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...