Category: Theatre
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5 stars – A satirical 19th century masterpiece. Bebe Cave, an established tour-de-force of a comical character actress, returns to the Fringe with another whirlwind of an original, meticulously detailed, incredibly funny, feminist piece called Swoon.
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3 stars – between rave and storytelling. Rave music, check. Laser lights, steam, check. A tormented romance? Also check. Ready to embark onto a solo storytelling show about New York rave scene.
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3 stars – zero plus one plus one. A stand-up comic cum actor has something happen to him… and not just something, no everyday-minutiae-sort-of-story, but a rare case of amnesia, for 18 full months, to be exact. The next thing we know is, naturally, a 60 minute comedy/theatre show loosely based around it.
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3 stars – Almost Camp. Bloody Ballad of Bette Davis by the Brooklyn-based company Piper Theatre Productions is a musical theatre piece built around the curiously bizarre premise that Bette Davis, the undying Hollywood legend, may or may not have been a witch.
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5 stars – poetic and visual storytelling White paper birds are flown on an empty stage, they change speed, they separate then converge. This simple but evocative image, the precision of the movements that perform it, the care for the smallest detail: everything suggests from the very start that this is going to be a…
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4 stars – Chaotic good character comedy. Jonathan Oldfield’s Exquisite Corpse is a jam-packed, late-night underground character comedy show (the time and venue do work in its favour) that technically runs for an hour but feels like 20 minutes.
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5 stars – funny and lovable human monster You will never see such a funny and lovable monster, I promise. And if I don’t keep my promise – well, you’ll have to let me know, because I want to check with my own eyes.
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4 stars – an enthusiastic death pitch. Good news, girls [dating men], gays [dating men] and theys [dating men]! The very last Mad Man of our planet is out and about and he will be shutting the door behind him.
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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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A one-woman show in a small black box theater above a Camden pub could hardly be a bad idea for an autumnal evening, no less so given it’s starring the multi-talented LAMDA graduate Kylie Brady. Brady takes it away as an equally talented medium Stella Estrella, as the eighth daughter (her twin sister having died)…
