven methods of killing kylie jenner

‘What are you gonna do now…. clap?’ Yes, standing.

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Shadows

Speaks with a fierce innocence

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Shipwreck

A superb ensemble piece. Of all dramas on these interesting times in America, it’s the one truly necessary.

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Shook

If you’ve an appetite for exceptional new writing, just see it.

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Stones in His Pockets

What better way to spend 105 minutes in the city?

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Superhoe

A searing new talent.

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Sweat

No wonder this play’s just extended its run. Don’t even read this before you try booking.

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The Doctor

A triumph for all concerned. Juliet Stevenson even gains in stature. Icke’s last production could hardly go better than this.

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The End of History…

A play you want to return to.

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The Father

Florian Zeller's masterpiece, in a production and central performance that would do it justice anywhere.

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The Full Monty

Unmissable in this – er, newly enhanced production.

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The House on Cold Hill

Sleep as well as you can. The house won’t.

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The Ice Cream Boys

A deeply satisfying play

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The Mikvah Project

A brave and beautiful play

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The Pride

Don’t wait for another West End revival see this one.

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What Girls Are Made Of

Cora Bissett’s set the bar thrillingly high for a new genre. Who could follow her?

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When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other

This cast’s exemplary dedication deserves watching for their sheer performative belief.

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White Pearl

The finest new play from the Court this year, gleaming and deadly

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Compelling and bleakly miraculous

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