The Ballad of Johnny and June Julie Peakman 07/03/2026Along with some excellent acoustic guitar playing by the guitarist Ryan O’Donnell, we are introduced to the backing band– first...
The Last Days of Liz Truss? Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2026What more is there to say about Liz Truss? Did the lettuce have the final word, as well as the...
Reviewer's rating The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret Jad Adams 06/03/2026The lights come up on an unimpressive domestic interior: a sofa, table, fridge and signs saying ‘Welcome Everyone’ and ‘Good...
Broken Glass Rivka Jacobson 05/03/2026Feeling the Fracture Before Others See It. In 1938 Brooklyn, as Europe edges towards catastrophe, one woman suddenly stops walking....
Into the Woods Wilder Gutterson 05/03/2026Into the Woods, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, is both a dark and...
The Red Shoes Rhys John Edwards 05/03/2026WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE Before a ballet, I usually do a quick Google search. I’m about as far from a ballet...
Titus, l’empereur – a Handelian premiere Tim Hochstrasser 05/03/2026This work is both real and artificial. Handel began an opera of this title, drawing evidently from Racine’s Berenice, but abandoned...
Ukraine Unbroken Tim Hochstrasser 05/03/2026This sequence of five short plays builds on the success of a similar exercise that Nicolas Kent put together some...
Savage Tim Hochstrasser 01/03/2026Writer Claudio Macor has a knack for breathing fresh dramatic life into apparently familiar historical materials and giving them a...
The Village Where No One Suffers Julie Peakman 27/02/2026On the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this comes as a timely reminder of the difficulties of life...
