Dixon and Daughters Emma Burnell 26/04/2023Lots about Dixon and Daughters is ever so slightly off. That is both it’s strength and it weakness. Take it’s...
Reviewer's rating The Secret Life of Bees Adi Ginat 25/04/2023‘The Secret Life of Bees’ is a beautiful and moving musical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s novel of the same...
Reviewer's Rating Dancing at Lughnasa Tim Hochstrasser 25/04/2023‘Atmosphere is more real than incident, and everything is simultaneously actual and illusory’. So says, Michael, the adult narrator in...
Reviewer's Rating Animal Tim Hochstrasser 24/04/2023‘Animal’ opens at Park200 after an initial run in Manchester and winning the inaugural Through the Mill Playwriting Prize. It...
Reviewer's Rating The Good Person of Szechwan Tim Hochstrasser 23/04/2023This is the 80th anniversary year of a play that has become accepted as one of Brecht’s most durable, where...
Reviewer's rating HAMNET Mel Cooper 22/04/2023The adaptation of the novel Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell is a fine example of ensemble work. Lolita Chakrabarti clearly understands...
Reviewer's Rating Blue Tim Hochstrasser 21/04/2023Given the grim background to this year’s season at ENO it is more than little ironic that the programme has...
Village Idiot Jad Adams 21/04/2023With its fruity language and references to gay sex, trans sex, disabled sex and characters ‘wanking off to Countryfile’, Village...
Reviewer's Rating Blackout Songs Emma Burnell 18/04/2023Anyone who has ever drunk to blackout – i.e. forgotten what they did the night before – will know that...
Reviewer's Rating Snowflakes Tim Hochstrasser 18/04/2023‘Snowflakes’ is a discomfiting but important new play that first ran at the Old Red Lion a couple of years...
