Labyrinth Hampstead Theatre, London In past decades, the trouble with British theatre was that it wasn’t political. Nowadays the trouble is that there are plenty of political plays, but their …
Counting Stars Theatre Royal Stratford East, London If We Got Some More Cocaine… Old Red Lion Theatre, London What hope is there for society’s oppressed and the exploited? A pair …
Unreachable Royal Court London Anthony Neilson has the reputation of being the bad boy of 1990s British theatre, making his mark with in-yer-face plays such as Penetrator, The Censor and …
Screwed Theatre 503 London As the Brexit vote demonstrates, it is unwise to neglect the urban poor. While in contemporary culture, the working class is often demonised and laughed at, …
Wild Hampstead Theatre London Edward Snowden is easier to respect than like. In 2013, the computer specialist and former CIA employee leaked more than 150,000 classified documents revealing US military …
LOVE N STUFF Theatre Royal, Stratford East London Writers are sometimes inspired by plays the rest of us have forgotten. I haven’t had a conscious thought about Marie Jones’s 1996 …
Cuttin’ It Young Vic, London
Monster Raving Loony Soho Theatre, London The Local Stigmatic Old Red Lion Theatre, London
Lawrence After Arabia Hampstead Theatre, London
My Mother Said I Never Should St James Theatre, London Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State National Theatre, London Usually, I prefer new plays to revivals, …
The Fifth Column Southwark Playhouse, London
Correspondence Old Red Lion, London BU21 Theatre 503, London
Single Spies Richmond Theatre and touring
Cleansed National Theatre London A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Young Vic London
Escaped Alone Royal Court London Yen Royal Court London
Iphigenia in Splott National Theatre, London Pink Mist Bush Theatre
Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern Arcola Theatre, London
John Osborne: ‘Anger is not about…’ by Peter Whitebrook (Oberon Books, £20)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses Donmar Warehouse, London
Hapgood Hampstead Theatre, London You for Me for You Royal Court, London
The Homecoming Trafalgar Studios, London The Divided Laing Arcola Theatre, London
Waste National Theatre, London The Moderate Soprano Hampstead Theatre, London
Clarion Arcola Theatre, London
