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Camden Fringe 2026: Off and On at Bridewell Theatre
It’s in the appropriately groan-worthy bon mots. It’s in the breathless declarations roughly adjacent to “Well, what’s all…
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Camden Fringe 2026: Take Care at Etcetera Theatre
With two performers winningly attuned to the shapeshifting, mile-a-minute shared thought process of a pair of anxious 20-something…
By Thomas Messner
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Camden Fringe 2026: The Alternative to Living at Barons Court Theatre
The alienation from screens and human connection theme aside, this Fringe drama from director Jessica Cooper and writer…
By Thomas Messner
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As You Like It at Royal Hospital Chelsea
Travelling by bicycle – props, costumes and set in tow – to a theatre near you, the HandleBards…
By Thomas Messner
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The Truth at Apollo Theatre
"No! Surely you must be joking?! How could you say such a thing?! I can't see how that…
By Thomas Messner
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White Rabbit, Red Rabbit at Duchess Theatre
The nature of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, currently being performed at the Duchess Theatre every Monday until 2nd…
By Thomas Messner
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Are You Watching? at the Royal Court Theatre
When all experience is eminently commodifiable, it's not so much a question of whether you're watching as whether…
By Thomas Messner
Cannes
Goodbye, Cruel World
It's an eerily familiar spectacle. A reserved, dark-haired teenage boy (Otto, played by Milo Machado-Graner of Anatomy of…
By Thomas Messner
Movie
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War
Though it may be small comfort, when it comes to onscreen catharsis in 2026, you could do a…
By Thomas Messner
Movie
The Balloonists
Launching on March 1st 1999, the explorers Bertand Piccard and Brian Jones were launched on the Breitling Orbiter…
By Thomas Messner