Review: 100% London, Hackney Empire

Written for Culture Wars Rimini Protokoll, the Jeremy Vine of the international theatre circuit, have reduced London’s population to fit on ...

Review: Before Your Very Eyes, Unicorn Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Here is a bald statement of fact: You only get one life. It is brief and it is unlikely to turn out as you planned ...

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: 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...

LIFT Blog: Theatre & the Arab World

Written for the LIFT Blog Reading an interview with the New York based actor Danny Hoch on the tube home last night, I came across the foll...

LIFT Blog: On Gaming as Theatre

Written for the LIFT Blog Can computer games be art? It’s a debate that has been rumbling on for years: delve the depths of the internet and...

LIFT Blog: The Climate for Theatre

Written for the LIFT blog I’ll start with the unspeakable. My feelings on theatre about climate change are not dissimilar to Charles Spencer...

LIFT Blog: The Epic & The Intimate

Written for the LIFT Blog At Thursday’s LIFT talk, inclusively titled The Epic and The Intimate , there seemed to be polite consensus that t...

LIFT Blog: We The People

Written for the LIFT Blog The People, Johanna told us in the midst of Thursday night’s revolution, are called Tim. They’ve come from Elephan...

LIFT Blog: Digital Democracy

Written for the LIFT Blog Given the steadfast devotion to its development, you could be forgiven for imagining technology to have intrinsic ...

LIFT Blog: On Festivals

Written for the LIFT blog All festivals, whether overtly religious or entirely secular, are somehow holy. Holiness is the mark of otherness ...

Review: Not By Bread Alone, Arts Depot

Written for Culture Wars Sometimes the simple fact of a show’s occurrence is all it takes. Consider the work of the Free Theatre of Belarus,...

Review: Best Before, ICA

Written for Culture Wars There are so many sides to Rimini Protokoll’s live-videogame that it inevitably raises a great number of thoughts. ...

Review: Life Streaming, National Theatre Square

Written for Culture Wars Parked on the South Bank there’s a portal to Sri Lanka: Dries Verhoeven has set up a temporary internet cafe to lin...

Review: Continuous City, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars About a year and a half ago, I renewed my mobile phone contract. Aiming to save a few pennies, I opted against an i...

Review: Revolution Now!, ICA

Written (without much coherence) for Culture Wars Anarchy in the ICA , where Gob Squad have bound the doors shut, occupied the building and ...

Review: Food Court, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars Food Court wants to have its cake and eat it. Which, given that it shows two fat women abusing a far slimmer one f...