Category: Storytelling
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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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5 stars – Revolutionary storytelling Despite its mysterious presentation, this show does have a plot, even if not a traditional one. In 1605, the young Anne Gunter is suspected to be bewitched, and her father Brian Gunter, the richest man in the village, points the finger against three women of the village who, to his…
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5 stars – Extremely engaging A lawyer in his free time, a singer by career, and a civil rights activist for his mission. Paul Robeson’s incredible biography can only get more and more interesting by digging deeper into it.
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4 stars – beautifully crafted storytelling A teenage girl and her best friend dream of getting pregnant together and having kids at the same time. But when Raven does get pregnant, she feels that her life is too unstable and that she might not be ready yet.
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3 stars – black and white cameo There is pleasure in discovery, yet a greater pleasure comes from recognition. I don’t know who said this, but the second part is certainly the aesthetic criteria behind The Ballad of Truman Capote.
