Review: Ever Yours
Played by Alex Wanebo, Olivia is beautifully portrayed, her pain feeling tangible throughout.
Genre: LGBT
Review: MILF and the Mistress
A fascinating exploration of what therapy ought to be a pain in – latex.
Review: An Adequate Abridgement of Boarding School Life as a Homo
"This is a show we can all relate to"
Review: After Sex
Deservedly hugely popular. With uber-smart dialogue, Dromgoole ensures that under the brittle wrap, there’s an ache and overriding desire for connection.
Review: Thief
A searing solo performance of the life of a man struggling to survive in the worst of circumstances.
Review: Babs for Life
You got to pick a scandal or two, solo show of fantastic political commentary.
Review: May Contain Traces of Nuts
A worthy attempt at showing the conflict within young people around gender, the future and all the stuff your parents warned you about.
Review: After All These Years
Giles Cole’s extending from one wistfully comic short to a three-act Chekhovian elegy for the dance of age, is in a defining league of its own. A superb play, it will now reach the West End.
Review: From Here to Eternity
Grabs you from the towards the close of Act One and doesn’t let go: from here to curtain we’re in heart-stopping eternity.
Review: Here
A major talent with a distinct voice, and the consummate assurance to express it with stamp and precision
Review: Morning Glory
A small masterpiece of amused, unflinching reveal, which does something no-one else has done at all.
Review: Breathless
A pitch perfect drama with crafted bittersweet comedy which explores the challenges of navigating life whilst not coping with a mental health disorder.
Review: All Of Us
As Ken Tynan once said of another debut, I don’t think I could love someone who doesn’t love this play.
Review: Airswimming
Superb revival of Charlotte Jones’s play about two women incarcerated for fifty years for bring different. With a standing ovation of such force that convention had to be broken with the actors forced back on stage.
Review: Di and Viv and Rose
A first-rate revival of this heartwarming play, surprising you with grief, and joy
Review: Staircase
A first-rate revival of a play that with its ostensible shock-value in aspic, reveals subversions and a clever structure so unsettling we should all look in the mirror and wince.
Review: Sacrament
A revelation, superbly written and acted. Comparisons have been made with A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing. I can think of no higher praise either. You must see this.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
This surely is the greatest Dream since Peter Brook’s landmark 1970 production.
Review: Twelfth Night
Tamsin Greig’s extremes as Malvolia mark the first intimations of the terrible and define this production. The ground’s shifted.
Review: As You Like It
For Lucy Phelps and Sophie Khan Levy above all, this is a joyful As You Like It.
Review: The female role model project
Original, thought-provoking, ambitious, funny, absorbing, interactive and no sign of the 4th wall
Review: Like Orpheus
Queer club culture and surreal movement are married in this rave ridden soliloquy of love in the margins
Review: The Milkman’s On His Way
As a storytelling adaptation it couldn’t be bettered. Necessary and uplifting.
Review: Poet in da Corner
Exemplary, thrilling, adrenalin-shot and shout-worthy. There has to be a part two, and it ought to be soon.
Review: Enough
A violent attack on the social norms which drive self-harm in its many and varied forms.
Review: Ganymede
A square set of love stories that ends with a worthy examination of the meaning of love and acceptance.
Review: Dandy Darkly’s All Aboard!
Well written and performed, deliciously eccentric character, fascinating and entertaining!
