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Review: Adrift
A powerful reminder that life really is a beautiful mystery in a theatrically impressive story of a young woman who has battled the demons of negative mental health
Review: Scenes with girls
Scenes with girls owns a buzz, a life, a difference about loving that gives it a sliver of unique.
Review: The Winterling
A triumph. Nearly flawless, it must be seen by anyone interested in contemporary drama.
Review: Three Sisters
This spectacular production beats with a fervour and purpose few adaptations achieve. Ellams has made Three Sisters new.
Review: Swive
A Hilliard rather than Holbein, it’s the velocity of Elizabeth’s survival that enthrals
Review: The Duchess of Malfi
The scalpel and scruple of class and coolness breaks into tragedy and gifts us three outstanding moments
Review: Hunger
An exemplary, scrupulous production so starkly contemporary, it makes Hunger contemporary forever
Review: #We Are Arrested
Peter Hamilton Dyer carries this celebration of the conscience to be fully human
Review: Richard III
This production could draw out the poison of being dead serious in terminal bursts of laughter
Review: My Brilliant Friend Parts One and Two
Cusack and McCormack give the performances of their lives
Review: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Over 50 years on, this still sets benchmarks. Its power to enthral, to appal can never date.
Review: All’s Well That Ends Well
Hannah Morrish’s Helena shines in this achingly desperate, quietly beautiful production.
Review: The Lady Vanishes
A first-class production. Crisply paced, beautifully detailed, this ensemble is flawless, the finest Bill Kenwright’s team have produced
Review: The Thrill of Love
A superb revival, and the best production of this popular play I’ve seen.
Review: The Monster and Mary Shelley
A solo celebration of the mind that brought Frankenstein from its fevered edges to realisation on the page
Review: Little Baby Jesus
Anyone seeing this play will be grateful they’ll never feel quite the same way about London, young people or language again.
Review: Frankenstein
There’s a clean sharp fusion between these two writers that heralds something special.
Review: The Stornoway Way
An intriguing adaptation of a novel which captures the loneliness of an alcoholic man, in a beautiful landscape that only lights a fire withing him when he leaves it
Review: Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.
For a time you feel that beyond Churchill’s world, nothing else quite seems to exist.
Review: Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
The most consistently satisfying work of Tim Crouch I’ve seen.
Review: The Brunch Club
A hit and miss look at what achieving a certain age now is like, given the clique culture in post war Britain
Review: A Fear and Loathing Actor in Dublin
A hilarious and visceral take on modern day living as an actor with impending responsibilities
Review: Before 30
An entertaining performance piece where one man struggles to find what can be done before 29 becomes 30.
Review: Daughterhood
A brilliant examination of sisterhood for the modern times when your children begin to become your parents.
Review: The Doctor
A triumph for all concerned. Juliet Stevenson even gains in stature. Icke’s last production could hardly go better than this.
Review: The Red
Marcus Brigstocke writes and directs this bittersweet drama of family and addiction, based on his own recovery.
Review: Jewbana
Jewish princess marries Cuban Catholic in Florida with hilarious and occasionally painful results
Review: Little Rabbit
Susan's trapped in her house by rising flood water. But she's not allowed to leave the house or even be seen......
Review: A Shadow of Doubt
An intriguing piece of theatre which brings the issue of dementia centrally to you from the core of a well written play.
Review: The Mill on the Floss
Stunning. This consummate, flawless production is an event for BLT and Brighton
Review: Pops
Hard hitting theatre for adults, exploring addiction in stunning new play from award winning playwright.
Review: How to be Brave
Siân Owen’s one woman play set in Newport is a lively, fun and heart wrenching ride
Review: The Ladies Room
A thoroughly absorbing hour enjoying seeing the work that goes into producing a radio drama for BBC Radio 3
Review: How to Save a Life
A beautiful show that will make you want to laugh, cry, dance and ponder all within sixty minutes!
Review: Being Norwegian
40 theatrically insightful minutes exploring the oddness of life from two people on the margins looking in with a unique view
Review: Devil of Choice
A measured and nuanced exploration of how relationships get threatened from within and without.
Review: White Girls
An innovative and original insight into volunteering in the jungle of Calais and how naivete turns through experience into knowledge; a journey we all benefit from.
Review: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery: The Baker Street Irregulars and the case of the Stolen Portrait
A charming and enthusiastic young person’s company tell their tale of detection with flair.
Review: Pilgrims
Elinor Cook’s always worth a diversion for. This drama deserves friends and revivals.
