Review: Contigo, Linbury Studio

Written for Culture Wars In September 2003, Channel 4 broadcast a documentary called Jump London that transformed the capital into a adventu...

Review: Pan-Pot, Queen Elizabeth Hall

Written for Culture Wars The festival brochure has already described Pan-Pot as “a fireworks display of brilliant juggling.” There’s not mu...

Brave New World

Review of Kefar Nahum at the Barbican Centre and Rankefod at the ICA Written for Culture Wars “O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there...

Review: The Mill, Linbury Studio

Written for Culture Wars You expect a certain showy bravado of circus, as if half the performance is about showing off specialist skills. Sh...

Review: USSR Was Here, ICA

Written for Culture Wars On and on rolls this conveyor belt of horrors; all more or less human in form, but their humanity is so distorted t...

Review: The Rivals, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Time Out Unlikely bedfellows, Beyonce Knowles and Richard Sheridan. Yet it's her booty-shaking anthem Single Ladies, neatly ...

Review: Eschet, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars Death is always present in the puppets of Etgar Theatre. They are immaterial waifs: empty, trailing shirts that flo...

Review: Öper Öpis, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars From a selection of building blocks scattered around the stage, Martin Zimmerman carefully constructs a makeshift c...

Review: Miracle, Leicester Square Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Reza du Wet’s play is like cling-film: thin, transparent, but not entirely without the potential for perverse enjoy...

Review: David Hoyle's Licking Wounds, Royal Vauxhall Tavern

Written for Time Out Don’t be fooled by David Hoyle’s title of choice – he’s not the sheepish type. Instead, the artist formerly known as Di...