Review: Outside
As with Inside, Outside not only fits us, they help us to move on, and become in their modest, unassuming and utterly transcendent way, part of how we learn to.
Genre: New Writing 0
Review: New Moon Monologues April
As we saw in March, don’t be lulled by friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queens of Cups again proves they’re a company to revel with and wait for heart-stopping reveals
Review: Icarus
After all the gods and their lack of choice, we come to the final instalment, the human dimension. Where we have one. A heartfelt, satisfying finish.
Review: Orpheus
A terrific reinvention, bringing gods and heroines up from the death of myth to an altered world.
Review: Living Newspaper #3 Royal Court Theatre
Hot off Sloane Square a team of writers, actors and creatives twist the news to truth
Review: Angela
A tender, beautifully pitched exploration of the individuality of a life, despite what illness may eventually steal.
Review: New Moon Monologues March
Don’t be lulled by the friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queen of Cups is absolutely a company to watch, and its showcase productions are literally unmissable
Review: Love’s Poison
Whether as James Allen's play The Engagement, or as narrative, Love’s Poison should be seen or read by everyone.
Review: Hymn
Its potency lies in a fine peeling apart by Adrian Lester and Danny Sapini, and the language that bridges it.
Review: Before After
A pristine, heartwarming Valentine of a musical, starring a pair of real-life lovers, it deserves a real-life run
Review: Contemporary political ethics (or, how to cheat)
A subtle and effective examination of democracy from out of the mouths of the naïve and academic
Review: Just Like Giving Blood
Upton’s notches of logic are nudged with brilliance, the actual narrative a granular run-up to an enormous yes.
Review: The White Hart
Winner of an OnComm award from Off West End, another Upton triumph by stealth
Review: The Official Dick Whittington – A Pantomime for 2020
It’s a joyous confection out of thin lockdown.
Review: Nine Lessons and Carols
The Almeida’s another country. They do shows differently there. A bold communing of theatre stories with the fresh poignancy of what’s happened during 2020
Review: Lament for Sheku Bayou
An astonishing story lamented and told in an extraordinary fashion that resonates and poetically demands change.
Review: Death of England: Delroy
Renders huge black experience into a narrative that bears it, because so well-constructed, so character-driven and so inhabited by Michael Balogun whose blaze of awakening is both benediction and clarion.
Review: 15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid
Groundbreaking. The smallest producing theatre in the West End through lockdown has become the largest.
Review: The New Tomorrow
There’s a generosity here, a big hug. Theatre itself affirms the value of life to those who might yet shape it for the better.
Review: Beauty and the Beast
Nothing so convincing has been done with this legend. It deserves many revivals.
Review: Shoe Lady
Katherine Parkinson inhabits that breaking through the office crust asphyxiating us
Review: The Understudy
Do catch it, and match the feelgood price with nudging theatres towards opening night.
Review: Fatbaws
A very impressive self filmed and performed allegory of the threat posed by those who try to invade our gardens and rule the roost.
Review: I and You
Will leave you in a heap and wonder what else Lauren Gunderson has written that comes near this.
Review: Maim
A hymnotic theatrical panic for the land, which exposes us to the language and the lyrical beauty of our own country.
Review: Shoe Lady
Katherine Parkinson inhabits that breaking through the office crust asphyxiating us
Review: Lipstick
Performances and play that should turn us upside down. Do make a detour for this brave. tremulously beautiful coming of love.
Review: We Are In Time
A heart jumping exploration of transplants with a majesty of the music at its heart and a subtle theatricality expanding it all
Review: The Dog Walker
I want to know what life, not just Paul Minx will do with his characters afterwards. So will you.
Review: Whatever Happened to the Jaggy Nettles?
A glorious story of Punk, friendship and betrayal from the seventies, played out proud and loud by a fantastic addition to Scotland’s creative scene
Review: The Good Dad (A Love Story)
Intricate, fiercely intelligent, this play packs far more force than some twice its length. Sarah Lawrie’s intensity is magnificent.
Review: Death of England
This work never loses its charge, its own rapturous arrival Spall gives the performance of his career so far.
Review: You Stupid Darkness!
Bleakly funny, with flickers of tragedy, to make you see how redemptive kindness is
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: 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: #We Are Arrested
Peter Hamilton Dyer carries this celebration of the conscience to be fully human
Review: Three Shorts – Fruit / When I Call Your Name / Embracing Nature
An assured showcase of shorts
Review: My Brilliant Friend Parts One and Two
Cusack and McCormack give the performances of their lives
Review: The Brighton Scratch Night 2019
Six new pieces - one of which will be produced at next year's Fringe
Review: Frankenstein
There’s a clean sharp fusion between these two writers that heralds something special.
Review: Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.
For a time you feel that beyond Churchill’s world, nothing else quite seems to exist.
Review: What Girls Are Made Of
Cora Bissett’s set the bar thrillingly high for a new genre. Who could follow her?
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
