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London's off-West End theatre scene is a bustling, vibrant hub of new shows and revivals all performed at subsidised theatres. Here’s Time Out’s guide, including reviews, tickets and theatre information for the off-West End shows that even the most traditional theatre-goer would be sorry to miss.
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A labour of love that has worked its way slowly to the West End over the five years since it debuted at Southwark Playhouse, at its best Jethro Compton’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an extraordinary thing, a soaring folk opera that overwhelms you with a cascade of song and feeling.
It is based on F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 short story, and shares a premise: Benjamin Button (John Dagliesh) is a man inexplicably born at the age of 70, who then begins to age backwards, leading to a strange, exhilarating, sometimes extremely sad sort of life.
Writer/director/designer Compton’s interpretation is very different to both Fitzgerald’s and the 2008 David Fincher film starring Brad Pitt. For starters it’s not set in nineteenth century America, but is virtually a love letter to Compton’s native Cornwall, its story spanning much of the twentieth century.
Fitzgerald’s plot is loosely followed, but heavily tinkered with – one of the more significant changes is having Dagliesh’s Benjamin born with a full adult’s mind and vocabulary rather than beginning life as a baby in an old man’s body.
More to the point, it has a joy, romance and big-hearted elan that stands in stark contrast to Fitzgerald’s cynicism and the dolefulness of Fincher’s sloggy film. Indeed, despite tragic notes from the off – Benjamin’s mum takes her own life early on – the tone is largely whimsical and upbeat, focussing on the eccentric minutiae of Cornish village life, from oddball shopkeepers to dozy sheep....
Omnibus Theatre's 96 Festival is named after the year when Clapham Common hosted an epic Pride party. Each summer, a host of queer theatremakers and performers keep that spirit alive by filling a leftfield, affordable line-up of new shows. This year's edition is typically eclectic. Check out queer improv show 'Hell Yeah!' (June 26), join a Wicked sing-a-long (June 27) or make for Joseph Aldous' debut 'Get Happy' (July 1-12), about a 30-year-old fighting to have a hot gay summer against all the odds.
Tightened post-pandemic budgets have put the Greenwich Fair – the colourful family friendly festival within the Greenwich + Docklands International Festival – into hiatus the last couple of summers. The good news, though, is that the riotous and completely free two-day showcase of theatre, dance and games is back for 2025, albeit only as a result of a specifically targetted crowdfunder effort. Back to its old two-day length (it had slimmed down to just one before ist hiatus) Greenwich Fair will this year take place in Greenwich Park and features a host of live acts, running the gamut from heartwarming intergenerational dance show Go, Grandad, Go! to full on aerial highwire work from French compang Cie des Chaussons Rouges and their show Epiphytes (pictured).
Due to run five years ago at Soho Theatre but scuppered by the pandemic, Chloë Moss’s play follows a pair of sisters who've all but lost touch. Reconnecting after some shock news, they explore why their lives have gone in such different directions. Directed by Marlie Haco, Run, Sister, Run stars Jo Herbert and Kelly Gough as Connie and Ursula.
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