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...
Age and Responsibility
✮✮✮✮ Lucy Kirkwood's The Children The Royal Court Theatre | London directed by James Macdonald The first line of award-winning playwright...
Epic Trilogy of Black Emancipation
✮✮✮✮ Suzan-Lori Parks' Father Comes Home From the Wars The Royal Court Theatre | London directed by Jo Bonney In the week the National...
A Family in Bits
✮✮✮ 1/2 Nathaniel Martello-White's Torn The Royal Court Theatre | London directed by Richard Twyman The Royal Court Upstairs is...
More Isolating Than Interesting
✮✮✮ Tim Crouch's Adler & Gibb Edinburgh Festival Fringe | Edinburgh directed by Tim Crouch Student Louise Mane (Jillian Pullara) is...
Depression Era
✮✮ Jack Thorne's Hope The Royal Court Theatre | London directed by John Tiffany “We live in the age of cutting cunts,” deputy Council...
A Dispiriting Slump into Well-Upholstered Seats
✮ 1/2 Duncan Macmillan & Chris Rapley's 2071 The Royal Court Theatre | London directed by Katie Mitchell Artistic director Vicky...
Troll Slayers
✮✮✮ 1/2 Tim Price's Teh Internet is Serious Business The Royal Court Theatre | London directed by Hamish Pirie A socially awkward penguin...