Review: DEATH OF ENGLAND: MICHAEL, @sohoplaceJuly 31, 2024The guns fire loud and sonorous for the opening salvos of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s Death of England trilogy.
Review: THE HOT WING KING, National TheatreJuly 19, 2024When food takes centre stage, it is usually as a conduit for humanity.
Review: VISIT FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, Hampstead TheatreJuly 12, 2024The lights flash on, a writer stumbles into his scantly decorated flat.
Review: SLAVE PLAY, Noël Coward TheatreJuly 10, 2024For a play that wears controversy as a badge of honour the last thing I expected to feel was slightly bored
Interview: 'From The Outside, It Looks Impossible': Director Tinuke Craig on Rep Theatre, Genre-Jumping and THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL at the RSCJuly 8, 2024Few directors are as comfortable helming a sparkly winter panto as they are a psychologically gruelling Sarah Kane play.
Review: THE BECKETT TRILOGY, Coronet TheatreJune 21, 2024Persevere with its mercilessness and you will be richly rewarded
Review: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, Shakespeare's GlobeJune 19, 2024Jude Christian's new production playfully inverts Shakespeare's misogyny
Review: BLUETS, Royal CourtMay 27, 2024Katie Mitchell returns to the Royal Court with a curious but dense adaption of Maggie Nelson's poetry
Review: THE HARMONY TEST, Hampstead TheatreMay 24, 2024Good writing doesn’t have to explode off the stage, but can gently lull you with buckets of charm and laser point focus.
Review: RICHARD III, Shakespeare's GlobeMay 22, 2024Terry’s Richard is a hyper masculine misogynist grunting, lumbering, and bruising his way to the throne.
Review: BETWEEN THE LINES, New Diorama TheatreMay 9, 2024Sparks fly in this plucky grime infused play, but it doesn't quite catch fire
Review: THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Donmar WarehouseMay 3, 2024An excellent cast are let down by self-obsessed direction.
Review: MINORITY REPORT, Lyric HammersmithApril 30, 2024It ought to echo with eerie prescience in 2024 as an ever-closer prophecy for an age where AI and algorithms will dictate the minutiae of our lives.
Review: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, Royal Opera HouseApril 22, 2024Nadine Sierra’s enthralling central performance helms this nerve-jangling revival.
Review: BOYS ON THE VERGE OF TEARS, Soho TheatreApril 19, 2024A cathartic and powerful moment, a veinous fist unclenching.
Review: LONDON TIDE, National TheatreApril 18, 2024Aesthetically malnourished, London Tide lacks the lustrous life blood that so warmly floods through the veins of Dickens’s literary world.