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Postpartum
“The boy’s eyes opened, as a wail escaped his pale lips. He must eat.” Today’s #StorySunday is “Postpartum” by Polly Goss.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
A Gamble If You Don’t
When the answer to whether or not you want to have kids is ‘maybe.’
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
THE OLD STREETS OF XAMAR
Two friends meet again in the face of tragedy
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
FELLOW PASSENGERS
Fellow passengers connect
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
TULIPS
Do you want kids?
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EXHIBITION REVIEW: JEAN DUBUFFET: BRUTAL BEAUTY
A major London exhibition of the works of Jean Dubuffet reviewed.
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FOR DAD, IF YOU COULD SEE THE STATE I’M IN | LITRO LAB PODCAST
A son writes an honest letter to his dad from a very rainy London. This is a lyrical piece that invites us to think of longing and nostalgia. In those ...
The Goal
A young man tries to adjust to his new life in London.
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Book Review: London Undercurrents, by Joolz Sparkes and Hilaire
Sparkes and Hilaire have divided in two the work of unearthing and voicing by location, with Sparkes taking North and Hilaire the South of London, demarcated by the river that ...
Love and Justice: Consent at the Harold Pinter Theatre
Nina Raine’s play – about lawyers and their private lives – has just transferred from the National Theatre to the West End under the direction of Roger Michell.
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Master of Confrontation: Not Talking at the Arcola Theatre
In 2005, Mike Bartlett’s formally experimental Not Talking found a home on BBC Radio 3 after being rejected from multiple theatres. In 2018 – amazingly – it is being performed ...
The Fears of Mothers: Spiked at the Pleasance Theatre
After witnessing segregation and tribalism at the school gates, actress Félicité Du Jeu wrote Spiked to show “what mothers have in common rather than focus on their differences”.
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A Change Is Gonna Come: Caroline, or Change at the Hampstead Theatre
Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori have written a fierce, rousing opera celebrating the Civil Rights Movement.
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Different Worlds: The York Realist at the Donmar Warehouse
This play written seventeen years ago hits us with a very contemporary dilemma. How do two people who love each other – and yet have a clear sense of their ...
Power Play: The Birthday Party at the Harold Pinter Theatre
In 1958, The Birthday Party was so widely panned it closed after eight performances. Sixty years later, enjoying one of the starriest revivals in the West End.
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The Other Side of Anonymity: The Believers Are But Brothers at the Bush Theatre
Before you enter the theatre, you are asked to join a special WhatsApp group as part of the show. For once, we are not asked to switch off our phones. ...
A Cry in the Dark: Parliament Square at the Bush Theatre
James Fritz’s new play is bold, fresh and acutely observed – but also an incredibly uncomfortable theatrical experience.
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Grey Zones: Bad Roads at the Royal Court Theatre
Bad Roads – a form of oral history about the ongoing war in Ukraine – is a political act, documenting a shocking reality in a conflict characterized by fakery.
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Looking for Mummy: Nazanin’s Story: An Urgent Call For Justice
Emi Howell’s play, about the British-Iranian charity worker currently imprisoned in Iran, is political theatre at its best.
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The Price of War: Minefield at the Royal Court Theatre
Lola Arias’s melancholic study of the Falklands War is a strange and poignant show about war and memory.
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