Review: Choir Boy, Royal Court

Written for Culture Wars Patience is not a virtue one generally associates with new writing; particularly today, given a development culture...

Review: Three Sisters, Young Vic

Written for Time Out "You ain't going to Moscow, baby," quips a minor character in auteur director Benedict Andrews's icon...

Review: Motor Vehicle Sundown, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars The passenger seat of a Skoda Fabia is an unlikely place to realise you’re in the same boat as Willy Loman. However...

Review: Brand New Ancients, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars Spoken word rarely really fires me up. I can sit alongside it perfectly happily and leave, at the end, with an appr...

Review: Yours for the Asking, Orange Tree

Written for Time Out Four adverts fit to make Sophie Dahl blush hang around the Orange Tree, threatening to turn it blue. Susi Roman (Mia Au...

Review: Head of a Woman Double Bill, Chelsea Theatre

Love theatre, love liveness, right? Well, yeah, I guess, but so often liveness isn’t really that at all. Lyn Gardner has her mantra about be...

Review: Troilus and Cressida, Riverside Studios

A play is more than a set of circumstances. That, in a nutshell, is the problem with the RSC and Wooster Group’s (dis)joint(ed) production o...