Stray Dogs, Park Theatre review – no fire in this historic encounter

★★ STRAY DOGS, PARK THEATRE No fire in historic Berlin-Akhmatova encounter

The script misses all that was distinctive about Berlin and Akhmatova's meeting

How do you begin to dramatise one of the most extraordinary conversations of the 20th century between two of its most charismatic and complex intellectuals? When the philosopher, and then First Secretary at the British Embassy in Moscow, Isaiah Berlin met the Leningrad poet Anna Akhmatova, it proved a transformational experience for both of them, though the political repercussions it had for Akhmatova were devastating. 

Inside Pussy Riot, Saatchi Gallery review - an immersive misfire

Promenade piece makes hyperactive theatrical weather of some important themes

You say you want a revolution? Good luck locating one amid the tonally muddled Inside Pussy Riot. The immersive production from Les Enfants Terribles takes audiences on a promenade-style journey through the terrifyingly true story of Nadya Tolokonnikova, the Russian activist who (along with bandmate Maria Alyokhina) was sentenced to two years in a Siberian prison in 2012 after performing 40 seconds of an anti-Putin protest song in a Moscow church.