Tim Walker
27 September 2022
Theatre Review: The P Word speaks to our times
Waleed Akhtar is a writer prepared to address issues head-on and with enormous clarity and courage
Read the full article22 September 2022
Theatre Review: Antigone shows we are born to join in love, not hate
This production challenges politics, our values and the dystopia we are beginning to call normal with style and intelligence
Read the full article22 September 2022
Theatre Review: The Snail House is self-indulgence at, aptly, a snail’s pace
It's a show filled with obvious and patronising themes. In trying to take on too much, it feels almost punitively long
Read the full article15 September 2022
Theatre Review: Horse-Play is a show that simply drags on
This production misses the opportunity for laughs and instead its themes verge on patronising
Read the full article15 September 2022
Theatre Review: Silence is a show with too much tell
This well-intentioned production, sadly, lacks any real drama
Read the full article06 September 2022
Theatre Review: Treason is a contemporary take on an explosive plot
In normal circumstances this musical is the sort of thing that would have found a stage quickly enough and held on to it for months. These are not, however, normal circumstances
Read the full article06 September 2022
Theatre Review: Gary Barlow requires a little patience
The Take That star is engaging, but a two hour 20 minute talk through his life story is quite the ask
Read the full article30 August 2022
Theatre Review: This Wardrobe is malfunctioning
The best children’s shows manage to entertain both the children and their parents, but this production tries too obviously to get both on side and satisfies neither
Read the full article24 August 2022
Theatre Review: This amusing Much Ado About Nothing more than lives up to its name
The National needs to be braver in its productions, but until then this is an amusing enough divertissement
Read the full article16 August 2022
Theatre Review: Jack Absolute Flies Again is unrivalled and unfunny
Almost all big productions at the National seem to sell out sight unseen these days, but how long will this continue if they keep turning out big, unfunny flops like this?
Read the full article09 August 2022
Tim Walker’s Edinburgh Fringe Review: Hamlet, Grace Campbell and more
In a difficult year for Edinburgh, Sir Ian provides an exhilarating spectacle - but there are joys to be found elsewhere in the city
Read the full article02 August 2022
Theatre Review: This 101 Dalmatians is barking up the wrong tree
Kate Fleetwood plays a delectably wicked Cruella de Vil for all she’s worth, but this is otherwise a dog's dinner
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Theatre Review: Chasing Hares is a mediocre story acted extraordinarily
The story is improbable but star Scott Karim can make just about any character seem convincing
Read the full article31 July 2022
Bloody Difficult Women receives a warm welcome in Edinburgh
Up in Scotland, my play about Gina Miller's court case against Theresa May's government over parliamentary sovereignty is causing quite the stir
Read the full article19 July 2022
Theatre Review: Any joy went with this woeful recasting
Anything Goes was a lot of fun last summer but it now feels dutiful and robotic
Read the full article19 July 2022
Theatre Review: The Seagull is a corker
This pared-down production is very much a star vehicle for the Game of Thrones actor Emilia Clarke
Read the full article08 July 2022
Theatre Review: Invisible is a show you simply have to see
As the show's writer and sole performer, Nikhil Parmar deserves the highest praise for creating a show that's sad, funny and honest in equal measure
Read the full article05 July 2022
Theatre Review: Mad House makes heavy weather of a gathering storm
There’s a good play to be written about what happens to us in advanced old age. Sadly, this production is not it
Read the full article05 July 2022
Theatre Review: A hostile environment is brought to life in The Fellowship
Set in 2019, Roy Williams’ state-of-the-nation play tells the story of a country that’s gotten itself into a bit of a state
Read the full article28 June 2022
Theatre Review: Gimmicks can’t hide the truth – this play is boring
This tale of anti-democracy activists is too clever for its own good
Read the full article28 June 2022
Theatre Review: This rock opera sticks it to Teflon Tony
There is more anger, passion and insight to be had in just a few minutes of this show than any number of hours sitting through a James Graham political play
Read the full article21 June 2022
Theatre Review: Jitney is a vehicle with no real sense of direction
None of the characters really break through sufficiently to hold August Wilson's production together and give it any real focus
Read the full article21 June 2022
Theatre Review: A sequel 138 years in the making
This sequel to a Henrik Ibsen classic can get overcome with its sense of how clever and novel it is
Read the full article14 June 2022
Theatre Review: Girl On An Altar is the theatrical equivalent of eating your greens
This new take on a Greek tragedy is slow, pretentious and mind-numbingly boring
Read the full article14 June 2022
Theatre Review: The Glass Menagerie is perfect for hot summer nights
Hollywood star Amy Adams is the draw in this revival and she's content just to get on with some proper acting for a change
Read the full article07 June 2022
Theatre Review: Grease is hopelessly devoted to mediocrity
The big numbers in this adaptation are all too familiar but they are listlessly performed and all the emphasis is on Peter Andre’s cameo turn
Read the full article07 June 2022
Theatre Review: This My Fair Lady is far from loverly
Bartlett Sher’s production is totally unnecessary and maybe a form of sacrilege
Read the full article01 June 2022
Theatre Review: This Murder on the Orient Express is running a reduced service
The cast is cut down, but it's no mean feat to even attempt to put this particular whodunnit on Chichester’s main stage
Read the full article31 May 2022
Theatre Review: The Unfriend is all killer, no filler
Steven Moffat’s new play is a rather slight one-joke comedy - but a five-star one
Read the full article24 May 2022
Theatre Review: The Father and the Assassin is a muddled tale
With this play about the man who murdered Gandhi, Anupama Chandrasekhar has bitten off more than she can chew
Read the full article24 May 2022
Theatre Review: Kabul Goes Pop is admirably furious
Waleed Akhtar has produced an elegantly written, often very funny, piece that works precisely because it takes a moral position on Afghanistan
Read the full article17 May 2022
Theatre Review: Middle is at best middling
If part two of David Eldridge's trilogy of plays about relationships is a state-of-the-nation play, then all it has to say is that the nation is in a bit of a state, which will hardly come as a surprise to anyone
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