Surprise! feels incredibly original and defies genre. It also touched on the issue of mental health in such a poignant way, that once Silver had spoken honestly and directly about how much t…
Girls & Boys at the Royal Court Theatre is a necessary contribution to mainstream subsidised theatre and unquestionably deserving of a place in contemporary feminist theatre's canon.
Therese Ramstedt's Mission Abort shares a personal experience of abortion which she clearly holds very close to her heart. She sheds a punchy and humorous take on something that needs to be …
If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You at The Vaults, on the other hand, is an excellent example of theatre which explores gay love and queer identity from an unfamiliar…
AI Love You, part of the Vault Festival, holds up a mirror to the technological challenges facing society in a way similar to the Netflix hit series Black Mirror and asks the question: "Is t…
The poor script and production fails to serve the impact of PTSD underlying Gold Coast at Theatre503, a significant overhaul is needed to give it potency.
Catherine Lucie's play The Moor is performed in a murder mystery style as we try to figure out, along with the central character, what exactly happened on the night of a party where a potent…
The Drill is a compelling work from this young company quickly establishing themselves as one of the country's leading company of theatremakers.
Assmonkey: In Conversation at The Vaults is a show full of stand-up comedy, songs, dance and yoga and it will move you when you least expect it.
Like many recent Medea revivals, Pecho Mama has tried to make the audience understand Medea's actions, but here, like with others, they fail in articulating this huge moment in the play. The…
Gundog at the Royal Court Theatre joins other plays in recent years about farming and rural life, standing out in its bleakness, thematic complexity and disarming poetry. This small play has…
Stephanie Jacob's new play Again at the Trafalgar Studios could be a traditional comedy-drama about the trials and tribulations of a family, but the writer employs a clever dramaturgical dev…
All Good Artists Are Dead returns with its second show as a collective: Joy is a wide-ranging and stretchy exploration of diaspora and sex. Dina Gordon performs as Joy, a woman who contains …
It's hard to know how to reframe the complexities of envy and irrational hate in youthful terms for Othello at the Union Theatre, but though Cornelissen doesn't always quite manage it, the r…
Boys at The Vaults is exploration of manhood, of masculinity, of what it means to be a man of colour in the UK today.
Even though Blackout at The Vaults isn't a piece of forum theatre, we feel invited to really explore the situation as if we are one of the characters.
Are we people of colour? Are we BME? Are we taking the space of those who need it more? Just hearing those thoughts expressed onstage in White at the Vault Festival, in a space I love and ch…
The concept of The Thing That Came to Dinner at The Vaults is not bad and there can be something pleasurable in watching people be properly silly on stage, but what manifests on stage seems …
Witty, laugh-out-loud, Irish brilliance: Erica Murray's London debut of The Cat's Mother demonstrates how a female-centric production can truly be a hit.
There are some real nuggets of gold hidden in The Internet Was Made for Adults, but nothing is quite in its rightful place. With such a huge creative team at Hitting the Wall Productions, it…
In Mary Stuart, at the Duke of York's Theatre, Robert Icke has created an extraordinary retelling of a pivotal moment in British history, making it current and engaging, to an audience hundr…
The Boring Room is something new, presented in a familiar light. A great way to start an evening at the Vault Festival.
If Nicholas Hytner's concept for Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre was applied with as much thought and skill as the staging, this would be a truly fantastic production.
Singing along to Madonna whilst intermittently judging bad male figures in politics that are still making disgustingly misogynistic comments openly and without proper punishment given their …
In Sacha Guitry, My Daughter & I, director Marianne Badrichani brings us a work inspired by Guitry, a 20th century playwright, actor and director. It includes short plays and extracts o…