950 stories by "Laura Kressly"
Lip-synced verbatim is a new experience for this reviewer, and if you're not used to it there is a brief moment where you need to get on board with the style. Luckily Red Belly Black are so …
Housed in the studio space at the Vault Festival, which exudes graffiti-chic and pulls hip, supportive and discerning audiences, Bruised Sky productions presents Worlds, written and directed…
A calcification called Danny Dyer, porn, truffle oil and guitar guns " PLAY Theatre company are back at the VAULT Festival after winning the People's Choice Award last year. The Subterranean…
Cat Loud enters rather awkwardly down stairs from behind the audience, exclaiming nervously, 'oh, it's starting' before bemoaning her choice of footwear. These moments of informal monologue …
Alison Mead's Politic Man chronicles the lives of Alfred and Ada Salter, an activist and political couple living and working in the Bermondsey slums of the early 1900s " I'd never encounrter…
Short and sweet, classic and comical. Thomas Monckton performs a solo piece glued to his spot, centre stage beneath a low hanging lamp, which obscures his body from the shoulders up for at l…
Tim Conigrave and John Caleo's decade-spanning relationship was undoubtedly a gorgeous thing to behold. Meeting as school boys in 1970s Melbourne and staying together into the 1990s, their r…
When the British army arrived in Northern Ireland, beleaguered Catholics came onto the streets offering them tea, biscuits and cake. How long did it take for the story to change to the one t…
Kevin Spacey's House of Cards character Frank Underwood has clear parallels with Shakespeare's Richard III what with the former's ruthless climb to the US presidency.
It's uncomfortable to watch a play that conflicts with your politics or world view, and Liz Carr's Assisted Suicide: The Musical does just that. The gay actor and comedian aligns with cuddly…
By an anonymous guest critic If you’re a Marx Brothers fan like myself, you might go to this production by the company JUST SOME THEATRE with some trepidation. Are these four performer…
Nineteen year old Tamsin wants to be a normal teenager. She wants to go to college, flirt with cute boys and go down the pub. She doesn't want to be stuck in a cycle of poverty that dictates…
As The Print Room's controversially cast production of Howard Barker's In the Depths of Love opens this week, here's a guest contribution from Daniel York.
German physical theatre company Teatro Delusio perform a silent comedy accompanied by an array of canonical scores from ballet to opera to a bit of pop. The international show that crosses l…
The premise of an airliner exploding over Fulham after being hit with a Russian man-portable infrared surface-to- air missile, or as intense Londoner, Graham, who was caught up in the afterm…
The Wild Party, a simple and to-the-point title, perfectly describes the show as well as the evening I experienced. There was so much to like about this performance. Adapted into a performan…
Amongst the vocal campaigns fighting domestic violence against women and male rights' activists misogynist responses, the fact that at least 4% of men are victims themselves is often overloo…
Running at just over an hour, writer Andrew Maddock fits in the nature of art and its criticism, public health, social class, poverty and loyalty across two very different sets of characters…
ith existentialism one of the cruxes of the story, this Three Sisters is a bleak echo of present day narcissism and hopelessness. Phil Willmott's staging of a new, pared back translation doe…
In the programme notes for Steven Dykes' Glockenspiel, we are told that 40% of current personnel have been deployed more than once, and 27% of those veterans deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan…
In the first part of Tony Harrison's The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, Victorian archaeologist Grenfell struts and frets around a group of silent Egyptians sifting through scraps of papyrus.
An industry making resolutions? Now that's something I can get behind " people working together for a common goal is what theatre is about, on a microcosmic level anyway, and more unity is s…
After 20 years running the Rosemary Branch, Cecilia Darker and Cleo Sylvestre moved on to pastures new in June this year. Unattended Items, a company with a focus on interactive theatre and …
Though 2016 has been far from kind, seeing roughly 250 productions mostly in Fringe and Off-West End venues has made for a fruitful year in theatre. Choosing ten hasn't been easy, but these …
Coming of age, grief, overcoming prejudice and the creation of myth are dominant themes in Danyah Miller's solo adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel for young people.
