Review: Desire Under the Elms, Lyric Hammersmith

Written for Culture Wars Drama hates waste. Or rather, it hates extraneity. Maybe all stories do, the idea being that anything superfluous t...

Review: I, Malvolio, Unicorn Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Malvolio, a fictional character no less, has made me feel genuine remorse. That’s curious. It’s like grieving for B...

Review: Hot Mikado, Landor Theatre

Written for Time Out Gilbert and Sullivan catch a serious case of the jitterbug in David H. Bell and Rob Bowman’s 1986 adaptation of their c...

Review: Fireface, Young Vic

Written for Time Out The titular anti-heroes of Max Frisch's well-known 1958 play, The Fire Raisers , are destructive strangers, who tur...

Review: Enquirer, Barbican Centre off-site

Written for Culture Wars “ In my experience the newspapers are a combination of what people never meant, combined with what people never sai...

Review: Lungs, Roundabout Season

Written for Culture Wars After Cock , comes Lungs . Duncan Macmillan’s cleverly intricate two-hander shares more than just a corporeal title...

Review: Charley’s Aunt, Menier Chocolate Factory

Written for Whatsonstage.com With Union Jacks still billowing around the country, the Menier Chocolate Factory has exploited the current vog...