244 stories by "Dave Fargnoli"
Ironically for a play about unrealised potential, The Unbuilt City never really gets off the ground. Written by New York native Keith
Part-ghost train, part-art installation, Phobiarama is a strikingly unusual performance piece which sees its audience trundling around a sterile white environment in
Winner of the 2017 Mercury Playwriting Prize, Europe After the Rain is the first full length play from author Oliver Bennett, a
Reviving prolific playwright Simon Stephens' flawed, elegiac 2003 drama One Minute in the age of social media, Iwan Lewis' stylish but insubstantial
Fizzing with humour, charm, and just a touch of chaos, Paul Hart's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a particularly light and delightful
Sex, death, and grubbily nostalgic Americana slosh together in all of Christopher Brett Bailey's work. Suicide Notes, touring in support of a
Written in response to the Orlando nightclub shooting, Guillem Clua's The Swallow is a slow burning, occasionally shattering play about the unspoken
In an alternate 1940, King Edward VIII is on the throne, Nazi troops are advancing through Surrey, and the British government has
In the wake of the Brexit vote, our political climate can feel fraught, uncertain, and downright bleak. Danielle Pearson's time-hopping, multi-character monologue
Feeling perhaps more chilling in the era of Twitter and Trump than it did at its 1994 debut, Arthur Miller's Broken Glass
Harkening back to a vanished historical moment when Britain willing sheltered child refugees, Diane Samuels' softly-spoken tragedy commemorates 80 years since the
When Fleetwood Mac sang Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow, their tone was optimistic. Writer and Director Lou Stein, however, turns the title
Accused of anti-Semitism, successful poet Bev unravels in the midst of a social media storm in Checkpoint Chana, a sharply relevant but
Casting new light on the ambiguities central to Henry James' influential literary ghost story, Tim Luscombe's Turn of the Screw is intelligent,
Following the fortunes of a struggling amateur rugby club, John Godber's 1984 underdog tale gets a playful and accessible treatment in Fingersmiths'
Exploring the common anxieties underpinning contemporary life, The Drill is a smart, playful examination of the urge to over-prepare ourselves for future
Closures, consolidation, and restructuring: Dave Fargnoli reviews a re-fashioning of John Dryden's Aureng-zebe.
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Raw, moving, and unashamedly melodramatic in parts, this stylish production of Romeo and Juliet from director Charlotte Conquest conveys all the play's
Taking its title from a well known beauty spot on the Cornish coastline, Booby's Bay is a bleakly comic character study infused
Kicking off a regional tour with a run at Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Alastair Whatley's jovial and energetic staging of The Importance
When your crime caper revolves around fulfilling the dying request of the love child of Marilyn Monroe and Michael Caine, it should
Gently exploring the intersections of intimacy and technology, There or Here is a meandering philosophical drama from Anglo-American company Special Relationship Productions,
With the culture of plausible ignorance surrounding sexual harassment in the arts having been definitively shattered by recent high-profile allegations, a constructive
Accusing any performance of Brecht's ferociously didactic Fear and Misery of the Third Reich of lacking subtlety may seem redundant. Yet while
The need to be understood: Dave Fargnoli reviews Tim Cowbury's new play about seeking asylum and being lost in translation.
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