Review: White Teeth, Kiln Theatre
Full disclosure: to me Zadie Smith’s first novel White Teeth is a national treasure brushing shoulders with the Countdown theme song and Naomi Campbell. I knew ...
Tom Piper
Review: Romeo and Juliet, The Barbican
Welcome to the Romeo and Juliet trendy infusion. The contemporary spin on the ever-tragic teenage love story is a fun and light-hearted adaptation of the stilte...
Review: The Great Wave, National Theatre
It’s a fantastic story, in that it’s one that is almost impossible to believe – yet, more fantastically, true – and brimming with potential. Francis Turnly’s Th...
Review: Harrogate, Pumphouse
On a clean white stage, a father and daughter engage in banter about Little Mix, his lack of cleaning skills, and her refusal to buy the ‘right’ school shoes. H...
Review: Mermaid, West Yorkshire Playhouse
The current season at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds is shaping up to be brilliant. There’s all sorts on offer, and if you pop down the stairs to the Pla...
Review: Orfeo, Roundhouse
Orfeo is widely considered to be the first master work of opera ever written, and is certainly the oldest surviving opera that is still regularly performed toda...