Genre: New Writing 0
Review: Mary’s Babies
Maud Dromgoole’s proved more than adroit, skilful, and deliciously risk-taking. A must-see.
Review: Rotterdam
Rotterdam’s an outstanding play about sexual identity, choices, and above all what it means to transition.
Review: After Edward
This has to be the smartest debut from this venue since Jessica Swales’ Bluestockings: no wonder the playscripts sold out early.
Review: Downstate
A masterly, unsettling play that in this production never puts a foot wrong. And wrong-foots us all.
Review: Loving Androids
A beautifully-constructed play, small in compass, big in scope and deft at managing the transitions
Review: Much Taboo About Nothing
An innovative two hander exploring the taboo subject of abortion and its effect on two young parents with an unlikely ending.
Review: Berberian Sound Studio
Thoroughly absorbing, full of walking shadows who throw vivid questions.
Review: Shipwreck
A superb ensemble piece. Of all dramas on these interesting times in America, it’s the one truly necessary.
Review: Cyprus Avenue
Devastating drama about the DNA of bigotry; and it all starts in surreal farce.
Review: Gigantic Lying Mouth
An engaging one man exploration of lying at the end of his life, helped with video, a disembodied voice and facing the harsh truth of his own (previous) existence.
Review: When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other
This cast’s exemplary dedication deserves watching for their sheer performative belief.
Review: I’m Not Running
Compelling dissection of what hampers the mindset of our main progressive party.
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: Hole
Wow drama, the original Greek tragoidia. It invokes the same powers, almost the same gods.
Review: Madagascar The Musical
Highly Recommended for monkeys and lemurs of all ages – quite apart from lions, zebras, hippos and giraffes.
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: Allelujah!
Bennett’s exhorting us to fight back with laughter and rage in this riveting, timely play. It’s a sad and angry consolation.
Review: The Brighton Scratch Night
9 pieces of New Writing play across 3 nights for a place in The Brighton Fringe 2019
Review: Stories
Utterly compelling. Anything Nina Raine writes now is routinely expected to touch greatness. No pressure.
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: I’m Not Running
Compelling dissection of what hampers the mindset of our main progressive party.
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: Poet in da Corner
Exemplary, thrilling, adrenalin-shot and shout-worthy. There has to be a part two, and it ought to be soon.
Review: Infinity
Between confessions and spacesuits is a dynamic and moving play that will reveal why we all need each other so very, very much.
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: Drip Feed
Complex, imperfect and very human, a moving story about a queer woman living in Cork during the 1990s
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: The Political History of Smack and Crack
As theatre it Catherine-wheels with anger. As an unsentimental education this takes some beating. Don’t miss it.
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: Mao That’s What I Call Music!
Des Kapital presents a strange brew of pop karaoke and Communist China
Review: Emilia
This is a necessary, thrilling play, its energy and message spill straight into the audience.
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: That Woman! Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
A deliciously gossipy peak into the 20th century’s most famous love affair
Review: Fast
A true story told with skill, passion and tremendous attention to detail (you'll get the shivers)
Review: Gie’s Peace
Inspiring Stories of Courageous Women - An Exploration of War Through Storytelling and Music
Review: (Even) Hotter
A hilarious expose of what is hot, in your body, for your body and with other bodies.
Review: The Way Out
An acoustic dystopian fantasy where the question becomes – is it right to unplug?
Review: Ad Libido
A moving, painfully funny, brilliantly crafted one woman show that has everything from awkward sex scenes to teenage diaries to talking Yonis.
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: Letters For Peace
Haunting, poignant music from one of Scotland’s leading guitarist and composers
Review: A Fair Tale About a Fairy Trade
A brave attempt to tackle a serious issue, from an ambitious, enthusiastic and passionate young company.
Review: Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful
An intimate and polished performance from an accomplished storyteller and poet.
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: First Snow / Première neige
Inventive bilingual collaboration where family tensions merge with debate around cultural identity
Review: Canoe
Well crafted, performed and directed, spirited, polished, entertaining and moving show!
