Talking it out: Simon Gwynn reviews Nana-Kofi Kufuor’s locked room drama about internalised racism.
Simon Gwynn
Articles by Simon Gwynn
15 November 2021
Reviews • Manchester • National
Review: Good Grief at HOME, Manchester
11-13 November, then touring
By Simon Gwynn
It’s your funeral: Simon Gwynn reviews a clown show made by Ugly Bucket to be performed at a friend’s memorial service.
6 June 2021
Reviews • National • Sheffield
Review: Screwdriver at Sheffield Theatres
By Simon Gwynn
‘Trapped by circumstances’: Simon Gwynn reviews Elin Schofield and Eve Cowley’s monologue about a female prison guard.
1 July 2020
Reviews
Review: Jury Duty by Exit Productions
By Simon Gwynn
Crime and punishment: Simon Gwynn takes part in an interactive adventure that explores how justice is done online.
12 January 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Scrounger at Finborough Theatre
7th January - 1st February
By Simon Gwynn
Broken spokes: Simon Gwynn reviews Athena Stevens’ ‘amusing, provocative’ exploration of ‘the shit disabled people have to deal with day in, day out’.
28 November 2019
Reviews
Review: Candida at Orange Tree Theatre
By Simon Gwynn
‘The Twilight of its day’: Simon Gwynn writes on Paul Miller’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s ‘125-year-old rom com’.
17 November 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Spiderfly at Theatre 503
By Simon Gwynn
Caught in the web: Simon Gwynn writes on John Webber’s new play exploring male violence.
14 September 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Amsterdam at Orange Tree Theatre
By Simon Gwynn
“Chaotic, rewarding and tiring”: Simon Gwynn writes on Maya Arad Yasur’s surreal narrative of Amsterdam’s hidden history.
5 September 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Hansard at National Theatre
By Simon Gwynn
Beat ’em up: Simon Gwynn writes on a pugnacious but uneven Tory party satire.
16 June 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Future at Battersea Arts Centre
12-29 June
By Simon Gwynn
Alarming prophecies: Simon Gwynn writes a dystopian diary in response to Little Bulb’s show exploring Artificial Intelligence.
6 April 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Going Through at the Bush Theatre
By Simon Gwynn
‘The stage starts to feel like a living entity’: Simon Gwynn reviews Omar Elerian’s deft production of Estelle Savasta’s play about child migration.
8 March 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: A Lesson From Aloes
27 February - 23 March
By Simon Gwynn
Simon Gwynn reviews Janet Suzman’s claustrophobic revival of Athol Fugard’s 1978 play, which explores ‘the personal toll of political events’.
16 December 2018
Reviews
Review: Cinderella: A Wicked Mother of a Night Out! at London Welsh Centre
By Simon Gwynn
Can I lick your face?: Simon Gwynn reviews Not Too Tame’s ‘raucous and gratifying reinvention of panto’.
12 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: I’m Not Running at the National Theatre
Until 31st January 2019
By Simon Gwynn
Uncanny valley: David Hare’s satire of Labour politics might be set in the present day, but it belongs in another era.
21 September 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Outsider at Print Room
Until 20th October
By Simon Gwynn
Pleasure-seeking animals: Ben Okri’s play is a visceral, accessible take on Albert Camus’s existentialist classic.