Review: Grief, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars “For me,” Sam Shepard once wrote to Richard Schechner, “the reason a play is written is because a writer receives a...

Review: this is where we got to when you came in, Bush Theatre

Written for Culture Wars It’s just a room above a pub overlooking Shepherd’s Bush Green. It’s tatty and it’s small, but for the past forty y...

Review: Victoria Station / One for the Road, The Print Room

Written for Time Out Two starters can't satisfy like a main course, but the quality of these minimalist miniatures is undeniable. Direct...

Review: The Kitchen, National Theatre

The secret of a good setting is often precisely its secrecy. Today, restaurant kitchens are a good deal more familiar to audiences than they...

Review: Disco Pigs, Young Vic Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Splattered with references of its time, among them Terry Wogan as a television frontman and half-forgotten Irish fo...

Review: The Wild Bride, Lyric Hammersmith

Written for Culture Wars Kneehigh’s name is starting to look less an invocation of childhood, than a fascination with limbs cut short. After...

Review: Tinderbox, Broadway Studios

Written for Time Out Its flaws remain unhealed, but second time around - post-riots, post-Starkey - Lucy Kirkwood's debut play should be...