Imagine Form as Content

In her 2007 review of Presumption, currently playing at The Southwark Playhouse, Lyn Gardner picked up on the perfect marriage of its form ...

Review: Daedalus & Icarus, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars If Mungu Theatre Company’s chirpy retelling of Greek mythology is anything to go by, Iranian theatre is in good he...

Review: You, Me, Bum Bum Train, Cordy House

Written for WhatsOnStage.com In the heart of Shoreditch is a theatrical experience sure to leave you Dazed and Confused. For the twenty minu...

Review: Presumption, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars Love is in the air at the Southwark Playhouse – only not the sort of love that takes your breath away. Rather the ...

Just Dandy

Like Maxie Szalwinska , I spent Saturday afternoon at The Riverside indulging in a spot of Peachy Coochy, a mischievous event led by the imp...

Exeunt Into Reality

At one o’clock on Monday morning, as I turned onto my road, there was a middle-aged man, wrapped up and tracksuited, running. An unusual sig...

Review: Footsbarn's Midsummer Night's Dream, Victoria Park

Written for Culture Wars So otherworldly is Footsbarn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, that it conjures thoughts of another dimension altogether. ...

One of life's brighter days

I have an interview with Tim Etchells in The Stage this week. Haven't seen it yet, but when I do I'll post it up here - should be ...

Review: The Long Road, Soho Theatre

Written for WhatsOnStage.com Newspapers trot out the facts and figures of knife crime on a seemingly daily basis. What little we see of the ...

Review: Rank, Tricycle Theatre

Written for Culture Wars With the world teetering towards debt-ridden recession, Robert Massey's Rank serves a light-hearted reprimand f...

Review: Othello, Lyric Hammersmith

Written for Culture Wars In relocating Othello to the blood-red dinge of a run-down Northern pub, Frantic Assembly have transformed it from ...

Warning: Smoking can seriously damage your fiction

I have two habits: smoking and theatre-going. Like a persistent framing device, a hasty cigarette will immediately precede and follow any pe...

Let heaven see the pranks...

With the nation moving from barracking to Baracking and the uproar of the Ross/Brand Sachs scandal seemingly forgotten, it seems time to scr...

Review: Red Fortress, Unicorn Theatre

Written for Culture Wars At once admirably and hopelessly idealistic, Carl Miller’s Red Fortress pits three children of different faiths aga...

Review: Follow, Finborough Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Like the newborn lumbered on its teenage protagonist, Follow is ill-conceived. Spurious to the point of being spoof...

Review: To Be Straight With You, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Clashing worldviews rarely sit alongside one another in quietly grumbling contrast. Rather, they collide in messy, ...