Review: Antigone, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Time Out In theory, Tom Littler's decision to set Antigone in a generic Middle Eastern country is brilliant. It's a con...

Review: The Winterling, White Bear Theatre

Written for Time Out A halfway house between his most famous plays, Mojo and Jerusalem , Jez Butterworth's The Winterling throws East E...

Review: EPIC, Soho Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Ostensibly, Lucy Foster and Chloe Déchery’s devised piece concerns the 20th Century. Using video footage of intervi...

Assorted thoughts on Quizoola

A great deal has been written about Quizoola , Forced Entertainment’s epic game of Q&A first performed sixteen years ago. Step into what...

Review: The Acid Test, Royal Court

Written for Culture Wars This review was meant to be a tirade. It set out to skewer, to burst the bubble of acclaim that surrounds Anya Reis...

Review: One Man, Two Guvnors, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Proper end of the pier stuff at the National Theatre, where Richard Bean has transposed Carlo Goldoni’s commedia de...

Review: Total Football, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars For over half a century, the British stage has been characterised as feverishly hankering after the state of the na...