Review: I guess if the stage exploded, SPILL Festival

Written for Culture Wars Slyvia Rimat’s attempt to create an absolutely unforgettable performance is more interesting conceptually than it i...

Review: On the Concept of the Face, SPILL Festival

Written for Culture Wars An old man repeatedly losing control of his bowels in front of a vast portrait of Christ, which eventually ‘cries’ ...

Review: Do What Thou Wilt, SPILL Festival

Written for Culture Wars About sixty of us have just watched a nude man, drenched in some sort of bitumen-like substance, wrenched upwards t...

Review: datamatics [ver 2.0], SPILL Festival

Written for Culture Wars It feels, at times, like being tasered. The fierce walls of sound – some low and heavy blows, others high, stabbing...

The Quiet Volume, Hackney Central Library

Written for Culture Wars Tim Etchells and Ant Hampton’s The Quiet Volume strikes me as the best piece of audio-based autoteatro to date. It...

Electra, Gate Theatre

Written for Time Out The House of Atreus becomes a house of horrors in Nick Payne’s condensed Electra . There are moments of primal fear, gu...

This Little Piggy Went To Market

Within the confines of the work they see, the major critics are – in taste, if not so much in terms of cultural or ethnic diversity – a pre...

Review: Baby Jesus Freak / Stage Kiss, The Space

Written for Time Out Here's a curiosity: new writing that comes incredibly close to being pro-life and pro-faith. Playwright Ian Wintert...

Review: Hotel Confessions, Bermondsey Square Hotel

Written for Culture Wars A staple amongst literary settings, largely on account of their inherent placelessness and urban ubiquity, the hote...

Review: Iolanthe, Wilton's Music Hall

Written for Time Out Gilbert and Sullivan's fairytale fits Wilton's Music Hall like a glass slipper, thanks to Sasha Regan's imp...

Review: Cause Célèbre, Old Vic

Written for Culture Wars The year of the Rattigan continues as another of his forgotten fineries gets dusted off by Thea Sharrock, whose exq...

Fading Smiles - A Response to the One on One Festival at BAC

Written for Culture Wars The word ‘immersive’ makes me think of bathtime. More specifically, it makes me think of the perfect bath. The sort...