Vassa

Revolutionary attack on moribund politics

Vassa remains resolutely earthbound, not quite funny enough or black enough to make its mark

A vivid, horribly vital production

Offbeat and darkly funny, if messy, adaptation of Maxim Gorky's play

A rare misfire from north London’s creative powerhouse

Mike Bartlett's histrionic-fuelled family saga is like a sub-par Succession

The material demands a gift for the grand gesture that leaves too many of the actors visibly at sea

Here theatre has fallen far, far short

Though the inheritance plot is as flat as each character, so many doors revolving keeps the action moving, and we’re treated to a good line now and then