Review: The Inheritance, Noel Coward Theatre
For the most part, I try to avoid the use of superlatives when I’m writing about plays. They’re generally too strong, or bigger than what’s actually needed. Add...
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Review: The Wider Earth, The Jerwood Gallery, Natural History Museum
It is only fitting that a play about the voyage of Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle is staged at the Natural History Museum. The trip that changed the fate ...
Review: Elephant and Castle, Camden People’s Theatre
For those of us who have been nurturing a 1927 shaped hole in our hearts since Golem left theatres in 2015, we have been offered some slight relief. This relie...
Review: Dracula, Jack Studio Theatre
It takes some self belief to decide to take on a novel like Dracula. It’s one of only a few novels that have remained in print since its publishing in 1896, and...
Review: Twelfth Night, Young Vic
Kwame Kwei Armah and Oskar Eustis’ Twelfth Night is slick, easy to follow, genuine and (of all qualities to aspire most to in a piece of new work), powerful. It...
Review: We’ve Got Each Other, Pleasance Theatre
For a Bon Jovi amateur whose fandom is limited to Livin' On A Prayer, my knowledge needn't be more experienced! Paul O’Donnell takes us on an idea for a Bon Jov...