Review – Letters from Max, love, loss, lyricism
Sarah Ruhl’s epistolary play about poet Max Ritvo is a tender, witty meditation on life, art and mortality, delicately staged at Hampstead Theatre.
The spark is in the space between characters
Great stories live not in the characters themselves, but in the relationships – the charged, shifting dynamics that bind or break them.
Review – Radiant Boy, of spectres and squandered opportunity
Crisp writing and a strong cast can’t save Radiant Boy from its own lack of conviction. An exorcism with no menace is no exorcism at all.
Review – The Fifth Step, funny, fraught and flawed
Martin Freeman and Jack Lowden spark in a sharp, chaotic AA two-hander that juggles redemption and rabbit gags with wit, energy, and frustrating lack of depth.
Review – The Comedy About Spies, shaken, stirred and silly
Mischief’s latest farce, The Comedy About Spies, is a Bond-flavoured blast of chaos, puns and precision, proving this troupe’s comic formula still works.