The Mayfly Tim Hochstrasser 01/05/2018 The challenges and often gritty realities of English rural life are not examined often enough by contemporary playwrights, and Joe White deserves cred...
Humble Boy Kezia Niman 14/03/2018 Sunshine, bees and flowers. An idyllic scene. Yet Humble Boy is a comedic drama that explores grief, guilt and grudges. Felix Humble returns to his fa...
Poison Owen Davies 08/11/2017 This is a play about loss and grief. Although it is short, it packs a great deal of emotion into its 80 minutes and raises some troubling issues about...
The March on Russia Hannah Connell 13/09/2017 This production of The March on Russia by Orange Tree Theatre, in association with Up in Arms, brings an intricate family drama, steeped in national a...
An Octoroon Roger Mortimer 25/05/2017 Is Boucsploitation a thing now? Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ relationship with Irish playwright Dion Boucicault is clearly a complex one, perhaps more comp...
Jess and Joe Forever Tom Aitken 18/09/2016 Almost anything you want to say about this play is both true and not quite true, or, at least, not true in the ways you first think it is. We see t...
French Without Tears Tim Hochstrasser 13/07/2016 There is a lot of Rattigan about in London recently, and rightly so. Few of his fifteen or so plays are without value, several are still hardly known,...
The Philanderer Tom Aitken 21/05/2016 The Philanderer was Shaw’s second completed play, its first version having been written in 1893, following the first performances of Widowers’ Houses....
German Skerries Tom Aitken 12/03/2016 This play would be extremely unlikely to have a hit run in the West End. (I wrote that partly to provoke someone into proving me wrong.) It tells seve...
The Distance Tom Aitken 02/12/2015 When this play was premiered at the Orange Tree in October 2014 described as ‘an amazing evening’. This remains the case as it returns with a largely ...
