Review: Continuous City, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars About a year and a half ago, I renewed my mobile phone contract. Aiming to save a few pennies, I opted against an i...

Review: Stairway to Heaven, Blue Elephant Theatre

Written for Time Out A simple morality tale simply told, Stairway to Heaven explores basic proletariat politics through the pyramid builder...

Review: Revolution Now!, ICA

Written (without much coherence) for Culture Wars Anarchy in the ICA , where Gob Squad have bound the doors shut, occupied the building and ...

Review: Food Court, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars Food Court wants to have its cake and eat it. Which, given that it shows two fat women abusing a far slimmer one f...

Review: Wild Horses, Theatre 503

Written for Time Out Judging from the shoulders pads and vintage assortments modelled by the teenagers of Nimer Rashed's debut play, tod...

Summer House

Like many an MP, I'm getting a second home. For the next few weeks, I'll be blogging my way through the London International Festiva...

Review: Everything Must Go, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars Everything Must Go (or the Voluntary Attempt to Overcome Unnecessary Objects) was initially intended as Kristin Fr...

Review: The Tempest, Grays Inn Walk

Written for Time Out Mick Gordon's open-air production for the Oxford Shakespeare Company cores out Shakespeare's swansong into a li...

Review: Electric Hotel, Sadlers Wells Off-site

Written for Culture Wars David Rosenberg has (almost) cracked the formula. Two years ago, in Contains Violence , he placed us on the balcony...

Review: Kabuki, Sadlers Wells

Written for Time Out The title is intriguing. Imagine the Britist equivalents: 'Pantomime', perhaps, or 'Kitchen Sink Drama'...

Review: The Man, Finborough Theatre

Written for Culture Wars I should admit to having a personal – and, therefore, entirely subjective – affinity for James Graham’s recent writ...

Review: Swing, Cock Tavern

Written for Time Out Rapidity of response has always been one of theatre's advantages. Yet that immediacy is surely undermined when it...