Playwright Zoë Simon has a sound reputation on the national fringe. But we’re not making a cheap point when we say that the only good thing about her new play is the professionalism of...
The Union Theatre has long programmed an annual show of short plays and this year they’ve teamed up with the Koestler Trust, which promotes artistic activity in Britain’s prisons, to...
The most curious aspect of Ron Hutchinson’s newish play is that he treats the discovery that tabloids and the truth don’t often sally forth in company as some kind of dramatic...
Writer Eileen Zhang examines an Electra complex reaching dangerous maturity in a pre-war Shanghai destined for communism. Lin’s adoration of her father finally erupts in the wake of her...
‘I’m a wet pup going home with my tail between my legs,’ prim May tells Raleigh when the discharged serviceman seats himself beside her on a long-haul train journey in 1940. Jokey...
This exploration of nineteenth-century female madness, produced by the Brazilian Grupo XIX de Teatro, is slight, pretty and appealing. In the aptly baroque great hall of St Bart’s, four...
As the number of eastern Europeans coming to work here has soared, there’s a side of Britain that has become distinctly Dickensian and that most of us know nothing about. Or rather, we choose...
Starting out as a razor-sharp satire of workplace regulations, by the end of its 50-minute running time Mike Bartlett’s ‘Contractions’ has become a 1984 for our times.Emma’s...
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