Quartet in Autumn Julie Peakman 21/05/2026 Barbara Pym’s novels are always particularly heart-warming, if a little sad. Author Samantha Harvey has successfully adapted the book...
Reviewer's rating Churchill’s Urinal Jad Adams 20/05/2026Rosie Holt brightened the Covid years with her social media posts as an unconsciously self-satirising Tory lady. With her sleek...
1536 Olivia Hurton 14/05/2026Who, as a child, did not skip around the playground after history lessons chanting, ‘Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived’?...
Escaped Alone Olivia Hurton 12/05/2026Caryl Churchill is the doyenne of theatrical experimentalism. Her plays shapeshift and surprise, dismantling artistic structures to prompt ideas about...
The Wasp Wilder Gutterson 10/05/2026The Wasp is a taut two-hander about former schoolmates who meet again after years apart. Originally produced in 2015 at...
Reviewer's rating blue/orange Jad Adams 06/05/2026 Christopher is going to be let out. After a psychotic episode in a market place he has been detained...
Walking Each Other Home Tim Hochstrasser 03/05/2026It is a while since I was reviewing at the Old Red Lion, and it was good to be back...
Grace Pervades Olivia Hurton 02/05/2026To anyone not versed in the annals of theatre history, upon hearing the title of David Hare’s latest play Grace...
Firewing Tim Hochstrasser 28/04/2026This is David Pearson’s first play, and an accomplished piece of work. He has a natural ear for dialogue, with...
The Wooster Group: Nayatt School Redux Wilder Gutterson 23/04/2026Leaving the theatre after the Wooster Group’s production of Nayatt School Redux, I overheard numerous audience members wrestling with the...
