Posts in category Theatre

Tender Napalm – a striking title that does what Philip Ridley’s work always manages to do: infuse the bliss of benign fantasy with something terrifying …

Mercury Fur, Second Serving. I seem to be making a habit of re-watching plays at the theatre of late. But how could I resist a) …

The subject may pertain to events almost 200 years old, but Shared Experience’s Mary Shelley is a thoroughly contemporary and familiar setting: philosophers decrying conformity …

Forgiveness: the 9th (out of 12) Step in Alcoholics Anonymous’ recovery program – making amends for the harm caused to others during one’s addition. And …

If you commit a crime and leave your DNA all over the place, they’ll get you. And even if you don’t commit a crime they …

God, redemption, religion, the forces of good and evil. It is hard to tackle these none too light topics in a manner which doesn’t become …

Following on from Purge, Sofi Oksanen’s exploration of the aftershocks of Soviet rule in Estonia, Studio Two at the Arcola Theatre gives us another U.S.S.R. …

An attractive Duchess is widowed and prevented from re-marrying by her brothers – one mad and incestuous, the other randy and clerical. But how can …

That’s twice in one week Snuff Films have popped up onstage. This time a soldier is decapitated and recorded on a mobile phone and then …

If you could save your family and friends from a nuclear Armageddon by directing a snuff film, would you do it? Would you rather shoot …