Damascus, Tricycle Theatre

I’ve never really understood why playwright David Greig — surely one of the top five British playwrights to have emerged in the 1990s — isn’t better known in London.

Quote of the day: “It is typical of Greig’s sense of humour that in his hands Barbie and Action Man can manage to take us on a journey through uncertain spaces of self-doubt, failu…

This week, the enterprising Southwark Playhouse hosts Theatre Uncut, a theatre event in response to the Coalition cuts, led as ever by our new Iron Chancellor.

It’s still very early to say how the current age of austerity will affect theatre but an early blast in the continuing argument over what is the most democratic type of theatre at …