Review: Swings and Roundabouts, White Bear Theatre
Last week, the playwright Samuel Adamson tweeted an image of the cast list from his 1999 adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters. It was one of those propitious l...
Daniel Janes
Review: Josephine and I
Cush Jumbo is performing a knock-kneed Charleston. Her elbows extend, her legs kick and flail in every direction; she has transformed into an exuberant rubb...
Review: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
'It’s difficult to know where to start
With the strange undoing of Prudencia Hart.’
So begins David Greig’s eponymous revel,
In which a Scottish academic h...
Review: Rutherford and Son
Rutherford and Son, Northern Broadsides’s revival of a muscular Edwardian drama, arrives in the West End with a timeliness that is almost mystical. Yes, there a...
Review: Fear of Music
The mysterious past misdeed, whose nature is withheld until the play’s closing stages, is a staple of the nebulous sub-genre known as New Writing. Suitably en...
Review: The Lady’s Not For Walking Like an Egyptian
In celebration of its fiftieth birthday, Kennington’s OvalHouse has been holding a season called Counterculture 50: a series of five theatrical works, each comm...
Daniel Janes
Daniel Janes is currently working on a documentary for BBC Two. He has blogged about arts, culture and history for Huffington Post UK and the New Statesman.