Shakespeare has found a way into most of our lives, whether at school unwillingly, at the theatre gladly or in our daily language unnoticed. We all know the gr...
Waiting to enter the Barbican’s underground Pit space, I really have no idea what to expect. I’m aware that this isn’t going to be a regular evening at the the...
Babylon: Beyond Borders in an ambitious, passion-filled project spanning across four countries. In London, it feels as though I am at the epicentre of this amb...
There’s a significant difference between a show that talks about refugees, and a show on this topic whose actors actually are refugees. An inevitable poignancy...
Following Clement Attlee from his unexpectedly successful election campaign in 1945, to his creation of the welfare state in 1948, Francis Beckett’s A Modest L...
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...