Review: Öper Öpis, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars From a selection of building blocks scattered around the stage, Martin Zimmerman carefully constructs a makeshift c...

Review: Miracle, Leicester Square Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Reza du Wet’s play is like cling-film: thin, transparent, but not entirely without the potential for perverse enjoy...

Review: David Hoyle's Licking Wounds, Royal Vauxhall Tavern

Written for Time Out Don’t be fooled by David Hoyle’s title of choice – he’s not the sheepish type. Instead, the artist formerly known as Di...

Sideways Glance Outwards

“Enough already,” I can hear you shouting, “What’s with the navel-gazing?” Well, yes, quite. The final days of the calendar year may be prim...

Sideways Glance Backwards

Well that, as they say, was the year that was. The tolling of midnight on Thursday will signal the end of my first calendar year of reviewin...

Review: 1984, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars The future, according to George Orwell, is best encapsulated by “a boot stamping on a human face forever.” Should t...

Review: The Stefan Golaszewski Plays, Bush Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Stefan Golaszewski is the sort of man who hopes to fall in love on public transport, who soaks in the city dreamily...