REVIEW: Party Favour
Reading Time: 3 minutesIndicts the expectation that dignity is for sale and explores the line between demeaning and empowering work under late-stage capitalism”
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REVIEW: Krapp’s Last Tape/ Godot’s To-Do List
Reading Time: 3 minutesKrapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett starring Gary Oldman/ Godot's To-Do List by Leo Simpe-Asante at Royal Court Theatre five star review
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Hersh Dagmarr
Reading Time: 3 minutesA deeply theatrical, flamboyant cabaret reimagining of Kylie Minogue's biggest pop anthems by queer cabaret spectre Hersh Dagmarr and piano virtuoso Karen Newby, - the perfect act of queer worship to kick off London Pride Weekend in style.
REVIEW: The Marriage of Figaro
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s one of the most popular operas of all time and has one of Mozart’s most iconic scores, and the Scottish Opera’s production more than does it justice.
REVIEW: Siren Songs and Serenades
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnna Clyne’s music has a fascinating habit of seducing the listener before quietly unsettling them. That duality sat at the centre of Sirens and Serenades at St Martin-in-the-Fields, an evening that explored not simply beauty in sound, but beauty carrying an undercurrent of danger.
REVIEW: FLUSH
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe women's bathroom has always operated as a confessional - secrets exchanged between strangers over shared lipstick, governed by the tacit understanding that whatever happens here stays here. April Hope Miller's FLUSH simply formalises the jurisdiction.
REVIEW: The Fastest Clock in the Universe
Reading Time: 2 minutesA grimy, glittering spiral into vanity, delusion and emotional decay, played with thrilling intensity There is something deeply chaotic about Philip Ridley’s The Fastest Clock in the Universe, and that chaos feels surprisingly at home in 2026.…
REVIEW: Flyology
Reading Time: 3 minutesFlyology’s premise is straightforward: An insufferable tech bro pitches an AI-VR system devoid of emotions that glitches to bring back Ethyl Smyth, Ada Lovelace and Emmeline Pankhurst.
REVIEW: Stanislavski Can’t Save Me From the Apocalypse
Reading Time: 3 minutesMaggie Dickinson’s Stanislavski Can’t Save Me From the Apocalypse, produced by Cate Johannessen, is a wildly inventive and darkly comic triumph.
REVIEW: When I Wake Up Again
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I Wake Up Again is a quietly devastating meditation on grief, love, and the strange endurance of living. Directed and written by Xinyue (Sammi) Xing.