Rory Edgington
Reviews: 69
Other Articles: 15
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning
The National Theatre of Wales’ production perfectly melds theatricality with politics.
Revolution Society
A show that lampoons the current generation’s lack of imagination but inadvertently reveals its own.
Engels! The Karl Marx Story
Ben Blow’s take on the life of Karl Marx is liberal with the facts, profligate with the jokes but ascetic with analysis.
The Confessions of Gordon Brown
This is the hit one-man show about a politician with all the substance but nothing to show.
This Side of Paradise
Dudendance’s newest installation piece explores the reifying effects of violence through movement and music.
Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market
Liverpool University Drama Society’s adaptation of the Victorian masterpiece vacillates between obtuse and elegant.
Artaud: A Trilogy
The Lincoln Company’s attempt to bring Artaud back to the stage is a successful failure.
Bin Laden: The One Man Show
Knaive Theatre give us Osama bin Laden’s third dimension in this understated polemic.
Bunker Trilogy: Macbeth
Macbeth may be filler but is by no means an anticlimax to this brilliant trench-life triptic.
Bunker Trilogy: Agamemnon
The second installment of Bunker Trilogy skillfully makes a Greek Tragedy out of one soldier’s guilt.
Bunker Trilogy: Morgana
This first installment of the Bunker Trilogy is an original and highly successful adaptation of the Arthurian legend.
The Bridge That Tom Built
The Flanagan Collective’s new one-man show tells the story of ‘the most valuable Englishman ever’.
Tejas Verdes
A collection of monologues by Fermín Cabal which reveal the true horror of the Pinochet regime.
This was the World and I was King
HookHitch’s production isn’t so much an anthem for doomed youth as an dirge for Edwardian Britain.
Sappho… in 9 Fragments
A visually and philosophically enthralling exploration of the Ancient Greek poet from Lesbos.
Missing
Gecko have devised a production rich with psychical imagery and effortlessly impressive choreography.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Fourth Monkey’s adaptation of Kesey’s hymn to civil disobedience is sadly all too well behaved.
The Peculiar Tale of Pablo Picasso and the Mona Lisa
The Peculiar Tale of Pablo Picasso is Fourth Monkey’s dramatisation of a Kafkaesque true story.
The Morning After Season: The Pink Bedroom
A rarely performed Tennessee Williams staged as part of 3BUGS Fringe Theatre’s Morning After Season.