950 stories by "Laura Kressly"
Exchange Theatre sets The Misanthrope in a contemporary newsroom full of gossip, affairs, backstabbing and cocaine-fueled all-nighters. Alceste loathes the way his colleagues behave, but fan…
Politics is a veritable pick n' mix of source material for playwrights, and new works inspired by Trump and Brexit abound. No doubt we'll soon see a wave of hot takes on the debacle that con…
We are serenaded by a virtuosic Roy Orbison cover, foreshadowing the production's impeccable soundtrack, performed by a slick live band. What follows is a show that is silly, scrappy and hom…
I Hear You And Rejoice is a tribute to the power of the single storyteller. Lighting, costume and staging are simple, revealing the power of the skilled actor. The result is a joyful play f…
Alice Birch's new work, Anatomy of a Suicide, courageously investigates how the suicide of a mother affects the lives of a daughter and a granddaughter, haunts their own motherhood (or causi…
This is a pretty piece of expressionistic theatre that pleases the eyes and ears, but its favouring of poetic ambiguity and metaphor over concrete details and characterisation creates emotio…
Trying to write about Chris Goode's latest Ponyboy Curtis show vs. is like trying to fit a hurricane into a canning jar. The energy, love and freedom on the Yard's stage is irrevocably alive…
Deciding what is best is a tricky thing to do. It's particularly difficult if you're trying to do what is best for someone else. How do you know if you're doing the right thing? Is your aim …
The staff at this scuzzy, traditional American-style diner in Birmingham may not be best, but they're happily set in their ways. Eddie, his daughter Chantal, her boyfriend PJ and part time w…
Sion Daniel Young is Davey, a fifteen-year-old tearaway who roams the streets looking for trouble. A traumatic incident several years before, severe poverty and a well-intentioned but cluele…
Understated clowning, public failure and live music create a metatheatrical world of mediocrity that is meant to be challenged. A musician supports a showman that claims to know it all, but …
Charlotte von Mahlsdorf was a collector and museum curator in East Berlin who survived WWII and the the Stasis, and murdered her abusive father when she was a teenager. More remarkably, she …
A boy and his gran live in a lighthouse, high on a cliff. The town below them is a pile of houses where fisherfolk live who love tea and are wary of anyone from outside the town. Mythical cr…
There is always something unsettling and creepy about our memories of school. Almost everyone had "that" teacher who tends to reappear as a projection of our fears during stormy nights all t…
James and Daniel are chalk and cheese, and very much in love. The unemployed photographer and Canary Wharf stockbroker are adorably domestic, but both are hiding secrets. When James' uni mat…
In Amici Dance Theatre Company's revival of their 2015 show, over fifty performers " professional and amateur, disabled and non-disabled, child, adult and OAP " come together to capture the …
Originally from Quebec, Flip FabriQue deliver Attrape Moi; meaning Catch Me; in London as part of an international tour to Tenerife, Edinburgh, the USA and Quebec Canada. For seventy-five mi…
Thunderous applause from the audience welcomes the cast as they take their starting positions. It is evident that I am in the company of committed fans and, being a show that I have been ena…
As the audience enters, Greg Hicks sits at a pub table on an otherwise bare stage. It's impossible not to watch him until the house lights dim, and this opening sets the tone for the two and…
It's the 1940s. Olivia Brown awaits the return of her 18-year-old son Michael, whom she has not seen for four years. Whilst he's been away, his father has died and Olivia has found love with…
An anonymous woman frankly monologues about taboo sexual fantasies, abortion, orgasms and what turns her on. It's honest, personal and as a fellow woman, easy to relate to. But rather than a…
Shirley's script, with its echoes of Hamlet, Othello and The Spanish Tragedy, is less philosophical and more action. Whilst this makes it easy to follow and immediately engaging, the charact…
Imagine a production of Waiting for Godot with more characters, set in space, where the audience chooses the outcome of the story. What you are picturing is probably gloriously weird and kit…
In Dominoes, History teacher Leila and her fiancé Andy share the same last name " McKinnon. Andy's white and Scottish, Leila's half black-Caribbean. When curiosity gets the better of her in…
Originally a novel by Emma Donoghue that swept up the award nominations last year after being made into a film, Room is now a play. Adapted by the writer for the stage, it stays true to the …
