It's no secret that most of our fairytales were considerably weirder before Disney got their hands on them. Everything from Cinderella to the Pied Piper has been dipped in sugar and happily-…
An interdisciplinary musical spectacle, Middle Child's Weekend Rockstars' layers of framing show it to be a unique production at the Fringe. The show, featuring a cast of actor-musicians, pr…
Love at first sight is phrase too often used lightly in a world obsessed with visuals. Blind Man's Song is a wordless snapshot into love in a sightless world, a production where visceral phy…
An alarming number of shows at this year's Fringe are using violence against women as a device. It is so disappointing, and frankly downright infuriating, to see that this issue is …
Image: Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn The relationship and influence of science within theatre is demonstrated incredibly frequently in the themes and topics discussed on our stages bu…
Minor Delays' minimalist staging complements the wordplay of their sketch comedy beautifully. At all times, the three cast members face forwards in a row, the simplicity of this direction pr…
It's World War Two, the Blitz has just begun, and for the second time in a century, Britain is at war. But in Method in Madness, this takes a backseat as intense preparation for Hamlet's …
Daniel Craig has dropped out of Quantum of Solace and Alex Fox and Dom O'Keefe seem to be the only ones to save the world from having to live without another James Bond film. I guess some pe…
Good vs evil really does never get old. It’s one of those narratives that comes in every storytelling format, from books and plays to songs and musicals. This time round, it’s dr…
Broken window theory is the idea that a building, for example, with something small wrong like one broken window is likely to encourage further vandalism and other unlawful acts. The s…
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Nick Burton is a London journalist bored with the City and its gluttonous, ridiculous gentrification. During a press pack visit to a new “urban festival” located on an ex coun…
Sonia Jalaly's one woman show Happy Birthday Without You is riding high on success. Winner of the 2014 Greater Manchester Fringe Newcomer Award and following a stint performing at Manchester…
It is a relief to so many when a soldier returns home from war. The media captures the moments of love, tears and joy. However, what is missed is what can come after. Many soldiers struggle …
A man is disturbed to find himself in a place in which everyone his best interests at heart, but from which he is not allowed to leave. This is George (Samuel Keefe), desperate to return hom…
Chip is as tough as boots – “I know people think it's horrible, girls fighting, but those f*cks aren't from Dublin.” Her Da lost his job when she was seven and she's been s…
Crossing Jerusalem claims to deliver an engaging take on Israeli politics, but the result is a largely unsuccessful attempt to deliver an inherently problematic script. Julia Pascal writes a…
Rusty oil barrels, wooden pallets, loose tyres and corrugated iron, with a dilapidated, peeling billboard showing an advert of a carefree woman smoking as the backdrop " this is the "torrid …
 The great thing about Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is that you can lift the plot out of its setting and place it at any time and in any place and it will still make sense. Thi…
“Imagining what it's like to be someone else is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and the beginning of morality,”said Ian McEwan, author to the many fa…
Penetrator draws in the typical crowd of twenty-somethings expecting a bit more vulgarity and shock factor in their theatre " and it delivers precisely that. Considered as one of the first c…
King Chaos is a sci-fi Comedy about morality, destruction and power. Two agents from 'The Federation', a resistance movement against the King's 'Syndicate' movement, are on a mission to over…
In a stressful post May 7th  rage, Jonny accidentally tells his four year old niece that the world is going to end because of climate change. She gets so upset that Jonny rashly promis…
Paradise is not something that can be achieved in a lifetime. The man and the woman in front of us, meticulously constructing a table, are fully aware of this. It is their job, or perhaps a …
The Sexes, written by Polis Loizou and performed as part of the Camden Fringe at the Etcetera Theatre, was an unexpected gem on the fringe scene. The Sexes focus on Lars and Jackie, an ol…