Review: Outside
As with Inside, Outside not only fits us, they help us to move on, and become in their modest, unassuming and utterly transcendent way, part of how we learn to.
Genre: Solo Performance 0
Review: New Moon Monologues April
As we saw in March, don’t be lulled by friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queens of Cups again proves they’re a company to revel with and wait for heart-stopping reveals
Review: Living Newspaper #3 Royal Court Theatre
Hot off Sloane Square a team of writers, actors and creatives twist the news to truth
Review: New Moon Monologues March
Don’t be lulled by the friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queen of Cups is absolutely a company to watch, and its showcase productions are literally unmissable
Review: Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday
A throwback performance to when Music Hall was King, Queen and Pearly Dreams.
Review: Just Like Giving Blood
Upton’s notches of logic are nudged with brilliance, the actual narrative a granular run-up to an enormous yes.
Review: 15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid
Groundbreaking. The smallest producing theatre in the West End through lockdown has become the largest.
Review: A Kiss From Back Home
A solo performance that brings effectively to the stage the soulful disappointment of a lost relationship.
Review: The New Tomorrow
There’s a generosity here, a big hug. Theatre itself affirms the value of life to those who might yet shape it for the better.
Review: MILF
A series of exploratory monologues that really make you think about the value of gender
Review: Isolation
A desperate portrait of the strain of the absence from a mother of her child during the pandemic.
Review: Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
A complex and impressive study of one iconic literary figure dealing with an iconoclastic time in his kitchen.
Review: Fatbaws
A very impressive self filmed and performed allegory of the threat posed by those who try to invade our gardens and rule the roost.
Review: Daddy Drag
Proof that whilst you cannot fit a person into a show, you can truly theatrically lift a lid on his behaviour, the effect he leaves behind and the void that others cannot fill
Review: The Good Dad (A Love Story)
Intricate, fiercely intelligent, this play packs far more force than some twice its length. Sarah Lawrie’s intensity is magnificent.
Review: The Monster and Mary Shelley
A solo celebration of the mind that brought Frankenstein from its fevered edges to realisation on the page
Review: The Drift
An impressive solo show about how integrated Scotland believes it is but shows us the reality of the length it needs to go, in order to achieve that aim.
Review: You’re Good for Nothing…I’ll Milk the Cow Myself
Poignant, meaningful, vibrant and entertaining!
Review: The Readiness Is All: A Solo Hamlet
Inspired, engrossing, creative, imaginative, and well performed!
Review: Get Uncomfortable
Provocative poetic performance, raw, gripping, beautiful, moving and visceral.
Review: Sam Morrison: Hello, Daddy!
Accomplished and fruity comedy from a young gay comedian who’s already mastered stand up.
Review: I Run
A vivid solo performance of a man running furious, powerful and heartbroken into the grief of his dead daughter.
Review: Jake
An exceptional, multilayered piece that will keep you on the edge of your seat - if not on your toes!
Review: Little Rabbit
Susan's trapped in her house by rising flood water. But she's not allowed to leave the house or even be seen......
Review: Catching Comets
This was a solo performance telling a story about love, about fear, about the protections that we build up around ourselves that isolate us more than they serve.
Review: Madame Komondor Will See You Now
Whoever you are, whatever you’ve got, Madame will see you now. It’s sex therapy with some very good punchlines.
Review: Deer Woman
A rightfully angry production that gives voice to a story that needs to be more widely heard
Review: Paul G Terry Piano Recital
Terry has his own accent, should be enjoyed by many. Mesmerising for a summer’s day.
Review: Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth
A chilling physical exploration of an iconic literary figure.
Review: Jonathan Powell Recital St Michael’s and All Angels Brighton
A stunning world-class recital.
Review: The Birth of Death
“A profoundly moving and disarmingly funny journey, looking at death and how we approach it…”
Review: Turn the Night
An innovative solo performance framed in the context of a karaoke night where underlying tensions get exposed and examined.
Review: Too Young to Stay In, Too Old to Go Out!
Nigel Osner delivers an audacious rendition into the vulnerable and egregious lives of those growing in years
Review: The Tailor of Inverness
A story, a thread, a suit and intrigue, bound in a fascinating tale told with a violin and a cracking narrative; Mathew Zajac masterfully weaves and unfolds layers of the stories of his father.
Review: Achilles
A bold reimagining and interpretation of Achilles’ grief and revenge through a superior technical evening of storytelling, dance and song
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: Baby Face
An uncomfortable night facing uncomfortable truths with comfort coming when you have the decency to condemn the truly indecent
Review: Private Peaceful
This is as good as a one-person show of this kind gets. Andy Daniel should be up there above his own rows of five-star ratings.
Review: Put a Little Shimmer in Your Life
A fascinating well written and performed entertaining and uplifting show!
Review: Dandy Darkly’s All Aboard!
Deliciously provocative, cynical, creative, poignant, entertaining, uplifting, impactful show. Do not miss it!
Review: The Mermaid’s Tears
Well crafted and performed - an entertaining ride that piques the senses and imagination with humor, pathos, fantasy, melodrama!
Review: My Preferred Pronoun is We
Fascinating well crafted show with depth and humor – topical, very well performed, poignant + impactful!
Review: Enough
A violent attack on the social norms which drive self-harm in its many and varied forms.
Review: How to Keep Time: A Drum Solo for Dementia
There are no words to describe the power or impact of this show
Review: Gie’s Peace
Inspiring Stories of Courageous Women - An Exploration of War Through Storytelling and Music
Review: DUPed
Solo exploration and expose of the worst of the DUP in a relaxed performance style that draws you in and makes you truly think.
Review: Achilles
Fusing dance, physical theatre, prose, and raw, dynamic acting Ewan Downie breathes new life into the ages old tale.
Review: A Christmas Carol
"I urge you to go and rediscover something you thought you knew all too well, and join the standing ovation at the end."
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: Dandy Darkly’s All Aboard!
Well written and performed, deliciously eccentric character, fascinating and entertaining!
Review: The Unknown Soldier
A poignant reminder of the aftermath of war and the unsung heroes it leaves behind.
Review: A Modern Guide to Heroism and Sidekickery
Not Just for Comic Fans, Modern Guide Inspires the Underdog Hero in All of US
