Reviews
Reviewing is at the heart of what we do. Here you’ll find all the reviews that our wonderful team have written. If you want to find something more specific, why not pick a genre of show instead from the menu.
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Review: Baldwin Vs Buckley, Wilton’s Music Hall
A lucid and relevant reconstruction of a historic debate that fascinates and resonates, but is it theatre?
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Review: Exhuming Emily, Etcetera Theatre
A well chiselled solo show, performed with skill and momentum.
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Review: The Rat Trap, Park Theatre
An early Coward play resurfaces as more than just an intellectual curio.
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Review: Spin Cycles, Camden People’s Theatre
A vibrant and heartfelt one-woman show that provides a fresh, contemporary take on grief, healing and identity in your 30s.
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Review: Crown of Blood, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
A powerful retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth which translates brilliantly to this new Yorubaland setting.
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Review: Boxes, Soho Theatre
A vital story that tells of a life of uncertainty and hardship.
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Review: A Fine Kettle of Fish, Old Red Lion Theatre
An energetic and entertaining take on the classic murder mystery, swapping out contemplative seasoned detectives for loud and lively students crashing through the case.
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Review: Was Jane Austen Gay?, Actors Church
What better way to honour the recent 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death than by exploring her potential queerness in an infamous 17th‑century church?
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Review: Maggots, Bush Theatre
Farah Najib’s unsettling drama is a portrait of housing failure, social paralysis and exemplary storytelling.
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Review: Gutter VIII, The Pen Theatre
Some of the most vital alternative comedy London has to offer, Gutter amplifies the best and worst of human nature, weaponising parody and turning society’s grey areas – and outright evils – into tools of critique.