4.0
Review: The Boy in the Dress, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
In the ordinary town on the ordinary street in the ordinary city, lives Dennis Simms… Immediately, Robert Jones’ excellent design alongside Mark Henderson’s li...
Forbes Masson
4.0
Review: Terror, Lyric Hammersmith
Terror is undeniably relevant. The recent attacks in Manchester and London mean that the word is all too ready at hand, a default thought, society’s daily fear....
Review: Travesties, Apollo Theatre
From a typically quizzical perspective, Tom Stoppard's 1974 play Travesties presents the memories and fantasies of an amnesiac elderly man named Henry Carr. Tom...
Review: Doctor Faustus, Duke of York’s Theatre
How much would you give up to get what you want? Doctor Faustus decided everything. Shipped off his soul to the devil with a blindfold over anything called cons...
Review: Mr Foote’s Other Leg, Hampstead Theatre
Ian Kelly’s Mr Foote’s Other Leg, a historical fiction, is jam-packed in every way that it is possible to be jam-packed. Not content with ‘merely’ following the...
Review: Macbeth
A dystopian Scotland, separated from the UK due to years of economic disaster, is the setting for Jamie Lloyd’s fast paced, high-energy production of Macbeth. A...