Review: Birds of Paradise and Random Accomplice: Wendy Hoose

“The production contains strong language and scenes of a sexual nature.” Never before has a disclaimer been so apt and Continue reading →

Review: Michelle Ryan & Torque: Intimacy

Preparing for a date or a night out for many people might elicit images of perusing the wardrobe, multiple changes, Continue reading →

Review: Let Me Stay (Unlimited Festival)

There’s a luminous quality to Julie McNamara’s generously warm and funny one-woman show about the onset of her mother’s Alzheimer’s. Continue reading →

Review: The Colby Sisters

Life for the Colby sisters is picture perfect. These high-society siblings have wealth, status and glamorous gowns. This impeccable ideal Continue reading →

Review: Khandan

There’s a constant supply of chah in the Gill household, which is just as well given the friction that sits Continue reading →

Views: Breaking Walls, Building Bridges

On Tuesday 19th November  2013 I swapped the stalls for the stage and put forth a provocation, as part of Continue reading →

Review: The Love Girl and The Innocent

“People are the most valuable capital.” Uttered by a prisoner detained in the relentless drudgery of a labour camp, the Continue reading →

Review: Secret Theatre, Show 2 and 1

That initial excitement of stepping into a theatre, wondering how the theatre space will be used and in what context Continue reading →

Review: Peckham: The Soap Opera

It’s not often soap operas traverse through the screen to the stage. But that’s precisely how ten writers, led by Continue reading →

Review: Take a Deep Breathe and Breathe

It’s a sign of the financially stark times that artists are currently navigating through, when a play written by an Continue reading →

Review: A Season in the Congo

The opening beats of this dynamic production are enough to entice even the most fiercely reserved, out of their seats Continue reading →

Review: Josephine and I

Ernest Hemingway described her as “the most sensational woman anybody ever saw, or ever will”. Looking at the life of Continue reading →

Review: Responsible Other

The arrival of a serious illness has the potential to disrupt the present, the future and every human bond. In Continue reading →

Review: Pigeons and an Open Court

It’s a rare occasion when a critic in a theatre feels less like a critic and more akin to a Continue reading →

Review: Orpheus

Talent abounds in Orpheus’ latest incarnation. Little Bulb Theatre, together with Battersea Arts Centre entwines the charms of Orpheus and Continue reading →

Review: Third Finger, Left Hand

A tattered shoe-box containing old photographs becomes a chest of memories in Dermot Canavan’s spirited play about the trying relationship between Continue reading →

Review: Three Birds

There’s a certain intrigue and energy in the opening of Janice Okoh‘s Three Birds. In a compact council flat in Lewisham, three Continue reading →

Review: Dirty Great Love Story

Awkward. The only word to describe the moment when two bleary eyed strangers wake up next to each other after Continue reading →

Review: Purple Heart

The debilitating effects of grief are laid bare in Bruce Norris‘sPurple Heart.  First performed at the Steppenwolf Theatre in 2002,Christopher Haydon directs Continue reading →

Review: Mare Rider

Myth and reality meet in the maternity ward of Homerton Hospital in Leyla Nazli’s latest play at the Arcola. Elka, a Continue reading →

Review: Olga’s Room

Olga Benario was a German-Jewish communist. Imprisoned in Brazil and Germany in the 1930s, her story is one of defiance Continue reading →

Review: The Hundred We Are

1,2,3. This isn’t a call to action, but rather the names attributed to the three characters in Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Continue reading →

Review: The Boss Of It All

Work life imitates art (and vice versa) in Jack McNamara‘s lightly amusing stage adaptation of Lars Von Trier’s cult film about Continue reading →