Exeunt is proudly flying the flag for longform criticism at the fringe. Too busy to read it all? Here’s a handy digest of the shows our writers love.
Exeunt Staff
Articles by Exeunt Staff
23 July 2019
Features • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Exeunt’s 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Picks
By Exeunt Staff
Spreadsheets at the ready: Exeunt’s fringe recommendations are here, thoughtfully themed for your reading pleasure.
17 July 2019
Features • Dialogues • West End & Central
Some remorselessly petty quibbles with West End shows
By Exeunt Staff
Exeunt’s writers have some unashamedly petty bones to pick with theatre world’s biggest hits, past and present.
15 April 2019
Features
Dialogue: The things that make you fall back in love with theatre
By Exeunt Staff
Exeunt writers talk about the shifting emotional landscape of their relationship with theatre, and explore what it’s like to fall in, and out, of love.
19 March 2019
Features
New Queers on the Road
By Exeunt Staff
Brighton’s Marlborough Theatre is taking queer live art on tour across the UK – and they’ve made a new documentary about the project. Watch it here.
23 December 2018
Features
Exeunt’s Most Memorable UK-wide Theatre 2018
By Exeunt Staff
From a strange seaside experience to meta Jane Austen, Exeunt’s writers pick their stand-out shows outside of London.
18 December 2018
Features
Exeunt’s Favourite London Shows of 2018
By Exeunt Staff
Exeunt’s London writers choose the shows that they loved, fought for, and couldn’t stop talking about in 2018.
6 November 2018
Features • West End & Central
If we stormed the West End…
By Exeunt Staff
We dreamed a dream: Exeunt’s writers imagine a takeover of London’s creakiest, most storied theatres.
17 September 2018
Features
Theatre reviews, decoded
By Exeunt Staff
For your entertainment, three Exeunt writers reveal the hidden meanings behind the shorthands that theatre critics fall back on.
21 August 2018
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Edinburgh Review: John Robertson: Sexy, Sweaty, Party, Party at Just the Tonic at The Tron
Until 26 August 2018
By Exeunt Staff
Exeunt Darren pays tribute to the terrifying goblin king, John Robertson, at the Edinburgh Fringe.
23 July 2018
Features
The Nanette Feelings Thread
By Exeunt Staff
Exeunt’s writers process their thoughts on Hannah Gadsby’s fiercely emotive farewell to comedy, currently on Netflix.
9 July 2018
Features
Exeunt’s Edinburgh Fringe Tips
By Exeunt Staff
It’s nearly here: the season of mists and millions of shows. So Exeunt’s writers have chosen a few things they’re looking forward to.
4 June 2018
Features
Exeunt Recommends: 6.06.2018
By Exeunt Staff
Gob Squad, Translations, and Maxine Peake inside a giant revolving mudheap: here are the shows you wouldn’t want to miss over the next fortnight.
24 May 2018
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Femmetopia Festival
By Exeunt Staff
As Karen Finley’s new show ‘Unicorn Gratitude Mystery’ comes to Femmetopia, she talks to the queer festival’s co-curator about American politics, princesses, and activist art.
21 May 2018
Features
Exeunt Recommends: 21.05.2018
By Exeunt Staff
New Rashdash, Sleepwalk Collective, Scottee, and so many more shows you wouldn’t want to miss over the next fortnight.