Review: Sarah Ruhl Eurydice

Sam Chittenden coaxes provisional miracles from her cast and space. The medium’s playful, even fun. The message though is bleak; and love is still in the letting go.


Review: Charlie Josephine: I, Joan

Daisy Miles, supremely, Laurits Hiroshi Bjerrum and Rhys Bloy excel in a fine cast and prove this clarion of a play can rise again triumphantly.


Review: Sophocles Electra

The end is set. Conor Baum directs that ratcheting-up inexorably: never hurried, never static. The audience holds its breath. So will you. Outstanding.


Review: Duty

A fresh and urgent play, Duty should tour as a salutary reminder of how war impacts community, divides war-influenced majority from the few who see through war.


Review: Ibsen Ghosts

A triumph of staging, fine acting and in Sarah Tansey a central performance to rival any Helene Alving I’ve seen.


Review: Rank

A debut play by Goldie Matjas. - 'Waiting for Godot' meets 'Fleabag'


Review: Earth Teeth

They ask the Earth to listen - but what will the Earth ask in return?


Review: Jekyll and Hyde

In just 97 minutes with interval this is unmissable, a must-see.


Review: Corrina O’Beirne With Ruby & I

Corrina O’Beirne ‘s a name to seek out in future and in Kempell and her cast and creatives, she’s found first-rate advocates. A must-see.


Review: Helen Edmundson The Heresy of Love

A brave undertaking – typical of Gerry McCrudden and his teams - and a rare opportunity to see this superb, all-too-topical play.


Review: The Inseparables

A transfixingly beautiful production, with often superb acting, especially from Lara Manela


Review: Tending

Essential theatre, essential witness and mandatory for anyone who wants to know how human we have to be, from beginning to end.


Review: The Beauty Queen of Leenane

This is stark theatre. Some will hate Martin McDonagh, and some already love him. I’d say you must see this, where it all started.


Review: Lula Mebrahtu I Am – OommoO

Everything you’ve heard is true. Lula Mebrahtu is memserising, and I Am – OommoO like its creator has vast potential.


Review: Gobbling Market

A visceral exploration of Victorian Britain set against the exploitation, through the Opium Wars, of China, served with a less than delicious meal.


Review: Kiln

An artful and abstract deep dive into familial grief


Review: The Kelton Hill Fair

A mix of a brutal Brigadoon and the whimsy of the Wonderful World of Dissocia, this is a keen addition to the development of Scottish narrative.


Review: The Approach

Pitch-perfect, a beautifully distilled world. A gem.


Review: Men’s Business

A quietly phenomenal, ground-breaking play, blistering in sumps of silence. See it.


Review: Flutter-Bye

Since this play and Allison Ferns have a lot of legs, it’ll be worth coming back to see it run.


Review: The Incident Room

NVT have blown into 2025 with two superb productions; this is a must-see.


Review: Hotel Otori Skin-Okubo

A highly innovative and enticing piece of theatre which examines our relationship not only to our families, but to the way in which the emergence of new ideas and dawns should be embraced.


Review: Glasgow Green

An attempt to try and do something with the form and format of theatre.


Review: Sara Farrington A Trojan Woman

An acclaimed pocket tragedy which yet carries Euripides’ weight in Farrington’s framing, it more than touches the heart: it snatches it and hands it back as a sad and angry consolation.


Review: Shakespeare in Love

The mystery’s in the ensemble, the production, its bewitching leads. It’s a mighty reckoning in a little room.


Review: Ruari Conaghan Lies Where It Falls

Ruari Conaghan has nowhere to hide in every sense. He exudes the charismatic of 100 watts cosplaying a glowing 40, then hits you between the eyes


Review: Napoleon: Un Petit Pantomime

A sure-fire miniature epic, spanning history and damn lies. Sublimely written and with a superb cast both seasoned and fresh, the finest concentration of panto this season.


Review: Mixie

A revelatory premiere, consummately realised by Lewis’s team.


Review: Burnt-Up Love

One of the very finest three-handers I’ve seen for a long time, Burnt-Up Love refuses to judge and nor will anyone left reeling after seeing this. Stunning.


Review: The Welkin

The sheer acting catches fire: not a weak link. With their most ambitious production ID triumph. There’s nothing like them at full stretch.


Review: Men Don’t Talk

A vital piece of advice wrapped in the right delivery mechanism for an age, and ages, that needs it more than ever.


Review: Salomé

Dramatically this is the most creative response I’ve seen live. Here, a director’s reach should exceed their grasp, or what’s a production for.


Review: Meet Me at Dawn

An aching, unflinching look at what we might face. Yet few seek to live through such a pact as bestowed here. A Greek gift. Unmissable in the south east.


Review: The Events

A combined production of community and profession which shows why both should have a mutual dependence upon each other.


Review: The Silver Cord

A darkly thrilling masterpiece, given what might be its finest UK revival. All are outstanding and Alix Dunmore, and certainly Sophie Ward, should be up for some glittering prizes.


Review: Peep

very funny and has some incredible good lines


Review: Tweeds

"they nail the toe curling nature of the stereotypical upper classes and it’s on the nose funny"


Review: You Deserve It

It is a play which is undeniably a laugh while attempting to highlight some of the realities of a life in the spotlight.


Review: Hardly Working

She is performed confidently by Lily Simpkiss, really coming into her own towards the end of the play.


Review: Pride and Prejudice

An unalloyed delight, compressing the story but revealing things even those who know the novel will take back to it.


Review: Flat 2

The uses of sound throughout are incredibly effective, adding something different to the portrayal.


Review: Ever Yours

Played by Alex Wanebo, Olivia is beautifully portrayed, her pain feeling tangible throughout.


Review: Hedda Gabler

A lovely piece of drama performed by a young company managing to capture the essence of the piece and add something new.


Review: Oran

Theatre as it ought to be – exciting, visceral, challenging and filled with entertainment.


Review: Because

And that's when we realise, this is the life of someone who hears voices or has intrusive thoughts.


Review: I Am Not Black

This play must be seen. Look out for it and if if pops up anywhere near you. Make sure you catch it.


Review: The Last Incel  

A fantastically executed complex drama which negotiates a dangerous topic with creative skill.


Review: Gloria’s Gift

In a world where we're all so connected, how can we be more disconnected than we've ever been?


Review: All’s Well That Ends Well

Don’t go expecting searing insights, but do go for a crack ensemble who will surely turn many to Shakespeare. An endearing and uplifting enterprise.


Review: Surrender

The writing will snare you, Phoebe Ladenburg will hold you, and you’ll lean over the fourth wall.


Review: As You Like It

A first-rate outdoor revival, and easily rivalling what the Globe have to offer.