★ ★ ★ ★ Chiten Theatre presents The Gambler Soyoon Koo 06/02/2026The Coronet Theatre’s latest guests, Kyoto’s Chiten Theatre, have a take on Dostoevsky’s The Gambler that arrives like a hand...
The Rat Trap Tim Hochstrasser 05/02/2026This new-old play turned out to be an unexpected suprise. I thought I knew the Coward-canon all the way through,...
Bigre/’FishBowl’ Tim Hochstrasser 30/01/2026The test of a great mime show is not that you don’t need the words but rather when you realise...
Cosi fan Tutte Tim Hochstrasser 27/01/2026Of all three collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte this opera is perhaps the most tricky to bring off successfully...
Tell Me Tim Hochstrasser 26/01/2026When I am in Tate Modern I often stand in front of a painting by Mondrian and experiment with my...
Reviewer's rating Beautiful Little Fool Jad Adams 25/01/2026The scene is set with an archive with walls of books, papers, boxes and table lamps. Here Scottie Fitzgerald, daughter...
Masterclass Julie Peakman 22/01/2026Masterclass is a masterpiece of a two-hander. Set in a primary school classroom where rooms are rented out for community...
In Search of Youkali… Tim Hochstrasser 11/01/2026We think we know the milieu of Kurt Weill – whether the sardonic, witty, cynical and sometimes sentimental world of...
Twelfth Night Olivia Hurton 21/12/2025Twelfth Night is a play of capricious moods, swinging dizzily between laughter and melancholy. A character describes one of its...
When We Are Married Tim Hochstrasser 20/12/2025This well-known play is nothing if not a ‘period piece.’ It specificity is as fixed and immovable as the groaning...
