Theatre Reviews & More

Paper cuts in the park: In time-loop stories, it usually takes some time before people start acting weird, but with Paper Swans...

Soft furnishings and social commentary: How far would you go for some parquet flooring and a smeg fridge? In Philip Ridley’s dark comedy...

Toxic healing, girls?: It is a curse of feminist theatre that it can never really solve the problems it raises. That is true of any art...

The dwindling flame of a beloved series: Shakespeare is so revered it is a wonder why we have so few modern imitators...

A sitcom cast imprisoned in a play: This is Where We Get Off, by Ingram Noble and Heather Spiden, has very little to do with buses....

Gary McNair weaves a wonderful Dickensian World: Every year it starts earlier, doesn’t it? Dickens season I mean. Late October...

Suburban dreams and supernatural happenings in the Banshee’s Basement: It is unfair to be cynical about a festival I have never attended...

A warts-and-all celebration of 90s Britpop: In the cycle of fashionable decades, it seems the '90s have been skipped over. We went...

Comedy that reconciles the gay and the godly: If God made man in his own image, then perhaps his voice mimics each person he speaks to?...

A recording session takes a dark turn in a dingy basement: We don’t like to admit it, but in our culture there is a certain appetite for...