Review - Elegy
You are happily married, have been for twenty odd years. Your wife is caring, wonderful, the love of your life. Everything is terrific.
Then you...
Review - The Comedy About A Bank Robbery
Having done the 'Gone Wrong' shows which people talk about being farces, we wanted to have a go at a 'true' farce...We've put quite...
Review - Another World: Losing Our Children To The Islamic State
There is no doubt that verbatim theatre can be compelling, instructive, devastating. The National Theatre has been home to some extraordinary examples of the...
Review - Doctor Faustus
What’s it all about Faustie?
This was the question that kept percolating in my thoughts as a myriad of alarming and grotesque scenes and images...
Review - Show Boat
The transfer of this marvellous production of Show Boat from Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre to the New London Theatre is an unqualified success. Not every...
Review - Guys and Dolls
At the Phoenix Theatre, Guys and Dolls shakes the ashes aside.
When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky
You can bet that...
Review - The Suicide
Well, this has gone to shit.
So speaks Pal Aron’s character, Councillor Brian Dawes, late in the action in The Suicide, a production described in the...
Review - Boy
When Laurie Lee, later famous for Cider with Rosie, was busking his way across Europe in order to fight in the Spanish Civil War,...
Right Now
I don't remember exactly when the thought occurred to me. Perhaps when I was convinced that there had been a baby and that baby...
Review - Les Blancs
The air is thick with incense. Pungent. Powerful. Seductive. A steady, throbbing hum of almost melodic insistence punches through, anticipating something momentous. It comes.
Slowly,...