Greenside Archive

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Check out our coverage of shows at the Greenside venues…

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FESTIVAL 2026>>

2026 FEATURES
Deborah Unger: The Longer My Mother is Dead the More I Like Her Mandy Rubeli: Dinosaurs Michelle Renee Johnson: Extra Dry Three body image shows Three political performances

2026 REVIEWS
Extra Dry (Michelle Renee Johnson And A/Park Productions)

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FESTIVAL 2025>>

2025 FEATURES
Darren Neale: Greenside Olivia Ormond: Call Me Crazy Three Greek mythy shows  Three migrant shows

2025 REVIEWS
All In (Idle Hive Studios) Call Me Crazy (Good Potato Productions) False Tongues (Brett Fishel and Artists) Gross Domestic Product (Pique Theatre) The Anti “Yogi” (Fringe Management, LLC) You’re Not Singing Anymore (Minnie Birch)

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FESTIVAL 2024>>

2024 FEATURES
Three great dance shows Three shows about older women Three shows with social media themes Three shows with US political themes

2024 REVIEWS
Bachelor Girls (Bristol DramSoc) Draft My Life - A Concept Musical (We Draman Group) Funny Guy (Patrick Nash Presents) Plague Poo And Punishment (Edinburgh Storytellers Limited) River Time! (Laura Thurlow) Shakespeare Translate: The Complete Works (Devon Loves ME! Productions) Villain Era (Star Stone)

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FESTIVAL 2023>>

2023 FEATURES
Three biographical musicals Three early starts Three shows on climate change stuff

2023 REVIEWS
2-Faces (Hassan Hope and Jasmine Dorothy Haefner) The Extras Strike Back: A Musical Tribute To The Forgotten Heroes Of Star Wars (Glenn And Gehm) The Sorries Who Walks This Path (Soul Circus)

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FESTIVAL 2022>>

2022 FEATURES
Kim Kalish: The Funny Thing About Death Three Shows Telling Women's Stories

2022 REVIEWS
Badgers Can’t Be Friends (Raving Mask Theatre) Death Of A Disco Dancer (Ultraviolet Productions) Dedication (Roger Peltzman) Elementa (Sian Eleanor Green) How To Live A Jellicle Life: Life Lessons From The 2019 Hit Movie Musical CATS (Linus Karp And Awkward Productions) Tenderly (Rain Theatre) The Funny Thing About Death (Kim Kalish) The Hippie Shakes (Sweaty Palms Productions)

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FESTIVAL 2021>>

2021 REVIEWS
El Greco Of Hornsey (Olga Thompson)

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FESTIVAL 2019>>

2019 FEATURES
Three To See 2019: Dance Picks Three To See 2019: Folk Tale Themes

2019 REVIEWS
Full Consent To Speak On My Behalf (Good Wolf People) Grimm Tales (Grey Dog Theatre Company) Ladies Who Lunch (Fourth Wall Theatre Company) Last Life: A Shakespeare Play (The Box Collective and Piece of Yourself) Play Before Birth (Coast To Coast Theatre Company) SAGA (Stones Theatre Company) The Art Of Skipping (Purple Door Productions Limited) Wrath Of Achilles (Bedivere Arts Company)

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FESTIVAL 2018>>

2018 FEATURES
Ryan Napier and Courtney Oliphant: The Antiscians The Venue Directors: Darren Neale and Tara Stapleton from Greenside Three To See 2018: Three funny musicals Three To See 2018: Three outstanding dance and physical pieces Three To See 2018: Three shows with eccentric themes

2018 REVIEWS
Bummer And Lazarus (Big Egg Theatre) Clara Saves America (Clara Bijl) Hug The Bunny (Pits N Clits Theatre Company) Jasper Red: Press Play (Natalie Walmsley) Seven Ways To Calm The F**k Down (3BUGS) The Bacchae (Mermaids: The University Of St Andrews Performing Arts Fund)

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FESTIVAL 2017>>

2017 REVIEWS

Baby Mama: One Woman's Quest To Give Her Child To Gay People (Mariah MacCarthy) Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (JJewell Productions) Cognitions (SpeakUp Theatre) Communism: The Musical! (Lancaster Offshoots) Death In Venice (Edinburgh Ballet Circle) Frigid: A Musical Worth Melting For (Napier University Drama Society) Godspell (Shotgun Theatre) Paper Doll (Weird Sisters) Pistorius: A Shakespearean Tragedy (The Mermaids Performing Arts Fund) The Waiting Game (Snowy Owl)

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FESTIVAL 2016>>

2016 REVIEWS
At War With Love (Chiaroscuro Theatre) Bend In The River (Deep Water Theatre Collective) Buzz: A New Musical (Fat Rascal Theatre) Emerald Diaries (Kingdom Theatre Company) Frenemies (Sedos) Immortal (GreenTea Productions) The Fox And The Hound (Poorfool) The Surge (The King's Players) Three Jumpers (Unearthed Theatre)

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FESTIVAL 2015>>

2015 FEATURES
Latest venue innovations on the Fringe: Greenside Three To See 2015: A bonus set from Meet The Media Three To See on 16 Aug: Ben Norris, The Last Kill, James Acaster ThreeWeeks Editors' Awards presented for 2015

2015 REVIEWS
Blood Wedding (Minerva Company @ NHEHS) Frankenstein (Old Deerfield Productions) Maiden - A Recycled Fairy Tale (3Bugs Fringe Theatre) Reunion (Living Record Theatre Company) Richard III (Close Up Theatre) The Last Kill (Contemporary Theatre Scotland) Twin Primes (Chiasmus Productions)

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FESTIVAL 2014>>

2014 FEATURES
Greenside extends with new Nicolson Square venue

2014 REVIEWS
Circle Line (Red Brick Rent) Occupied (Pembroke Players) Sins Of Seven Tables (The New Salisbury Players) The Canterbury Tales (Close Up Theatre) The Reviewers (Charlesworth And Holland Productions) The Sonneteer (Sebastian Michael and Tom Medcalf with Optimistic Creations) UCAS (Off Track Theatre)

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FESTIVAL 2013>>

2013 REVIEWS

After What Comes Before (Manic Chord Theatre) Agamemnon (The Theatre School) Beside The Greenside (Mardy Arts) Can't Buy Me Love (ISL) Chorus (Machinist Theatre) Close To You (Jennie Eggleton) Dear Friend (Apt 502) Death By Murder (University Of Nottingham Improv Society) Éowyn Emerald And Dancers (Éowyn Emerald And Dancers) Gilbert And Sullivan - The Musical (Sitting Duck Theatre) God Of Carnage ([YO10] Productions) MurleyDance Double Bill (MurleyDance) Spandex (Wishbone Theatre Collective) The Circus of Terror (Young Actors Company / Engineerium) The Revenge Of The Gargantuan Poo Monster (Lost Boys Production) The Silence Of Friends (Byteback Theatre) Three Women (Christine Buxton) Very Still And Hard To See (Belt Productions)

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FESTIVAL 2012>>

2012 FEATURES
Tara Kilbourne and Darren Neale, Greenside: The Venue Directors

2012 REVIEWS

A Dastardly Fiction (Haystacks Theatre Company) Exit Stage Left (Ecco Theatre Company) Eye Of A Needle (IndigoCo) Fall To The Top (Entita Theatre) Fragment (A Mused Collective) Godspell (Glenalmond College) Her Right Mind (Rugged Isaac Theatre) Last Supper (Last Notion Theatre) Life As We Know It (AD1 Dance Company) Life As We Know It (AD1 Dance Company) Little Shop Of Horrors (ArtsOne) Opera Scenes (Edinburgh Studio Opera) Percurso - Course (Grupo Contemporâneo de Dança Livre) Retail Therapy (MAdD Theatre Company) Romeo And Juliet (FramBag Theatre) Salome (Godot Art Association) Skye (North London Collegiate School) The Better Half (fromthegreyhouse:company) The Canterville Ghost (Machinist Theatre) The Crucible (Close Up Theatre) The Importance Of Being Earnest (FramBag Theatre) The Indescribable Phenomenon (Haberdashery) The Lost Child (PPL) Zelda (Denise Paulette)

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FESTIVAL 2011>>

2011 FEATURES
Three To See 2011: Plays with numbers

2011 REVIEWS

A Rotten Little Story (Bandwagon Theatre Company) AGM (Allthepigs Theatre Company) Andrea's Got Two Boyfriends (New Salisbury Players) Antigone (The Theatre School) Any More Legroom? (JMUpstart Dance Company) Attempts On Her Life (Paper Chains Theatre Company in association with On The Verge) Be My Baby (Louche Theatre) Be Prepared (Matthew Bellwood) Belle Of Amherst: Double Vision (Belleherst Productions) Can't Stand Up For Falling Down (The Main Road Theatre Company) Cycle One (60°) (In-Transit Dance) Death Of A Salesman (Close Up Theatre) End Of The Line (Gaiety Performance Theatre Company) Fetch (Twa Dugs Theatre Company) Gasping For Home (Lung Dreams) Hot Grog (Phillips Academy Theatre And Dance) In Your Dreams (The Woolton Irregulars) Into The Woods Opera Di Nepotist Macbeth (Last Notion in association with On The VERGE) My Voluntary Punishments – Another Cappadocia (Trama Cia De Dança / Daniel Jaber) Nunsense (Norfolk Youth Music Theatre) Peep Show (Allthepigs Theatre Company) Real Men Dream In Black And White (Real Men) Richard (Makoto Inoue Ind) The Cagebirds (Liverpool University Drama Society) Things That Go... Bump Rattle Klunk Clackle Woo! (Luna Arts Theatre Company) Will They See Me (Fair Play Productions)

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