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Storyhouse, ChesterKit Green takes on all the characters in an imaginative interpretation of the 1925 day-in-the-life novelAs Clarissa Dalloway wafts about the stage, welcoming her audience …
Arcola theatre, LondonThe 70s novel about the everyday grumbles of four office workers remains just as relevant, playfully staged by director Dominic DromgooleIt’s no wonder why Barbara Py…
Northern Stage, NewcastleThis revival of the carnivorous plant caper showcases strong voices, incorporates playful designs and splits Audrey II in twoSure, it would be possible to deliver a …
It's getting hot in here: Lauren Gauge's monologue is a female-centred look at clubbing, coupling up and settling down. The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Unmarried at Underbelly appeared…
A well-rounded, uplifting story: Holly O'Mahony warms to Scratchwork Theatre's Nel at the New Diorama's Incoming Festival. The post Review: Nel at Incoming Festival appeared first on Exeunt …
Rating: 2 stars The Brexorcist promised to be good on paper. In the Brighton Fringe brochure, it was described as "the true story of Brexit", "a multi-media political farce with a killer sou…
Rating: 3 stars The programme for At the Junction Café describes the play as an exploration of the way we choose to isolate ourselves in public places, focusing on our phones instead of tal…
"Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats". I wait for a moment, expecting others to follow, but when no one does, I start making my way towards the stairs of the Rialto theatre. I turn …
I’m a fan of the game Werewolf, having played a fair few rounds of it as a student. So I was intrigued and excited by the concept of it being turned into a Brighton Fringe spectacle by…
What should you do if you struggle to fit into modern society? Find someone you like, or someone who's like you, and build a commune with them. Such is the solution of Brother Tobias (Christ…
A much more exciting party: Holly O'Mahony swims in the undercurrents of Bill Rosenfield's transferred two-hander. The post Review: 46 Beacon at Trafalgar Studios appeared first on Exeunt Ma…
Sunny side up: Holly O'Mahony contemplates 42nd Street's escapism amid 2017's political turbulence. The post Review: 42nd Street at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane appeared first on Exeunt Maga…
Matthew Spangler’s stage adaptation of The Kite Runner, which premiered in California in 2009, has opened for a highly-anticipated stint in London's West End, with Giles Croft as direc…
How far would you be prepared to go for art? What would you be willing to risk for those you love the most? He(art) is a cripplingly funny new writing by playwright Andrew Maddock, which exp…
Left Luggage is an endearing play following sisters Nicola (Kim Burnett) and Danni (Bryony Thomas) as they rediscover each other in the wake of their grandmother’s death. Written by Is…
In a play featuring powerful poetry, captivating physical sequences and some first-rate piano playing, it's a shame the standalone talents don't gel together more in Riotous Company's Scherz…
Dreamless Sleep is the latest play by young writer-director Georgie Staight. It's a cripplingly funny, raw and moving examination of a relationship between N (Niamh Watson) and H (Hannah Law…
What if an attempted rape cannot be proven? What if, by the time any witnesses show, the attacker appears the bloodied, tied-up victim, and the victim seems to have become the ruthless, craz…
There are many interesting angles or routes a play on internet grooming and protecting teens from explicit online content could take. Why writer Nathan Lucky Wood chose to turn what could ha…
“The Game's Afoot!” shouts a police detective, in Sherlock Holmes-esque fashion. Armed with a pen, a map and an initial clue, we separate ourselves from the other 40-odd audience…
“History is freedom, history is imprisonment,” says one character in Blitz Theatre Group and Nikos Flessas’s surreal play Late Night, which excavates longings born from mem…
Shook Up Shakespeare's Midsummer Madness brings something a little bit different to this year’s commemorations marking 400 years since Shakespeare’s death. With party games, a ra…
The Deep Blue Sea was first performed in 1952, a few years after it was written by the already successful playwright Terence Rattigan. Based largely on Rattigan’s own closeted relation…
Sexual fantasies, fictional bombs and racial hatred are just some of the themes explored in Love, Bombs & Apples. Written by Hassan Abdulrazzak and directed by Rosamunde Hutt, this play …
Sideways: The Play enjoyed a sell-out stint at La Jolla Playhouse in California, and now this Pinot Noir praising, Merlot pounding comedy has arrived in London. The production is directed by…
Knife Edge features chicken and chips, and big dreams for a girl who knows she deserves more from life than the abandonment and abuse she's received thus far. The play is produced by The Big…
Labour rebels, a bereaved mother of a blown-up soldier and a disconnected upper middle class couple all feature in the first half of Out of Joint's A View From Islington North. In the latter…
Alice is sprawled face down on the water-soaked tarpaulin. Her husband Michael sits cross-legged watching her. She’s dead, and Michael must move on, eventually. But what if he’s …
Something's not right with Georgie. She's turning 40 and she's lost her heart, hope and other h's along the way. The post Bright Fringe Review: Aphrodite in Flippers, The Warren appeared fi…
James Cairns' solo performance in Nick Warren's Dirt is a Brighton Fringe must see, with Cairns asserting his talent for physical comedy, characterisation, accents and dynamic facial express…
"Have you ever been dumped?" Rosie Wilby asks the room of anonymous faces, coaxing us to open up before delving into her own five year relationship and subsequent breakup with an ex-girlfrie…
Is the nine to five routine a mistake that's gone on so long it's now too embarrassing to fix? Lucy is an office manager at an asset management firm, by title that is. However she's not prep…
The Marked weaves fantasy and fairy-tale into a story set on the streets of modern day London. Jack (Samuel Fogell) is a prince-cum-man who has grown up in the grasps of a damaged queen, his…
Batting crumpets and punchy satire at their audience, fiery feminist duo Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit " aka Sh!t Theatre " bring their boot-stompingly fun show Women's Hour to the B…
Wired Theatre's Dancing in the Dark takes us behind closed doors to tell a story of a dysfunctional, middle-class family consisting of a mother and her three grown-up children. Set in Bright…
You may well have heard of, or seen, a production of Shit-faced Shakespeare before. Well, it's back in time for Shakespeare 400 celebrations, and this time in the form of Magnificent Bastard…
George Orwell, under his birth name Eric Blair, quit his middle-class life to live amongst the poor whilst writing his 1933 novel Down and Out in Paris and London. Nearly a hundred years lat…
Who is the dependent: he whose legs have been physically blown off, or he who is mentally compelled to nick his legs with a knife over and over again? Blue on Blue, written by Chip Hardy (fa…
Matthew Warchus's new production of The Caretaker at the Old Vic theatre sees Harold Pinter's tragicomedy performed with an impressive set, humorous gusto and a cast including Timothy Spall …
Fye and Foul's Cathedral plunges its audience into near darkness, letting audio take the lead in their latest show which features fragments of tape recordings " the voices of two former love…
It's an uncomfortable truth that torture is taking place in silenced pockets of the world, as I write now and later as you read. Mario Benedetti's play Pedro and the Captain aims to tell the…
A girl who is deemed inferior to the damaged and/or questionable men surrounding her is the subject of Eimear McBride's award-winning novel, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, now adapted for th…
"Can you maybe just tell me what is going on? I'm really spooked," says Brett (Norma Butikofer) in a statement which seems to capture the entire experience of watching Crude Prospects, th…
Anthony Green's new production Hamlet Peckham splits Shakespeare's protagonist into three Hamlets, each played by a different actor. Hamlet one (Sharon Singh) is 'the problem', Hamlet two (M…
Transporting Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet from sixteenth century Verona to twenty-first century London, Shakespeare Up Close has modernised this great romantic tragedy to make it enjoyable…
There's something very enticing about watching theatre in the vaults at Waterloo: the dingy chambers filled with passionate pieces of up-and-coming theatre, the makeshift, bottom-numbing woo…
To today's liberal, British audience, the notion of being censored and jailed for writing a hedonistic and homoerotic text is an alien concept. However in 1891, when Oscar Wilde published hi…
Told in a tone of light-hearted jest, through physical theatre and skilful puppetry, Bears in Space is exactly what it says on the tin: a play about bears in space. This comic production is …
After a sell-out stint at the Royal Court this autumn, Martin McDonagh's Hangmen continues to delight West End audiences at the Wyndham's Theatre with its illustrative set, punchy script and…
For the final chunk of the Staging a Revolution festival, Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) abandon their nomadic style, doing away with the practice of texting their audience a secret location at …
