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

MAYER WAKEFIELD sees a timely reminder of the threat posed by an unfettered surveillance state

Mike Bartlett's Christmas cracker an antidote for post-election blues

A play on the arbitrary detention of a journalist resonates beyond its Turkish context, says MAYER WAKEFIELD

Timely indictment of how young offenders are failed by prison system

Early work by Arinze Kene disappoints

Can we afford to pretend that nuclear weapons don't exist? Gameshow director MATTHEW EVANS talks to Mayer Wakefield about the issues their new production Nuclear Future raises

Radical playwright DAVID EDGAR talks to Mayer Wakefield about the personal and political questions posed in his one-man show Trying It On in which, at the age of 70, he confronts his 20-year-old self

MAYER WAKEFIELD sees a brilliant production of an autobiographical play set in the early years of apartheid

ALEXANDER ZELDIN tells Mayer Wakefield what he hopes to achieve with his new play about the impact of austerity on the most vulnerable

MAYER WAKEFIELD recommends a hard-hitting drama of a family in denial about past collusion in the ‘triangular trade’

Chuka Umunna’s former CLP has taken a decisive step in favour of peace by affiliating to the Stop the War Coalition. Why not follow Streatham’s example, suggests MAYER WAKEFIELD