Rachel Halliburton has written for more than ten years about theatre, for publications including the Independent, the Evening Standard - where she was Nicholas de Jongh’s deputy - and the Financial Times and is currently deputy editor at Time Out. Her wider journalism includes articles about corrupt lawyers, the spread of crystal meth, and different aspects of the immigration process. Like most journalists she is working on a novel, which is ludicrously titled Six Degrees of Penetration: Short, Sharp Events That Changed The World. No doubt it will never see the light, and if it does, she will probably have to leave the country.