These two, one-act plays explore relationship dynamics through a filter of pet ownership, though both struggle to translate big ideas into coherent storytelling.
Continuing from its stratospheric success earlier in the year, now-cult classic musical Eugenius! sets to stun audiences with another limited run at The Other Palace.
In a man's world, Budding Rose Productions is creating space where women take the lead, playing the kings, the warriors, and fools.
Black Cat: Bohemia is a French-style cabaret show combining many exciting acts, including fire eating, aerial choreography and hula-hoop jumping. All of this is interspersed with lots of sin…
Never doing anything by half, Shakespeare's Globe's latest rendition of Love's Labour's Lost pulls out all the stops with a stellar cast, bringing laughter and joy until the play's final sol…
This is an important play and a convincingly guttural response to Sandy Hook, but staging it outside of America makes me uneasy.
Seeing a Korean company stake a claim on Macbeth and intersperse the story with its own cultural myths and legends is a potent reminder of the relevance of Shakespeare's stories and themes.
This is a bright and fun piece of theatre, but young company Poltergeist Theatre is still learning the ropes. Silly, charming ideas aren't always enough to give a show cohesion and clear pur…
A devastating and often surreal critique of a state's oppression of a minority, with a strictly limited dissemination in the country it was written in, A Little Hero is a brave first play fo…
Doom and gloom shows are a dime a dozen at the Fringe, and these two address a particular brand of disaster with varying results.
To see or not to see? That is the question. But this is a hilarious take on Shakespeare's famous Hamlet, but not as you or I know it.
Ink Asher Hemp (they/them) is trans nonbinary. They are taking up space and they are not apologising in this one-person show with a bit of spoken word that overviews trans and queer issues.
My hope of ever witnessing a true revolution for women in theatre began to disappear over the last year " until Emilia at Shakespeare's Globe.
The Three Musketeers rip-roaring, swashbuckling, feminist historical romp the whole family can enjoy, especially in a heatwave.
The six shows at the Roundabout exemplify Paines Plough's focus on excellent new writing that's relevant and thematically diverse.
Theatre doesn't need another all-white, all-male absurdist production ridiculing vulnerable people. Whilst fun in its staging and innovative in its storytelling, Flies lazily exploits cishet…
Egg may be a comedy, but the underlying message behind the sketches is that women are still underrepresented in comedy, in the workplace and are still being objectified.
The Fringe can be quite a draining experience, but Don Juan is the perfect pick-me-up. Honestly, you'll come out feeling like a million dollars, and who doesn't need that now and again?
Michael Ajao and Valentine Olukoga capture the audience "hook, line and sinker" in this beautiful two-man performance about a family of four Nigerian brothers, Ikenna, Boja, Obembe and Benja…
The naturalistic play has a strong premise and it captures uncomfortable truths about families, but a few shortcomings prevent it from a truly searing commentary.
Using the word 'strong' to describe women and girls is redundant. Putting up with all the trash that women have to deal with as a result of their gender, on top of everything else life throw…
"We're not here for your pleasure." "Consent is hot." The Fringe Wives Club need some merch with these slogans on. Glittery Clittery has everything you need for a cult feminist disco, plus a…
There are great intentions at work here, but the initial concept is flawed " ultimately it undermines the power that the internet and technology gives to the alt-right.
This intimate, personal production from Theatre Ad Infinitum is an accurate and emotionally charged snapshot of the pervasive conflict between capitalism and the desire for a family.
Who knew one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies could be funny? Director and composer Claire van Kampen has tapped into a rare rhythm that sees Iago as a weaselly, clownish man lacking powe…