Review: Make Better Please, West Yorkshire Playhouse

Seen during the Transform Festival 2012 On the afternoon of Saturday 8th May 2010 – almost exactly two years ago – I saw a scratch of Make B...

9, West Yorkshire Playhouse

Seen during the Transform Festival 2012 Critics sometimes talk about the white heat of the playhouse, referring to the energy of a show carr...

Review: Have I None / The Under Room, Lyric Hammersmith

Written for Whatsonstage.com To say that Edward Bond sits outside of the theatrical mainstream is to underestimate the distance between Mosc...

Review: Reunion, Jermyn Street Theatre

Written for Time Out Two years after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease, Raymond wants to end his life. However, doing so requires t...

Review: Wild Swans, Young Vic

Wild Swans , the opening production of World Stages London , is a bit of a lame duck. Jung Chang’s memoir takes 700 odd pages to span three ...

Review: Autobiographer, Toynbee Studios

Written for Culture Wars The philosopher John Locke devised a problem to demonstrate the non-equivalence of memory and personal identity. He...

Review: Chalet Lines, Bush Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Chalet Lines takes you by surprise. It takes time to confirm exactly what sort of play it wants to be and, by the ...

Review: Black T-Shirt Collection, National Theatre

Written for Time Out Performance poet Inua Ellams returns to the National with this contemporary fable woven from real world geopolitics. As...

Review: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Apollo Theatre

For five years, Eugene O’Neill’s early work has taken precedence over his later accepted classics in this country. It’s as if, by staging hi...

Review: Uncle Vanya, Print Room

Written for Time Out Chekhov famously fell out with Stanislavski when the latter directed The Cherry Orchard as a tragedy. On that basis, h...

Review: Mercury Fur, Old Red Lion

An edited version of this review appeared in Time Out Had Magaret Thatcher abandoned Liverpool after the Toxteth Riots, it might have looked...