The Rise and Fall of the Ceiling

A new Guardian Theatre Blog post here . Not sure, how this one will go down, but we'll see. In the meantime, I seem to have (almost) fou...

Review: Hysteria, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars Has evolution led to this? A dinner date so tremulous that it makes one long for the good old days of hunter-gather...

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 ...

Review: Mission Possible - Lads and Dads Move!, The Place

Written for Culture Wars Looming large for any abstract investigation of gender are the dangers of stereotyping. After all, in taking malene...

Review: Hallelujah, Theatre 503

Written for The Stage If ever a play had its finger on the pulse, it is Jane Bodie’s wry funeral parlour comedy. From Alexandra Burke to rec...

A 'Plague' on Both Their Houses

Just as violence begets violence, criticism has this week spun itself into a cyclone in a teacup over Plague Over England. Usually, I despis...

Gaza: An Alternative Viewpoint

What with the flurry of debate that has spilt from our stages and dominated the Guardian Theatre Blog , it seems to me that the attempted ac...