Q&A with Little Bulb Theatre

Written for What’s On Stage Soho Theatre kicks off its spring season with last summer’s Edinburgh hit, Operation Greenfield, from the award-winning Little Bulb Theatre – a tale of sexual awakening, Christian folk rock and forest fruit squash. Formed by graduates from the University of Kent - Alexander Scott, Clare Beresford, Shamira Turner and Dominic Conway, Little Bulb Theatre combine innovative [...]

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Winterlong @ Soho Theatre

Written for www.whatsonstage.com They fuck you up, your mum and dad…” So begins “This Be The Verse”, Philip Larkin’s infamous rallying call to end the interminable production line of progeny he sees miserably populating the earth. It’s a biting sentiment and one that could have found no greater spiritual home than Andrew Sheridan’s bleak debut [...]

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A little TLC for Theatre Workbook and a word to the wise to Bourgeois & Maurice

I’ve been a little quiet on the commenting and/or interviewing front recently but the absence from this blog of such things is not indicative of my writing output this month, and this isn’t just an excuse. It really isn’t.

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The Best Of The Rest 2010

We all know the big un’s to watch out for in the first few months of 2010; Red, currently running at the Donmar Warehouse, the West End transfers of Enron and Jerusalem, Peter Brook at The Barbican which also houses the eclectic Bite Season for 2010 and work by the legendary Pina Bausch, Trilogy at [...]

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Icons

Written for Whats On Stage  20 November 2009 There is something terribly beautiful about the rawness of Michael Twaits’ work and something rather spiritual about it too. He’s not afraid to reveal all to his audience, offering himself up completely on an alter to the gods. It is therefore fitting that in his new show [...]

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Edinburgh I love you, but let me flirt with London a little…it’s surprisingly tempting

I wrote this piece when I didn’t know that I was going to be going up to Edinburgh with my lovely friend (and children’s book writer – PLUG!) Louise Beere, but I like it so much that I’m going to post it anyway so read on McDuff and the basic premise is the same – Edinburgh [...]

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The mad jamboree of ìyà-ilé (the first wife)

Last week I went to see ìyà-ilé (the first wife) the new play by Oladipo Agboluaje at the Soho Theatre.  It was quite an experience to say the least, with the audience not only proactively engaged but proactively involved.  Yelps of excitement and fear, claps whoops and cheers, gasps of worry and actual calls for [...]

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