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Articles by Francesca Peschier
22 June 2020
Features
Storytelling adventures and critical hits
By Francesca Peschier
Francesca Peschier chats to a horde of theatremakers/dungeon-masters/rampaging orcs to ask what theatre can learn from D&D.
28 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: The Last of the Pelican Daughters by Wardrobe Ensemble
By Francesca Peschier
A life contained within four walls: Francesca Peschier writes on Wardrobe Ensemble’s poignant devised narrative of homecoming.
27 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Fatty Fat Fat by Katie Greenall
By Francesca Peschier
A bumpy ride: Francesca Peschier writes on Katie Greenall’s tense show about her journey to body acceptance.
25 August 2019
Features • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
An Odyssey of Onstage Queer Orgasms
By Francesca Peschier
Francesca Peschier writes on the shows bringing ecstatic moments and authentic queer people of colour’s experiences to the Edinburgh fringe.
22 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Collapsible by Margaret Perry
By Francesca Peschier
What word best describes you? Here’s Francesca Peschier’s interactive response to a one woman show about identity and loneliness.
19 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Phoenix by Richard Marsh and Jessica Sharman
By Francesca Peschier
“Love and tinsel town sleaze”: Francesca Peschier writes a country and western song in response to this solo show about music and fatherhood.
1 August 2019
Reviews
Review: There is a Light That Never Goes Out at Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
By Francesca Peschier
Francesca Peschier has a conversation over voice notes with one of her very patient friends about technology, form, and what a very clever play about the Luddite rebellion can teach us about breaking the frame.
25 June 2019
Features • Festivals
A transformative tour of Prague Quadrennial
By Francesca Peschier
“It’s a space built from light and mirrors and impossibilities”: Francesca Peschier takes you on a trip to Prague’s mind-blowing festival of scenography from around the world.
1 April 2019
Reviews • National • Sheffield
Review: Standing at the Sky’s Edge at Sheffield Crucible
15 March - 6 April
By Francesca Peschier
Brutalist brilliance: Francesca Peschier reviews Chris Bush and Richard Hawley’s sweeping musical ode to Sheffield’s Park Hill housing estate.
19 March 2019
Features
The Extraordinary Bodies of Aerial Circus
By Francesca Peschier
“So how do we talk about the flying body, this body in space?”: Francesca Peschier interviews two female circus artists about objectification, challenging beauty norms, and soaring through the air.
28 February 2019
Features
Vaults Odyssey: Goths Underground
By Francesca Peschier
“Bats! Gay bats! Bats in a freaking tunnel!” – Francesca Peschier heads underground in search of the campest, eeriest, and most shiver-inducing shows at Vault Festival.
25 February 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: And the Rest of Me Floats at Bush Theatre
20 Feb - 16 March
By Francesca Peschier
‘a beautiful messy dance of instructions, rule breaking and expectations’: Francesca Peschier writes on the stage directions in Outbox theatre’s gloriously queer show, devised from the experiences of its non-binary, trans and queer performers.
23 February 2019
Features
Vaults Odyssey: Girlhood
By Francesca Peschier
Francesca Peschier dives into Vault Festival to find shows that explore girlhood, “like cutting through life with blunted scissors”.
18 February 2019
Reviews
Review: 9 to 5 – The Musical at Savoy Theatre
By Francesca Peschier
Diamonds in a rhinestone world: Francesca Peschier writes on Dolly Parton’s musical theatre extravaganza.