The playwright Sam Holcroft likes to toy with dramatic conventions and to tease her audiences by withholding key information about the characters. This tinkering seems to scare the critics into praising her scripts even though they feel like clumsily written thrillers or botched sci-fi yarns where the rules keep changing.
Lloyd Evans
Cheesy skit: A Mirror, at the Almeida Theatre, reviewed
Plus: the cocky, foul-mouthed physiotherapist is the best thing in @sohoplace's bland piece of community theatre
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