Theatre
Lucy Jackson: The only way this show could be saved is if the writers, midway through, had decided in a moment of pure artistic genius to metamorphose it into a kin...
Frank Lazarski: Musical theatre is not something which commands universal appreciation. Its formats are well documented, its cliches much parodied. The Musical Comedy...
Junta Sekimori: Much in the same vein as Global Warming is Gay, this ridiculously unappealing title betrays an earnest endeavour. But unlike its reasonably well put t...
Music
Chris McCall: In between songs, Patti Plinko knocks over her mic-stand, and a sudden crash rings around the small basement cabaret bar. Clutching her glass protecti...
Frank Lazarski: Auditorium is introduced by a wide-eyed boy selling peanuts and coke. He wanders through the seats: "leave your phones on," he bawls. "Smoke, it doesn...
Ella Hickson: California Seagull is a high-school production that updates Chekhov’s The Seagull. Chekhov’s comments on unrequited love and the nature of...
Beth Mellor: Imagine being able to selectively erase some of your memories: would you want to do it? And would you still be the same person afterwards? The genera...
Junta Sekimori: Has your carbon footprint being weighing heavy on your conscience like a dark, acidic raincloud? And have you ever rolled down your car window and not...
Ciaran Healy: Postmodern. Adj.: A view of the world which maintains that truth is a fiction, and that burning it down is our liberation, our highest calling, and ou...
Yasmin Sulaiman: As Shakespeare recreations, stories about sex and anti-Bush treatises dominate the Fringe programme, finding a play that challenges its audience with ...
