Dominic di Nezza

Film taste: Hellboy II, A Town Called Panic, Whoops Apocalypse, Shooting Dogs, The Battle of Algiers, Death Line

Music taste: Ladytron, British Sea Power, Team Me, Twilight Sad, Stars, Carter USM, Sigur Ros

Hangout: Brixton (anywhere)

Most likes (about London): Transport infrastructure, the South, vibrancy, general feeling of living in the old 'Thames TV' logo

Least likes: The 'comments' section, the Taxpayers Alliance

Me in 10 words: O Frith on the hills! He made it all for us!

Dominic's Articles

In the Republic of Happiness by Martin Crimp - 14 December

The subtitle is ‘an entertainment in three parts’. That’s a clue to understanding Martin...... read more

Review: Mydidae at Soho Theatre - 10 December

Is it a mythic hero? Is it a Greek dramatic device? No, it’s a family of very large flies, mainly...... read more

Review: The Seagull at Southwark Playhouse - 13 November

Anya Reiss has had issues with The Seagull. When interviewed on A Younger Theatre earlier this week...... read more

Review: Blue Sky at Hampstead Theatre - 27 October

Ray is a widowed father and motorway mechanic who asks little of life for himself except a few hours...... read more

Review: The Hotel Plays at Grange Holborn Hotel - 12 October

Defibrillator’s partnership with Metro Bank and Grange Hotels seems the quintessence of 21st century...... read more

Review: Thom Pain at The Print Room - 23 September

Classifying Will Eno’s feature-length monologue is a tricky business. It could be either script...... read more

The Doctor's Dilemma at National Theatre - 27 July

To link the National’s revival of The Doctor’s Dilemma to the recent dismantling of the NHS...... read more

Birthday by Joe Penhall at Royal Court - 29 June

42 years after Saatchi & Saatchi’s seminal ‘pregnant man’ advert, Joe Penhall finally...... read more

Children's Children at Almeida Theatre - 28 May

The programme for Children’s Children comes replete with background information on a range of socio...... read more

The Pirate Project at Ovalhouse Theatre - 17 May

The Golden Age of Piracy spanned from approximately 1650 to 1730, but at probably no stage was it concerned...... read more

Mary Rose at Riverside Studios - 1 April

Written in 1920, Mary Rose seems like the play that Peter Pan might have been, were it written after...... read more

The Master and Margarita at The Barbican - 26 March

In taking on Mikhail Bulgakov’s posthumously published epic, Complicite’s Simon McBurney...... read more

After Miss Julie at the Young Vic - 22 March

The Young Vic is playing the austerity card high with this revival of Patrick Marber's Strindberg re...... read more

Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre - 9 February

Alan Ayckbourn describes his six-handed farce on ‘the death of love’ as a watershed moment...... read more

Blind Date & 27 Wagons Full of Cotton at Riverside Studios - 31 October

If the stylistic pairing of Tennessee Williams with Pulitzer and Oscar-winner Horton Foote (described...... read more

Bunny at Soho Theatre - 14 October

Hard as it is to pick a highlight from the stellar career of Jack Thorne, this Fringe First-winning monologue...... read more

Cool Hand Luke at Aldwych Theatre - 5 October

Novel Theatre number Lloyd ‘Cool Hand Luke’ Jackson among a pantheon of real and fictional...... read more

Beasts (Las Brutas) at Theatre 503 - 5 September

The presence of three sisters in isolation immediately calls to mind Chekhov’s 1901 masterpiece...... read more

'night, Mother at Old Red Lion Theatre - 1 September

Though Marsha Norman is perhaps now more widely known for numerous Broadway musical books, her multi...... read more

Mirror Teeth at Finborough Theatre - 8 July

If Eugene Ionesco had sat down and written a grand piss-take of everything produced at the Royal Cou...... read more

Many Moons at Theatre503 - 2 June

National Theatre Studio and Royal Court wunderkind Alice Birch’s debut initially comes on like...... read more