Dead Ends @ The Ministry of Stories

Although novelists can come up with a justification for almost any procrastinatory activity (I need to eat this cake! My protagonist loves cake!), we can …

Deathstyle @ The School of Life

I am afraid of death. Deeply, wibblingly, atheistically afraid. Terrified of losing my consciousness (not to mention my Whistles green silk shirt) forever more. I …

The Hollow Crown @ The BBC

Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more. Only this time bring us proper screen stars. Poirot; The Pope; Loki; that lawyer lass off …

Naturally 7 @ Barbican Centre

Surprisingly, my husband manages to fit in a job other than me. He works for AEG, proud owner of the O2 and other impressively echoey …

Hamlet @ Young Vic

Ian Rickson‘s new Hamlet at the Young Vic contained a lot of firsts for me. It was the first time I’ve been …

Gerhard Richter @ Tate Modern

It was a bit of a duty trip. I was suffering a Halloween party hangover and the afternoon was not unpleasantly sliding into a sloth-marathon …

The Great Gatsby

Reading a really famous book for the first time is a strange experience.

It has taken me twenty-eight years to get to The Great …

The Centaur and the Animal @ Sadlers Wells

I didn’t have many expectations about The Centaur and The Animal. What is one supposed to expect from a show that purports to combine …

Trust Agents

Disoriented? Intrigued? You’ve just gatejumped.

As soon as you read this URL in the International Journal of Advertising, and typed it …

La Bête @ Comedy Theatre

I was in need of a giggle.

Sure, Michael Attenborough’s production of Through A Glass Darkly at the Almeida had its moments of bleak, …

Gifford’s Circus

I’ve never been the most acrobatic of Blondes. By the age of thirteen my limbs were already outstripping my nervous system, and my favourite part …

Gaza/Guernica @ Soho Theatre

There are people like me, who love going to the theatre, thinking and writing about theatre, and have dabbled as a practitioner in the past. …

Mark Morris Dance Group @ Royal Opera House

There are some songs you cannot listen to without dancing. Go on, I challenge you: any MJ. The Killers’s Human. Jimi’s All …

Sweet Tooth

This seems the exact thing to ease us into evening.

It simply demands a whiskey sour and a big slice of Battenburg. But before …

Krystle Warren @ Soho Theatre

As those who read my previous post might suspect, I’ve been thinking a lot about authenticity in the past couple of weeks. It all started …