Human Animals, Royal Court Theatre
As I sit down to write this, a crow is cawing outside my window while night falls; for an awkard moment I think it might be a raven, and this reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe. Is the black bird saying "Nevermore"? And why should that worry me? Well, I've just seen Stef Smith's resonant and disturbing new play, Human Animals, and it's made me particularly sensitive to all of the creatures with which we share our urban sp…