In Part 2 I criticised Belt Up’s Women of Troy for promising more than it offered. This was before I realised that Women of Troy is part of something much bigger.

C Venues…

In 21 years the closest I’ve come to experiencing physical theatre is A Level Theatre Studies and a few ill-informed cracks about interpretive dance. Where better to overcome my ignorance…

So where were you in the wee hours of this morning? In bed? Oh dear. All the cool kids were at the theatre. The Midnight Matinee is pretty self explanatory:…

Rapunzel’s Last Midnight is an ambitious attempt to combine modern-day tragicomedy, old-fashioned fantasy and musical theatre. A shambolic, scruffy coterie of singers and musicians congregate at Ruby’s cafe, most of them…

Can actors convincingly portray characters of a much older or younger age? I think it’s possible, but it is an exception. All too often, young actors will play the caricature…

So what’s the word on the street? What’s your experience of producing theatre on the London fringe? Is the Fringe just a passing point on the way to higher grounds…