Reviews and Feedback
What reviewers and audiences say about our shows
Audience comments
"Thought provoking, funny and very enjoyable… Bravo!"
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Audience feedback on Derailed
"By far the best show on the Fringe"
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Audience feedback on Appearances
"Wonderful mix of drama and dark humour, A+++"
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Audience feedback on Derailed
Appearances Review
By Claire Gulliver
A woman battles dishes in a sink, talking to an unseen husband. A mum tries to coax her son to his homeschooling using a mobile phone. An older man fends off concerned phonecalls from wellwishers.
The atmosphere is oppressive, disjointed: that unsettling mix of anxiety and confinement into which we all plunged in 2020. Spotlights blink on and off, illuminating first one character then another, emphasising the disconnection between people.
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​There are moments of humour – the physical complexity of passing physical objects between neighbours in peak pandemic are worthy of a cathartic laugh now. And, for all the reminders of a time we forget at our peril, for all the misplaced empathy and misunderstanding, there is tenderness, surprise and hope at the end.
Derailed review: Awkward Pigeon triple bill pops assumptions
By James Banyard, The People's Republic of South Devon
This triple bill of new comic plays from emerging Devon theatre company Awkward Pigeon gently amuses, delights, and baffles in equal measures. From a character trapped on a time travelling tube train, to a fatal argument over a chicken chasseur, via all stops to the revelation that the upstairs neighbour is an amateur taxidermist, these three theatrical productions explore the assumptions we make about ourselves and our neighbours, hopefully showing along the way, how wrong we can be.