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Surviving on the Fringes
The experiences of a director at the Edinburgh Fringe.
The journey from script to stage
What is the process of staging a student production? We speak to the writer and director of this year's Christ Church garden play to find out.
Review: My Mother Runs in Zig-Zags – ‘incredibly refreshing and ambitious’
An all-BAME cast and crew production, My Mother Runs in Zig-Zags powerfully explores civil war, intergenerational trauma and the diasporic experience
Review: The First Last – ‘an unmitigated triumph’
Student playwright Matt Kenyon's hilarious comedy about unplanned fatherhood is on at the BT Studio until Saturday
Preview: A View from the Bridge – a fresh take on the Miller classic
Practically Peter Productions bring the Arthur Miller classic set in 1950s Brooklyn to the Pilch in Sixth Week.
Review: Amadeus – University College Players ‘have more than risen to the challenge’
With outstanding performances and excellent musical accompaniment, University College Players do justice to Peter Shaffer's Amadeus
Review: Four Men in Their Respective Cells – ‘a whistle-stop psychological drama’
Though hitting the right notes thematically, Four Men in Their Respective Cells lacks polish and a conclusive ending
LOVE/SICK – ‘Your trip to Tesco’s will never seem the same again’
Matter of Act’s ambitious new production in an “alternate suburban reality” details the joys of falling in and out of love.
Every Brilliant Thing – ‘strikes a staggering balance between serious and joyful’
For a play about suicide, Every Brilliant Thing is an unexpectedly life-affirming and hilarious production
Q&A – a play that ‘takes a turn into the chaotic and absurd’
Witty, absurd, and ultimately hilarious, Q&A is an entertaining one-act play, even if at times the dialogue lacks spontaneity
Love/Sick: An anthology of romantic adrenaline and hysteria
A production that tackles what is the most enigmatic of all human experiences: love.
Review: What Comes After – ‘one of the most effortlessly flowing performances’
Wonderful set design, music, and performance make for a beautiful new song cycle by Máth Roberts
Review: Pirandello’s Henry IV – ‘earnest production let down by a dull script’
A Tom Stoppard translation of an Italian play is convincing and confusing in equal measure
Review: How to Make Friends and then Kill Them – ‘brilliantly toes the line between laughing and crying’
Coningsby Productions' three-woman production impresses with its relentless movement and convincing performances
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