Young Vic Theatre

The Young Vic's new production of The Little Foxes—Lillian Hellman's 1939 play about a greedy Southern family tearing itself apart—is being praised as a bold takedown of capitalism and exploitation.

But watching it, I couldn't help noticing how the production seems tailored to avoid truly challenging its audience.

Royal Court Theatre

The play transforms Sutara Gayle's personal journey into a riveting meditation on identity and resistance.

National Theatre

Max Webster's production isn't content with mere wit; it excavates the raw humanity beneath Wilde's satirical surface.

Kiln Theatre

The Purists dives boldly into the complexities of race, sexuality, and identity, particularly within hip-hop culture. It challenges toxic masculinity and explores underrepresented topics like age and intimacy in queer lives, while also addressing the nuanced intersections of masculinity and suppressed sexual identity.

Battersea Arts Centre

Through fight choreography that repeats, resets, and lingers on the aftermath, Chillingsworth doesn’t merely entertain or disturb; they confront us with an image, one splattered with the blood we so readily consume, and force us to recognize ourselves within it.

National Theatre

This play took me right into the heart of grief. Inspired by Antigone, it follows Annie’s defiant return home to protect her father’s ashes, clashing with her uncle’s wish to move on. But this story is less about the ashes and more about the raw, chaotic emotions loss brings to the surface.