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...

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: Hamlet, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars In Britain, we tend to take our Shakespeare as it comes. Directors that dare draw out – or worse, impose – particul...

Review: Hamlet, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Rory Kinnear’s Hamlet is a marked man; most definitely “the observed of all observers.” The Elsinore he inhabits is...

Review: The Factory's Hamlet, Arch 635

Written for Culture Wars Even for the most well-drilled company, Hamlet is no mean feat. Exalted to the point of petrifying, bursting at th...

Distractions of the Flesh

Without wanting to take anything away from Jude Law’s favourable reviews , the time has come to focus on his appendage - which, incidentally...