Theatre Reviews

1910s

1917 Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (June 1917)


1920s

1922 The Silver Box by John Galsworthy (July 1922)


1950s

1952 Wozzeck by Alban Berg (March 1952)

1957 Camino Real by Tennessee Williams (June 1957)
1957 A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller (December 1957)

1958 Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne (June 1958)
1958 Flesh to a Tiger by Barry Reckord (July 1958)
1958 Chicken Soup with Barley by Arnold Wesker (September 1958)

1959 The Hostage by Brendan Behan (January 1959)
1959 Shadow of Heroes by Robert Ardrey (February 1959)
1959 The Long and the Short and the Tall by Willis Hall (March 1959)


1960s

1960 Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (June 1960)
1960 The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (August 1960)


1970s

1975 On the Rocks by George Bernard Shaw (September 1975)

1977 State of Revolution by Robert Bolt (August 1977)

1978 England My Own by Peter Terson (October 1978)
1978 As You Like It by William Shakespeare (November 1978)
1978 The World Turned Upside Down by Keith Dewhurst (December 1978)


1980s

1986 Some Kind of Hero by Les Smith (August 1986)
1986 Sink the Belgrano by Steven Berkoff (December 1986)


1990s

1995 The Editing Process by Meredith Oakes (January 1995)
1995 Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey (March 1995) 
1995 Easter by August Strindberg (April 1995)
1995 The Knocky by Michael Wynne (May 1995)
1995 Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock (June 1995)
1995 The Man Who by Helene Estienne (June 1995)
1995 The Broken Heart by John Ford (July 1995)
1995 The Machine Wreckers by Ernst Toller (October 1995)
1995 Volpone by Ben Jonson (October 1995)
1995 Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind (November 1995)

1996 The Park by Botho Strauss (January 1996)
1996 Virtuoso by William Humble (April 1996)
1996 Skylight by David Hare (May 1996)
1996 Brothers of the Brush by Jimmy Murphy (June 1996)
1996 Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose (July 1996)
1996 John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen (August 1996)
1996 The Tempest by William Shakespeare (September 1996)
1996 Blinded By The Sun by Stephen Poliakoff (October 1996)
1996 Wallpaper by Sophia Kingshill (November 1996)
1996 In the Company of Men by Edward Bond (December 1996)

1997 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (January 1997)
1997 Art by Yasmina Reza (February 1997)
1997 The Homecoming by Harold Pinter (March 1997)
1997 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) The Reduced Shakespeare Company (April 1997)
1997 A Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill (April 1997)
1997 East Is East by Ayub Khan Din (May 1997)
1997 Roots by Arnold Wesker (May 1997)
1997 Tom and Clem by Stephen Churchett (June 1997)
1997 Closer by Patrick Marber (July 1997)
1997 Amy's View by David Hare (August 1997)
1997 Chips With Everything by Arnold Wesker (November 1997)
1997 An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (December 1997)

1998 Junk by Melvin Burgess (March 1998)
1998 The Day I Stood Still by Kevin Elyot (April 1998)
1998 The Snow Palace by Pam Gems (April 1998)
1998 The Weir by Conor McPherson (April 1998)
1998 Oh What a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood (May 1998)
1998 Roots by Arnold Wesker (May 1998)
1998 Flight by Mikhail Bulgakov (July 1998)
1998 Nabokov’s Gloves by Peter Moffat (August 1998)
1998 Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (September 1998)
1998 After Darwin by Timberlake Wertenbaker (October 1998)
1998 Mother Courage by Bertold Brecht (November 1998)
1998 An Experiment with an Air Pump by Shelagh Stephenson (December 1998)

1999 Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (January 1999)
1999 Mr Puntila and His Man Matti by Bertolt Brecht (February 1999)
1999 Hindle Wakes by Stanley Houghton (March 1999)
1999 A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev (April 1999)
1999 Talk of the City by Stephen Poliakoff (May 1999)
1999 The Dispute by Marivaux (June 1999)
1999 Money by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (July 1999)
1999 Dreaming by Peter Barnes (August 1999)
1999 110 in the Shade by N. Richard Nash (September 1999)
1999 Summerfolk, by Maxim Gorki (October 1999)
1999 Love On The Dole by Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood (November 1999)
1999 Remember This by Stephen Poliakoff (December 1999)


2000s

2000 Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg (January 2000)
2000 Candide by Voltaire (February 2000)
2000 Widowers' Houses by George Bernard Shaw (March 2000)
2000 Honk, The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen (April 2000)
2000 Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten (August 2000)
2000 The Country by Martin Crimp (August 2000)

2001 House and Garden by Alan Ayckbourn (January 2001)
2001 God Only Knows by Hugh Whitemore (May 2001)

2002 Sand and Glass by Derek Martin (August 2002)

2003 1984 by George Orwell (April 2003)

2005 Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff (February 2005)

2008 Popcorn by Ben Elton (April 2008)


2010s

2012 Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death by Edward Bond (May 2012)
2012 Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill (June 2012)
2012 Don Giovanni by Mozart (July 2012)
2012 Antigone by Sophocles (September 2012)
2012 Be Good Revolutionaries by Dirty Market (October 2012)
2012 What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton (November 2012)
2012 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht (December 2012)

2013 A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (January 2013)
2013 The Doctor’s Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw (February 2013)
2013 Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (March 2013)
2013 The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan (March 2013)
2013 Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman (April 2013)
2013 Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht (May 2013)
2013 Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (June 2013)
2013 The Low Road by Bruce Norris (July 2013)
2013 The Shame Show by Caroline Smith and Paul Green (August 2013)
2013 The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution by Caryl Churchill (September 2013)
2013 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (October 2013)

2014 The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill (February 2014) 
2014 Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorky (March 2014)
2014 Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (June 2014)
2014 Oh What a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood (August 2014)
2014 In the Jungle of the Cities by Bertolt Brecht (September 2014)
2014 Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn (October 2014)

2015 England Arise! by Mick Martin (January 2015)
2015 Our Big Land by Dan Allum (January 2015)
2015 Heresy by Tilo Ulbricht (February 2015)
2015 The Pajama Game by Richard Bissell (April 2015)
2015 Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be by Frank Norman and Lionel Bart (July 2015)
2015 The Ayn Lady by Emma Kilbey (August 2015)


2020s

2021 The Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Estate Agency by Cardboard Citizens (December 2021)

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