Review: Fuerzabruta, London Roundhouse

Written for Culture Wars Tub-thumping. Valve-busting. Memory-staining. The show that relaunched the Roundhouse Fuerzabruta, now ten years ol...

Review: Privates on Parade, Noel Coward Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Seven years ago, Schiller was all over Shaftesbury Avenue. Not once, but twice, thanks to Phyllida Lloyd’s Mary Stu...

Review: Hero, Royal Court

Written for Culture Wars E.V. Crowe’s Hero is more conflicted than its sexually-confused protagonist Jamie, a married man who seems to be r...

Review: Sight is the Sense That Dying People Lose First, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars Tim Etchells is a man who could bore for Britain. Boring is not always a bad thing. Jim Fletcher could make the shi...

Review: The Effect, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Anyone writing drama about cutting-edge scientific research has a problem; namely, us. The idiots watching. For mos...

Review: Medea, Richmond Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Why does Medea go postal? Is it a) because her husband has eloped with a younger model and the resulting jealousy h...

Review: The Promise, Donmar @ Trafalgar Studios

Written for Culture Wars Leningrad, 1942. A city under siege, so starved that household pets and dead bodies will do for food. In a small fl...