618 stories by "Fergus Morgan"
There’s the germ of a decent comedy-drama in Archie Thomson’s Radio, but that’s all there is. The rest is weak, derivative, inconclusive
Two men, one straight, one gay, sit atop stools and tell different sides of the same story. They’re both Aussies, mates who
“The job is fucked.” The phrase rings through Adam McNamara’s four-handed Scottish police drama Stand By like a refrain. Presented as part
Unpolished Theatre’s Flesh and Bone barges its way onto the stage and stays there, shouty, gobby and full of heart until the
Lifting its title from a rehashed Edward Snowden quote, Proto-type Theatre’s A Machine They’re Secretly Building blows another whistle on governmental mass surveillance.
Australian storyteller Wil Greenway " bright eyes, bare feet, big beard, even bigger heart " trades in spinning whimsical yarns full of charm and coincidence. They
Former Lyceum artistic director Mark Thomson’s Snowflake is the inaugural production from The Network, a new ensemble for emerging talent created by the
There’s a monster inside all of us, itching to be let out. That’s the hypothesis explored in Worklight Theatre’s Monster, a new one-man show written and perf…
As raves go, Clumsy Bodies’ revival of Caridad Svich’s phantasmagorical retelling of Iphigenia in Aulis is pretty tame. And as fables go, it’s not
On December 12, 2015, an unidentified man was found dead on Saddleworth Moor, apparently having committed suicide with strychnine. In this solo show, writer and
The Dreamer is Gecko’s first international co-production. Produced in collaboration with Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, it mashes together Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s
There are three parts to Thomas Eccleshare’s two-hander Heather. The first is an email exchange, read aloud by Ashley Gerlach and Charlotte
Blending the compassionate anger of a Ken Loach film with the freewheeling ferocity of Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott, writer-performer Monsay Whitney’s Box Clever pres…
Inspired by the 107,000-word manifesto of 22 year-old mass-murderer Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in a California shooting spree in 2014, Mini-Mall Theatre’s Ballist…
The John we are looking for is John Curry OBE, the figure skater who became famous as Olympic and World Champion in
For a bit, it seems a though Echoes is going to be really cool. There’s a long, steel table. A sinister chap
Hull-based Bellow Theatre’s Bare Skin on Briny Waters is as beautiful as it sounds. Tabitha Mortiboy and Maureen Lennon’s understated two-hander slots together a pair…
Games and After Liverpool are two short, slippery plays by the rarely revived James Saunders, here given a simple, bare bones staging by Blind
Stop: it’s hammer time. In Palmyra, Fellswoop Theatre’s follow-up to 2016’s successful Eurohouse, an audience member is entrusted with a mean-looking mallet.
Oh look. It’s the inevitable Brexit musical and, inevitably, it’s about as thought through as our negotiating stance is. Chris Bryant, an EU
Just like Silent Uproar’s A Super Happy Story, Amy Conway’s Super Awesome World tries to have a lot of fun while tackling something that
Henry Naylor’s Borders is about two artists: Sebastian, a jobbing British photojournalist who sells out to shoot celebrities, and a daring Syrian graffiti artist who ris…
You’ve got to feel for David William Bryan’s liver. He’s doing 25 performances of Sascha Moore’s Trashed this August, and he’s getting half-cut on cans
Tessa Bide’s A Strange New Space attempts to collide an exciting story of intrepid inter-galactic exploration with the grim realities of the
Natasha Marshall’s first full-length show Half Breed bubbles with hate, bitterness and a visceral, vital defiance. An hour-long monologue, grown from the seed of spoken-wor…
