Stephe Harrop

Found in the Ground isn’t calculated to accommodate the Barker novice, or anyone with a low-ish boredom threshold.

It’s hard not to be impressed by a show that handles a demanding crowd so deftly, charming kids and adults alike, without ever seeming to try too hard.

In Jackson Lane Theatre’s season of carnivalesque events, The Sugar Beast Circus and Milkwood Rodeo display a keen desire to interrogate the tawdry, magical, dreadful world of the circus.

With fewer histrionics, and greater faith in the actors’ ability to make us care, Kitty and Damnation would be a much stronger piece of theatre.

This is Euripides without tears, a happy ending snatched from catastrophe, and the funniest Greek tragedy you’re likely to come across.

The Girlfriend Experience is the most honest, educational and unexpectedly life-affirming play I’ve seen in a very long time.

A brisk, bright, good-humoured account of Aphra Behn’s comedy about Englishmen behaving appallingly abroad.

As yet unfinished, but already roughly enchanting, The Glass Mountain looks set to be a hopeful, heartfelt and most rewarding journey.

S-27, while committed and sometimes compelling, lacks detail, credibility and grit.

In their grimy, bloodied hands, Sophocles’ drama acquires an unpretentious, slightly battered and totally compelling integrity.