Theatre Collection, London. Victor Sobchak's dire production fails on pretty much every level. He shuffles his actors around the stage like a novice chess player blindly pushes the pieces around the board, but beyond that he appears to have bestowed nothing whatsoever of a director's eye on this piece. Settings are unclear and scene changes … Continue reading Ivanov – 0 stars

Arch 61, London. Four seemingly disconnected and dysfunctional people, through a series of short intermittent monologues, take us on their roller-coaster ride of increasing frustrations over the course of a day, in this short piece by Spanish playwright Miguel Morillo and translated by Daniel Curshen. The play drips with misanthropic cynicism. The theme is very … Continue reading Hamlet Smith – 4 stars

Producing theatre for children is a tricky thing to get right. Playing for easy, obvious laughs is a sure-fire way to get and keep your audience on board, but that's not always easy to achieve or the right choice creatively - particularly when you have as serious a subject matter as this. It is to … Continue reading I Have A Dream… – 3 stars

Wimbledon Studio Theatre, London. It is 1972, and comedy double act Douglas and Adams are at the end of their successful summer season tour. They are riding high, with another TV series in the pipeline. But one of them has some news that will tear things apart. Martyn Grahame's script cracks along, full of witty … Continue reading Double Act – 5 stars

This feels very much like a play of two halves. Set in a bleak not-too-distant future where "dreams have been outlawed and imagination has all but vanished", there is, during the first 20 minutes or so, a lot of information to get across, a bit too much exposition, and a cacophony of ideas. It all … Continue reading Kid Arthur and the Knights of the Revolution – 3 stars