Review: The Three Musketeers
Bouncy, boisterous and brutal, this is children's theatre at its best. Rosamunde Hutt's lively production is full of swash and buckle, without glossing over...
Off West End
Review: Beating Heart Cadaver
Colleen Murphy’s Beating Heart Cadaver is a complex fusion of dark tragedy and comedy, within sophisticated layering. At its core, the play fuses the bitter...
Review: A Butcher of Distinction
In Rob Hayes' latest play, A Butcher of Distinction, there is a moment when Hartley (Ciaran Owens) declares that "everything has a value", a statement that se...
Review: Wastwater
Like me, audiences might be forgiven for not knowing that 'Wastwater', the title of Simon Stephens' new play for the Royal Court, refers to the largest vall...
Review: The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)
The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) at first seems to do exactly what is says on the tin – all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays (plus a few sonnets) crammed i...
Review: The One-On-One Festival
Last year when the Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) announced that it would be doing the first UK one-on-one festival it sent a ripple through the theatre commun...