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As You Like It review – French aristocratic trappings bring fresh comedy to Arden

In a lively and deftly designed production, gowns and wigs fit for Versailles give way to plainer disguises as banished courtiers pursue happiness in the country

The Guardian - UK · Aug 23

Cowbois reimagines Hollywood’s Wild West – with a wonderful queer twist

Music and theatre can bring into the world places and stories that exist only in the imagination. Can music and theatre also change hearts and minds?

The Conversation · Dec 10, 2025

Pinocchio review – full-tilt family musical swaps Collodi’s darkness for heartwarming lessons and humour

Meticulous direction and an excellent cast bring to life the story of Geppetto and the puppet he crafts from wood

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2025

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Budget crisis imperils Royal Court’s support for new writers

The literary department at the London theatre is renowned for taking risks with untried playwrights, but is now under threat

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024

Cruel Intentions: The 90s Musical, Six, Charlie Josephine on Cowbois - The Standard Theatre Podcast

“You can put it anywhere…”

Evening Standard · Jan 29, 2024

Cowbois writer Charlie Josephine: 'class feels like the unspoken conversation that theatre is not having'

The I, Joan playwright on gender fluidity, masculinity, and why cowboys are just so cool

Evening Standard · Jan 18, 2024

Cowbois, Royal Court review: this queer subversion of the Wild West is a delight but needs serious reining in

Charlie Josephine's play is affirming and charming, but also in need of a bit of 'whoa there' and 'giddy up'

Evening Standard · Jan 18, 2024

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Cowbois review – playing with expectations in the wild west

Gender identity comes to town in writer-co-director Charlie Josephine’s atmospheric but slow-going tale of a disruptive stranger

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2023

Flies review – the effects of the male gaze on adolescent girls

The new work by Charlie Josephine gives us teenagers’ thoughts about objectification, shame, body image and sex

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2023

Our top culture interviews of the year for 2022, from Jodie Comer to Sanditon star Rose Williams

We’ve spent the year talking to fascinating people - here are some of our favourite conversations

Evening Standard · Dec 29, 2022

Jodie Comer, a gen-Z Elle Woods and a giant swimming pool: The best theatre of 2022, ranked

The Independent’s theatre critics have chosen their top stage shows of 2022, a year in which fresh new writing and charming musicals reigned supreme

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2022

The week in theatre: I, Joan; The Glass Menagerie; Silence – review

Isobel Thom is a candid, non-binary Joan of Arc in Charlie Josephine’s eye-opening new play

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2022

A non-binary Joan of Arc? Great. Now theatre should take the next step

Letter: Louise Branch calls for playwrights to portray male historical figures such as Henry V as non-binary or trans

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2022

I, Joan review: Funny, fierce non-binary Joan of Arc proves sceptics wrong

The Globe’s much-publicised production of Charlie Josephine’s new play is no gender studies lecture but a rousing piece of theatre

The Independent UK · Sep 2, 2022

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The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2022

I, Joan review – non-binary Joan of Arc proves a rousing protest piece

Isobel Thom gives a visceral, courageous performance as the French saint, brought into the modern day by Charlie Josephine’s joyous production

Evening Standard · Sep 2, 2022

I, Joan at Shakespeare’s Globe review: joyful and unifying, this could be something of a game-changer

Charlie Josephine’s play is too subtle for a hot culture-war take

Evening Standard · Aug 31, 2022

Charlie Josephine: why making Joan of Arc non-binary in a new Shakespeare’s Globe play is a joyful act

I, Joan has become the year’s most controversial play before it has even opened. There’s no need for alarm, says its writer

The Guardian - UK · Aug 29, 2022

‘I forgot I was blaspheming a saint!’ – Charlie Josephine on writing a non-binary Joan of Arc

The Globe theatre sparked outrage when it announced its plans to stage a non-binary Joan of Arc. The play’s writer explains why the French warrior would have approved

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