Thoughts on London, Brighton Dome

Simon Stephens wrote Sea Wall and T5 independently of one another: the first for the Bush’s Broken Space season in 2008, the second had be...

Review: Dangerous Lady, Theatre Royal Stratford East

Written for Time Out There’s enough plot in Dangerous Lady to warrant arrest under the Terrorism Act. It's got births, deaths and hospi...

Review: The Good Neighbour, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars A friend told me recently about David Eagleman’s Sum , as a trade for my recommendation of Italo Calvino’s Invisibl...

Review: You Can Still Make a Killing, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars What’s particularly great about Nicholas Pierpan’s latest play is the way it entirely inhabits its subject. New wri...

Review: Terror 2012, Soho Theatre

Written for Time Out After nine years, The Sticking Place's annual fright fest has become a shadow of its former self. This year's l...

Review: Lucy and the Hawk, Ovalhouse

Written for Culture Wars In science, dissociation involves splitting molecules into their component parts: an individual object blasted apar...

Review: Desire Under the Elms, Lyric Hammersmith

Written for Culture Wars Drama hates waste. Or rather, it hates extraneity. Maybe all stories do, the idea being that anything superfluous t...

Review: I, Malvolio, Unicorn Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Malvolio, a fictional character no less, has made me feel genuine remorse. That’s curious. It’s like grieving for B...

Review: Hot Mikado, Landor Theatre

Written for Time Out Gilbert and Sullivan catch a serious case of the jitterbug in David H. Bell and Rob Bowman’s 1986 adaptation of their c...

Review: Fireface, Young Vic

Written for Time Out The titular anti-heroes of Max Frisch's well-known 1958 play, The Fire Raisers , are destructive strangers, who tur...

Review: Enquirer, Barbican Centre off-site

Written for Culture Wars “ In my experience the newspapers are a combination of what people never meant, combined with what people never sai...

Review: Lungs, Roundabout Season

Written for Culture Wars After Cock , comes Lungs . Duncan Macmillan’s cleverly intricate two-hander shares more than just a corporeal title...

Review: Charley’s Aunt, Menier Chocolate Factory

Written for Whatsonstage.com With Union Jacks still billowing around the country, the Menier Chocolate Factory has exploited the current vog...