The question of ownership: Frey Kwa Hawking reviews Debris Stevenson’s autobiographical ode to grime.
West End & Central
24 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Prisoner at National Theatre
Until 4th October
By J N Benjamin
Excruciating silences: Peter Brook’s drama is an exercise in painfully slow abstraction.
23 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Marathon at the Barbican
20 - 29 September 2018
By Hailey Bachrach
WARNING: Hailey Bachrach writes on an unpredictable look at amnesia by young international collective JAMS.
23 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Eyam at Shakespeare’s Globe
15 September - 13 October 2018
By Frey Kwa Hawking
Village politics made mighty: Frey Kwa Hawking reviews Matt Hartley’s new play set in a Derbyshire plague village.
17 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Foxfinder at Ambassadors Theatre
6 September - 5 January 2019
By Sally Hales
An enemy of the people: Sally Hales reviews the West End debut of Dawn King’s ‘neat, slick, streamlined four-hander’.
14 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: We Are Fucked at Royal Festival Hall
7 - 8 September 2018
By Maddy Costa
Penetrate the earth in the wrong way it will react. Penetrate the human body with enough daily violence and what…? Maddy Costa reviews Jo Bannon’s new work as part of Unlimited Festival.
13 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Woods at Royal Court
5 September - 20 October 2018
By Frey Kwa Hawking
Frey Kwa Hawking reviews a play that ‘doesn’t make conventional sense, but a kind of sense you feel intuitively.’Â
1 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Velvet Petal at Southbank Centre
31 August - 1 September 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
You have nothing to fear: Rosemary Waugh reviews Scottish Dance Theatre with a work inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe.
28 August 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Pericles at National Theatre
26 - 28 August 2018
By Frey Kwa Hawking
Makes a seemingly little play vast: Frey Kwa Hawking reviews the Public Acts production of Shakespeare’s Pericles.
16 August 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Emilia at Shakespeare’s Globe
10 August – 1 September 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Reclaiming a poet: Rosemary Waugh reviews Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s new play about Emilia Bassano.
11 August 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Silk Road (How To Buy Drugs Online) at Trafalgar Studios 2
Until 1st September 2018
By Nabilah Said
‘The bleak loneliness faced by the outcasts of society’: Nabilah Said reviews this one-man show about an illegal digital market place.
4 August 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Home, I’m Darling at National Theatre
By Lauren Mooney
Meaningful and lovely: Laura Wade’s exploration of ’50s domesticity swells into something surprisingly heartfelt.
3 August 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Othello at Shakespeare’s Globe
Until 13 October 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Just your average guy… until he’s not: Rosemary Waugh reviews Claire van Kampen’s Othello.
2 August 2018
Reviews • Reviews • West End & Central
King Lear at Duke of York’s Theatre
By Brendan Macdonald
Ian McKellan is exceptional in a King Lear that’s all about Lear.
1 August 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Lehman Trilogy at the National Theatre
Until 20 October 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
American dreaming: Rosemary Waugh reviews the story of the Lehman brothers.