Review: Something About You (makes me want to hurt you), Asylum Chapel

Written for Culture Wars Electra , with all its grand, sweeping passions that seem to have knotted the intestines of its characters, with it...

Review: Farewell to the Theatre, Rose Theatre

Written for Time Out Delicacy is insufficient recompense for tedium and there's plenty of both in this previously unseen two-hander by H...

Review: Bound, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars Jesse Briton was still a student at East 15 when he wrote Bound , a story of six Devonshire trawlermen facing an ec...

Review: The Taming of the Shrew, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars There’s colour and character aplenty in Robin Norton-Hale’s production of Shakespeare’s least agreeable play, but i...

Review: Mixed Marriage, Finborough Theatre

Written for Culture Wars St John Ervine’s 1911 play could easily begin with the ‘Ding! Ding!’ of a boxing bell. It is, essentially, a right ...

Review: The Veil, National Theatre

Conor McPherson’s latest is a curious piece: a penny dreadful with the sort of highbrow ambitions that ought to set you back a shilling. The...

Review: The Baker's Wife, Union Theatre

Written for Time Out Michael Strassen, king of the micro-musical, has previously compacted Assassins and Company for the Union's tiny ...