Genre: Drama 0
Review: What the Animals Say
Hilarious. See it and exit wiser with a whole new vocabulary for racism and bubbling sectarianism. A blast.
Review: Antigone Exits
Still a worthwhile exit to Chichester’s season, it ends it in a question-mark.
Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
If you’ve not seen it, this is still a must-see.
Review: A Small and Quiet Light
It will live as a further bright witness. How a Muslim Sufi princess ended with a posthumous George Cross. Outstanding.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A fully re-imagined Dream, it’s mostly successful in suggesting a real 1994 that might just have existed.
Review: Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Sublimely realised in sleaze by the predominantly youthful company led by the magisterial Michael Maloney. A must-see.
Review: Fire Fire
A very promising play, and Webber a highly talented political writer. The kind we so clearly need.
Review: Darkling
Unmissable to anyone who takes an interest in India or the world's recent history, ongoing late capitalism and how it stops humanity in cyanide tracks.
Review: The Story
Still a powerful enthralling production. You never for a moment nod. Though you might be furrowed at the end.
Review: Tartuffe (Remixed)
Mark Rylance can’t fail to take you with him. If not take you in. Very highly recommended.
Review: Pride
Pride is essential. The greatest danger in celebrating past struggle is that it lets us off the hook of any now.
Review: Annie Wobbler (Revisited)
A chronological withering into the truth, McAuliffe has reinvented her masterclass for another generation.
Review: A Small and Quiet Light
It will live as a further bright witness. How a Muslim Sufi princess of bi-racial origins and deeply cosmopolitan heritage ended with a posthumous George Cross. Outstanding.
Review: A Slow Fire
Engrossing, with Stephens' assertion that not just personal identity is constructed out of memory, but what makes us human.
Review: The Swan, The Werewolf and Gianpiero
Above all a show for creative people to see, to discuss, and argue with.
Review: No But… Where Are You Really From?
A profoundly relevant exploration of identity, belonging, and everyday racism
Review: Before We Forget
Exhilarating to see how, despite all the cuts and starvation of opportunities, vibrant voices find a refuge and a springboard at the Bush.
Review: The Watsons
A few words blown away on a blustery evening makes little difference with this company: always riding the whirlwinds of drama, and luckily here directing the storm-clouds. A must-see.
Review: Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library
Mrs. Stern Gives the Gestapo an Existential Crisis
Review: Man or Bear
Would you rather be in the woods with a random man, or a random bear? The answer is frightening.
Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing
An outstanding and landmark double production.
Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost
Summer-drenched pizzazz and spectacle could hardly have been better timed.
Review: Short Stories of Life and Death
A wonderful advertisement for NVT’s programme, attracting and nurturing some formidable talent. Where next?
Review: The Misanthrope
Impressive. This Moliere, with Sandra Oh commanding too, seems slightly less urgent though eminently worth seeing.
Review: War Horse
An astonishing spectacle that still moves and will forever craze the idiocy of war on the retina like an iced-over No-Man’s Land.
Review: Appropriate
NVT confirm this a masterpiece, something I’d not fully appreciated in the excellent 2019 Donmar production, which this excels. Outstanding
Review: Tender
With such terrific performances you root for this not-yet-couple right to the blackout.
Review: Maisie by Roger Goldsmith
One-Man Play presented at Spotlites Theatre, Chatham as part of the MedFringe 2026
Review: Happy Days
Company Teatro Meridional takes to the stage one of Samuel Beckett's masterpieces impeccably interpreted by actress Mónica Garnel
Review: -320°F
If you’ve not seen a Noda production, see it. If you have, see it. It’s still the most intelligent spectacular I’ve seen in recent times.
Review: Wife to James Whelan
It should transfer, though nothing can beat this space for delivery. Outstanding, a must-see if ever there was one.
Review: Caterpillar
This is a richly freighted drama: all the issues around loss, abuse, displacement and ideation circle in two-hours-twenty with interval.
Review: 45 Years
Acting and often dialogue still compel in long bursts. It sets a seal on one of the swiftest slow-burn productions I’ve seen.
Review: Jane Eyre
Polly Teale has released the daemons, but Nettie Sheridan’s ensemble has delivered Jane Eyre’s feeling to a pitch remarkable even for BLT. With a twilight and sunny consummation at BOAT, it’s even more outstanding.
Review: Under the Shadow
Far richer than any ghost play haunting the tour circuit, it’s a blistering, scary must-see.
Review: The Beekeeper of Aleppo
It’s important to see it now. It’s none the less real for being fiction.
Review: Are You Watching?
Georgie Dettmer’s voice should be one of the leading dramatists of resistance. Yet more, Dettmer has already much to say about how to live now and next.
Review: Teeth ‘n’ Smiles
As Teeth ‘n’ Smiles ends, we’re left to feel the long withdrawing roar of the 1960s, and the bleaker horizons and disillusion Hare saw by 1975. A must-see.
Review: The Fastest Clock in the Universe
It hasn’t dated. As worthy of our attention as recent Ridley, and rivets us forever. A must-see.
Review: The Corinthian
A fascinating take on the career and life of Scotland's first black footballing captain.
Review: Do Not Attempt This Conversation
Mo Maka’s play though brief is superbly constructed and taut. I can hardly wait for Maka’s next play.
Review: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
This desperate elegy of betrayal, straight from Le Carré’s own hurt, will haunt you with the truth of its despair.
Review: The P Word
A bold yet tender exploration of what it is to be gay, Asian and humane. You come out cheering. A must-see.
Review: As the Winds and Waters Are
If you brought together four unrelated characters from four separte novels by one author ,what dynamics would unfold
Review: Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances
Absorbing and attracted a sold-out brief run. Factually realist, but liminally fantastical, it wields potential for serious sly fun, and real drama.
Review: Mother Courage and Her Children
Brecht’s ferocious message that those who seek profit from war are often its victims too is driven home in the weight of dropped bodies, and Michelle Terry’s outstanding performance.
Review: Quartet in Autumn
Absorbing, a must-see for anyone asking questions of where we begin our endings.
Review: The Dasslers
The Dasslers wields a potential beyond its current limitations – both in this brief production and in its current form. And Radford, clearly setting out his dramatic stall in history’s cross-currents, is a voice to watch.
Review: Godot’s To-Do List, Krapp’s Last Tape
A performance of lessness writ large: a man shrinking from his environment, the memories taking over and kicking Krapp’s mere organic matter out.
Review: The Dance of Time: A New Black Comedy
Here’s hoping it returns, clearly a play with a future as long as Tom’s is apparently short.
Review: Foal
The Finborough have form with five-star solo shows. This is clearly another flued and sanded with the ferocity of pursuit. Outstanding.
Review: Murder, Margaret and Me
Brave, bold and really worth seeing above much else: even in a busy Festival.
Review: Allegra
As an example of a Peter Quilter soufflé, this is the best of his I’ve come across; and Maureen Lipman gleams with a supreme gravity-defying performance. Irresistible.
Review: Teatro dei Gordi: Visite
As ever, the Coronet and its guests have scored something unique in the British theatre-world.
Review: Are you even Indian?
A British-born Indian woman and an Indian-born man love, spar and dance
Review: Jane Eyre
Polly Teale has released the daemons, but Nettie Sheridan’s ensemble has delivered Jane Eyre’s feeling to a pitch remarkable even for BLT.
Review: Flush
Timely, timeless and as real as a selfie you might wish you’d never taken when you look again. 80 minutes blink by, but you won’t miss it. Stunning.
Review: Escaped Alone
It mightn’t quite be the droll, dry Churchill we know, but it’s certainly one we should greet. Absorbing.
Review: Magic
Brave, timeless, and troubled, Magic sometimes refuses to give up its secrets too. Absorbing.
Review: The Final Episode
Two original twists, a fine, fresh writer/performer/director and something I certainly look forward to seeing developed.
Review: Uccelini
A rich, suggestive and above all probing work about how we live with our ghosts so we can live with each other.
Review: Carmen
A must-see for anyone compelled by ballet; something we’re not likely to see in Brighton for years.
Review: The Waves
A mostly outstanding – and theatrical - adaptation of an almost impossible-to-adapt novel.
Review: Playhouse Creatures
This version is never done because the all-female five-hander is easier: so do see it. A triumph.
