Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows in London

Theatre shows to see in London after Edinburgh Fringe

• 7 Day Drunk

  TBC, Soho Theatre

  Time Out fave Bryony Kimmings (pictured) follows her marvellous ‘Sex Idiot’ with a hugely entertaining hour of art she created while sloshed as part of a week-long controlled scientific experiment. ‘7 Day Drunk’ could do considerably more to explore the links between alcohol and creativity. And it would be nice if the touring version used more of the documentary she shot of her drunken week. But this is a warm, intimate and accessibly bonkers series of performance vignettes, bound together by a wonderfully dreamy visual aesthetic.
  Who’s it for? Open-minded folk who like the sauce.

• Audience

  Dec 6 2011-Jan 7 2012, Soho Theatre

  Effortlessly controversial Belgian provocateurs Ontroerend Goed have outdone themselves this year, with their latest show ‘Audience’ attracting several one-star reviews on ‘moral’ grounds. We’re not sure this psychological experiment performed upon unwitting punters is good theatre per se, and it would ruin it to go into specifics. But it was powerfully unnerving the night we visited: certainly the most memorable show of the festival.
  Who’s it for? The brave and the curious. Not for the faint of heart.

• Mission Drift

  TBC, A major London arts venue that we can’t yet name

  Experimental New York theatre company The TEAM has been accused of obtuseness in the past, though not by us. But this eye-popping two-hour magical realist epic about the rise and fall of Vegas, capitalism and the American West is a triumph from start to finish. It’s ambitious but also lucid, funny and humane, and boasts a killer turn from songstress Heather Christian as demonic MC Miss Atomic.
  Who’s it for? Types who want to smash the system… in a fun way.

• The Table

  Jan 2012, London International Mime Festival

  Puppetry theatre company Blind Summit (whose ‘1984’ played at BAC two Christmases ago) have struck gold – and packed out Edinburgh’s Pleasance Dome – with this brilliantly funny triptych. The opening title piece, in which a cantankerous old puppet has an existential breakdown whilst preparing to perform a 12-hour-long recreation of the prophet Moses’s final hours, is absolutely sublime, the best thing this excellent company has ever one.
  Who’s it for? People up for a larf; fans of Beckett; French people who can laugh at themselves.