REVIEW: 10 LOVES
Reading Time: 2 minutesProduced by Magnifying Glass Theatre as its first show, 10 Loves certainly has an original premise and deserves its place in Lambeth Fringe.
Category ★★★½☆
REVIEW: The Final Exam: Gao Kao
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Final Exam: Gao Kao turns the Gaokao into a literal battlefield, using physical theatre, projection and stage combat to explore academic pressure, institutional expectation and the idea that exam results can become inseparable from identity.
REVIEW: We Will Hear The Angels
Reading Time: 3 minutesMagnetic North’s We Will Hear the Angels focuses on the effects of alienation of an urban landscape on five isolated individuals.
REVIEW: Extremism
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs someone who attended an inner-city state school where the PREVENT campaign was in operation, often right under our noses, I was keen to see this iteration of Anders Lustgarten’s play, Extremism, which attempts to grapple with the shortfalls and harm caused by the PREVENT campaign.
REVIEW: Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers
Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Could you please scan this barcode to participate in the interactive element of the show?’ the ticket officer asks as the audience arrives for Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers.
REVIEW: Murder Before Evensong
Reading Time: 2 minutesPaul Hart returns to the Watermill Theatre with Murder Before Evensong, a world premiere stage adaptation of Reverend Richard Coles’ bestselling mystery novel.
REVIEW: Amores Perros, 25th Anniversary
Reading Time: 3 minutesA visceral depiction of love and its effects, beautifully symbolic but hard to watch. As part of the Alejandro G. Iñárritu film season running at BFI IMAX from September 20 to October 11 2026, the critically acclaimed…
REVIEW: Sweet Victory
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe American Revolutionary War doesn’t quite hit the British psyche like it does the American’s. It’s more of a footnote before the Victorian age of industry, empire and Dickensian poverty. Probably because we lost. Nevertheless, writer-director Elise Marra has taken a stab at this period of history and condensed it into an idiosyncratic 60 minute two-hander.
REVIEW: Wallace: A Musical
Reading Time: 3 minutesMan or myth? Freedom fighter or terrorist? A thought-provoking glimpse into one of Scotland’s most famous heroes. Wallace: A Musical is Raw Productions’ latest show, highlighting the exploits of famous Scottish figure William Wallace. Using mostly rap…
REVIEW: Crime and Punishment
Reading Time: 2 minutesA young man with a furrowed brow in a shabby, hole-ridden black coat walks slowly across the stage, bent over with the weight of a stone. He stops at one end, pauses; then turns around to walk back again. To adapt one of the greatest novels ever written is a similar task - just when you feel you can rest, another route must be taken, another avenue explored.