The setting is a drawing room, idyllic fields beyond conjured by printed screens, but Stanley Houghton’s play casts out the afternoon world of tea and scones for a whisky-fuelled criticism of social and sexual mores, carefully observed, but sadly rendered in broad strokes by this fun but careless production. Written in 1910, and enjoying substantial [...]

What can we do if people treat us inhumanely? This is the question posed by Jonathan Salt’s new play, and the answer he finds is: we must be more than human. This biopic of Janusz Korczak, a Polish Jewish doctor, writer and head of a Jewish orphanage, shows a man striving to be more than [...]

Life is unbearable, but drugs are a ‘chemical lobotomy’; Sarah Kane’s work is caught in a dilemma of pathologised grief, pill bottles and troubled relationships, messily expressing the events surrounding her decision to die. Crooked Pieces’ production of her most controversial play is set in a wasteland of pill cabinets, effectively designed by Faye Bradley, [...]

Yvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre’s production of The Wind in the Willows is a deeply traditional affair. No concessions are made to the teenage years of the participants; there are no rock songs or rapping and the closest thing to a pop culture reference is a quick burst of the Charleston. This is not a bad [...]