Choir Boy Hafiza Butt 02/04/2026Tarrell Alvin McCraney, Chair of Playwriting at Yale, Â Academy Award winner for co-writing the screenplay of his play ‘Moonlight’, Â is,...
Mama Goose Hafiza Butt 30/11/2025We do a lot of panto. Last year I think we did three. Out of all the panto we see,...
Thikra: Night of Remembering Hafiza Butt 03/11/2025Akram Khan’s ‘ Desh’ (2011) was one of the best productions of anything ( dance, theatre, opera), I’ve ever seen....
Girl from the North Country Hafiza Butt 10/07/2025Girl from the North Country redefines what musical theatre can be. It’s such a smashing idea that the only surprise...
 Storehouse: Truth Lies Here Hafiza Butt 14/06/2025The idea of ‘Storehouse: Truth Lies Here’, playing at the Storehouse in Deptford, fascinated me: the collection, an archive of all...
CompañÃa Mercedes Ruiz Romancero del Baile Flamenco Hafiza Butt 05/06/2025The revelation of love is that nothing else matters—not even the capitulation of the other. To love greatly is, of...
Reviewer's Rating Our Mothers’ Daughters Hafiza Butt 11/03/2025I’d travel quite a distance to see a Hanna Berrigan play, though this one is on my door-step. Berrigan is...
Radioactive Practice Hafiza Butt 22/10/2024‘Radioactive Practice’ is an incredibly difficult piece to review, not because it was bad; it wasn’t, but because there is...
Visit from and Unknown Woman Hafiza Butt 13/07/2024Decades before ‘Bridgerton’, Peter Brook taught us that the stories we tell on stage and film can be colour blind....
Bluets Hafiza Butt 14/06/2024The only thing that makes life bearable is the ephemeral, that which doesn’t have to have a line drawn under...
