950 stories by "Laura Kressly"
We all know the world is fucked. But who can we blame? In Ontroerend Goed's £¥€$ (LIES), they blame the global banking system.
In 1949, George Orwell lived the final months of his life in University College Hospital due to a severe case of tuberculosis. Torn between an uncertain faith in a recovery and the conscious…
The music they listen to, and that which seeps from them with aching melancholy, is by Bob Dylan " written decades after the Great Depression ended. Combined with Conor McPherson's earthy, C…
A middle-aged, gay Welshman contemplates the English class he teaches in Hong Kong. Amongst the students is Windy, the Chinese woman with whom he shares his bed.
Bechdel Theatre's recent initiative Bechdel Testing Life asks women to send in recorded conversations from their everyday lives that pass the test. These are then given to playwrights, who u…
The show revolves around three couples; central are husband and wife Steven and Amelia, whose clashes over television choices mask deeper communication problems in their relationship. Amelia…
Tighter dialogue in the latter half and the addition of some physical theatre sequences give this update more sophistication, but a few of the original issues are still there. McNeill, who a…
Theatre can plumb the depths of despair. It can elevate human glory and achievement. It can stir the heart and still the soul. Or it can throw a fabulous party on a rocket ship full of beard…
An unreal Cork is the scenario for the darkly picaresque adventures of the two protagonists: born on the same day, Runt and Pig have grown up developing a close secret world of their own wit…
The keeper of the gates decides who is ready for the adventure, who isn't, who deserves to proceed, who is sent home. Once inside the jungle, animal instincts take over.
What I expected to be an impenetrable piece for anyone who does not have children, or has ever desired to become parent, turned out to be 90 minutes of intense and highly relatable theatre-m…
The bed is the first thing we see. The mess is the second. By the end of the evening, we see just how messy one bed can get.
A dozen or so of us were led to the roof of the Royal Festival Hall where we were told to expect: 'A multi-sensory encounter of shifting sound, colour and light, which reinvents the gig-goin…
Even if the audience understands that Macbeth is about somebody who murders the king and sees witches, they still want to grasp what is happening line to line and scene to scene. When a play…
This Hamlet, freshly transferred to the West End from the Almeida, is a slick, beast of a production surpassing three hours. Undeniably contemporary, it does its best to smash the restrictio…
The performers are framed by a false, red curtained, proscenium arch that forms, like the show itself a facade: a description of something without being either of itself or the thing it desc…
Backstage during three momentous Abbey Theatre productions, W.B Yeats' Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), J.M Synge's Playboy of the Western World (1907) and Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Star…
What happens when two experimental performance artists join forces with a few kids to make a kids' show? Utterly delightful, if messy, madness. 1990s Nickelodeon is a clear influence, as are…
Direct from rehab, Ashley's Liza is suitably glittery, lispy and pant-suited. This is not a subtle impersonation, but the receptive London audience certainly don't want that.
Issac is returning home after a three-year stint as a US marine where his job was to pick up body parts after front line attacks. He longs for the peace and quiet of his nuclear family and t…
This 1983 show has some great numbers, but its frivolity and insubstantial book focusing on a personal journey rather than the larger political landscape is diminutive rather than powerfully…
Anastasia Zinovieva is a motley clown who wants to reenact Hamlet, but it's a big story to take on herself. She enlists seven people from the audience to fill the major roles and instructs t…
Unfortunately, it's a pretty terrible piece of theatre. The primarily verbatim script is the worst of racist Brexit voters pontificating on political issues interspersed with extracts of spe…
A father and a son. Two best friends. Immigration, refugees and global politics. It's the mid-1970's and Kabul is enjoying a time of peace and tranquillity. That is until a violent war engul…
Paying homage to Shakespeare's genius but not slavishly binding themselves to it, Golem! sticks up two fingers at Shakespeare purists who, with quivering voices, clutch their pearls and gasp…
