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 ...
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...
Review: The Shipment, Barbican Centre
Earlier this week, the UK government’s recently appointed culture secretary, Sajid Javid, began his inaugural policy-speech with an act of confession. So, in th...
Review: Triptych, The Print Room
Let’s be honest, opera has a tough time of it. As an art form, it is either derided as an overpriced irrelevance or reviled as the province of ‘elitist’ poshos....
