Review: The Master and Margarita, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars Mikhail Bulgakov’s great satiric novel cries out for theatrical adaptation. Not only does it use the theatre as an ...

Review: Billy Twinkle: Requiem for a Golden Boy, Barbican Silk Street Theatre

Written for Culture Wars More than any other theatrical medium, puppetry has the ability to shatter the boundaries of possibility. A well-ma...

Review: Shun-kin, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars There are two ways of looking at Complicité ’s second collaboration with Japan’s Setagaya Public Theatre. One is as...

Warning: Smoking can seriously damage your fiction

I have two habits: smoking and theatre-going. Like a persistent framing device, a hasty cigarette will immediately precede and follow any pe...

Review: A Disappearing Number, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars Watching Complicité at their best is akin to an out of body experience. Theirs is a theatre of ethereal fluidity an...