Review: Shallow Slumber, Soho Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Looked at objectively, Shallow Slumber is a bit of a shambles. However, playwright Chris Lee handles his gut-wrenc...

Review: The Trial of Ubu, Hampstead Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Simplicity of premise provides the beauty of Simon Stephens’s The Trial of Ubu , but it also proves the biggest con...

Review: L'Autre, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars For all its stylish serenity, L’Autre has all the substance of a mirage in the desert. It’s the sort of non-verbal...

Review: Kafka v Kafka, Brockley Jack

Written for Time Out Who is Franz Kafka's opponent? Is it the hearty father with whom he trades damning indictments, or is it his own re...

Review: Constellations, Royal Court

You can’t have a love story without the right click. The same holds true for this review. (UPDATE: I know this undermines the mystery, but t...

Review: Mundo Paralelo, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars Mundo Paralelo , a collaboration between NoFitState Circus, National Theatre Wales and Théâtre Tattoo, purports to ...

Review: L'immediat, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars A woman gets home. She puts her keys into the front door. It crumples into a heap of wooden slats. Unphased, she go...

Review: Haptic & Holistic Strata, Linbury Studio

Written for Culture Wars Migraine-inducing, heart-palpitating, epilepsy-triggering, ball-dropping, but above all, extraordinary, Hiroaki Ume...

Review: Pss Pss, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars A good prop can be the making of a clown. So, when I say that a stepladder is the star of Pss Pss , I mean no sligh...

Review: Execution of Justice, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Time Out What's the point of verbatim drama when the wrongs it seeks to right have lost their topicality? Emily Mann's t...

Review: Lovesong, Frantic Assembly

Written for Culture Wars Lovesong is an intricate, nuanced essay that’s been smudged into illegibility by tears. While it glances off a wea...

Review: The Kreutzer Sonata, Gate Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Prior to its New York run in March, Nancy Harris’s erudite adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1889 novella returns to the ...

Review: Frankland & Sons, Camden People's Theatre

Written for Culture Wars At the heart of this real-life father and son two-hander is an unearthed secret that takes an axe to their family t...

Review: You Me Bum Bum Train, 21-31 New Oxford St

For the uninitiated, there is still no greater thrill in theatre than tumbling through the rollercoaster of You Me Bum Bum Train . It is a k...

First Light/Mr Darwin's Tree, King's Head Theatre

Written for Time Out Old-fashioned but effective, Murray Watts's two shorts are linked by a theme: loss of faith. In one, the heart aban...

Review: Fog, Finborough Theatre

Written for Culture Wars “Micky Mouse Britain,” as Tash Fairbanks and Toby Wharton present it in Fog , contains a Welfare State Mowgli. Gary...

Review: Don Quixote, Warehouse Theatre

Written for Time Out Staging Miguel de Cervantes's epic novel takes some serious cojones, but the Warehouse Theatre's in-house compa...