Review: Lullaby, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars Lullaby , the latest theatrical inversion from crack cabaret outfit Duckie , sets out to be a snooze-fest. It is a ...

Review: Richard III, Hampstead Theatre

Written for Culture Wars ‘Bloody, bloody England’ indeed in Propeller’s sharply amputated and annotated version of Richard III , which lends...

Review: Dream Story, Gate Theatre

An edited version of this review appeared in Time Out Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella spawned Eyes Wide Shut , Stanley Kubrick’s last film,...

Review: Hand-me-Down, Tristan Bates Theatre

Written for Time Out This show, set in a charity shop, is winning and likeable. The one thing it needs to do is throw some stuff out. Kate C...

Review: Betrayal, Comedy Theatre

Count the ways that Jerry, Emma and Robert – Pinter’s mobius triangle of lovers – betray one another and you soon run out of fingers. Most p...

Review: Realism, Soho Theatre

Anthony Neilson’s Realism premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival two years after The Wonderful World of Dissocia and is, more o...

Review: The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Vaudeville Theatre

Written for Culture Wars If we’re being generous, The Flying Karamazov Brothers have got half a show. Towards the end, their juggling grows ...

Review: Chicken Soup with Barley, Royal Court

It’s rather surprising to see the Royal Court charging admission to Chicken Soup with Barley , given that, for the duration of its run, the ...

Review: We Hope You Are Happy (Why Would We Lie?), Riverside Studios

Too often the claim that all elements of theatre are equal, leaves some more equal than others. In retaliation against the writer’s strangle...

Review: Little Baby Jesus, Oval House Theatre

Written for Time Out In other hands, this could so easily have been facile: three coming-of-age stories about self-acceptance and standing u...

Review: I Belong to this Band, Riverside Studios

I suspect that Kings of England’s tribute to a lost England can only work in a metropolitan setting. It is too reliant on the otherness of ...

Review: Foley, Riverside Studios

Jo Bannon’s Foley is a clear and simple short. In fact, that’s its greatest flaw. Foley, for those that don’t know, is the recreation or si...