Review: Get Stuff, Break Free, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Up on the roof of the National Theatre, with one of the world’s leading cities stretched out below, Made In China a...

Review: Motor Show, Greenwich Pennisula

Written for Culture Wars A patch of gravelly urban outland, ringed with wire-fencing, serves as a stage in Frauke Requardt and David Rosenbe...

Review: The Coming Storm, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars The Coming Storm starts on solid ground, with the sort of list that Forced Entertainment can keep up for the best ...

Review: Gatz & The Rest Is Silence, LIFT Festival

Written for the New Statesman Literary butchery to start the London International Festival of Theatre, which gets underway with a filleted H...

Review: 66 Minutes in Damascus, Shoreditch Town Hall

Written for Culture Wars As you follow your guide towards the tour bus that is due to cart the group around Damascus for a day of activities...

Review: The Comedy of Errors, London Roundhouse

Written for Time Out With two sets of twins unwittingly chasing each others' tails, the biggest hurdle for a director of The Comedy of E...

Review: MEAT, Theatre503

Written for Time Out Vincent cuts carotid arteries for a living. He’s slaughtered hundreds of thousands of carcasses over the years and no o...

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Written for Time Out It's bigger, fatter, but not exactly dreamier at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, where Matthew Dunster's do...

Review: The Witness, Royal Court

Written for Culture Wars The best play of the year to date, The Witness is a beautifully woven, layered piece of writing with a rare blend ...

Review: Caligula, London Coliseum

The curtain rises at the London Coliseum to reveal row upon row upon row of identical yellow plastic seats, arranged rank and file in the ro...

Review: Henry V, Theatre Delicatessen

Written for Culture Wars “On, on you noblest English,” bellowed Brian Blessed two years ago, paid by the BBC to stoke the fires of patriotis...

Review: Boys, Soho Theatre

Written for Culture Wars To get to Neverland, it’s second star on the right and straight on until morning. Alternatively, hop on the M1 Nort...

Review: Antigone, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Antigone endures because it is both direct and malleable. Its cycle of action – decree, defiance, retaliation, com...

Review: Cymbeline, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars Most of Shakespeare’s plots fall effortlessly into place. His loose ends tie themselves together almost of their ac...

Review: Leper Colony, Yard Theatre

Written for Time Out A drama school exercise let loose in the real world, Vaughan Pilikian's devised theatrical leper colony ought never...