Tag: metaphor
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Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists, National Theatre
Monday 21st September 2026
reviewThoroughly uncomfortable: provocative if also rather heavy-handed Portuguese dra…
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Tender, Bush Theatre
Monday 20th July 2026
reviewHaunting blood relations: new play about love and loneliness in London has terri…
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Teeth ’N’ Smiles
Sunday 10th May 2026
blogText of the day: “I knew a guy, played in a band.”
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Heart Wall, Bush Theatre
Tuesday 14th April 2026
reviewNew play about family trauma and grief is subtle, sensitive, deeply felt, but al…
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The Shitheads
Thursday 26th February 2026
blogFavourite stage direction: “All of the characters are early human beings.”
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Lost Atoms
Friday 20th February 2026
blogText of the day: “Lots of folk tales start with a foolish act.”
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The Shitheads, Royal Court
Thursday 12th February 2026
reviewNew play about the prehistoric past searches for relevance, but only finds a rea…
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Deaf Republic, Royal Court
Thursday 4th September 2025
reviewStaging of Ukrainian-American Ilya Kaminsky’s anti-war poems is too meta-theatri…
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Apex Predator, Hampstead Theatre
Monday 31st March 2025
reviewNew play about motherhood and vampirism is disappointingly incoherent: poor writ…
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