Review: NIGHT CITY, Southwark Playhouse, Borough
by Clementine Scott - Sep 12, 2026
At first glance, Night City appears like your classic boy meets girl – specifically, rideshare driver meets waitress, and takes her to see the dinosaurs at Crystal Palace in the morning light. What emerges from these foundations, however, is an unflinching love letter to London, and a candid illustration of the lives of the gig workers who keep it afloat.
Review: UNION, Arcola Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - Jul 26, 2023
Union is half love letter to a changing city and half harangue against the soulless destruction of local communities for the benefit of a coffee shop chain. Max Wilkinson offers an abundance of topical matters, slightly overdoing it, and better suited for a longer running time.
World Premiere of Max Wilkinson's UNION Comes to Arcola Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jun 26, 2023
In a reflection on community, capitalist property development and the current London housing crisis, Max Wilkinson returns to Arcola Theatre with a new odyssey through London, a city under threat, but still defined by the beating heart of people who live in it.
RAINER Opens Arcola Outside For 2022
by Stephi Wild - Apr 19, 2022
Writing from his own first-hand experiences in service and delivery jobs, Max Wilkinson wrote RAINER during lockdown in 2020 when the streets were apocalyptically quiet. The production opens the new summer season for the Arcola's acclaimed Arcola Outside space, after being developed through their Today I'm Wiser Festival in 2021.