MAYER WAKEFIELD wonders why this 1978 drama merits a revival despite demonstrating that the underlying theme of racism in the UK remains relevant

MAYER WAKEFIELD speaks to playwright Richard Bean about his new play Reykjavik that depicts the exploitation of the Hull-based “far-fleet” trawlermen

MAYER WAKEFIELD finds himself caught in the crossfire during a riveting piece of activist theatre

MAYER WAKEFIELD falls in love with a deft and hilarious portrait of Cairo after the Arab Spring

MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds the revival of an eerily prophetic drama

MAYER WAKEFIELD witnesses a perceptive take on how class, wealth and power manifest themselves in contemporary relationships

An insightful exploration of an unexplored world of rap and its many contradictions impresses MAYER WAKEFIELD

MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds a timely revival of Pearl Cleage’s 1995 drama

MAYER WAKEFIELD recommends a powerful drama from Clean Break who specialise in work concerning women’s experience of the criminal justice system

MAYER WAKEFIELD recommends a 1970s US theatre classic that has lost none of its relevance

The play’s quaintness makes it an odd choice for innovative theatre, writes MAYER WAKEFIELD

A classic domestic drama that encompasses the great British elephant in the room - class, writes MAYER WAKEFIELD

MAYER WAKEFIELD recommends a show which finds the pulse of modern Britain in alarming fashion

MAYER WAKEFIELD recommends a play which asks who is allowed to be radical and what does radicalisation really mean in a world overflowing with injustice?

MAYER WAKEFIELD recommends a captivating 45 minutes which deliver some hammer blows when much of mainstream theatre continues to turn the other cheek

An ideal balance between comedy and gravity in riveting Shakespeare reinvention, suggests MAYER WAKEFIELD

Never too far from a farce this ideological enmity gets a serious meaning on the WWI battlefields of Flanders, writes MAYER WAKEFIELD

The Notting Hill Carnival's been cancelled but the exhilarating J'Ouvert is a pretty good alternative

Stereotypes sharply challenged in dramatisation of fight against injustice by activist with a disability

Predictable drama with feminist intimations gets classy revival

Engaging South-Asian response to the pandemic

Moving drama on untimely death of WWI poet Charles Hamilton Sorley