The Low Road: Royal Court

En route to Sloane Square I blithely used a Barclay’s cashpoint, paid for a sandwich with Visa, bought a drink Continue reading →

Mat Ricardo’s London Varieties

When I first began working in the festival-programming game, I remember a visit to see shows in Brighton and, after Continue reading →

David Bowie is: Victoria & Albert Museum

Actually, the fact that we had to join the longest of queues which stretched the length of the V&A Sculpture Continue reading →

Strange Forces: Circus Space

It’s something of an annual occasion. A squadron of circus-friendly usual suspects – programmers, producers, performers, teachers – head off Continue reading →

Mies Julie: Riverside Studios

A wet and gloomy cycle along the Thames promised the heat of Africa as something of a reward. The much-lauded Continue reading →

A Chorus Line: London Palladium

Picture, if you will, me and mum, thirty-something years ago, walking down Schubert Alley in New York, our eyes misty Continue reading →

Fences: Richmond Theatre

A long, long time ago, in a former century, I worked on a project at the National Theatre identifying and Continue reading →

The Daughter-in-Law: Crucible Sheffield

Usually it’s the mother-in-law who gets it in the neck, here it’s the daughter-in-law very much in the in the Continue reading →