Review: Canary, Hampstead Theatre

Well, here’s an opportunity missed. Canary is a brilliantly swirling, expansive and epic text that owes a great debt (perhaps too great a d...

Review: A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky, Lyric Hammersmith

A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky is (not) about the end of the world. The multifarious members of the Benton family talk of cosmic tears...

Review: This Story of Yours, Old Red Lion

Written for Time Out Newly-formed barefaced productions exists, in part, to revive forgotten classics. For all the skill, verve and intellig...

Review: Boom Bang-a-bang, Etcetera Theatre

Written for Time Out Given Jonathan Harvey's farcical potboiler revolves around the Eurovision Song Contest, cheapness dictates a verdic...

Instructions for Audience Transformation

I came across the following in a book I've just started and thought it worth sharing. It's an extract from Filippo Tommaso Marinetti...

Review (of sorts): Love the Sinner, National Theatre

Drew Pautz’s play trips you up, but it does so less with a calculated outstretched leg as with a stumble of its own that happens to drag you...

Review: Daniel Deronda, Upstairs at the Gatehouse

written for Time Out Even on the page, George Eliot's last novel is notoriously problematic. It runs two plots concurrently, rarely allo...

Review: Dirty White Boy, Trafalgar Studios

Written for Time Out “Honey,” says Angie, “I am Soho!” Given she’s a post-op transsexual with new bits that resemble Cheddar Gorge, you can ...

Review: Psy, Peacock Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Let’s be honest, Psy isn’t going to win prizes for its groundbreaking exploration of mental health issues. Its line...

Review: Would Like To Meet, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars Serendipity. That’s what’s at the heart of every good rom-com. Being in the right place, at the right time. Catchin...