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...