Review: Captain Amazing, The Albany
Captain Amazing is the story of a superhero and a puppet. Like all good stories, it needs a good guy and a bad guy, a villain hellbent on destroying the world w...
Alistair McDowall
Review: Pomona, National Theatre
What is immediately arresting about Pomona is the way in which director Ned Bennett and designer Georgia Lowe spill this dark and twisted world beyond the stage...
Feature: Alistair McDowall – “Pomona is an odd beast”
Pomona image by Manuel Harlan Alistair McDowall Alistair McDowall is fidgety and nervous when we meet at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, where his pla...
Review: Pomona, Orange Tree Theatre
"Everything bad is real." Moe (Sean Rigby) the security guard appears to give the audience a clue, somewhere in the second half of this mind-bending drama. Set ...
Feature: Captain Amazing: Dusting off the Cape
When Captain Amazing strides onto the Soho stage later this month, cape aflutter, it will be the latest step in a heroically long journey. The one-man, multi-ch...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Captain Amazing
(5/5 stars) It isn’t easy to juggle the demands of being a superhero with marriage, fatherhood and a job at B&Q. Bruntwood prize-winning writer Alistai...