244 stories by "Dave Fargnoli"
Starkly examining an abusive, co-dependent relationship, You Forgot the Mince is a grim and affecting story lifted by moments of real warmth.
Packed with ideas and delivered with infectious enthusiasm, Mia: Daughters of Fortune examines the challenges facing parents with learning disabilities. A series
Brash, daft, and occasionally, elusively euphoric, The Unmarried is a high energy monologue. It revolves around vivacious, vacuous Luna, a woman unable
Set in a hermetically sealed society where unproductive citizens are euthanised to stave off starvation, Rupture is a promising but underwritten post-apocalyptic
Rambling, intentionally banal, but also undeniably funny, comedian and slam poet Daniel Piper's second solo show sees him agonising over the implications
Exploring anxieties about the impact of the internet on young people, Pixel Dust is timely and intelligent, but often frustratingly unfocused. Writer
In the opening moments of moving one-man show Mental, creator Kane Power describes the piece as "just a series of stories and
Dancing along the line between rehashing the past and recapturing the positivity of youth, Replay is a thoughtful character piece from writer
Looking at the ludicrous as well as the bleaker aspects of dementia, Cockamamy is a warm, deeply personal show peppered with black
Taut but slow moving, Gerry Moynihan's Continuity unfolds with a sort of purposeful predictability. Evoking the cycle of violence, vengeance, and grief
Sadism, masochism, and animal cruelty abound in Rabbits, an offbeat, blackly comic exploration of enduring love and atypical sexuality. Writer Joe Hampson
From the outset, Oliver Twist " a production “created for everyone aged six and over” " struggles to pin down its tone.
The latest in a string of stage adaptations of David Walliams' children's books, The Midnight Gang is a pleasant, if somewhat shallow,
Concluding the Guildford Shakespeare Company's 12th summer season of outdoor performances, The Two Gentlemen of Verona is an unfussy, unpretentious crowd pleaser.
Sam Shepard's vitriolic 2005 satire The God of Hell is an uncomfortable and imperfect play. Brutal and occasionally bemusing, it tells the
In the bustling backstage areas of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, a tangible sense of community spirit is being fostered. At a time
Exploring the experiences of women inmates at the notorious Yarl's Wood detention centre, The Scar Test is a poignant look at the
Taking its title from a philosophical treatise on objectivity, The View from Nowhere is a thought provoking examination of clashing egos and
Static, slow moving, and purely descriptive, Forced Entertainment's text-based performance piece Dirty Work (The Late Shift) sounds like it might be aggressively
After more than two decades, the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival is still going strong, with an accessible, eclectic line up of
Given the increasingly polarised, increasingly absurd state of British politics, a comic drama examining the conflict between moderate and radical perspectives could
Condensing and repurposing Shakespeare's original text, writer David Fairs discovers a much blacker comedy at the heart of Much Ado About Nothing.
By turns heart-warming and heart breaking, Mikel Murfi's I Hear You and Rejoice is a gentle, elegiac multi-character monologue about grief and
Issues of identity and objectification are at the heart of Marius von Mayenburg's 2007 play The Ugly One, an outrageous allegory of
Two bitter loners trapped in separate destructive spirals share a redemptive one night stand in John Patrick Shanley's low key, low life
