The economy collapses and London is abandoned by the wealthy. Determined to survive, a working-class woman struggles with scarcity and dejection 

MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review "Wuthering Heights", Little Amelie or the Character of Rain, Crime 101, and Stitch Head

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends an unflinching examination of the chaos and suffering wrought by US foreign policy, told through the story of a child’s simple quest

MARY CONWAY struggles to keep up with the intellectual self-indulgence of Tom Stoppard in a production that is, nevertheless, total class

ALISTAIR FINDLAY recommends the simple cadence, common prose, free verse, and descriptive power of a new collection by Julie McNeill

by Julie McNeill

FRANK McCAULEY gets Laid

MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about a two-handed theatrical homage to jazz’s most mercurial musician

SCOTT ALSWORTH suggests that video games have a lot to learn the rich tradition of Marxist theatre

ANDY HEDGECOCK is enthralled by a collection of South Korean ghost stories where human behaviour is as chilling as any spectral activity

MARY CONWAY revels in the macabre waiting game of Strindberg’s forensic dissection of a loveless ruling-class marriage

DAVID YEARSLEY examines the soundtrack and filmic predecessors of the execrable Melania