Review: Criminology 303
A taught half hour or so in the company of a former detective and the case that haunts her, and now us
Genre: New Writing 0
Review: Grimm: An Untold Tale
An entertaining and illuminating play about forgotten figures in history
Review: Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs 2: The Magic Cutlass
Lively action packed family show.
Review: A Series of Unfortunate Breakups
A bittersweet tale of 3 relationships that never quite end the way you expect
Review: Five Go Off on One
The Famous Five, without one, go off on an adventure on summer hols for jolly japes and smuggling scrapes.
Review: Still Here
“If you have the media - please tell to all the people of nation about my country; Is very important.”
Review: Pigs and Dogs
In a quarter-hour we’re struck with a rich and head-spinning narrative of how same-sex culture’s been oppressed first by the west and now through European language. You end up stopping in outraged disbelief at this virulent legacy of colonialism. If you can’t see it, read it.
Review: Unreachable
A profoundly quizzical play about directorial and film-mogul silliness, using one liners and silliness to address these questions.
Review: Love and Information
Stunning ensemble play, Churchill’s flickering meditation on how we communicate and convey love and every other shade of being.
Review: Sunset at the Villa Thalia
Making noise quietly, Campbell’s new play perhaps pulls a few punches because it believes in quiet. Ben Miles dominates the stage in this uneasy parable, and Elizabeth McGovern’s uproariously funny and pathos-ridden.
Review: Joan, Babs & Sheila Too
A stunning traversal of Joan Littlewood’s life by Gemskii and Conscious Theatre. Without her, there would never have been A Taste of Honey, Oh What a Lovely War, or much of postwar British theatre.
Review: White Feather Boxer
Timely and fascinating play of a pacifist pugilist’s conscience, in 1967, and 1914 from the author of Hanging Hooke and Stella.
Review: Doctor Faustus
Kit-off Harington stars in this rewritten Marlowe piece, long on sex and violence but short on Marlowe. Intermittently brilliant.
Review: The Flick
Mesmerising exploration of three characters maintaining a failing cinema, heartbreakingly funny, mimetically riveting. One of the Nationals’ very finest new plays under the new regime.
Review: Haim: In the Light of a Violin
Mesmerising, heart-rending concert-cum-narration of a child’s journey through violin lessons to auditioning in Auschwitz, and beyond as told through his eyes.
Review: People Places and Things
Denise Gough’s award-winning performance centres this terrifying eddy of addiction and slipping recovery.
Review: Kenny Morgan
Superb take on Rattigan’s lover’s suicide attempts, that inspired Rattigan’s masterpiece The Deep Blue Sea.
Review: Human Animals
A thrillingly compressed dystopia crossing The Birds, and Caryl Churchill with draconian government opportunism.
Review: A View From Islington North
Intermittently thrilling plays from the urgent left, two premieres and a couple of small gems roughened by the tumble of Westminster and the Corporates that really must be seen - unless you’re Gideon.
Review: Elegy
Starring Barbara Flynn and Zoe Wannamaker, Nick Payne’s new play – a thrilling and devastating probe at our identity - picks up the threads of science, self and mortality from Constellations and The Art of Dying, marking his most ambitious play since the former.
Review: Cuttin’ It
Superb distillation of the costs of FGM to victims and victim-perpetrators, James reaches out to all in this searing two-hander.
Review: Behind the Front Lines; Warriors and Wives
A narrative piece of theatre weaving the story of a wife and a soldier under the conditions of war
Review: Brideshead Revisited
Bryony Lavery’s adaptation of Brideshead, the first for the stage dazzles with stagecraft and storyline but something’s lost tail-chasing the detail.
Review: Simon Says
A touching brief play scooped out of the air by two bright students with only a title to go on.
Review: Wolf Meat
Profoundly silly and farcically serious show with just the kind of anarchy that offers coke to audience members. Contains brief and ghastly nudity.
Review: Year Without Summer
Fascinating sideling glimpse of Romantic poets and writers through a chaise-long laced with gothic intent.
Review: Something Rotten
Scintillating subversive and original take on Hamlet’s unhappy uncle, weighed down by doubts and too many jokers. Beware of complicity.
Review: Dancing in the Dark
Inspired off-centre situationist drama from acclaimed Wired Theatre about family, grief and sexual identities.
Review: 1 in 3
1 in 3 is a brave, thoughtful and heartfelt new play which explores the deep and truthful world of chemotherapy
Review: The Cunning Mr Lingus
Advice on how to sex up your life and your period appendages sets tongues wagging for a second year in this warm comedy from Alpha males to a wicked Omega-
Review: And the Rope Still Tugging Her Feet
Compelling, downright funny yet tragic true narrative of the Kerry Baby affair of 1984. Caroline Burns Cooke triumphs as writer and actor.
Review: The Marlowe Papers
A diamond in Shakespeare’s or Marlowe’s ruff? Ros Barber’s novel adapted for the stage, starring vaulting Jamie Martin.
Review: A Good Jew
Keenly-anticipated new play by Jonathan Brown breaks new territory; it’s both theatrically challenging and disturbing.
Review: Limelight
Showstopping numbers stud this heartwarming, touching new play with numbers by Liz Tait.
Review: Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
Lee Hall’s and Vicky Featherstone‘s sell-out Edinburgh Fringe musical comes to the Theatre Royal. It more than bears out the accolades heaped on it.
Review: Boy
A superbly bleached-out vision of a seventeen-year-old’s prospects on a stunning conveyer-belt set. Not a comfortable but necessary seventy minutes.
Review: A Dirty Get-Away!
Brilliantly silly and profound meditation on the nature of memory loss as innocence
Review: Persona
Clean focused reading by Bexelei Theatre's young talent of Jon Barton's new play on trolling
Review: Thorn
Tremendously energised one-man play about an Australian minister's son on a mission, but which one?
Review: Menkind
A well-produced show that holds the attention and provides plenty of laughs along the way.
Review: Hip
Hip is a must see show. A Brighton-spirited séance with tequila, nibbles, tenderness and laughter.
Review: Groomed
Patrick Sandford's groundbreaking play, acted by himself, of his own childhood abuse, acted alongside a sax player...
Review: Distortion
Disquieting premiere about sexual abuse torturing the memories of a child, her adult self, and her abuser
Review: Cyprus Avenue
Devastating drama about the DNA of bigotry; and it all starts in surreal farce
Review: X
Vicky Featherstone brings a little science friction to McDowall's science fantasy world, as he moves from his familiar lair
Review: International Waters
An intriguing evening of disaster, mayhem and murder in a cocktail frock
Review: The Silent Treatment
Scotland's leading integrated theatre company deliver an evening you should not keep quiet about
Review: How You Gonna Live Your Dash?
How are you going to spend your life, in 70 minutes of event that might change your mind.
Review: At least we can laugh about it
A full hour of laughter and fun from an Icelandic performer that tickles, amuses and makes you guffaw liberally.
Review: Daughter
The funeral of a daughter, on the side of Loch Lomond is carefully choreographed by the corpse whilst she is still living.
Review: We Always Knew This Day Was Coming
One man’s journey from fireman to girlfriend to boyfriend as told in 1 minute episodes
Review: The Choir
An evening of song, drama and sheer joy that sits in your head long after the curtain calls
Review: A Fine Line
Previous Fringe First Award winner Ronnie Dorsey brings a wonderful story of love, family, intimacy and loss which is beautifully performed by Judith Paris.
Review: How You Kiss Me Is Not How I Like To Be Kissed
How You Kiss Me Is Not How I Like To Be Kissed
Review: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
" wonderful words, masterfully adapted, brilliantly brought to life"
Review: Bug Bite
A brave and important piece of work exploring fractured relationships and breast cancer.
Review: The Cupboard
Weird and fanciful fairy tale that smells a rat from the very beginning and ends up discarded in the wrong cupboard
Review: Ndebele Funeral
A rich discussion on poverty, politics, friendship featuring brilliantly written characters.
Review: Confessions Of A Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl
Lots of froth, not quite enough hit, with a very charming host.
Review: The Andromeda Paradox
X marks the spot. Make space for Tom Neenan's latest journey into the unknown ..
Review: Leftovers
An original play with a highly original twist that does not fail to keep you enthralled
Review: Fake It ‘Til You Make It
A brutally true story of Bryony and her partner, Tim, that leaves simultaneously you laughing and crying.
Review: Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons
We tried to talk it over, but the words got in the way ..
