Hades Hath No fury
✮✮ 1/2 Sophocles' Electra in a version by Frank McGuinness The Old Vic | London directed by Ian Rickson It’s the old luvvie’s refrain:...
Teaching Literary Genius
✮✮✮✮ Theresa Rebeck's Seminar Hampstead Theatre | London directed by Terry Johnson Shortly before last week's announcement of 2014's...
Freedom and Its Opposite
✮✮✮ 1/2 Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie Belvoir St Theatre | Sydney directed by Eamon Flack Tennessee Williams refers to The...
Beckett on Poppers
✮✮✮✮ Enda Walsh's Ballyturk National Theatre | London directed by Enda Walsh Ballyturk is an Irish town of Father Ted surrealness, so...
A Love Divine
✮✮✮ Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall Southwark Playhouse | London directed by Luke Sheppard Geoffrey Nauffts’ Next Fall was written only five...
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...
Don't Take Offence, Now...
✮✮✮✮ Chris Thompson's Albion Bush Theatre | London directed by Ria Parry “I've got a gay, I've got a black. Everyone still thinks we're...
The Good, the Bad and the Writer's Block
✮✮✮✮ Sam Shepard's True West Tricycle Theatre | London directed by Phillip Breen Who’d bring a golf club to a gunfight? Sam Shepard,...
A Fizzy Fertility Cocktail of Baby-Making Drama
✮✮✮ Ben Ockrent's Breeders St. James Theatre | London directed by Tamara Harvey Breeders used to be a not-so-affectionate nickname for...
To Find a Place in the Sun
✮✮✮✮✮ Maxim Gorgy's Children of the Sun Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Kip Williams In Andrew Upton’s adaptation of Maxim...
