Review: ear for eye
Listen for our commonality, don’t look for difference. Here’s a memorable place to start.
Genre: New Writing 0
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!
Review: Lucille and Cecilia
Two wacky sea lions with a tale to tell – and don’t forget the mackerel.
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!
Review: The Approach
Three women. Three lives. Three conversations spanning half a decade. Woven and connected and Isolated and reconnected.
Review: Timpson The Musical
A pair of star-crossed lovers out to out-invent their foe, one Keypulet, the other Montashoe.
Review: Re: Production
An exceptionally well-crafted tale of how irony and IVF melt together but cannot break true love.
Review: I’ll Have What She’s Having
A hilarious run through womanhoodwinked in the 21st Century straight from two women who know from either side of the picketed fence.
Review: Female Transport
A tale of transport to the colonies with punishment, exploitation and solidarity at the heart of a straightforward tale, told in an intimate setting.
Review: Passionate Machine
Time travel, Russian poetry, a PhD, a single Mum, quantum physics, a Rocky montage. Fun, moving and brilliant.
Review: There But For the Grace of God (Go I)
A rare instance of an actor knowing exactly how to direct himself. It’s a super-Fringe show well worth reviving, and Welsh clearly puts his life into it.
Review: Monsieur Somebody
Excellent acting, intriguing new absurdist play by Seamus Collins is provocative and entertaining!
Review: Fear Itself
funny, dark and frightening - a psychological thriller that will keep you on your toes
Review: £￥€$ (Lies)
By the end of this you’ll know far more about the banking sector than even Robert Peston explains. Now go and play them for a fool.
Review: Pity
Those receptive to those energies unleashed in the Ionesco, or more fitfully in Saint George and the Dragon will readily see Mullarkey’s almost unique position. What he writes next might define him.
Review: Exit the King
We need such risk-taking theatre back. This outstanding production of Exit the King might just remind us how to get it.
Review: The Meeting
Quieter than Humble Boy, The Meeting juggles ideas as adeptly, and heart more fully perhaps than any Jones play. There’s every reason to celebrate Jones’ return to the stage.
Review: In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises)
This production’s sheer inventiveness, the feral truth of the acting and fabulously exploding set surely reinvent something; and land this drama where it should be: in the bleak dark before a bleached-out dawn.
Review: Katie Johnstone
Most of all you take away the sheer bravura of Georgia May Hughes’ throwing everything up in the air. She carries the energy to a cheery bleakness. And you want to cheer.
Review: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
It’s not shorter than before, but dare one say it, somehow Sparkier, conveying the author’s economy in a sinewy morality tale.
