950 stories by "Laura Kressly"
Mikhail Durnenkov presents a sample of vignettes addressing problematic aspects of modern life in The War Has Not Yet Started at Southwark Playhouse, London.
This is a tender and beautiful play that, within moments, makes you question why it hasn't been staged in over 15 years.
The story is set in 1930's America, where Blueberry the clown has just been left by his wife. He takes us on a journey of redemption, knitting his memories with an honest reflection of his p…
The sickly, yellow lights of a featureless meeting room are making Serge thirsty. He just wants some water, to tell his story and get back home to Streatham.
As I walk to my seat, my feet sink in grey carpet. On stage, four people sit in what it looks like an office. One of the characters, a man in a suit, tells us how one day he didn't go to wor…
Breakups suck. Unexpectedly bumping into your ex sucks even more. For exes J and K, it's even worse because they're unknowingly about to be set up with each other.
American dramaphiles tend to view Britain as a hotbed of hyper-verbal and hyper-intellectual plays, especially in comparison to our home-bred musicals that often lack the same resonant depth.
One of Dicken's masterpieces, A Christmas Carol is a natural classic for this time of the year, and contributed to creating the very notion of Christmas as we have known it for the past 174 …
After 250 or so shows across London and Edinburgh, these are 2017's top ten (and a few runners up) from The Play's the Thing UK's founding editor.
A second, transatlantic viewing proves just how thoroughly the production theatricalises addicts' experiences in order to generate audience empathy with the struggle to overcome addiction.
As a company specialising in making work with disabled people, it makes sense for the company to have chosen to adapt Hans Christian Andersen's story as it's one of the few children's storie…
Re-imagining a classic is a courageous act. Tom Crowley's adaptation follows the journey of a young man struggling to find his place in modern day England and it's pervasive class system.
A young man waits impatiently for his little brother Matty to finish school. Alone on a football pitch amongst piles of dead leaves, he frets over his alcoholic mum, the state of their home …
Initially How to Disappear seems to be a new addition to the classic, British State-of- the-Nation plays in its searing critique of the government's welfare policy. But Morna Pearson has gre…
It doesn't need to be as long as it is, but The Tin Drum is a lot of fun and a dark, prescient reminder that fascism lurks around the corner of Christmas this year.
The Tradition versus Progress conflict sits along side the moral question of whether or not we should be perpetuating these attitudes in young children " who don't know enough to see these p…
There are some lovely set-piece scenes in this new play, but its plodding dramaturgy takes too long to develop, and the climactic ending is rushed.
Perhaps one of the biggest strengths of Fritz's writing is his ambiguity and the fact that Parliament Square poses more questions than it answers. The stakes are high.
You have goat to be kidding me: the Royal Court's latest experiment is a tonally-confused take on the Syrian conflict, fake news, and livestock management.
The overwritten script needs significant cutting and dramaturgical streamlining, but it has a dynamic premise that looks at an often-ignored demographic.
Combining their woman-led, political ethos with the use of live music, RashDash reclaims femininity and appropriates the traditionally patriarchal adventure of fairytales in this spirited sh…
How do you cope with anxiety when you're too young to know what it is? This initially appears to be what Good Girl is going to be about " how as children it is so instilled in us to please o…
Whilst war rages in the Ukraine, a journalist goes to the front lines and falls in love. Girls sit on a park bench, waiting for their soldier boyfriends.
It's rare that I'm intimidated by a show. But as three bare bottoms on the edge of a trestle table ridicule the negative reviews the attached bodies have received, I can't help but feel vuln…
There is the glorious Deb. A semi-neurotic slice of contemporary crisis. Nora Perone completely nails the role with her excellent vocals and comic timing.
