950 stories by "Laura Kressly"
Inspired by familial memory and grief, Whitehill and five other theatre makers draw on their own histories to create a playful homage to the endurance of family stories.
It's fair to say that watching Jerry Sadowitz is not for the fainthearted. There is no topic that this infamous comedian/magician won't attempt to mine comedy material from.
Adam Scott-Rowley packs an almighty punch with his one man show This is Not Culturally Significant. Twelve characters struggling with the every day, are pieced together in this brutal, beaut…
No words, no set, one man and one chair. Using soundscape, lighting and actor James Cross' elastic limbs, Theatre Imaginers have created an innovative physical performance of a man's disorie…
Since he was little, John Spartan has been obsessed with outer space. His whole existence revolves around being an astronaut so as a young man, he enrolls in Space Base in order to fulfill h…
Drolls (director Brice Stratford explains) were short, raucous, illegal plays from the 17th Century. Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan interregnum banned theatre from 1642, but drolls were per…
Locked away in a convent in Calais, a mad Beau Brummel and his valet bide their time until the visiting Prince of Wales passes. Disgraced by debts acquired from living well beyond his means,…
A political satire, blended with sexualised humour, with a sprinkle of fertiliser-addicted plants that just want to have fun with their mates " what more could you ask for on a Wednesday nig…
The Bunker, London – until 11 March 2017 Last year, Elon Musk suggested it's likely that our entire existence is a computer simulation made by some highly evolved species. The simulati…
Is there a choice you wouldn't have made, if you had known how that decision would have turned out? That is the question asked in Villain.
As a concept, it's a sound one " both time periods are troubled by populism, poverty and fundamentalism. The production is, unfortunately, hugely disappointing.
The Yorkshire town where Ash is set loves smoking, and the residents aren't set to quit anytime soon " George Crozier certainly isn't planning to.
Wunderkammer works by having a professional make a speech in front of the audience and performers, and from that the ensemble and musicians take ideas, stories and characters and make a seri…
Masurca Fogo, the show appearing this week at Sadler's Wells, is a piece from 1998 when Bausch and the company were making a series of works inspired by cities. This work is inspired by Lisb…
Developed in collaboration with director/dramaturg Donnacadh O'Briain, My World Has Exploded a Little Bit is Bella Heesom's response to her parents' deaths occurring within a few years of ea…
Writer Sophie Leuner clearly has plenty of great character ideas that work well on stage and an innate sense for narrative storytelling, but choosing to put these people within the same fram…
David Byrne's lyrics to 'This Must Be the Place', one of the biggest hits from Talking Heads, can be easily seen as the inspiration for the production of This Must Be the Place
Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna have the sort of falling-in-love story you see in movies. The two years that it took them to get together are a ridiculous mashup of drunken disorder, absurd co…
Hearing Things is a show that sets out to show how these issues are played out at ground level and how they affect those that manage and use mental health services on a day-to-day basis.
by guest critic Jo Trainor It’s pouring rain and three strangers are waiting. An endless wait that is made unbearable by the constant cellist in the corner of the room. Matei Visniec&#…
Diagnosis, dread, death, devotion, Patrick Cash has written five interlocking, thoughtful monologues that explore HIV from the most human perspective.
What follows is nearly an hour of tremendous fun in the most ridiculous, discombobulating but ultimately touching and life affirming way possible. The show is built around an interview by a …
Language. Love. Since time immemorial, human beings have been trying to capture in words the essence of this most nuanced of emotions.
In recent years, tales of space travel have been making more of an appearance in theatre. Space Play looks at the aftermath of orbital collision with space debris, inspired by the events of …
Prison dramas are practically a genre in their own right on television and the silver screen, but for the stage they are not so common. Daddy's Girl, which is directed by Alice Malin, focuse…
