4.0
Review: Far Away, Donmar Warehouse
Far Away is a dystopia of incomprehensible proportions. It holds a mirror up to a host of current political and social issues, and at the same time smashes tha...
Lyndsey Turner
4.0
Lack of Diversity in Oscar and BAFTA Nominations. Do the Olivier Awards Fare Any Better?
Anyone else feel angry/ puzzled/ not that surprised about the recent Oscar and BAFTA nominations? Samuel Sims is feeling all sorts of emotion. Here, he discuss...
3.0
Review: Top Girls, Lyttleton, National Theatre
In the programme, playwright Caryl Churchill writes “When I wrote Top Girls I imagined 16 women in a play, though I knew I’d be unlikely to get it”. Well, she’...
Review: Pinter Four: Moonlight/Night School, Harold Pinter Theatre
Harold Pinter is considered one of the greatest British playwrights of all time. Producing much of his work in the twentieth century, he wrote 29 full plays alo...
Review: Girls & Boys, Royal Court Theatre
Girls & Boys is not what it may sound like. No, this is not a harmless romance about a boy and a girl, although it begins as one. But as time goes on, our u...
Review: The Treatment, Almeida Theatre
Martin Crimp’s The Treatment is so current that I struggle to believe it was written over twenty years ago. Set in New York, we follow the lives of individuals ...