1. Bend It Like Beckham, Phoenix Theatre, London
“Bend it like Beckham’s infusion of Indian culture becomes its life blood, giving the field-flat tale of a girl earning a football scholarship a scent of pure magic. It bends the rules, shoots, and scores.”
2. 1984, Playhouse Theatre, London
“A masterful exercise in how to stage horror – tight as a wire, properly nasty, hard to sit through without wincing.”
3. An Oak Tree, National Theatre, London
“The fresco or palimpsest is a useful way of thinking about An Oak Tree. It’s theatre of multiple layers, sometimes visible, sometimes not. Sometimes it’s a show about theatre; sometimes it’s a show about loss, grief and absence; sometimes it’s a show about transformations and illusions; sometimes it’s a show about what we choose to believe. Sometimes it’s about all of those things at once.”
4. Lampedusa, Soho Theatre, London
“Lampedusa is experiential realism. It is a very ordinary and simple play (therefore unsafe) and it is ‘a plea against expositional nationalism’ and a plea for transnationalism.”
5. The Ted Bundy Project, on tour
“This show is anything but a thoughtless employment of ‘sensational’ material to get a cheap reaction. Instead Wohead forces the audience to the very brink of deep uncomfortableness.”