Feature: Women Centre Stage − Celebrating Heroines
When I catch up with Barney Norris, he's calling on a faulty Skype line from the foyer of Salisbury Playhouse. Between all the crackling and fading in and out, ...
Eleanor Wyld
Review: Visitors, Bush Theatre
Sometimes the joy in theatre is the opportunity to relish in two hours of pure imaginative escapism. At others, it’s the chance to explore familiar turf, to rem...
Review: Visitors, Arcola Theatre
It’s rare finding a simple piece of new writing that doesn’t rely on bombarding effects and clever use of space and props to compete with the money and bling pu...
Review: Unscorched, Finborough Theatre
This year’s winner of the Papatango new writing prize, Unscorched examines the complexities of working in child protection and whether it is ever really possi...
Review: Dances of Death
"'Pleasure'? What does that word mean?" asks the Captain (Michael Pennington), the militarised autocrat of a fortress on an isolated island. Any pleasure in t...
Review: Shiverman
Set on a Pacific island, Shiverman deals with human rights and the right of the West to impose its views on other cultures. James Sheldon’s play explores differ...