Reviewer's Rating The Mayfly Tim Hochstrasser 01/05/2018The challenges and often gritty realities of English rural life are not examined often enough by contemporary playwrights, and Joe...
Reviewer's Rating Humble Boy Kezia Niman 14/03/2018Sunshine, bees and flowers. An idyllic scene. Yet Humble Boy is a comedic drama that explores grief, guilt and grudges....
Reviewer's Rating Poison Owen Davies 08/11/2017his is a play about loss and grief. Although it is short, it packs a great deal of emotion into...
Reviewer's Rating The March on Russia Hannah Connell 13/09/2017his production of The March on Russia by Orange Tree Theatre, in association with Up in Arms, brings an intricate...
Reviewer's Rating An Octoroon Roger Mortimer 25/05/2017s Boucsploitation a thing now? Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ relationship with Irish playwright Dion Boucicault is clearly a complex one, perhaps more...
Reviewer's Rating Jess and Joe Forever Tom Aitken 18/09/2016lmost anything you want to say about this play is both true and not quite true, or, at least, not...
Reviewer's Rating French Without Tears Tim Hochstrasser 13/07/2016here is a lot of Rattigan about in London recently, and rightly so. Few of his fifteen or so plays...
Reviewer's Rating The Philanderer Tom Aitken 21/05/2016he Philanderer was Shaw’s second completed play, its first version having been written in 1893, following the first performances of...
Reviewer's Rating German Skerries Tom Aitken 12/03/2016his play would be extremely unlikely to have a hit run in the West End. (I wrote that partly to...
Reviewer's Rating The Distance Tom Aitken 02/12/2015hen this play was premiered at the Orange Tree in October 2014 described as ‘an amazing evening’. This remains the...