Category: Writers

Posted in Ancient Greeks Gate Theatre Nick Payne Theatre

Review: Electra, Gate Theatre

“Electra, you need to calm down” This version of Electra by Nick Payne which is currently playing…

Posted in Broadway David Lindsay-Abaire Drama Desk Awards Jon Robin Baitz Musicals Not-London Stephen Adly Guirgis Theatre Theatre awards

Nominations for the 2011 Drama Desk Awards

Outstanding Play Jon Robin Baitz, Other Desert Cities Adam Bock, A Small Fire Stephen Adly Guirgis, The…

Posted in David Eldridge Hampstead Theatre Theatre

Review: The Stock Da’Wa, Hampstead Downstairs

“What is the real truth of our lives?” The Stock Da’Wa by David Eldridge was perhaps a…

Posted in Bryony Lavery Theatre

Review: Stockholm, Network Theatre

“He likes her intensity. ‘She likes that he likes her intensity; it’s something she’s been working on.’”…

Posted in Arcola Theatre David Mamet Theatre

Review: Lakeboat and Prairie Du Chien, Arcola Theatre

“They say fuck in direct proportion to how bored they are” Continuing the rather scattershot programming that…

Posted in Ella Hickson Theatre

Review: Precious Little Talent, Trafalgar Studios 2

Ella Hickson’s second play Precious Little Talent comes with something of a millstone of huge critical expectation…

Posted in King's Head Theatre Mark Ravenhill Opera

Review: The Coronation of Poppea – London’s Little Opera House at King’s Head Theatre

“I gave you all my love and this is my reward?” Monteverdi’s opera The Coronation of Poppea…

Posted in Bijan Sheibani Donmar Warehouse Harold Pinter Theatre

Review: Moonlight, Donmar Warehouse

“You are the proper target for a cat’s derision”   Pinter has never really been one of…

Posted in Readings Rory Mullarkey Royal Court Theatre

Not-a-review: Pagans, Royal Court

“What’s an agnostic?” Last up in the set of rehearsed readings for the International Playwrights Season was…