Plays pleasant: Lily Levinson finds the plays in Paul Miller’s latest George Bernard Shaw production ‘solid chortlers’ if not ‘searingly urgent’.
OWE & Fringe
6 April 2021
Reviews • National • OWE & Fringe
Review: Open Mic at HOME/Soho Theatre (online)
1-3 April
By James Varney
Eye contact: James Varney writes on liveness in Rob Drummond’s unsettling, loss-tinged open mic night.
21 March 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: A Rain Walk at The Place (online)
11-28 March
By Ben Kulvichit
A mood: Ben Kulvichit writes on an audio piece which invites the listener on a stroll in the rain.
3 March 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Rice! at Omnibus Theatre (online)
20-28 February
By Naomi Obeng
Cooking without a recipe: Naomi Obeng writes on a Malaysian and UK co-production about living across two cultures.
7 December 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Fabulist Fox Sister, Southwark Playhouse (online)
4th-5th December
By Lily Levinson
“I seancéd my ass off”: Lily Levinson reviews Luke Bateman and Michael Conley’s one-man musical about ‘sozzled, sweary’, Spiritualist sisters.
30 November 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Kids Are Alright at Evelyn Estate, Deptford (online)
27 November - 2 December
By Naomi Obeng
‘Dream logic’: Naomi Obeng writes on Encounter’s strange, sad study on grief, reimagined as a filmed site-specific performance.
2 October 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Sunnymead Court at Tristan Bates Theatre
By Alice Saville
Queer longings: Gemma Lawrence’s play charts a lockdown romance forged at a distance.
19 May 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Yard Online
17th May
By Hannah Greenstreet
Hope and healing: Hannah Greenstreet writes on the intimate, soothing and disconcerting interactive digital performances at The Yard’s one day festival.
5 March 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: TRAINERS at the Gate Theatre
By Frey Kwa Hawking
‘This trying is pointed at you, because the show felt pointed at me for once’: Frey Kwa Hawking writes on Sylvan Oswald’s ‘theatrical essay’ about transness and love.
4 March 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Christopher Green: No Show at the Yard
By Brendan Macdonald
The reluctant critic: Brendan MacDonald writes on Christopher Green’s tricksy performance of a crisis of faith in theatre.
3 March 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: I Think We Are Alone at Theatre Royal Stratford East
By Frey Kwa Hawking
Are we alone? Frey Kwa Hawking writes on Frantic Assembly’s ‘unwieldy’ new show that constellates characters in grief and loneliness.
28 February 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Meat at Theatre503
By Mert Dilek
Food fight: Mert Dilek writes on Gillian Greer’s exploration of appetites and consent.
24 February 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: When It Breaks It Burns, Battersea Arts Centre
By Maddy Costa
Bodies in a movement: Maddy Costa writes on Coletiva Ocupação’s ‘radiant’ show telling the stories of some of the Brazilian students who occupied their schools in 2015.
20 February 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Pass Over at Kiln Theatre
13th February - 21st March
By Frey Kwa Hawking
Waiting for transcendence: Frey Kwa Hawking writes on Antoinette Nwandu’s play racist police violence and structural discrimination in America.
18 February 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The High Table at the Bush Theatre
8th February - 21st March
By Hannah Greenstreet
Heaven-sent: Hannah Greenstreet writes on Temi Wilkey’s moving queer Nigerian love story, set in London and the afterlife.