Krapp’s Last Tape at the Barbican: 'Stephen Rea is oddly workmanlike' 3/5 Among a slew of Krapp’s, Stephen Rea’s is finely calibrated but lacks pathos Evening Standard · May 2, 2025
Edinburgh festival theatre 2024: The Fifth Step; The Outrun; I Wish You Well; Gwyneth Goes Skiing – review Jack Lowden and Sean Gilder compel in David Ireland’s crackling new AA drama The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2024
‘Peter Capaldi was punched off his chair’: Fifty years of explosive theatre company Paines Plough From locking playwrights up until a drama emerged to dreaming up Sarah Kane’s Crave in a pub; the talent behind half a century of innovation reveal their secrets The Guardian - UK · Aug 19, 2024
The Outrun review – ambitious staging of Amy Liptrot’s Orkney addiction memoir Vicky Featherstone’s directing and Isis Hainsworth’s fine lead turn valiantly blur the wild and the urban to portray the writer’s introspective journey to sobriety The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2024
Krapp’s Last Tape review – Stephen Rea is hauntingly good in Beckett’s masterpiece There isn’t a hint of sentimentality in Vicky Featherstone’s delicately calibrated production of Samuel Beckett’s monologue about mortality The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2024
Leading lights of UK stage call for Israeli release of Palestinian theatre group Open letter signed by top playwrights, actors and directors demands Israel free members of Freedom theatre The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023
Royal Court theatre launches digital archive of every play performed there London venue’s online collection of performances dating back to 1956 will be free to use for writers, directors and the public The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2023
Royal Court appoints New Diorama’s David Byrne as its artistic director Byrne will succeed Vicky Featherstone, who leaves the Sloane Square venue after more than a decade, in 2024 Evening Standard · Jul 20, 2023
Playwright David Byrne appointed as Royal Court’s new artistic director Writer will take over from Vicky Featherstone in early 2024 The Independent UK · Jul 20, 2023
It’s time for theatres to stop ghosting the playwrights they have commissioned Dramatists are increasingly being strung along and ignored. We must act now to save the UK’s great playwriting culture The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2023