Review: Love Love Love, Royal Court

Written for Culture Wars Mike Bartlett takes his title from a Beatles song, but his play is best characterised by another: I Wanna Hold Your...

Review: The Hard Boiled Egg and the Wasp, Lion and Unicorn Theatre

Written for Time Out Dan Leno, one of the all-time great dames of the Victorian music hall, was committed to an insane asylum in 1903. Not c...

Review: The Suit, Young Vic

Written for Culture Wars Is Brookian an adjective? You know, in line with Brechtian or Stanislavskian? Perhaps it’s better to say Brookist o...

Guest Post: A Leap in the Dark by David Lan

David Lan, the Young Vic’s Artistic Director, has very kindly agreed to let me host his recent speech to the Goethe-Institut in London as a ...

Review: Henry VI: Parts 1, 2 & 3, Shakespeare’s Globe

Written for The Guardian The Balkan states get a bum deal with Shakespeare's trio of Henry VI plays. Not only do they have to contend w...

Review: Denial, King’s Head Theatre

Written for Time Out Last year's major revivals of Arnold Wesker's early plays have started to correct his work's overlong absen...

Review: Detroit, National Theatre

They make cars in Detroit. Loads of them. Or, at least, they did until around 2008, which left the city’s manufacturing industry in tatters....

Further reflections on Three Kingdoms

On Monday, I went back to the Lyric for a second helping of Three Kingdoms ; my fourth, fifth and sixth kingdoms, if you like. From this poi...

On disappointment and Three Kingdoms

On Monday, I went back to the Lyric for a second helping of Three Kingdoms ; my fourth, fifth and sixth kingdoms, if you like. The stalls ca...

Review: Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s Globe

Written for The Guardian Unsurprisingly, after almost three decades of civil war, this is a Cymbeline that sides with its underdogs. It che...

Review: Mother Adam, Jermyn Street Theatre

Written for Time Out Adam and his 'Mammles' - that's mother, to those of us with less severe Oedipal afflictions - are confined ...

Review: Three Kingdoms, Lyric Hammersmith

About halfway through the first half of Three Kingdoms on Tuesday night, probably an hour and fifteen minutes in or so, I scrawled the foll...

Review: Babel, Caledonian Park

Written for Culture Wars Only the spirit in which Babel was conceived saves it from being irredeemible. In its execution, it ranks as a fai...

Review: Einstein on the Beach, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars Have you ever felt – and I mean, really felt – the four laws of thermodynamics? What about Snell’s Law of Refractio...

Review: Tenet, Gate Theatre

Written for Time Out A change of boss at the Gate Theatre has seen the good-looking toppled by the hard-thinking. Christopher Haydon's i...

Review: Here, Rose Theatre

Written for Time Out Life, as John Lennon famously put it, is what happens while you're busy making other plans. For Phil and Cath, it...