Category: Storytelling
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4 stars – clever, minimalistic drama Alya stays silent about her son Vanya: Vanya has been sent to the peace. Until one day Alya receives a message from her son’s number, reading: ‘Vanya has not been captured. He is absolutely free’.
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4 stars – honest and powerful storytelling Gabriel Bird, class 1995, tells the story of the years he spent in Colorado in his original musical storytelling piece. From the first song, we already have a grasp of his dark humour, when with an accelerated, jolly rhythm he describes the setting of his attempted suicide.
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3 stars – compelling performance Kacie is an aspiring actress who also sells windows on the local market as a side-hustle. Her first sales prove her that it isn’t an impossible task, but other events in her life bring her further away from this job.
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4 stars – clever, witty and wonderfully performed. To review Mo Fry Pasic’s fast-paced solo show does require quite a bit of afterthought. It’s rich from minute one; before Mo even gets on stage we see screenings of ironic old-school notices such as: “Throw your gums out!” or: “Everyone, look under your seats, there’s a…
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4 stars – powerful and honest musical comedy. Ah, the power of women…! Women falling on the ground, bouncing back up, falling more, bouncing back again and then some. Such is Riki Lindhome’s story, her infertility journey, as she calls it with apparent irony, standing somewhere between theatrical storytelling and comedy.
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3 stars – vulnerable, honest and ecletic. Jessie Cave, a well-versed, deadpan and brutally open comic, delivers another hour of just that: her usual dry, raw, personal, dark comedy. She’s famous for it by now, and not only for her comedy, podcasting, acting and bestselling novel, but also thanks to her public, on-off-on-again relationship with…
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3 stars – a silly take on manifestation and self-help culture. No matter how much we try to avoid it, we’re living in an age of constant incoming stream of spiritual and relationship advice, self-help, self-love and pop-psychology coming at us particularly from our (broken beyond repair!) Instagram and TikTok algorithms. Manifestation is one of…
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5 stars – brilliantly written and performed tale of a 1930s wannabe starlet Bebe Cave’s solo show pays homage to her favourite topic in the world: neurotic actresses (her own words). While Bebe has been performing at the Fringe and elsewhere in the UK with her sister Jessie Cave since 2014, this is her first…
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3 stars – the jokes might have been written but they weren’t delivered The Canadian comedian Zoe Brownstone presents us with a hour-long collection of jokes and anecdotes covering her desire for a 90’s rom-com style meet-cutes, her Jewishness, her drug-selling past, getting deported from the Netherlands after her Dutch (meet-cute!) boyfriend quickly dumps her,…
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4 stars – turbulent and energetic though sometimes confusing Buckle up, spectators, fans of psychedelics, microdosers, scientists and those otherwise curious, for Sarina Freda is about to take you on board of her turbulent ride of acid-induced highs and lows, near-death experiences and resolutions. In her hour-long one-woman show, she blends comedic and tragic storytelling…
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