Reviews

Here’s a selection of my reviews — click the image to read in full:

The Traitors, series two

The Real Wagatha Story

The Confessions

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Beckham

A Streetcar Named Desire

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

Harry and Meghan

The Secret Life of Bees

Dear England

The Pillowman

The Motive and the Cue

Shirley Valentine

Obsession

Private Lives

Red, White & Royal Blue

The Seagull

Women Talking

Orlando

Brokeback Mountain

I Am Ruth

Othello

Blonde

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Tammy Faye

ABBA Voyage

French Braid by Anne Tyler

little scratch

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)

The Shark Is Broken

Value Engineering: Scenes From the Grenfell Inquiry

Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical

Diana the Musical

Vigil, BBC One

Shining City, Stratford East

Paradise, National Theatre

Mrs March by Virginia Feito

Hairspray, Coliseum

Caroline Flack documentary

Intimations by Zadie Smith

Lemn Sissay Imagine... doc

On Blueberry Hill, Trafalgar Studios

Shook, Southwark Playhouse

Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. Royal Court

The Duchess of Malfi, Almeida

Snowflake, Kiln

Pass Over, Kiln

Amelie the Musical, Other Palace

for all the women who thought they were Mad

Fairview, Young Vic

A Doll's House, Lyric

Falsettos, Other Palace

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

Dublin Murders, BBC One

Vassa, Almeida

Swive [Elizabeth], Shakespeare's Globe

Mother of Him

Chiaroscuro, Bush Theatre

The King of Hell's Palace, Hampstead

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Open Air Theatre

Jellyfish, National Theatre

Jesus Christ Superstar, Barbican

Further reviews:

Theatre

• Splintered, Soho Theatre

• The best theatre of 2021

• Trouble in Mind, National Theatre

• Manor, National Theatre

• Straight White Men, Southwark Playhouse

• Milk and Gall, Theatre503

• Leopards, Rose Theatre Kingston

• Oleanna, Arts Theatre

• Romeo and Juliet, Open Air Theatre

• and breathe…, Almeida Theatre

TV

• Ten Percent, Prime Video

• WeCrashed, AppleTV

• Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America, BBC One

• The Morning Show, Apple TV

• The Pursuit of Love, BBC One

• Reclaiming Amy, BBC Two

Books

• Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

• Everybody by Olivia Laing

Exhibitions

• Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, V&A Museum