16 stories by "Lily Levinson"
For reasons that should be clear from my bio picture, I have a soft spot for Carole King, because of her hair. On the cover of Tapestry, it's a giant, wispily centre-parted, glorious stateme…
The Man Who was written by Peter Brook and Marie-Helene Estienne in 1993 as L'Homme Qui, based on Oliver Sacks's 1985 best-seller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. It has been rarely …
Towards the end of Eric and Little Ern, I realised that I was suppressing a fairly urgent desire to climb onstage, grab Jonty Stephens's jowly face and shout at him, 'Are you a real person? …
Audience participation isn't really my thing. It's more like the opposite of my thing. If I'd been personally addressed by Widow Twankey (Chris Dennis) at any point during the evening, I'd h…
Even in the three years since Nina Raine's Tiger Country was last staged at the Hampstead Theatre, the rate at which the NHS is being sliced into privately-owned pieces has rapidly increased…
Dare To Sea is aimed at very young children and so, out of necessity, follows a simple narrative: it uses no words. A fisherman (Colin Jolet) catches a fish for a girl in a yellow dress (May…
November 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and one could reasonably argue that now is a good time to stage this ambitious production. Burning Coal, an Americ…
The Shipwrecked House is a performance of poems from Claire Trévien's debut collection of the same name. But trust Trévien, who has contributed to a whole load of exciting poetry projects …
Riotous Company is really interesting, as its post-show talk revealed. It has provocative and original thoughts about the purpose and power of theatre, and it’s created some incredi…
The only white man in Marcus Gardley's The House That Will Not Stand is dead, which is a refreshing state of affairs. The seven black women who carry the story hold the stage brilliantly wit…
A giant ball pit is integral to the set of Teh Internet Is Serious Business. That's probably the most important piece of information this review will convey. In addition, actors dressed as c…
Seesaw has a running time of 40 minutes “followed by free play time in the sandpit”. They got me. Fortunately, I think they also got the intended audience of under-4s, with a gen…
The White Bear Theatre is a near-perfect venue for Jez Butterworth's breakthrough play about a dodgy gang in 1950s Soho, and this brilliant production, directed by Sebastien Blanc, makes ful…
I got lost on the way to Bring The Happy at The Albany, because I live in north London, and postcodes beginning with SE are terra incognita. So I arrived late and alone to a show about the p…
Spoofing for Gordon tells the slightly improbable story of four 30-something friends who gather to honour a decade-old pact: in order to decide which of them must assist the fifth member of …
As the audience file into the theatre, a man  in a smart grey suit and shiny black shoes (Jamie Griffiths) sits on the stage next to the first slide of a PowerPoint presentation on fin…
