Review: Live Long and Prosper, Chelsea Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Knees buckling beneath him, Spock crumples towards death. His hand slides down the glass panel in front of him. Loo...

Review: Constellations, Royal Court

As settings go, the multiverse is a damn sight more ambitious than most. Over the course of its 65 minutes, Nick Payne’s Constellations zaps...

Review: A Small Town Anywhere, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars From my pulpit, I am engaged in a slur campaign. For no reason other than his political allegiances, I have written...

Review: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Vaudeville Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Aside from the poetic magnetism of its central figure, Jim Cartwright’s 1992 play has little going for it. The enti...

Review: Room Temperature Romance, Barbican Pit Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Examining those momentary nothings that, taken together, make up a lifelong friendship, Levantes Dance Theatre misj...

Review: Raoul, The Barbican

Written for Culture Wars Raoul is not a one man show. If it seems that way it is because its cast of hundreds happen to share a single body...

Review: Constellations, Royal Court

As settings go, the multiverse is a damn sight more ambitious than most. Over the course of its 65 minutes, Nick Payne’s Constellations ach...

Review: The Factory's Hamlet, Arch 635

Written for Culture Wars Even for the most well-drilled company, Hamlet is no mean feat. Exalted to the point of petrifying, bursting at th...

Fussing over Foss

Last Friday, The Stage printed what is, quite frankly, an inexcusable and indefensible dismissal of interactive theatre by critic Roger Fos...

Recent Musings

You may have noticed that things have slowed down a bit recently. That's not for want of ideas, but for lack of discipline and time. As ...

Riding the Bum Bum Train

For some unknown reason, my mind just wandered back to the bizarre, thrilling, sardonic, joyous experience that is You, Me, Bum Bum Train . ...

Review: Stillen, Lillian Bayliss Studio

Written for Culture Wars Described as ‘a wordless play’, Stillen positions itself as a subversion of a traditional model. It sets itself a c...