‘An Alchemy of Flesh’ is constructed like a Möbius strip. It appears to wind up right back where it started, but thanks to an imperceptible twist in its construction we end up on a...
Families, man. Ask Philip Larkin, or Caesar Ramsay – the indomitable patriarch of Rikki Beadle-Blair’s rollicking, bittersweet comedy – they fuck you up. Brought up on a steady...
Ever heard the one about the good Jewish girl who can’t face telling her controlling parents that she’s dating a gentile and so tries to hire a Jewish actor to play her...
You wonder, if this was one of the most popular plays to be seen in London in 1800, what else was on. The Romantics aren’t known for their dramas, and perhaps this excruciating production of...
Having unwisely begun by setting teeth on edge with some of the most excruciating audience interactions ever endured, Ninaz Khodaiji’s banal play (which she also directs) never threatens to...
‘The details will be different, but it will happen to you.’ Actually, it has probably already happened to most people sitting in the audience of the Lyttelton, but not quite so...
Even the most hard-nosed of people can get sentimental when it comes to their own childhood. Artist Eleanor has spent three years eluding her relatives while she tries to capture the now...
Imagine Joe Orton’s ‘Entertaining Mr Sloane’ as re-written by the League of Gentlemen, then make it two-and-a-half hours long, and you’re pretty much there with Lucy...
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