100 Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell Jad Adams 06/02/2024Jeffrey Bernard is locked in the Coach and Horses pub, having ‘fallen asleep on the bog’ when last orders were...
80 The Sex Lives of Puppets Jad Adams 06/01/2024From pet names for genitals to talk of venereal diseases killing the moment, The Sex Lives of Puppets constantly veers...
80 The Motive and the Cue Jad Adams 21/12/2023The Motive and the Cue opens in a Broadway rehearsal room where the cast assembles with the intention of creating...
Magdalena Miecznicka in conversation with Jad Adams Jad Adams 13/11/2023Polish author Magdalena Miecznicka has scored a notable success with her first play in English, Nineteen Gardens, which she entered...
Seize the Cheese Jad Adams 07/11/2023Bizarre storylines for musicals are hardly new. W.S.Gilbert struggled on one about a magic lozenge; more successfully The Little Shop...
The Time Traveller’s Wife Jad Adams 03/11/2023The acclaimed book by Audrey Niffenegger which was made into a film and a TV series is now a West...
The Silence of Snow Jad Adams 20/10/2023On a black stage a single figure dressed in a white clinical gown is leaning over, a bottle of spirits...
Hedda Gabler Jad Adams 13/10/2023I was surprised to see Hedda Gabler played straight through. It is, after all, a masterfully-wrought four act play, without...
Skin Jad Adams 02/08/2023Skin opens with two sisters chatting on stage about Sadie’s cancer, and even laughing about it. Sadie, in her early...
The Merry Wives of Windsor Jad Adams 20/07/2023There is a story that Shakespeare wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor in response to a request from Elizabeth I. ...