Genre: Drama 0
Review: Outlying Islands
A first rate-revival of a small classic. Do seek out this rare, dream-like play.
Review: Ayer Hitam: A Black History of Singapore
This is a well crafted, beautifully performed and sensitively directed show, it is direct, poignant, meaningful and not to be missed!
Review: Sweat
No wonder this play’s just extended its run. Don’t even read this before you try booking.
Review: The Tell-Tale Heart
As an electric shock to schlock gothic, theatre doesn’t come much better than this.
Review: Romeo and Juliet
This Romeo and Juliet has all the pace and heart any production, modern-dress or period, demands. Karen Fishwick’s radiant Juliet is the soul that imprints itself on it.
Review: Antony and Cleopatra
Supremely worth it to see a pair so famous weighing equal in their own balance, perhaps for the first time.
Review: Great Expectations
An excitingly-conceived adaptation of a familiar story. Ahead lies some astonishment.
Review: The Madness of George III
This magnificent revival poses even more urgent questions. A twitch on the thread for all of us.
Review: The Funeral Director
One of the most riveting few minutes of contemporary theatre I’ve seen all year.
Review: ear for eye
Listen for our commonality, don’t look for difference. Here’s a memorable place to start.
Review: Stories
Utterly compelling. Anything Nina Raine writes now is routinely expected to touch greatness. No pressure.
Review: Cock
A superb revival of Bartlett’s warmest, most ground-breaking, perhaps most enduring play so far.
Review: The Sweet Science of Bruising
It’s incredibly helpful Troupe champion new writing as good as this. It should go to a prize-fight.
Review: Measure for Measure
The most thoughtful and thought-provoking recreation of a Shakespeare play this year.
Review: I’m Not Running
Compelling dissection of what hampers the mindset of our main progressive party.
Review: Antony and Cleopatra
Supremely worth it to see these characters weighing equal in their own balance, perhaps for the first time.
Review: The Dresser
This consummate portrayal of near-disaster ending in a successful one, is as good as it gets at LLT.
Review: Happy Now?
However fine the original 2008 cast, you won’t miss them with this company’s revival of a stunning contemporary play. See it.
A completely absorbing experience packed into a pulsing interior. Don’t miss it.
Review: Stay Happy Keep Smiling, Fury
Where else in Brighton can you see two new acclaimed plays so swiftly?
Review: The Woods
Of this play's witness and power there can be no doubt whatsoever. Compelling and unmissable.
Review: The Outsider
Like so much from The Print Room, this feels like European theatre. And we need it more desperately than ever.
Review: Eyam
A ringing, tolling end to a pioneering season. This play must have a life – and already possesses a miraculous importunity.
Review: Aristocrats
Turner terraces a reading of Aristocrats that heightens Friel’s study in dislocation.
Review: The Graduate
There’s so many reasons to see this production. It’s worth hanging around for returns.
Review: Nests
An authentic tale of two desperadoes, met in the wrong place, at the wrong time, looking for the right solution but one out of three turns out not to be an option.
Review: Underground Railroad Game
The most radical piece of American theatre I’ve seen, and certainly the bravest. See it.
Review: Cyrano de Bergerac
A delightful night of theatre in an ensemble piece that brings the leid o oor land tae life fur the fowk tae tak delight wi
Review: Dance Nation
As an airborne metaphor for how you get to be grown-ups, what it does to you, Dance Nation takes as it were some beating.
Review: Enough
A violent attack on the social norms which drive self-harm in its many and varied forms.
Review: The Crucible
Identity Theatre Company’s Blue Remembered Hills was a stand-out last year. Directed by Nettie Sheridan and Gary Cook, this is too: strongly-conceived and mostly well-acted with stand-outs: don’t miss it.
Review: Copenhagen
A superb revival that can hardly be bettered, it’s more than enough to persuade us of Copenhagen’s classic status.
Review: Emilia
This is a necessary, thrilling play, its energy and message spill straight into the audience.
Review: Woke
Gut-wrenching, dramatic telling of the events around the Black Panther movement and the killing of Michael Brown
Review: Home, I’m Darling
It’s a moment when rejoicing to concur with the general public, as Samuel Johnson once did over Gray’s Elegy, is the only thing to do.
Review: Square Go
Masculinity and absurdity with a swagger and a cheek tae talk so it is, thrown in wi yer ma and yer brother as we see a hilarious fight for the right tae … hide.
Review: South Bend
Highly articulate Scottish American crush that led to a transatlantic love affair that was crushed by the experience of following your dreams but finding a nightmare.
Review: Erewhon
A fascinating adaptation of a novel of its time, presented in a concept of its time but in a timeless fashion for a modern audience.
Review: Ganymede
A square set of love stories that ends with a worthy examination of the meaning of love and acceptance.
Review: Fast
A true story told with skill, passion and tremendous attention to detail (you'll get the shivers)
Review: Job-Cher
A funny drama based on what happens when a Dead Ringer Cher double act falls on hard times.
Review: The Way Out
An acoustic dystopian fantasy where the question becomes – is it right to unplug?
Review: The Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Equal parts ghost story, biography, gothic theatre, and poetry, The Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a funeral to which you should not be late.
Review: Narcissist in the Mirror
Razor sharp writing and performance. If you’re going to see one play about millenial anx, see this one.
Review: Istanbul: You’ll Never Walk alone
An iconic night of football told from three perspectives in an enthralling a tale as the one played out in Turkey
Review: A Life On The Silk Road
An Epic and Unique Journey Through Dance, Music, Puppetry, and Physical Theatre
Review: Achilles
Fusing dance, physical theatre, prose, and raw, dynamic acting Ewan Downie breathes new life into the ages old tale.
Review: Woodbine Willie: Poet and Padre
1,000,000 cigarettes: keeping alive the story of an extraordinary ordinary WWI hero
Review: HUFF
A gut-wrenching tale of Indigenous brothers caught in a torrent of solvent abuse in the wake of the death of their mother.
Review: The Unknown Soldier
A poignant reminder of the aftermath of war and the unsung heroes it leaves behind.
Review: Animal Farm
A swift and telling production that’s quick-swerving on its feet with memorable vocal projection and physical acting that’s a delight and enticement. This outstanding outdoor version feels special.
Review: Darlings
Well written and acted contemporary play about 20 somethings is relatable, informative, entertaining and pulls on the heart-strings, the best kind of theatre!
