618 stories by "Fergus Morgan"
For a while, it was considered unfashionable to be too overtly partisan in political theatre. Undermined, Danny Mellor's hour-long one-man show about the mining strikes of the mid-eighties, …
Ask someone to name a JB Priestley play, and they’ll instantly say An Inspector Calls, probably because they studied it at GCSE. Ask them to name another and they probably won’t …
In 2014, a video uploaded on Youtube, secretly filmed from a rucksack, showed clips of a woman in jeans and a crew-neck walking the streets of New York City for ten hours straight. In it, th…
While Alistair McDowall's X furiously inspects what becomes of humanity when all one has ever known disappears at the Royal Court, Nick Payne dissects the interplay of identity and memory wi…
Lessing's Emilia Galotti is a prime example of ‘bürgerliches trauerspiel’ apparently, an eighteenth century dramatic movement that was popular in England " where it became kn…
It feels slightly sacrilegious, particularly three days before the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death (like you didn't know that…), to strike a dissonant note against the re…
Neil LaBute's Reasons To Be Happy is the second play in a trilogy that began in 2008 with Reasons To Be Pretty, and will conclude in the near future with the sublimely titled Reasons To Be P…
Somewhat unexpectedly, Michael Billington did not opt for Samuel Beckett's game-changing Waiting For Godot, or even Endgame or Happy Days, when selecting his 101 Greatest Plays. Instead, he …
Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars. The RAF's stirring motto could also serve as an epigram to define Rebecca Crookshank's life, as indeed it is meant to in Whiskey Tango Fox…
Islington's King's Head Theatre prides itself on its record of championing untested, experimental theatre. It's an approach that has won the hearts of audiences and critics alike and that ha…
It is always risky taking something intensely personal and placing it on stage, warts and all, in front of an audience. Scary Shit does just that. Rhiannon Faith and Maddy Morgan have used t…
At a time when London is abuzz with praise of The Father and The Mother, Florian Zeller’s twin portraits of parents losing their grip on reality, another show about dementia " albei…
When Charles II, lying on his deathbed, uttered the words "let not poor Nellie starve", he can hardly have imagined that his beloved mistress would be so in vogue 331 years later. But Nell G…
In 2014, Jakop Ahlbom's Lebensraum was one of the most celebrated shows of the London International Mime Festival. At this year's festival, the visionary director has returned with something…
Luigi Pirandello's Vestire Gli Ignudi was first performed in 1922 in Rome, the city in which it was set. Howard Colyer's free translation, Naked, shifts the action from inter-war Italy to 19…
A dysfunctional American family. A cast of carefully drawn, fatally flawed characters. An undercurrent of burning ideological conflict. You'd be forgiven for thinking that The Long Road Sout…
Since 2008, Peut-être Theatre have been creating charming, surrealist children's shows that have gained the approval of audiences and critics alike. Their latest show, The Little Bird Who…
About a third of the way through the second half of Robin Hood, Theatre Royal Stratford East's pantomime, the excitable, chair-climbing child sitting next to me accidentally squirts glow sti…
