My five favourite fringe productions of 2016
29/12/2016
There's been some cracking fringe theatre this year - there's also been some best forgotten but we'll gloss over that. These five favourites are taken from a list of more than 40 fringe plays I've seen this year (in no particular order):
Rotterdam, Trafalgar Studios 2
Fresh, contemporary, funny and packing emotional punch Rotterdam didn't shy away from exploring difficult issues.
Odd Shaped Balls, Red Lion Theatre
A powerful solo performance that managed to inject sensitivity and emotion into the testosterone-fuelled world of rugby.
A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing, Young Vic (The Maria)
Another powerful solo performance, Aoife Duffin had me hanging on every word of this bleak, unflinching story of a woman's relationships as she grows up.
In a year in which theatre land seems to have decided that serious = long, Pigs and Dogs proved the opposite. It was a powerful, punchy, revealing 15 minutes long.
If you are going to do fringe Shakespeare you need to be inventive as there are so many big budget, starry productions for comparison. This version was stripped down to a powerful 90 minutes focusing purely on the mental health of the prince. It was cleverly done.
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