Author Archive

SEA WALL & WMD: WOMAN OF MASS DECEPTION

- 4 October 2025

Licensing conditions are in place that prohibit me from reviewing Simon Stephens’ Sea Wall. First...

THE LIGHTNING THIEF

- 1 October 2025

Most of us grow up with comics, The Beano, The Dandy, The Eagle for my...

SPRING AWAKENING

- 29 September 2025

This extraordinary work, Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play Wedekind’s first major play Frühlings Erwachen, must have...

CÉST MAGNIFIQUE

- 27 September 2025

Ooh la la! Take a stage, probably less than four metres square in size, and...

LORD OF THE FLIES

- 26 September 2025

Golding’s novel sits so firmly in my childhood memory, a curriculum classic that at the...

HAMLET

- 19 September 2025

Three works by Shakespeare in one year, first the splendid revival of Nicholas Hytner’s A...

CARNE

- 15 September 2025

It’s been a while since I wrote about food here on the Latest website, but...

THE CRUCIBLE

- 15 September 2025

One can never fault Brighton Little Theatre for their ambition, year on year they take...

ERIC IDLE LIVE

- 15 September 2025

Let me start by saying that there is little doubt that Eric Idle is a...

DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY

- 3 September 2025

Austen to PD James, novel to novel to TV to stage… can it survive? It’s...

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER

- 28 August 2025

The Conor Baum Company return to the stage at Brighton Open Air Theatre for the...

LES MISERABLES: LET THE PEOPLE SING

- 14 August 2025

Forty years on and it is still so hard to understand why, on its opening,...