Review: Flyboy is Alone Again This Christmas, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars Now, don't get me wrong: I like Flyboy, Matthew Robins' mutant schoolboy, half-human, half-fly. I like the ...

Review: Twelfth Night, The Space

Written for Time Out From its first line to its less quotable last, vowing to "strive to please you every day," Twelfth Night is ...

Review: Get Santa, Royal Court

Written for Culture Wars Pity those parents with inquisitive kids, for they shall be faced with a barrage of why’s after the Royal Court’s f...

Review: Anansi: An African Fairy Tale, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Time Out Incy Wincy had it easy peasy. In order to win the stories of the world from Nyame the Sky God, Anansi the Spider must c...

Review: The Animals & Children Took to the Streets, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars Almost inadvertently, 1927 have found themselves on the political frontline. Little over three miles away from the ...

Review: Cart Macabre, Old Vic Tunnels

It may not quite take you to hell on a hartcart, but Cart Macabre – a ride through the pitch-black, stopping at a series of momentary vign...

Review: Beauty and the Beast, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Few seasonal offerings for family audiences contain overt espousals of proletariat values. Fewer still have their h...

Review: Black Watch, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars In May of next year, the 150 British troops still stationed in Iraq will quit the country, a year after the majorit...

Review: Kin, Royal Court

Written for Culture Wars Those prone to cynicism might suggest that, by tackling the rancorous trappings of an all-girls boarding school, E...

Review: Gatz, Public Theatre, New York

With just over an hour break for dinner, Gatz – Elevator Repair Service’s exhaustive staged reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gats...

Review: Suspended, Chelsea Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Atop a ladder, cloaked in a sheeny black shroud, sits Natasha Davis . Strands of her hair stand out from her scalp,...

Review: Antarctica, Chelsea Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Perhaps the last place on earth you’d expect to have its own artist in residence is Antarctica. It is the coldest, ...

Review: Almost the Same (Feral Rehearsals for Violent Acts of Culture), Chelsea Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Hanging from her hands are two skinned hares. The meat of one glimpses through an armour of flecked tin-foil. The o...

Review: Macbeth, Barbican Pit

Written for Culture Wars Imagine if you could bath in Macbeth . Or cut it into lines and snort it. What about painting your house Macbeth ? ...

Review: The Quickening of the Wax, Chelsea Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Only the other day, a friend was explaining their phobia of dummies, manekins and waxworks: inanimate objects with ...

Review: Blasted, Lyric Hammersmith

“Reviled. Respected. Revived.” That’s how the Lyric Hammersmith is tagging its production of Sarah Kane’s controversial debut play, notoriou...

Review: The Thrill of It All, Riverside Studios

Written for Culture Wars “We’re going to take you on an adventure,” intones an impish woman in a sequinned dress, “with a capital A.” Her vo...

Review: Parachutists or On the Art of Falling, Barbican Pit

Written for Culture Wars It’s not just gravity that makes us fall. Hearts can have an equal pull, according to this charming but bitty piece...

Review: Tribes, Royal Court

The Royal Court sets out once again to expose the ‘er’ at the centre of liberal sensibilities in Nina Raine’s expressive and articulate play...

Review: The Charming Man, Theatre 503

Written for Culture Wars To be frank, it’s astounding that The Charming Man made it through the Theatre 503’s literary department in its c...

Review: Ivan and the Dogs, Soho Theatre

Written for Culture Wars The Ivan of Hattie Naylor’s title might as well be known as the Moscow Mowgli. In a severely impoverished Russia, ...