Reading Time: 2 minutesAn entertaining hour but with untapped potential In one of the more unusual venues in this year’s Fringe (a yurt by the Potterow underpass), Alex Kitson brings his follow-up to last year’s debut show, loosely centered around…
Reading Time: 3 minutesCellar Door Theatre are taking us back to the heyday of what critic Alex Sierz once termed ‘in-yer-face’ theatre: a mode of bare-knuckle, confrontational performance that’s resolutely out of vogue on the Fringe circuit at the moment – to its detriment, some might say.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDeath Comes to Pemberley combines classic characters with murder but misses the mark.
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Interesting ideas get lost in the sauce’
Reading Time: 2 minutesIvories is a play with visible potential - the set design is beautiful, the lighting is suspenseful, and the four actors (two in leading roles, two in supporting roles) are expressive and eager to engage with the material. However, the production had multiple weak moments.
Reading Time: 3 minutesStunningly ambitious set pieces lead to a dystopian anticlimax in this promenade thriller
Reading Time: 2 minutesThought-provoking conversations on race and extreme paranoia are the highlights of this experimental show. What if a Get Out situation wasn’t real? What if it was all in our heads?WIGGY, by writer and lead actress Chelsea Bondzanga…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe story follows Dylan and Heather, a long-term couple trying to hold on to each other as Dylan’s memory and sense of self begin to deteriorate.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith skilled impressions and quality singing, Keddie performs an excellent Meryl Streep, but the storyline lacks the power to fully grip an audience. As a self- proclaimed Meryl Streep fanatic, actor and comedian Alexandra Keddie used skilled…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA promising premise about reality and performance What starts out with a very promising premise descends into confusing chaos. The core conceit, according to writers Alfie Lanham-Brown and George Abbot, is that through the power of arguing,…