Review: The Shepherd’s Chameleon
The irony of reviewing The Shepherd’s Chameleon, a play written by Eugène Ionesco as a barbed response to his critics, is inescapable. The play is itself an exp...
Simon Holton
Review: The Gut Girls
Hidden away in the heart of the docklands lies a hidden gem. The Space, on the Isle of Dogs, home to Rum and Monkey’s new production of The Gut Girls, is an old...
Review: Larisa and the Merchants
Larisa and the Merchants is making its English premiere at the Arcola theatre. With a name like that, one would be forgiven for mistaking it for a band. The tit...
Review: The Ghost Hunter
Rational, enlightened, modern man that I am, I certainly ain’t afraid of no ghosts. But a good ghost story should chill your bones whatever your beliefs. The Gh...
Review: Ghosts
Ibsen’s paradoxical reputation as the fearless experimenter and driver of social change of his day, and as a writer of somewhat fusty GCSE drama texts, makes hi...
Simon Holton
Since returning to the UK after sojourns in the German-speaking world, Simon has plunged himself headfirst into the world of theatre, as both a creator and consumer. Actor-in-training and self-confessed Germanophile, Simon is pursuing diverse interests in experimental and fringe theatre.