Captain Morgan 2: Sea of Souls is an explosion of pure imagination. A sequel of bewildering giddiness, it follows Captain Morgan 1: The Sands of Time, which made its debut last year and is c…
The Temptation of St Anthony is a beautiful, emotionally-charged exposition on spiritual possession. Its multicultural cast explore the topic from multiple perspectives, layering music, phys…
Turn right, walk up the road and call a number outside the pub. The instructions demanded by a note handed over sheepishly by the box office, the perfomance of Menage has begun. Like Hula Ho…
This is a play of immense exuberance. FYSA Theatre has thrown itself into a banner-waving rendition of the Focus E15 campaign. The 29 mothers, faced with eviction notices, band themselves…
Cheque Please allows us to meet Ivy, a girl suffering from depression; she weaves sequences of her life in between smashing the fourth wall with confessional rants. The coffee shop where she…
Pole explores different people's perceptions and reactions to pole dancing. A physically rigorous piece that is visually impressive, the three girls move in perfect synchrony, and layer thei…
A horizontal bar of light, a table with a chair and a coffee mug are the only things Thaddeus Phillips has to work with in his remarkable journey across borders "Â 17 borders in fact, each…
Two Christmases have passed since Anna ventured outside. It's OK though, she has loads to do: there are projects to make, an abundance of nature programmes to watch and a purity to cultivate…
Sajeela Kershi is the great aunt everyone wishes they had — bubbly, engaging, sarcastic and always smiling, she introduces us to her line-up. A diverse collection of speakers, her thre…
I, Elizabeth is a delicate monologue which allows Rebecca Vaughan to display her undeniable talent in full force, maintaining a thick tension in the room throughout. A study of Elizabeth I f…
Souvenirs is a gorgeous piece of child-like theatre; it evolves, slowly, surely and playfully, explores new territories and innovative ways of using props. Centering around sentimentality wi…
Standing outside a flat ten minutes away from Nicholson Street, two women argue with a policeman in the window frame. Once inside, one of those women is on a table top, the other handing out…
Picture two girls in inflated, white suits dancing on stage. They wriggle and dance with delight, resembling a pair of bizarrely elegant sumo wrestlers. Tribute Acts is a touching piece abou…
How long before a woman rubbing grated apple on herself loses its supposed existential meaning and simply becomes a woman playing with a bit of fruit? Awkward Happiness investigates. A pi…
Visceral in its multimedia effect, Francesca Francesca is an intimate exploration into the life of the elusive Francesca Woodman. The playful use of sheet, film and camera is beautiful, and …
Eliana and Ian meet and, with the staggering obviousness that falls upon only the most unashamed romantic comedies, fall in love after a few obstacles. Bump hangs on the communication betwee…
Bette Midler … and Me is a touching exploration of one woman and her relationship with her idol. Sue Kelvin bounds on stage demanding her audience to laugh, cry, and pay attention. Like sh…
Divas is a mind-boggling, time twisting love story that is cleverly scripted to leave you immensely confused. A backwards to forwards tale of two men's love, Divas shows moments of brilliant…
1972 : The Future of Sex is an expertly devised piece of comedy, peppered with an immensely intelligent commentary about the concept of sex in our society, back when The Female Eun…
" It is not the fashion to have the lady do the epilogue." Emma Bentley bubbles on stage to bring us an ambitious monologue performance of one girl’s experience growing up in the t…
Project Haha is a brilliant sequence of hypnotic trances. Utterly surrealist, one girl, clad in a yellow lemon-print dress and smiling ecstatically hums whilst the other smacks herself again…
"This is my second time watching it. I couldn't stop thinking about it the first time so I came back to watch it again,” says a girl in the bathroom, waiting for the start of Tight The…
Stunned, the audience tumble out of the little room. Asking the man next to me what he thought about I Am Not Myself These Days, a tumultuous remake of Josh Kilmer-Purcell's autobiography of…
As the performance begins with half the cast missing, something is clearly wrong in the zoo. Harriet Kemsley has fun with frivolous puppetry, switching between characters with ease. Despite …
Alien Lullabies invites a wonderfully diverse cross-section of Fringe society, and the theatre is full to the brim. Well-meaning but poor festival goers clamouring after the concessions, bea…