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...
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....
The Diary of a Hounslow Girl Tom Aitken 10/05/2016 In one sense of the word this is the least spectacular play I have seen for a long time. One young woman, Shaheeda, alone in her bedroom, rages agains...
HMS Pinafore Tom Aitken 29/04/2016 An all male HMS Pinafore. What? Why? This not-to-be missed production originated in 2014 and it is not entirely irrelevant that the hundredth anniv...
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 Rolling Stone Tom Aitken 21/01/2016 This play demands (and commands) absolute attention from its audience. Both acts begin with a beautifully sung hymn—Nearer My God to Thee and As I ...
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 ...
dreamthinkspeak’s Absent Tom Aitken 02/09/2015 Shoreditch Town Hall is an attractively imposing Victorian building in the course of being restored as a modestly priced hotel and experimental arts c...
buckets Tom Aitken 06/06/2015 This astonishingly constructed play lasts a packed one hour and twenty minutes, without interval. Its brevity is audience friendly since the construct...
Play Mas Tom Aitken 15/03/2015 Not the least interesting feature of this fascinating and very funny play is that, had it been written by a white man, and was being performed now for...
