Robert Cohen has ploughed a lonely, yet finely turned, furrow in solo character comedies in the past few years, taking on communist-turned-informer in The Trials of Harvey Matusow or maligned (or was it malignant?) traffic warden in High Vis. This production has another misunderstood antihero at its heart: fratricidal usurper Claudius, whose actions (in)famously trigger […]

With a Little Bit of Luck can best be described as a mash up of garage rave and show. It has all the energy of a club night but the storytelling chops of a strong piece of theatre (written by rising star Sabrina Mahfouz). The one-woman show features Seroca Davis, who multi-roles a world of […]

Theatre has some pretty bloody antecedents and these are the subject (and lurking subtext) of interactive Brighton-based company FoulPlay’s latest puppet-centric feast for Brighton Fringe. We begin in an auction room where the bids (ours), for a host of relics from a certain Elizabethan entertainment establishment, are coming thick and fast. In 2014 the company […]

‘This is a true story. In the early 90s in Chicago, I fell in love with a man who was running for president – in a dress.’ George Orange’s entertaining and engaging autobiographical show starts with an entrance from the rear – ooh missus – as our George slides quietly into the auditorium and then […]

The Yard Theatre’s annual festival for contemporary theatre, NOW, runs a weekly programme showing a new double bill each week for five weeks. This gives artists time to develop work via repeat performances and to firmly establish a relationship with the theatre, the site, and their paired artist. This year, Week 1 opens with WISHBONE, […]