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INTERVIEWS 2017
Quick Quiz: Daniel Cainer
Danyah Miller: Perfectly Imperfect Women
Marisa Carnesky: Dr Carnesky’s Incredible Bleeding Woman
Quick Quiz: Shôn Dale-Jones
Helen Norton and Jonathan White: To Hell In A Handbag
Yolanda Mercy: Quarter Life Crisis
James Rowland: A Hundred Different Words For Love
Alison Skilbeck: The Power Behind The Crone
Rebecca Johannsen: Women At War
Nicola Wren: Replay
Chloe Mashiter: Adventurers Wanted!
Matthew Floyd Jones: Richard Carpenter Is Close To You
THREES TO SEE 2017
Three To See 2017: Three theatre shows with music
Three To See 2017: Three sets of cursed theatre
Three To See 2017: Three helpings of dystopian theatre
Three To See 2017: Three solo shows
Three To See 2017: Three lots of quirky theatre
REVIEWS 2017
(FEAR) (Mr And Mrs Clark)
1917: A Phantasmagoria (Michael Daviot)
A Girl And A Gun (Louise Orwin)
A Gym Thing (Working Cast Productions / Small Things Theatre)
A Hunger Artist (Sinking Ship Productions)
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) (Silent Uproar in association with LittleMighty)
Above the Mealy-mouthed Sea (Unholy Mess in association with Omnibus)
Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game (Total Party Kill! in association with Sweet Venues)
All KIDding Aside (Christel Bartelse / DutchGirl Productions)
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Middle Child)
Amy Conway's Super Awesome World (RiotBox Productions)
An Act of Kindness (Rascal Theatre)
An Evening With An Immigrant (Inua Ellams and Fuel)
Assessment (Shows On A Shoestring)
Awake (Miranda Colmans)
Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide To Consciousness (Soho Playhouse Inc)
Baby Mama: One Woman's Quest To Give Her Child To Gay People (Mariah MacCarthy)
Bacchae (Flying Pig Theatre Company)
Beadledom: Alpha (Familia De La Noche)
Beadledom: Omega (Familia De La Noche)
Bin Laden: The One Man Show (Knaive Theatre)
Box Clever (Nabokov and The Marlowe)
Brutal Cessation (Michelle Barnette Productions Limited)
Burnt Toast (Place Productions)
Cacophony (Cast Iron Theatre)
Cathy (Cardboard Citizens)
Certain Young Men (Cambridge University Queer Players)
Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (JJewell Productions)
City Love (Illuminate Productions / PBH's Free Fringe)
Cognitions (SpeakUp Theatre)
Columns (The Wax House Theatre Company)
Communism: The Musical! (Lancaster Offshoots)
Cosmic Scallies (Graeae Theatre Company and Royal Exchange Theatre)
Cow (Jessica Barker-Wren)
Crave (Pembroke Players)
Dates - At The Speed Of Sound! (Ace-Production / From Start To Finnish)
Derailed (Little Soldier Productions)
Dickless (Fundamental Theatre Project / Salt 'n' Sauce Promotions)
Did I Choose These Shoes (Rhythm Theatre Company)
DIGS (Theatre With Legs)
Doglife (Grassmarket Projects)
DollyWould (Sh!t Theatre with Show And Tell)
Dust (Milly Thomas)
Egg (Theodora Van Der Beek / PBH Free Fringe)
Eggs Collective Get A Round (Eggs Collective)
Enterprise (Americana Absurdum Productions)
Finding Nana (New Perspectives Theatre Company)
Five Encounters On A Site Called Craigslist (YesYesNoNo)
Fix (Worklight Theatre)
Fleabag (DryWrite and Soho Theatre in association with Underbelly)
Games and After Liverpool by James Saunders (Blind Elephant)
Gazing At A Distant Star (Greenwich Theatre)
Goody (BoonDog Theatre)
Gutted (The Conker Group)
Hear Me Raw (Áine Flanagan Productions and Lipsink in association with United Agents)
Hopeless (Leyla Josephine)
Hotter (Transgression Productions)
How to Be A Sissy With Percy Q Shun (South By Northwest)
I Am Faransis W. (sadsongskomplex:fi / From Start To Finnish)
Iphigenia Crash Land Falls On The Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (A Rave Fable) (Clumsy Bodies)
Jamie Wood: I Am A Tree
Joan (Milk Presents)
Just William's Luck (Shedload Theatre)
Kafka And Son (Theaturtle, Threshold, Richard Jordan Productions in association with the Pleasance)
Knock Knock (Niv Petel)
La Maladie De La Mort D'Après Marguerite Duras (Collectif Or Normes)
Last Resort (2Magpies Theatre)
Like Blood From a Cheap Cigar (Genevieve Joy)
Lilith: The Jungle Girl (Sisters Grimm)
Losing Days (Initiative 26 / Salt 'n' Sauce Productions)
Lula Del Ray by Manual Cinema (Underbelly and Manual Cinema)
MANWATCHING (Royal Court Theatre)
Mary Go Nowhere (Black Rocking Chair Productions)
Me and My Bee (ThisEgg)
Mental (Kane Power Theatre)
Mine (Put The Book Down)
Mission Abort (Therese Ramstedt)
Morale Is High (Since We Gave Up Hope) (Powder Keg)
Morgan Stern (Company Of Rogues)
My Pet, My Love (Marc Up Productions)
Noose Women (Bear Faced Moon Company and New Celts Productions)
Not I (Touretteshero and Battersea Arts Centre)
Odyssey (Theatre Ad Infinitum)
One-Man Apocalypse Now (Chris Davis)
Out Of Love (Paines Plough, Theatr Clwyd and Orange Tree)
Overshare (Pieces Of Us Theatre Company)
Paper Doll (Weird Sisters)
Penetrator (Fear No Colours)
Perfectly Imperfect Women (Wizard Presents)
Performers (Performers Ltd)
Phools (Babolin Theatre)
Pike St (Barrow Street Productions)
Pistorius: A Shakespearean Tragedy (The Mermaids Performing Arts Fund)
Pornography by Simon Stephens (The Lincoln Company)
Power Ballad (Zanetti Productions)
Professional (CUSP)
Quarter Life Crisis (Yolanda Mercy and Gemma Lloyd in association with Underbelly Untapped)
Ramy: In The Frontline (Viirus Theatre / From Start to Finnish)
Sam Shaber: Life, Death And Duran Duran (Sam Shaber)
Scene (Black girl/White girl and Pembroke Players)
Séance (Darkfield)
Service! (Clock Tower Theatre)
Show Me The Money (Paula Varjack)
Sign Of The Times (Rumble Theatre)
Staging Wittgenstein (Blair Simmons and Nathan Sawaya Productions)
Stiff Dicky (JunkBox Theatre)
Storyteller (The Owle Screame)
Suspicious Minds (Tom Fowler and The Pleasance)
Syd And Sylvia (Claudia Jefferies / PBH's Free Fringe)
Taiwan Season: Ever Never (Co-coism)
Tense Vagina: An Actual Diagnosis (Sara Juli)
That Moment (Blueleaf Theatre Company)
The Accidental Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Tobacco Tea Theatre Company)
The Bearpit (Kopfkino)
The Charlie Question (Je Ne Sais Quoi Theatre)
The Chess Player (Theatre Omnibus - Massachusetts, USA)
The Damned United (Red Ladder Theatre and Unity Theatre Liverpool)
The Gardener (Cumbernauld Theatre)
The Giant Killers (The Long Lane Theatre Company)
The Good Person of Sichuan – The Italia Conti Ensemble (Theatre)
The Great Ridolphi (The Last Great Hunt)
The Hero Who Overslept (Bravebeard Productions and Fringe Management)
The Laramie Project (The Italia Conti Ensemble)
The Nature Of Forgetting (Theatre Re)
The North! The North! (Christopher Harrisson)
The OS Map Fan Club (Helen Wood)
The Pitchfork Disney (Gone Rogue Productions)
The Road That Wasn't There (Trick of the Light / Zanetti Productions)
The Shape Of The Pain (China Plate, Rachel Bagshaw and Chris Thorpe)
The Starship Osiris (Willis & Vere)
The Unmarried (Lauren Gauge)
The Waiting Game (Snowy Owl)
Things We Find In The Dark (Echo Echo Echo)
To Hell In A Handbag (Helen Norton and Jonathan White)
Trashed (Lab Rats)
Under My Thumb (CultureClash Theatre and Greenwich Theatre)
Venus And Adonis (Noontide Sun and Christopher Hunter)
Victim (Bruised Sky Productions)
Wanna Dance With Somebody! Or, A Guide To Managing Social Anxiety Using Theoretical Physics (Running Dog Theatre)
We Are All Going to Die (Dead Person Productions)
We Are Ian (In Bed With My Brother)
Whalebone (Hatch It Theatre)
What Goes On In Front Of Closed Doors (Joue Le Genre / Noel Gay Artists)
What Would Cathy Do? (40 Watt Pearl - Australia)
Wild Bore (Soho Theatre and Malthouse Theatre)
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