The View from the Circle

Sometimes all it takes is the poster for a show for me to be able to think without a shadow of a doubt 'yes, that is for me'. As w...

Of all the genres I've seen on stage, thriller is probably by far the rarest. Had I, before the NT's David Hare-penned The Red Bar...

Or, to give it it's full name, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, or iHo ....

In most plays there is a single moment that manages to somehow capture and summarise the whole show. Whether it’s a line, a visual or a spec...

Saturday was a glorious, sunny day in London; possibly the last real day of summer. Because nothing says summer like angsty Russians, I deci...

Play-ja vu: the feeling you get watching a play that’s very similar to something you’ve seen before. I wonder if there’s a separate faux F...

In a game of word association based on the phrase ‘the Lake District’, ‘taut prison drama’ may not be the obvious response. How many the...