Truth and Fiction

Not really a proper post - more a gem courtesy of Francis Alexander at The Chelsea Theatre today - but thoroughly worthwhile nonetheless. ...

Review: Crocosmia, Battersea Arts Centre

Another week, another award-sweeping Edinburgh show at the Battersea Arts Centre . Where Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea proves an ...

Love/Hate Relationship

I was recently asked, as part of an application form, to write 80 words on what I hate about theatre. Unexpectedly, I found myself having fa...

The Perfect Filling

For the lone theatre-goer, foyers are menacing halls of hubbub. You stand there, drink in hand, rooted to the spot, surrounded by conversing...

Review: The Snow Queen, New Wimbledon Theatre Studio

Written for The Stage With its sense of expedition and an array of fantastical characters, The Snow Queen makes perfect material for small-s...

Review: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, BAC

Written for Culture Wars Given the garlands and praise heaped upon 1927 ’s debut production, it’s difficult to approach Between the Devil an...

Review: Peter Pan, Richmond Theatre

Written for The Stage It’s panto by numbers down in Richmond, where Family First Entertainment’s Peter Pan ticks all the boxes without much...

Playing with, not by, the rules

In life, I am a stickler for rules. I have always struggled to break curfews, miss deadlines, lie to figures of authority, walk on the grass...

Review: Brilliant, Lyric Hammersmith Studio

Written for Culture Wars Brilliant is to children’s theatre what Picasso and Pollock are to visual art. Dispensing with the usual rules of n...

Review: The Time of Your Life, Finborough Theatre

Written for The Stage Beginning with a burp and proceeding with equal delicacy, Max Lewendel’s tedious production saps the metaphor and mela...