Review: Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars Productivity must be rather difficult when your place of work is a metaphor, so spare a thought of the two pen-push...

Review: La Maldicion de Poe, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars Edgar Allen Poe’s writing chills. His most famous images – the immovable Raven that moves from oddity to irritant ...

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: Black Chiffon, White Bear Theatre

Written for Time Out Seeking forgotten fineries in the library, Andy Brunskill has surfaced with Black Chiffon , a play more moth-eathen tha...

Review: Kaspar, Arch 6

Written for Culture Wars In 1828, Kaspar Hauser turned up in a town square in Nurnberg claiming to have been raised in isolation in a darken...

Review: A Doll's House, Theatre Delicatessen

An edited version of this review appeared in Time Out Feminism has come a long way since Nora first slammed the door on the toy world of her...

Review: Amphibians, Bridewell Theatre

Written for Culture Wars The trouble with sport-based narratives is that, after all the sweat and tears, they only have two options – win or...