Review: The Story of Peer Gynt
The Norwegian Ibsen company - and here Kåre Conradi - are doing for Ibsen what Conor Lovett and Gare St Lazare are doing for Beckett. And both are to be found at the Coronet.
Genre: Solo Performance 0
Review: Common Tongue
This is a funny, warm, and energetic play about home, ultimately - and the seemingly perpetually impossible subject of speaking Scots
Review: Providence
An engaging performance where object theatre mixes with physical theatre to create a profound visual storytelling experience endowed with strong archetypal symbolism
Review: Kate, Allie, and the ’86 Mets
Barry’s experience in storytelling and newness to performance creates something honest, assured, and beautifully tender on the stage
Review: Beth Knight: Who Told You to Be Small?
Beth is challenging the beauty myth and owning her talent.
Review: Rachel Creeger: Ultimate Jewish Mother
Warm-hearted, witty, wise, oh... and there's chicken soup
Review: Sectioned – Schrödinger’s Mental Health
A powerful ground breaking approach to sharing deeply personal experience in ways that might just effect significant change.
Review: Picking Up Stones: An American Jew Wakes to a Nightmare
Powerful, difficult, and desperately important.
Review: I Dream in Colour
A celebratory show from a young blind performer about the right to make one’s own decisions however tough the choices
Review: Super Mama
Lithuanian comedian makes her debut at the fringe with a story about almost forgetting yourself after becoming a mum.
Review: A Canadian Explains Eurovision to Americans
Matti McLean rises like a phoenix in this surprisingly heartfelt trip through the strange world of Eurovision
Review: 1955 – A Mafia-themed Magic Show
Half an hour flies by with "WowS" and "How the hell did he do thats?"
Review: The Heterosexuals
A terrifying(ly funny) stand-up comedy about the scariest thing out there: heterosexuals
Review: Songs of the Wayfarer
An interesting exploration of travel and its many forms whilst on crutches with a multi-layered explanation and exploration of the effect it has upon you.
Review: Gobbling Market
A visceral exploration of Victorian Britain set against the exploitation, through the Opium Wars, of China, served with a less than delicious meal.
Review: Glitch in the Myth
A timeless archetype reimagined through a woman's perspective, capable of resonating with audiences everywhere
Review: Contemporary Sisyphus
A solo journey of pain and discovery beautifully imagined in a movement piece with tremendous grace.
Review: Shower Chair
We meet some people's deepest revelations through performance here, actors finding themselves becoming vulnerable through theatre, getting naked.
Review: Don’t Stop Believing
Shine’s show is no doubt a crowd pleaser, and she’s taken what could easily be perceived as a gimmick and created something enjoyable and fun.
Review: Antidepressed
As with any good comedy, it is littered with relatable content, the ideas that are most people’s everyday realities no matter where they’re from.
Review: MILF and the Mistress
A fascinating exploration of what therapy ought to be a pain in – latex.
Review: Fit Ye Sayin’ Quine?
A poetically beautiful piece of Doric wonder that tells the myths of a generation passing on the tales to the one two below with craft and creative joy.
Review: Across a Love Locked Bridge
A poignant recording of a journey from innocence through the discovery of love, arriving at the knowledge of love, after all what else is there?
Review: BED – A one man show
A solo comedy theatre storytelling stand-up tour de france (and beyond)
Review: AFTER ALL
Weinachter is an interchangeable chameleon: not just a dancer, but a rare performer who can do it all! Her style and execution of ideas paints a beautiful memory of her idiosyncratic talents in exploring the beginning and end of life. Stunningly poignant.
Review: Colleen Lavin: Do The Robots Think I’m Funny
“ Murderbot is going to asses my performance,” says Lavin at the top of the show, “And then you’re going to decide if you care.” At least in this case, the robot did find Colleen Lavin to be very funny. I have to say I agree.
Review: The Last Flapper
Zelda is portrayed as a sympathetic, misused woman without taking away her teeth or her sense of humor.
Review: This Is Not A Play (It’s A Pathetic Cry For Help)
A stunning solo performance of an exquisitely intricate script
Review: Must be this Gay to Ride
A one woman exploration of the gender agenda, which asks some universal LGBT truths in a fascinating monologue.
Review: 60 Minutes of Our Lives
A very entertaining show that is unpredictable, well written and well performed!
Review: Angry Black Woman 101
Moving, relevant, meaningful, entertaining and enlightening show, told by a charismatic performer.
Review: Pretty Beast
Vibrant performance, which runs the entire range of emotions, told with humor, poignance and searing sadness.
Review: Cocky
McLaughlin’s performance and writing are wonderful - poignant and meaningful - told with with humor, pathos and humanity.
Review: Dave, Muhammad and I at the Americana Hotel
Heartfelt and serious story, sincere performance
Review: My First Miracle – adventures in bipolar disorder
Entertaining, vulnerable, insightful and brave. Polished performance
Review: Young Oscar, Wilde in San Francisco
Fascinating story and performance about the compelling character of Oscar Wilde
Review: An A to Z of Fish and Chips
"a pleasing show that may just leave you restless to plunge a little wooden fork into a saveloy."
Review: Ghislaine/Gabler
A spell binding multi layered exploration of privilege, entitlement, and the desire to control…
Review: She-Wolves
Informative story-telling about historic women rulers and how they have been represented and mis-represented through time.
Review: A Eulogy for Roman
An astonishing solo show of one man’s search for meaning within himself, with audience participation.
Review: Spirit of Woodstock 2 – The Sequel
There’s no greater writer/performer working in Brighton, or Sussex, and Spirit of Woodstock Parts I and 2 is Jonathan Brown’s most dazzling show to date.
Review: OD’D
Highly skilled and theatrical solo acrobatics with balls, silks and centrifugal force- a mesmerizing performance from Finland.
Review: The Event
A solo show which deconstructs theatre, our lives and how artifice might be presented or might not in a remarkable performance by the man who created it, sold it on and still can be marveled at doing it.
Review: The True Story of the Little Girl who thought she was The Second Coming of Jesus Christ
Every little girl dreams of being special, but Ellie Rose doesn’t just dream – she knows she’s special.
Review: The Rape of Lucrece
The definitive way to experience this troublingly great, disturbingly unresolved poem
Review: Living Newspaper #7
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch a group of young dramatists take on the future
Review: Living Newspaper #6
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch what this does with the future
Review: Living Newspaper #5
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch.
