A Shah of Hands
✮✮✮✮ Rajiv Joseph's Guards at the Taj Bush Theatre | London directed by Jamie Lloyd What a canny choice of play to celebrate the Bush’s...
The Best 'Playvie' in Town
✮✮✮✮ Simon McBurney's The Kid Stays in the Picture The Royal Court Theatre | London directed by Simon McBurney Is it a play? Sort of. Is...
When in Rome...
✮✮✮✮ Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies Barbican Theatre | London directed by Ivo van Hove Politics can be murder. In the current climate of...
King of Finite Space
✮✮✮ Shakespeare's Hamlet Almeida Theatre | London directed by Robert Icke Nothing quite divides the camps like a starry Hamlet, and the...
Do You Dare to Dream?
✮✮✮✮ Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Young Vic | London directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play within a...
Layers of Mess
✮✮✮ Ella Hickson's Boys LOST Theatre | London directed by James Thacker The party is over and the flat is a mess – a bigger mess than...
Age and Responsibility
✮✮✮✮ Lucy Kirkwood's The Children The Royal Court Theatre | London directed by James Macdonald The first line of award-winning playwright...
The Best Lear in Town
✮✮✮✮ Shakespeare's King Lear Barbican Theatre | London directed by Gregory Doran Glenda Jackson's must-see Lear at the Old Vic may be...
Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am?
✮✮✮ Shakespeare's King Lear The Old Vic Theatre | London directed by Deborah Warner Glenda Jackson is King Lear! Two-time Oscar winning...
A Big Hug
✮✮✮✮ James McDermott's Rubber Ring The Pleasance | London directed by Siobhan James-Elliott Sixteen-year-old Jimmy is sulking in the safe...
