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'Cargo' at the Arcola Theatre, 8th July 2016
After six years of immigrant-baiting, ultra-austerity, privatisation-crazy government, Britain was already shit. But post Brexit it's like we're in an accelerated timeline of fuck.Westminster is a...
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'Alice in Wonderland' at Abney Park Cemetery, 20th July 2016
It's 151 years since Alice's Adventures in Wonderland exploded into the public consciousness and its popularity shows no signs of diminishing. Alice is everywhere - popping up in various forms on...
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'How to Win Against History' at the Ovalhouse, 21st July 2016
Henry Cyril Paget, the 5th Marquess of Anglesey, was pretty damn rock and roll for a Victorian peer. Born into incredible wealth and privilege, he blew it all on outrageous outfits, mountains of...
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'Turf' at the King's Head Theatre, 22nd July 2016
After years of toil, Eddie's gotten his toe on the housing ladder. No more miserably living in house-shares with antisocial weirdos. No more throwing his wages into a landlord's bottomless pockets. No...
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'Secret Tea & Fantasy' at The Slaughtered Lamb, 24th July 2016
Last night, under a soothing crimson pentagram, I was dragged on stage and made out with a dude. This was my highlight of the inaugural Secret Tea & Fantasy at The Slaughtered Lamb pub in...
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The Cerebellum Fundraiser
Just a quick post to promote my friend Charlotte CHW's Cerebellum fundraiser:"Cerebellum consists of exciting and varied live art events set within immersive micro exhibitions with free accompanying...
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'Couple in a Hole' (2015) directed by Tom Geens
For all our fancy philosophisin', humans are ultimately just farty sacks of skin and meat. Beyond feelings, emotions and desires lie the needs of a biological machine: food, warmth and shelter. This is...
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'Phoebe' at the King's Head Theatre, 26th July 2016
A.C. Smith'sPhoebe is an odd little play populated by characters that're slightly, but not entirely, skewiff. It's part of #Festival46, a showcase for work from some of the most promising new talents,...
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'Rotterdam' at Trafalgar Studios, 28th July 2016
Rotterdam sucks. Granted, that's mainly because the Nazis dropped 1,300 bombs on it in one night. With its medieval city centre wiped off the face of the earth, the way was paved for a present of...
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'An Evening with Cock and Fanny' at the Hen and Chickens, 1st August 2016
What better way to spend a drizzly and miserable Monday evening than with Cock and Fanny? Ho ho ho, but seriously folks - I'm not talking about fucking. I'm talking about An Evening with Cock and Fanny...
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'Clapham South Deep Level Shelter', 31st July 2016
The asphalt of London is but a gateway. Under the streets lie a chaotic warren: from the familiar rumble of the Tube, to sewers, power lines and gas lines. Somewhere within this is nestled more...
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'The Secret Garden (Spring Version) at the Ambassadors Theatre, 3rd August 2016
Sometimes I think I'm a little too hard on musicals. Despite my best intentions, I get exhausted out by the melodrama and the fresh-faced stage school grads who tend to populate them. It's not that I...
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'The Collector' at the Vaults Theatre, 4th August 2016
53 years on from publication, John Fowles' The Collector remains a deeply disturbing piece of work. The basic story - weirdo lottery winner Frederick Clegg snatches art student Miranda off the street...
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'Dark Vanilla Jungle' at the Cockpit Theatre, 10th August 2016
The Cockpit Theatre seats 420 people. Last night's production had an attendance of 9. But, curiously, Burning Coal's production of Philip Ridley's Dark Vanilla Jungle is only amplified by the vast...
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'Macbeth' at the Courtyard Theatre, 11th August 2016
The last few months of post Brexit British politics have been brutal. The Tories, tasting Cameron's blood in the water, got the knives out for their leadership contest. This, in typical Conservative...
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'Eight Till Late' in New York City, Interview with Lucy Sparrow
Long time readers will know that I'm long-standing fan of felt-based artist Lucy Sparrow. I first met her in 2013 at an art street party outside my house in London, where her felt portrait of Rose West...
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'Screens' at Theatre503, 12th August 2016
Screens greets its audience with a tortured, decapitated and very dead cat. Eventually the house lights go down and a middle-aged woman enters stage left, reacts in horror to the sight before her and...
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Review: 'Thlides' at the Lion and Unicorn, 22nd August 2016
At first glance, Thlides sounds as if it could be a dusty old Greek tragedy with a mutilation fetish. It turns out to represent what happens if you try to say 'slides' with a lisp. What the play...
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Review: 'Little Shop of Horrors' at the New Wimbledon Theatre, 23rd August 2016
There really should be more musicals about giant flesh-eating plants. Little Shop of Horrors (in both its cinematic and stage guises) has always been a favourite of mine, the show neatly bypassing my...
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'Performances of the Skeleton House #2', 24th August 2016
Something peculiar happened last night in Clapham. From within a well-to-do townhouse came billowing clouds of talc, dusting the street in a thin alabaster layer. If you'd have glanced up, you might...
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