Comedy
No need for explanations here, but if you need a laugh then this is the category for you! You’ll find reviews of all the shows that have had us rolling in the aisles on this page.
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Review: Private Lives, Rose Theatre Kingston
This frothy, misguided Private Lives drains Coward of his bite, swaps elegance for farce, and ultimately reduces a great play to flat, joyless bickering.
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Review: Boy Band, The Glitch
Sixty minutes of fun, giggles and smiles, as engaging thirty-somethings take the proverbial out of boy bands
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Review: The Immortalitea Party, The Others
A riot of puns, puppets, and playful absurdity, this wonderfully chaotic celebration of death, art, and terrible jokes is unpredictable, and irresistibly fun, capturing everything that makes fringe theatre so alive.
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Review: Magic Alan, Golden Goose Theatre
The play’s funniest moments come from how bizarre the plot becomes
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Review: Willy Witches, Bread and Roses Theatre
A witty, outrageous comedy that uncovers the lost history of the English Witch Trials. It guarantees a good laugh and plenty of penis jokes.
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Review: Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare’s Globe
One of Shakespeare’s least performed plays reimagined for contemporary audiences in a raunchy, comedic light. Mythic heroes become celebrity figures for an examination of toxic masculinity, ego and power.
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Review: Petit Léopard, Drayton Arms Theatre
A wonderful performance can’t quite cover up a disjointed script, leaving the show a collection of parts rather than a whole.
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Review: 4’s a Crowd (Or What Not To Do When Stuck in a Bunker During the Apocalypse), The Hope Theatre
“Nuclear war. The end of humanity as we know it. And my limo didn’t even have aircon,” pouts posh Rachel (Lotte Pearl). She’s the second to arrive in the bunker, which is already occupied by the silent, leather-jacketed, sunglasses-wearing Henry…
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Review: The Dying Wish, Golden Goose Theatre
Continuing my visits to the vibrant Lambeth Fringe that is raging away in South London at the moment, across twenty-six venues no less, I rolled up to the Golden Goose Theatre in the Oval to see The Dying Wish, a…
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Review: (the) Woman, Park Theatre
A funny, often-stirring account of motherhood and creativity