Fringe/ OffWestEnd
We could argue for hours what makes a fringe theatre venue, and even then we doubt we’d come to a satisfactory definition. So to keep it simple, fringe here simply means the wonderful little venues, generally less than 100 seats, often located above or below or next to pubs, and very much at the heart of our theatre world, where all the magic usually starts.
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Review: Brixton House’s Housemates Festival: Goodbye
Tackles a sensitive and important topic with care and whimsy.
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Review: Getting Rekt, Union Theatre
This story of inter-generational friendship delivers warmth and humour, but could do a lot more with less.
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Review: Rhino Conservation Erotic Novel, Lower Marsh Arts Club
Daniel Trengove and Gabriel Madden have built a properly functioning comic engine: this show’s jokes are sharp, specific, and completely its own.
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Review: Spontaneous Meets are not for the Weak, The Hope Theatre
Rather too clunky and awkward in the wrong way to fully capture the attention, so instead it just marauders along from start to finish
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Review: and I looked at the sky, Omnibus Theatre
A thoughtful and quietly courageous performance that examines difficult questions with sharp, passionate dialogue, a committed cast and solid staging.
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Review: We’ll Always Have Paris, White Bear Theatre
Desperately seeking …LERV, Ginny can’t find that man in her life who’s real and not out of the movies. This new play charms but ultimately misses its mark.
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Review: Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Southwark Playhouse
Ordinary lives, fraught choices and the quiet tragedy of wanting more in a city whose narrow confines haven’t shifted in a hundred years.
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Review: Darkling, Bush Theatre
Darkling is an intense and incredibly important act of remembrance with a few teething problems.
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Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Bridewell Theatre
The lads can’t keep a promise so the girls call the shots in this cracking musical version of the Bard’s play
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Review: BRILLIANT BRITISH: Lingering Loves, Crazy Coqs
Amid saxophones and Art Deco glamour, a trio of evocative, love-laden tales unfolds, leaving a gentle reminder of the voices yet to join the chorus.