Review: London Wall
The synopsis of John Van Druten’s 1931 play London Wall (filmed twice for television, but rarely seen since) calls to mind a British Mad Men. It’s telling t...
Finborough Theatre
Review: A Life
Take some cracking Irish characters, throw in a bitter and confusing love triangle, a terminal illness and the twilight period of life, and you get something ...
Review: Cornelius
Director Sam Yates has done a marvellous thing. He has managed to revitalise J.B. Priestley’s play Cornelius – a play that, tellingly, has not been produced i...
Mind over Matter: Can theatre reveal the human experience behind the headlines?
In the words of Faha, a radio DJ from Zabadani, in Zoe Lafferty’s verbatim play The Fear of Breathing, the people in Syria seek to “climb desperately... to come...
Review: An Incident at the Border
Writing is not the same anymore. Where beautiful poetry and theatre pieces blossomed with Shakespeare and his contemporaries, it seems as if new writing in th...
Review: The Drawer Boy
Michael Healey’s play, The Drawer Boy, is loosely based upon real events: it tells of the summer of 1972 when a group of actors lived and worked among farme...