244 stories by "Dave Fargnoli"
Serving lengthy prison sentences, three young men attend parenting classes in preparation for a return to the outside world. Samuel Bailey's first
In a letter to a fellow physicist, Einstein once famously claimed that God does not play dice with the universe. The question
Kicking off this year's National Youth Theatre REP season, Neil Bartlett's take on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations is an engaging if unadventurous adaptation.
It's a bleak indictment of the times when a wordless, 90-minute clown brawl feels like an apt metaphor for any number of
One of Chekhov's earliest, lesser-known works, bleak domestic drama Ivanov gets a sharply insightful treatment by Moscow-based company Theatre of Nations. It's
Telling the story of a buffoonish liar swindling those he should be serving, Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors " adapted from
Set in a traditional London pub on the night it goes out of business, We Anchor in Hope is a nostalgic elegy
Every relationship, from the briefest fling to the longest marriage, comes with expectations attached. Gently interrogating the impact of gender roles and
Full of ruthless ambition, destructive entitlement and cynical political flip-flops, King John may be amongst Shakespeare's least-performed plays, but it certainly isn't
Tackling the fallout within a family that follows when one member commits an unconscionable crime, Mother of Him is a thoughtful, morally
Investigating the controversial legacy of railway privatisation, The Permanent Way is a detailed, dry and typically forensic piece of verbatim theatre from
Surviving on little more than Faith, Hope and Charity, a group of volunteers, vulnerable adults and desperate families gather in a dilapidated
Mashing together family melodrama, a rags-to-riches success story and a little supernatural horror, Stardust is an ambitious new musical struggling under the
For a play based around an act of provocation, there is nothing remotely challenging about Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière's
Reflecting on grief, friendship, and the sometimes-suffocating parameters of normality, So Here We Are charts the fallout of a young man's sudden
Digging into the ambiguities of stereotypes, social stigma, and of simultaneously loving and loathing the place you grew up, Stiletto Beach is
Examining loneliness, love, and co-dependence, Chloe Moss' How Love Is Spelt is an intricate and intriguing character study. Delicate, dreamlike, yet keenly
There's a cracking, crackling energy running through Jade City, an unfocused but undeniably powerful study of toxic masculinity and its victims. Discussing
When unjust rulers erode our sense of community for selfish political ends, running off to start a better society in the woods
Bursting with energy and movement, Paul Hart's Kiss Me, Kate is a fun take on the well-loved, if utterly frivolous, musical-within-a-musical. Playing
Returning to London's Old Red Lion Theatre, where it premiered in 1982, Phil Young's Crystal Clear is an introspective examination of life
Jumbling together a selection of micro-plays from Tony award-winning writer Christopher Durang, The Actor's Nightmare is as shallow and disordered as any
Probably history's first comedy spin-off, Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor is among his lightest, daftest plays, but that doesn't mean it has
Written in 1915, John Buchan's pulpy espionage yarn The 39 Steps found lasting pop-culture fame as a seminal Hitchcock thriller, while Patrick
Returning to the West End with a new line-up following a successful Broadway engagement, long running magical variety act The Illusionists is
