Review: You Can Still Make a Killing, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars What’s particularly great about Nicholas Pierpan’s latest play is the way it entirely inhabits its subject. New wri...

Review: Shivered, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars Philip Ridley’s plays are like staged graphic novels. His worlds are familiar, but fantastical: like life embossed ...

Review: The Shallow End, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars If, as an aspiring theatre critic, I didn’t come out of The Shallow End thoroughly depressed, it would be doing so...

Review: Execution of Justice, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Time Out What's the point of verbatim drama when the wrongs it seeks to right have lost their topicality? Emily Mann's t...

Review: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Time Out This fragile two-hander - as delicate and devastating as anything on the London stage right now - glistens with hope. T...

Review: The Taming of the Shrew, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars There’s colour and character aplenty in Robin Norton-Hale’s production of Shakespeare’s least agreeable play, but i...

Review: Antigone, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Time Out In theory, Tom Littler's decision to set Antigone in a generic Middle Eastern country is brilliant. It's a con...

Review: Hotel Confessions, Bermondsey Square Hotel

Written for Culture Wars A staple amongst literary settings, largely on account of their inherent placelessness and urban ubiquity, the hote...

Review: The Boy James, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Time Out Portraits of JM Barrie inevitably draw too heavily on Peter Pan, as if the man behind the boy who never grew up can onl...

Review: Anansi: An African Fairy Tale, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Time Out Incy Wincy had it easy peasy. In order to win the stories of the world from Nyame the Sky God, Anansi the Spider must c...

Review: Lovers Walk, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars There's something about the South Bank. Somehow, it overcomes its own cliche to retain its romance. Somehow you...

Review: Boiling Frogs, Southwark Playhouse

An edited version appeared in Time Out You can't boil a frog by adding hot water. Gradually increase the heat, however, and it will acce...

Review: The Rivals, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Time Out Unlikely bedfellows, Beyonce Knowles and Richard Sheridan. Yet it's her booty-shaking anthem Single Ladies, neatly ...

Review: Home, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars Can a tasting menu ever really satisfy like a full three-course meal? Tangled Feet ’s nomadic exploration of the s...

Review: The Moon, The Moon, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars Perplexing and obscure don’t come close to describing Unlimited ’s latest. Its narrative is nigh on unbreachable. L...

Review: Love in (3) Parts, Southwark Playhouse

Written for WhatsOnStage.com Lost Dog describe Love in (3) Parts as “a (quite) romantic play.” While this is in part down to its slight and ...

Review: Presumption, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars Love is in the air at the Southwark Playhouse – only not the sort of love that takes your breath away. Rather the ...

Review: The Ethics of Progress, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars Quantum physics is a magnetic subject, at once attractive and dauntingly repellent. It promises answers and provoke...