Reviews - Theatre
May 15, 2008 Brendan Simms uncovers the hidden neoconservatism of Martin Crimp - and is reminded that it sometimes takes a general: Martin Crimp's Cruel and Tender Brendan Simms
April 28, 2008 Treason in a Cold Climate: Brendan Simms on the treason of Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess and why it matters Brendan Simms
April 10, 2008 Embarrassed by Shylock: The Merchant of Venice at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford Lincoln Allison
March 26, 2008 The revival of Edward Bond's 1973 play The Sea makes David Wootton realise that Britain really has become a better place since then: Edward Bond's The Sea at The Haymarket David Wootton
March 25, 2008 Happy Now is a play that doesn't quite work - but it is a very interesting failure, says David Wootton: Lucinda Coxon's Happy Now at the National David Wootton
March 20, 2008 The Homecoming is today a different play than it was in 1965 or even in 2001 - David Wootton explains why: Harold Pinter's The Homecoming at the Almeida David Wootton
January 30, 2008 The Fat Man Trying to Get Out: Henry IV, Parts I & II at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford Lincoln Allison
December 12, 2007 David Wootton sees Euripides's The Women of Troy and finds his thoughts drifting away to the sub prime mortgage market: Euripides's The Women of Troy at the National David Wootton
November 19, 2007 David Wootton is shocked and intrigued by a strange play about sex: Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine at the Almeida Theatre David Wootton
November 05, 2007 Christie Davies laughs at the sheer silliness of the French in Ionesco's Rhinoceros at the Royal Court Christie Davies
October 29, 2007 The politics of Pinter's The Hothouse are those of the right, not the left - argues David Wootton David Wootton
October 01, 2007 A deeply flawed, but also quite wonderful production: The Merchant of Venice at the Globe David Wootton
September 21, 2007 Richard Cussands's new play Charity Wars is too grim even for those who have a jaundiced view of international aid, argues Brendan Simms - Richard Cussands's Charity Wars at the Pleasance Theatre, Islington Brendan Simms
August 21, 2007 David Womersley asks, is The Taming of the Shrew really as phallocentric a play as it seems? The Taming of the Shrew - Creation Theatre Company at Oxford Castle David Womersley
July 13, 2007 What is Chekhov's The Seagull about? David Womersley offers some suggestions David Womersley