Dotted Line Theatre’s The Engineer’s Thumb appears as part of the Firsts Festival, a season of puppetry premiers by emerging companies. It is produced by, and takes place at, Little Angel Theatre, and follows on from the company’s INCUBATE and HATCH programmes. As the moniker suggests, this is very much a season of new work. The [...]

Fiona Shaw performing The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: arguably, two national treasures sharing the stage at the Old Vic Tunnels. Having seen Shaw’s delicious performance of The Waste Land (if you haven’t seen it you can watch an excerpt here), I was prepared to be impressed. I wasn’t disappointed. Under the direction of Phyllida Lloyd, [...]

Everyday Maps for Everyday Use contains moments of brilliance. As part of the Papatango New Writing Festival, inevitably the writing is offered up for scrutiny. Everyday Maps for Everyday Use confuses me with its inconsistency – I couldn’t quite work out what I didn’t like about it. At times, it is brilliant – tightly-constructed, familiar [...]

Cul-De-Sac, the first play from stand-up comic Matthew Osborn is not the sort of show you’d usually expect to see at Theatre503. Plumbing the darker depths of suburbia, this is a snappy satire on leafy Home Counties living. Tightly written, sharply witty and unremittingly black humoured, Cul-De-Sac is not everyone’s cup of tea, but is [...]