Review: Wigs Snatched, Perceptions Destroyed, VAULT Festival 4.0stars How can you be successful on social media? To be clear, in this context 'successful' is a synonym of 'profitable', becau…
Review: Bible John, VAULT Festival 5.0stars Unlike the four women around whom Bible John is built, I absolutely can't listen to or watch anything to do with true crime, unless it's so highly…
Review: Lost Laowais, VAULT Festival 3.0stars Spinning together the lives of four expats living in Beijing, Lost Laowais explores some of the intricacies of what it means to try to make some…
Review: Carmen, London Coliseum 4.0stars It's probably quite predictable to say that I went into Carmen filled with a more than slight suspicion. I'm twenty years old, I've seen one opera in…
Review: Faust: That Damned Woman, Lyric Hammersmith3.0starsBased on the story of Doctor Faustus, in which our hero sells his soul to the devil in exchange for the possession of all human kno…
Review: Candy, King's Head Theatre 3.0stars Strangely, this play is at its strongest during the times when it's completely off topic. Despite focusing on the experiences of a young man falli…
Review: On Bear Ridge, Royal Court4.0starsOn Bear Ridge seems to be set in a present day Wales, but one plagued by a kind of apocalyptic curse. A small town sits in the shadow of a mountain,…
Review: Trigger Warning, Camden People's Theatre 3.0stars Trigger Warning takes the approximate form of a 'pre show announcement' for what sounds to be quite probably the most ambitious piec…
Review: Art Heist, New Diorama Theatre 4.0stars Having missed Art Heist in Edinburgh, I feel sort of relieved to have finally seen it in London. I unavoidably enter with expectations and hap…
Review: Meet Me at Dawn, Arcola Theatre 3.0stars I'm in two minds about Meet Me At Dawn. I should say first that both actors, Jessica Hardwick and Marianne Oldham, are fantastic. Although it…
Review: Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, Wilton's Music Hall5.0starsOne of the great struggles in staging generational trauma is fairly simple: how can a narrative give its audience enough t…
Review: Anna Bella Eema, Arcola Theatre 4.0stars It's something of a relief that Anna Bella Eema opens with an explicit warning that past, present and future are really only divided because …
Review: Werther, Royal Opera House 3.0stars It's important to me that I preface this review with the disclaimer that my knowledge of opera is limited. Really, really limited. This is the sec…
Review: Hansard, National Theatre2.0starsIt's the end of another strenuous week being a member of Maragret Thatcher's cabinet in 1988, and Robin Hesketh (Alex Jennings) returns home to his w…
Review: Preludes, Southwark Playhouse 2.0stars Preludes, a new musical with the book, music and lyrics all created by Dave Malloy, takes its audience on a journey through the life and creati…
Review: A Very Expensive Poison, The Old Vic5.0starsAt once anachronistic, investigative and deeply morally invested, it's easy to see a million and one ways in which Lucy Prebble's A Very E…
Review: Falsettos, The Other Palace3.0starsIt's actually really frustrating to come out of a show like Falsettos, and to feel so very little. Naturally, there's always going to be that quest…
Review: The Memory of Water, Nottingham Playhouse 2.0Overall Score Even though this play is focused on three sisters, I'd actually like to start this by talking about the men who come to sur…
Review: Ish..., Roundhouse4.0Overall ScoreSyncopated and bitty, Ish… seems like an attempt to record some of the absolute intensity of being a teenage girl that has so often captured our i…
Review: Rosmersholm, Duke of York's Theatre4.0Overall ScoreGoing into this, I'd actually never even heard of Rosmersholm. I know some of Ibsen's other plays, just not this one. In some sense…
Reviews: Undetectable, King's Head theatre4.0starsIn a perfect world, perhaps sex and society would be distinctly separate. Neither would impact or reflect upon the other, and they could exi…
Review: Model Behaviour, The Pleasance Theatre5.0Overall ScoreHello everybody, I am fuming. I am so angry about the treatment of women in the modelling industry, and it's all Model Behaviour…
Review: Thrown, VAULT Festival4.0Overall ScoreI'm not quite sure where to start in the process of explaining exactly what Thrown is. It certainly doesn't make itself easy to categorise, shif…
Review: My Brother's Keeper?, Playground Theatre4.0starsUnder the cold light of a hospital room, a family is forced to reconcile their differences. Within the cavernous space of the Playgrou…
Review: Marmite, VAULT Festival3.0Overall ScoreDespite focusing only on Dylan (Theo Walker) and Eddie (Ned Costello), a very normal Bristol based couple, Marmite appears to use this pair as …