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 →

The Great Gatsby: Northern Ballet

The elegance of the twenties, the passions and betrayals of a band of swinging lovers and the threat of trench-coated Continue reading →

Vollmond: Tanztheater Wuppertal

Enter the world of Pina Bausch and you find yourself in an alien country where you don’t quite know the language; you Continue reading →

The Book of Mormon: West End

At lunchtime, I was reading Alain de Botton‘s stimulating ‘Religion for Atheists’, and cerebrally considering matters of faith over Schezwan chicken. Continue reading →

Julius Caesar: Donmar

The Donmar, starkly decked out as a women’s jail, gave me an eerie flashback to when I briefly taught drama Continue reading →