Review: The Effect, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Anyone writing drama about cutting-edge scientific research has a problem; namely, us. The idiots watching. For mos...

Review: Medea, Richmond Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Why does Medea go postal? Is it a) because her husband has eloped with a younger model and the resulting jealousy h...

Review: The Promise, Donmar @ Trafalgar Studios

Written for Culture Wars Leningrad, 1942. A city under siege, so starved that household pets and dead bodies will do for food. In a small fl...

Review: As The Flames Rose, We Danced to the Sirens, the Sirens, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars She swoons. On the video tape, she swoons. In black and white, she swoons. Her eyelids slide shut and she rocks bac...

Review: Chewing Gum Dreams, Bush Theatre

To dream of chewing gum supposedly signifies an inability to express oneself. Hackney teenager Tracey Gordon has all the words and a fair fe...

Review: The River, Royal Court

The maxim behind Jez Butterworth’s new play might as well have been ‘Next year, as far from Jerusalem as possible.’ Following the unruly an...

Review: 55 Days, Hampstead Theatre

Written for the Financial Times Howard Brenton has long raided history for its present-tense parallels and in England’s 17th-century civil w...

Review: Happy Birthday Wanda June, Old Red Lion

Written for Time Out Wanda June herself scarcely appears in Kurt Vonnegut’s first play. Run over by an ice-cream van on her 10th birthday, s...