Review: Sight is the Sense That Dying People Lose First, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars Tim Etchells is a man who could bore for Britain. Boring is not always a bad thing. Jim Fletcher could make the shi...

Review: Big Hits, Soho Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Big Hits certainly doesn’t pull its punches. It swells, over 90 minutes, into a full-blast lambast; a roar of disg...

Review: Head of a Woman Double Bill, Chelsea Theatre

Love theatre, love liveness, right? Well, yeah, I guess, but so often liveness isn’t really that at all. Lyn Gardner has her mantra about be...

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 ...

Assorted thoughts on Quizoola

A great deal has been written about Quizoola , Forced Entertainment’s epic game of Q&A first performed sixteen years ago. Step into what...

Review: The Thrill of It All, Riverside Studios

Written for Culture Wars “We’re going to take you on an adventure,” intones an impish woman in a sequinned dress, “with a capital A.” Her vo...

Review: Nicki Hobday Conquers Space, Just the Tonic at The Caves

Written for Culture Wars Nicki Hobday seems more interested in overthrowing theatre than conquering space. Such is her cynical disdain for t...

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...

The Benefits of Doubt (or The Unimportance of Being Honest)

Over the past half-century, experimental theatre has been driven by the realities of performance and the performance of realities. From the ...

Review: Void Story, Soho Theatre

Written for What's on Stage After twenty-five years of fiery protest against narrative, fracturing and fragmenting it through repetition...

Review: New Electric Ballroom, Riverside Studios

Written for Culture Wars In form, Enda Walsh’s latest is almost the exact mirror image of his previous play, The Walworth Farce . While the ...

Exeunt Into Reality

At one o’clock on Monday morning, as I turned onto my road, there was a middle-aged man, wrapped up and tracksuited, running. An unusual sig...

One of life's brighter days

I have an interview with Tim Etchells in The Stage this week. Haven't seen it yet, but when I do I'll post it up here - should be ...