Review: Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, National Theatre

Written for Whatsonstage.com From an over-crowded patch of a Trinidad housing estate, everyone looks up at the same moon and dreams of escap...

Review: Reasons to be Pretty, Almeida Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Reasons to be Pretty offers none. Early on, in fact, it looks like an errant ‘r’ has snuck into its title. Reasons...

Review: The Swan, Double Feature, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars As in Edgar and Annabel , no-one’s saying what they really mean in DC Moore’s The Swan , a raucous elegy to an ingr...

Review: Nightwatchman, Double Feature, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Prasanna Puwanarajah’s ambitious monologue probably overreaches itself, trying to tackle sport, family, national id...

Review: There Is A War, Double Feature, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Tom Basden, once of the celebrated sketch troupe Cowards, is growing in confidence as a playwright. His first, Part...

Review: Polar Bears, Donmar Warehouse

W ritten for Culture Wars We never find out the name of Kay’s affliction. By not disclosing it, Mark Haddon questions its very existence, in...