I went to see Pomona last week with a knot in my stomach. I was ready to be made deeply uncomfortable, if not a little disturbed. I came out having felt awkward but vicariously so….
Southwark Playhouse, London: There's nothing much to like about the people in Daniel Anderson's strident debut Saxon Court and it nearly drowns under the weight of its own unpleasa…
Right, before we get all festive (which I positively refuse to do " at least in print " until the last week of November), I want to talk about fringe festivals because golly there are…
News that The Hunger Games is to be turned into a 'theatrical experience' in a purpose-built theatre outside Wembley Stadium brought about mixed emotions last week. I love the Hunger Games. …
The Pit, Barbican Theatre, London: Three silent figures in black sit by laptops powered via clusters of red cords that pour out of the back of them like blood vessels. Behind floats a fluore…
Its time to dust off your sparkly gold stilettos, sequin dress and velvet bow tie " awards season is upon us. Arguably theatre has never had the sort of glamorous gung-ho attitude to awards …
Finborough Theatre, London: The winner of this year's <a href="http://papatango.co.uk/" target=_blank>Papatango new writing prize</a> is further proof of the high …
These days new fringe theatres are popping up everywhere. After the London Theatre Workshop in Fulham and the Twickenham Theatre (which lost its venue but promises to find another) this mont…
The Barbican, London: Simon Stone's production is as devastating as it is dazzling. Stone and co-writer Chris Ryan take a scalpel to Ibsen's original in a reincarnation that is mor…
The Fringe Focus column sees Honour Bayes look outside the world of cavernous auditoria and into the more intimate world of fringe and immersive theatre. Every week she will try to navigate …
Hackney Downs Studio: Laura Lomas' Bird delicately unpicks the provocative issue of child sexual exploitation. In form, it slightly echoes Philip Ridley's Dark Vanilla Jungle, but …
After a brief hiatus, Honour Bayes is back with Fringe Focus. Every week she will try to navigate the wild world of the fringe, picking the best, most interesting or downright unusual things…
Park Theatre, London: Damien Tracey's Warde Street begins with a knotty contemporary question - how would the public react to a trial that put the word a victim of the 7/7 London bombin…
Secret location, London: Fifth Column sees immersive theatre company CoLab utilise cutting edge technology - augmented reality, near field communication and geocaching no less - to turn us a…
Park Theatre, London: David Hare's dense dialogical tracts wrestle with big ideas in static plays; they're worthy and wordy but meaty too, here throwing up complicated provocations…
Hope Theatre, London: This, Joe Orton's first play, looks at the tedium of marriage and everyday life - but it's not all doom and gloom; Fred and Madge is a riotous satire. From it…
Greenwich Theatre, London: Creating work that is genuinely scary on stage is always tricky, but this production of two of Daphne Du Maurier's short stories engenders chills of disquiet …
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is a bubble. Normal work schedules go out the window for artists, critics, audience members and Edinburgh residents, while perspectives become grossly skewed, n…
Arcola Theatre, London: Based on a short story by Baghdad-born Hassan Blasim, this play draws our attention to the daily devastation suffered by Iraqis post Saddam Hussain. Razaq tries to bo…
Arcola Tent, London: Tom Basden's Holes takes the plot of TV's Lost and splices it with Lord of the Flies: the writer, a BBC favourite, strands three conference organisers and a te…
Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk : Latitude's performance lineup is always richly eclectic and this year more than matched the dramatically varied skies - alternating between dazzling su…
Southwark Playhouse, London: Plays in which famous characters meet one another always go one of two ways: you either feel satisfied (Terry Johnson's Hysteria, for example) or disappoint…
King's Head, London: About Miss Julie sees Jonathan Sidgwick move the action of Strindberg's original 35 years forward to the roaring 20s. This decade proves an electric backdrop for th…
Hampstead Downstairs Theatre, London: Martyn Hesford's witty and wounding The Glass Supper is a cutting exploration of salvation and hypocrisy. Abbey Wright's rich production (set …
I want to write about The Anxiety Festival but am anxious I'm doing it too late. It's been on for the whole of June and is now in the last week " what's the point…