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: Stories for Boys, Drayton Arms Theatre
A quirky, clever reflection on death and acceptance that may require some homework before curtain up.
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Review: All That’s Left is Right, Etcetera Theatre
A one-dimensional allegory about social exclusion and fear of difference
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Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Charterhouse
A charming outdoor production that adds warmth, wit and musical flair to Shakespeare’s overlooked comedy.
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Review: It’s A Funny New Game (The Changing Farce of Football), Canal Café Theatre
Offers some competent performances and amusing moments but feels like an overlong collection of pub-born football sketches
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Review: Zoe Wohlfeld: Dog Funeral, Soho Theatre
The title of Zoe Wohlfeld’s Dog Funeral promises exactly the kind of sweetly sinister paradox that the show delivers. It is a clown show about grief, an hour-long act of comic mourning that constantly balances the adorable against the disturbing.…
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Review: Jane Eyre Convention, Bread and Roses Theatre
A spirited cast brings energy to a difficult comic brief, finding fun in Charlotte Brontë’s famously grim tale of love.
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Review: Turn This Sh*t Off, Hen and Chickens Theatre
This entertaining, fast-paced variety show delivers a very good showcase of the very worst of what television has to offer.
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Review: Moonkid, Soho Theatre
A softly subversive world where innocence never quite holds.
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Review: Do All The Things, Soho Theatre
A&E Comedy create the rare feeling of a theatre full of strangers behaving like old friends
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Review: Slaughterhouse-Five (Or The Children’s Crusade), Southwark Playhouse
War, time travel, and trauma collide in an impressive, compassionate adaptation of Vonnegut’s notoriously difficult novel