Review: Albion, Almeida Theatre
A timely return for Mike Bartlett’s incisive, stirring Brexit play which examines faultlines of class and town versus country through one woman’s nostalgia for a garden.
The Wild Duck - Almeida Theatre
There are reasons why this play might be the most personal of all of Henrik Ibsen’s works, and Robert Icke’s re-write of The Wild Duck explains in no uncertain terms.
Review – Last Orders: The Haunting Of The Old Red Lion
This is about as site-specific as you can get. Earlier this year, intrepid three-piece theatre troupe the Knock Knock Club delved deep into the considerable history of Islington's Old Red Lion.
Starved Review at Hope Theatre
Two young runaways hide out in a decrepit, messy bedsit in one of Hull's roughest estates. It is a life on the margins, and yet also at the sharp-end; suffocated by the incessant pressure of trying to eke out survival through acts of petty crime.
Summer Rolls Review: Park Theatre
The first British Vietnamese play, this affecting family drama is a warm and lucid take on the tensions between second generation immigrants and their parents.
Napoli, Brooklyn review at Park Theatre
As the issue of immigration bounces around social media timelines and news columns like a metallic ball flung around a pinball machine, the 60s setting of Napoli, Brooklyn may well be distant for Londoners in terms of time and place, but its themes of integration, alienation, grief and repressed emotions transpose with sobering prescience.
The Glass Menagerie at Arcola Theatre review
Trying to unpick the qualities that have elevated Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie to the status of fabled modern classic is a tricky exercise.
Theatre Review: A Hero of Our Time, Arcola, Hackney
Adapting a little-known Russian text from 1840 and presenting it with a fresh enough twist to seduce a 21st century audience is an imperious challenge that should be tackled by only the most intrepid of theatrical explorers.
Theatre Review: Honour, Park Theatre, Finsbury Park
It all starts so promisingly. An ageing journalist warmly welcoming the rapid-fire questions of an enthusiastic young interviewer.
Theatre Review: The Lesson, The Hope Theatre, Islington
It might be obvious to point out, but one of the trademark motifs of the ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ is exaggeration.
POT at Stratford Circus Arts Centre | Review
To delicately and sensitively document the swathes of the youth population who are cast adrift in the outliers of society is always a road laced with difficulties.
Review: Skin In The Game at Old Red Lion Theatre
If you are sensitive to a profane tongue, you might want to skip past the expletive-licious charms of Skin in the Game. Or at least cover your ears a bit.
Spiral By Abigail Hood at Park Theatre, London | Review
Doubt, trust and suspicion may be themes that have been exhaustively plundered and explored in theatre since time immemorial, but rarely are they executed with quite such panache as that depicted in Abigail Hood’s powerful play, Spiral.
Mowgli by by Abiku Theatre Company at Brunel Museum, London | Review
The beauty of theatre is that affords a visceral platform for collaboration to come alive in front of a patron’s eyes. And it is this very notion that perpetuates an intricate set of foundations for a work to either succeed or fail.
Review: Shoreditch Town Hall, Education, Education, Education
Set in the giddy aftermath of New Labour’s election to power, when the perma-grinned spectacle of Tony Blair beamed from every newspaper and television screen, Edinburgh Fringe festival award-winner Education, Education, Education brings its Britpop-heavy soundtrack to an East London stage.
The Chess Player at OSO Arts Centre | Review
A Nazi prison. Solitary confinement. Insanity. Chess. If one were to list the bare bones of an outline to tickle interest, there would be few to compete with the intriguing outline of Stefan Zweig’s The Chess Player.
Theatre review: Worth A Flutter, Hope Theatre, Islington
Hollyoaks star Paul Danan and glamour model Lucy Pinder give good performances in this raucous satire of lad culture.
Theatre Review: Not Talking, Arcola Theatre, Hackney
Some theatrical endeavours ooze class from every pore. From the moment the lights go down and the action fires up, you know you are in a pair of trusty, safe old hands.
Four star review: Tumbletuck King’s Head Theatre
When it comes to gender representation in the theatre, the statistics speak of a galling reality. Although 65 percent of theatregoers are women, only a paltry 28 percent of plawrights are female.
Review of Inauguration at Sprint Festival at Camden People’s Theatre
Oh, the modern world. Oh, these modern times. Forgive the hint of resignation, but common consensus is that this is the age where satirists have found themselves unexpectedly floundering at their own keyboards, struggling to tap out a work that is a step or two ahead of the absurd pantomime of the political arena.
It is into this contemporary climate that Rhiannon Brace has injected a topical piece of physical theatre focusing on the plethora of dubiously sexist outbursts emitted from the mouth
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