Review: The Cherry Orchard, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars For all its historical specificity to the final strains of Tsarist Russia, The Cherry Orchard ’s endurance lies in ...

Review: The Madness of Andrea Yates, Etcetera Theatre

Written for Time Out Well meaning but utterly naive, Cruel Theatre's case study of an infamous infanticide ends up fetishising mental il...

Review: I Am the Wind, Young Vic

Were it not so patently deadpan, I Am The Wind could easily be filed under the catchall term Theatre of the Absurd. It has the same existen...

Review: Kingdom of Earth, The Print Room

If you’re going to play with flawed texts, you need to know how to play script doctor. Director Lucy Bailey, whose fringe venture The Print ...

Thoughts on In Eldersfield Chapter 1: Elegy for Paul Dirac, SPILL FESTIVAL

“In Eldersfield is a decade-long, ten chapter cycle of works all for the twentieth century – to which we are no longer beholden, but to whic...

Review: And the Horse You Rode In On, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars Screwball comedies aren’t renowned for their intertextuality. Mind you, it’s equally rare to find a fart gag in the...

Review: Cleveland Street The Musical, Above the Stag Theatre

Written for Time Out With the super-injunction, there's no indiscretion that can't be covered up with cash. 'Twas ever thus, acc...