950 stories by "Laura Kressly"
Les Enfants Terrible, a company now synonymous with this experience-based immersive theatre, take us through white-walled holding cells, to a cathedral with neon Donald Trump and Putin effig…
2017 marks fifty years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexual 'behaviour' between consenting adults in the UK, and sixty years since the Wolfenden Report recommended this as the b…
France 1944. A young French girl Elodike runs to meet her lover, a German soldier Otto. Their love is innocent and pure, the exact opposite of the world around them.
It can be tough to get kids to engage with Shakespeare. Many of them see the foreign-sounding language and old-fashioned stories as irrelevant to the issues they battle as growing up today.
Zoe's back at her commuter belt town's refuge after her husband beat her up again. This time it's because Palace lost. Last time, it was because she was nagging to much.
The tempestuous story of two ideologically opposed, minor league football men and the young player caught between them has little to do with the actual game and has a compelling, emotional n…
In Nanette, Gadsby breaks down this joke structure as she expertly plays the audience, slowly lengthening the time delay between tension and release.
Director Paul Tomlinson employs a post-apocalyptic, urban landscape of crumbling buildings and waste more akin to The Walking Dead than Dunsinane.
Joy, in which learning disabled characters are played by trained actors with learning disabilities, is a play and a directorial choice commendably at the forefront of diversity and accessibi…
Think about your parents, or a parental figure. How have they impacted who you are now? Whether positive or negative some mark will inevitably and irrevocably remain.
Mexican company Los Colochos Teatro not only knows how to utilize Shakespeare's Scottish Play in order to tell a story of the here and now, but also uses human imagination in a simple, yet c…
IIn light of recent reports of abuse, it has become apparent that many of us have failed to engage with the dark truths that hide beneath the surface of of the theatre industry. Action needs…
As we enter the Arcola main stage, we are presented with a hotel room in midtown Manhattan circa 1954. Albert Einstein sits on the bed going over some notes on his legal pad.
Skin Tight declares that all good things must end and heartbreak is inevitable " but these are the secrets to a fulfilling life. Gary Henderson's modern classic is reflective and moving, but…
My time at drama school was otherwise wonderful. It was everything it should have been: fun, stressful, empowering, confusing and thrilling. But it was also something it absolutely shouldn't…
Hear Me Raw was perhaps the poshest theatrical experience I have ever had (and that really is saying something). It was a glowing auditorium of bad hair, good genes, and plastic prosecco, fo…
Two walls of Marshall amps sit either side of gleaming trusses. A DJ booth manned by a black-clad figure sports a banner for a place called Heorot. Smoke seeps through vents in the floor and…
Since 2013, Natasha Langridge has watched her neighbourhood become unrecognisable. As the developers and their machinery creep ever closer with every passing month, she documents their journ…
In world of Harvey Weinsteins, Bill Cosbys, MRAs and other own-brand misogynists in and out of the arts, A mini-festival of feminist theatre should be a soothing balm to the wounds wrought b…
You only find round beds with pink satin sheets in particular places or owned by particular people. But it's safe to say that a woman wearing a full, fur-suited mouse costume complete with f…
Hilarious and heart-breaking in equal measure, Jane Upton's work is a darkly realistic shock to the system.
German physicist Werner Heisenberg talks of pairs and duality. The one thing against the other. The one in terms of the other. Directed by Marianne Elliott and written by Simon Stephens, thi…
In the expansive hall and gift shop of the V&A's Museum of Childhood, one corner has been set up as a playing space for Popup Opera's Hansel & Gretel. Director James Hurley doesn't…
Imagine a world where our inner monologues are voiced at all times. Sure, it would make the world a much louder place and we’d probably always have sore throats. But think of the thing…
Erin Markey is a darling of the New York performance art, comedy and cabaret scenes. With an established, devoted fan base, her work has been lauded by publications such as the New York Time…
