Review: Hope, Royal Court Theatre
“Sorry, but there’s no money left”. So wrote former Secretary to the Treasury, Liam Bryne, when Labour handed over reigns of the Exchequer to the coalition four...
Lee Anderson
Review: Piranha Heights, Old Red Lion Theatre
In 1995, Sarah Kane brought the walls of a Leeds hotel room crashing down in explosive fashion for her debut play, Blasted. After a decade of playwrights polite...
Feature: Antigone – do we have the courage to rock the boat?
Adaptation can be a tricky thing indeed. But when it comes to re-working an ancient play – a play first written several centuries ago – and then making it work ...
Feature: Yve Blake – “whacky, wonderful or just plain weird”
Here’s a riddle for you: what do horses, fish fingers, the ocean, sandwiches and ex-lovers all have in common? Any ideas? No? Not to worry. Yve Blake is in town...
Feature: Madani Younis – “How do I shorten the gap between art and life?”
Madani Younis doesn't mince his words. Stealing a precious half-hour during an otherwise jam-packed schedule, the Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre, current...
Review: Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich, artsdepot
It would be an understatement to say that Toshiki Okada’s Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich is hard-going. This is a punishingly sluggish and maddeningly d...
