Review: Grief, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars “For me,” Sam Shepard once wrote to Richard Schechner, “the reason a play is written is because a writer receives a...

Review: this is where we got to when you came in, Bush Theatre

Written for Culture Wars It’s just a room above a pub overlooking Shepherd’s Bush Green. It’s tatty and it’s small, but for the past forty y...

Review: Victoria Station / One for the Road, The Print Room

Written for Time Out Two starters can't satisfy like a main course, but the quality of these minimalist miniatures is undeniable. Direct...

Review: The Kitchen, National Theatre

The secret of a good setting is often precisely its secrecy. Today, restaurant kitchens are a good deal more familiar to audiences than they...

Review: Disco Pigs, Young Vic Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Splattered with references of its time, among them Terry Wogan as a television frontman and half-forgotten Irish fo...

Review: The Wild Bride, Lyric Hammersmith

Written for Culture Wars Kneehigh’s name is starting to look less an invocation of childhood, than a fascination with limbs cut short. After...

Review: Tinderbox, Broadway Studios

Written for Time Out Its flaws remain unhealed, but second time around - post-riots, post-Starkey - Lucy Kirkwood's debut play should be...

Review: Decade, Commodity Quay

Written for Culture Wars Marking the tenth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre, Rupert Goold’s Decade aims to peel back the...

Review: The Time Out, Forest Fringe & A Machine to See With, St George's West, Edinburgh

Written for Culture Wars There is, at the heart of theatre, a game of hide and seek. Novels can be stories taken as they are, at face value:...

Review: Venus at Broadmoor/The Demon Box, Finborough Theatre

Written for Time Out Compared to Bedlam, as seen on the Globe stage last year in Nell Leyshon's play of the same name, Broadmoor seems a...

Review: The Faith Machine, Royal Court

Written for Culture Wars Though absolutely attached to the offstage world, Alexi Kaye Campbell’s latest reaches beyond mere topicality. It i...

Review: Wittenberg, Gate Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Hamlet, Dr Faustus and Martin Luther walk into a student union bar. That’s pretty much the premise of David Davalos...

Review: You Once Said Yes, Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for Culture Wars There’s just about the spoonful of sugar in You Once Said Yes to help its bitter medicine go down. It is essential...