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Sparks doused in hostility in Behud

16.04.10
For Kaur Bhatti, Behud may be a form of exorcism. Yet as theatre it fails to satisfy.... more

Romany romance in Shraddha

05.11.09
Shraddha has energy and some moments of real poetry, and, although at times soft, it feels faithfully contemporary.... more

Everything Must Go bites economy back

26.06.09
Everything Must Go is a low-budget evening of 10 short pieces, written late and rehearsed in just two weeks by a team of five actors at the Soho Theatre.... more

Desperate times in This isn't Romance

20.02.09
The ending doesn't convince and questions are unanswered but what compels is the sense of the toxic cocktail of guilt in This isn't Romance.... more

Theatre

08.10.08
Big musicals may dominate the West End and box office receipts, but straight drama continues to thrive. These are the key people who make this city the global capital of theatre. ... more

Desire to shock overwhelms the plot

23.05.08
Philip Ridley's Piranha Heights becomes one of the most gratuitously unpleasant works in months, and it is impossible to give two hoots about any of it. ... more

East End brothers in Soho

15.05.08
One of the exciting things about Soho Theatre these days is you never know what you are going to get. Piranha Heights keeps us guessing.... more

Baas relief in Lebanon

04.04.08
Wajdi Mouawad's black comedy Wedding Day At The Cro-Magnons paints an eery picture of life turned upside down by war in his native Lebanon. ... more

A bad trip in any language

07.03.08
The potential of the strangely compelling play, A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians, is best realised by reading it.... more

I'm not sure the Poles in London will like my play

27.02.08
As her first drama makes its West End debut, Polish playwright Dorota Maslowska explains why her novels caused such a storm at home.... more

Stoppard and Pinter set for Gala

20.02.08
Undettered by their ban in their own country, the Belarus Free Theatre is hosting a star-studded double bill tonight.... more

Stars back theatre group banned in their homeland

20.02.08
Sir Tom Stoppard will host a gala tonight in support of a theatre company banned in its home country... more

Thea Sharrock is a National star

14.01.08
Can modern urban women have it all? asks a new play. Not without a struggle, says theatre's hottest female talent, director Thea Sharrock.... more

Stirring scenes from Iraq

04.07.07
Iraqi Hassan Abdulrazzack's first play Baghdad Wedding gives a devastating insight into the depraved minds of the terrorists who tried to maim and murder hundreds in London.... more

Too dark to shed light

10.05.07
Philip Ridley's latest work Leaves of Glass, which deals with sexual and psychic damage done in childhood, offers few illuminating insights into paedophilia, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

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