Top Recommended Shows for Brighton Fringe 2010 - categorised



 Here are our Top Recommended shows for Brighton Festival Fringe.

This is an evolving document and we'll be amending it daily during the Fringe with links to reviews.

 

To find your show and book, simply visit the official Finge web site and paste the show title into their marvellous search engine, "Fringle".
 

Top Ten Plays
1. Thick
3. After Party
4. Hilaire Belloc's The Four Men
6. Tuesday by Edward Bond
6. I am a Warehouse
7. I Wish You Love
8. Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
9. My Second Life
10. I Found my Horn

Top Ten Musical Theatre/Comedy
1. Terror The Musical
2. The Mikado
3. Give My Regards to Broadway
4. Call Me Mr Robeson
5. Alice's World A Musical Fantasy, David Ingledew's Looking Glass Orchestra, Brighton Unitarian Church, 2,9,16,23 May @ 3-430pm
6. Pluck -The Titanic Show
7. Die Roten Punkte - Robot/Lion Tour
8. Frisky and Mannish's School of Pop
9. Bay Citee Molars in Dentura Highway
10. Kunt and the Gang
 
Top Seven Site Specific/Out and About
1. The Secret Garden
2. Tales from the Coffee House
3. Ship of Fools
4. Above Below
5. 101
6. The No.9 Bus To Utopia
7. The Alpha Project

Top Three Shakespeare
1. As You Like it
2. Richard II
3. Takeaway Shakespeare
 
Top Ten One Person Shows
1. Bane: Part Two
2. Jubilate!
3 Memoirs of a Hermaphrodite
4. Sea Sisters
5. The Bridge
6. The Origin of the Species etc.
7. The Trials of Galileo
8. The Trials of Harvey Matusow
9. The Fantastic Reality of Frederick Goodge
10.Andy Thomas: Crimes Against Humanities Teachers
 
Top Three Ghost Horror Shows
1. Fridays, When it Rains (four stars - FringeReview)
2. Frightmare: Tales of Horror and Hysteria
3. Winter at Rushton Manor
 
Top Devised Theatre
1. The Flying Monk
2.  Steal Compass,  Drive North, Disappear
 
Top 10 Sketch Comedy
1. God Help Us...
2. The Penny Dreadfuls 2010
3. The Treason Show
4. WitTank
5. The Three Englishmen
6. Pappy's
7. Slaughterhouse Live
8. Teakshow's Twisted Sketches
9. The Dog-eared Collective's Joyride
10. The Leftovers
  
Top 5 Children's Shows
1. Sealskin
2. Fugi by Abi Morgan
3. A Ship of Fools
4. Show Off
5. The Insect Circus 
 
Top Dance/Physical Theatre
1 The Shadow Maker's Wife
2 Nobody's Home
3 Barbe Bleue
4 Icarus
5 Start Now (and other Works)
6. The Keepers
 
Top Five Stand-ups (that a Fringe audience shouldn't miss!)
 
1. Marcel Lucont - Encore
2. Andrew Maxwell
3. Andrew O'Neil
4. Brian Gittins' Fringe Friends
5. Facepalm - Stephen Grant
6. Elis James
7. Eric's Tales of the Sea
8. Hardeep Singh Kohli: Nearly Naked Chef
9. Kent Vaentine, Fablemonger
10. Mike Wozniak
  
Top 6 Cabaret
1 .Variety by the Sea
2. Cooking and Cabaret
3. Tina C's Eelection Playlist
4.  Paul Zenon's Cabinet of Curiosities
5.  Staempunk Hidden Laboratory Encounters Gentleman's Relish
6. The Ladyboys of Bangkok
 
  
Top 5 Improv Comedy
1. The Noise Next Door - Chaos Control
2. Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
3. Katy and Rach
4. Off the Cuff Present: Cuff TV
5. Guest Who? The Maydays
 
Top New Work
1. When all the Crowds Have Gone
2. Warnotes
  
Top Light Viewing
1. Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
2. LOL
3. The Nicholas Parsons's Happy Hour (not really theatre, but enjoyable and light)

Top  Making a Return to Brighton
1. Jesus: The Guantanamo Years
2. Showstopper: The Improvised Musical
  
Top Free Fringe
1 This Is Not a Subject for Comedy
2 Patrick Monahan
3 Shaggers
4  Teakshow's Twisted Sketches
 
Top On the Edges and Out of Brighton
1. I am a Warehouse
 
Top 10 Brighton Festival
1. Before I Sleep – Dreamthinkspeak – 1-23rd May at the old Co-op Department Store, London Road
2. Marine Parade – Animalink – 18 – 23rd May at The Old Market
3. The Festival - Lone Twin 11th May at the Corn Exchange
4. I, Malvolio – Tim Crouch – 7-9th May at the Pavilion Theatre
5. The Girl Left Behind Me - 22nd May at the Pavilion Theatre
6. All That I Was/All That I Am - 18th May at the Pavilion Theatre
7. The World of Wrong - 7th-8th May at The Basement
8. Park Life – NoFit State – 23rd May at The Level
9. Best Before - Rimini Protokol - 19th - 23rd May Sallis Benney Theatre
10. Bodies in Urban Spaces – Willi Dorner – 14th &15th May in the New England Quarter

Top 3 Pink Fringe
1. Literary Bent: Neil Bartlett & Bette Bourne
2. Memoirs of a Hermaphrodite 
3. Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz
 
More to come.

 

 

 

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