950 stories by "Laura Kressly"
In 1986, Arthur Miller was in his 70s. He still had more plays and screenplays to come, but his most well-known works were already created and he was starting to slow his output. Danger: Mem…
All praise Emma Rice! Under Dominic Dromgoole's artistic directorship, The Globe's commitment to innovation in Shakespeare production first established during Mark Rylance's reign fell by th…
American, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks doesn't shy away from epic projects. Six years ago, she wrote a play a day to create 365 Days/365 Plays, then went on to write th…
Layla is fifteen years old. She's the cleverest girl in her year, writes poetry, and has a supportive mum. The trouble is, her best friend Monica's got with a proper rude boy who launches a …
Politicians and members of the press are hardly the best of bedfellows. Unrestrained and violent, Ross Sutherland's Party Trap explodes this relationship in a dystopian TV interview between …
Rejoice! If you are the sort of theatregoer who has signed the Theatre Charter, and is regularly outraged by the appalling behaviour from other audience members who may not have the same hig…
August Strindberg's expressionistic A Dream Play has inspired theatre makers since it's debut in 1901. In the otherworldly Vaults, BAZ Productions reinvents the innovative work for a modern …
I've always been most interested in telling stories I haven't heard before. I get so bored and frustrated when I see a show that's beautifully produced/designed/directed/written/performed bu…
Johannes, a young man with pronounced learning difficulties, is in solitary confinement for raping and murdering a young girl. The prison captain Agnes, seeing goodness in the boy, introduce…
I can't imagine living in a country where theatre is censored for criticising the government, and theatre makers who create politically subversive work risk arrest, torture and death. But th…
For better or worse so much of our life, personality and choices are shaped by relationships with family. A stable, loving upbringing can equip an individual with the same traits, and the op…
First loves: awkward, hormonal milestones of young adulthood that make you feel like you're on top of the world in a bubble that's just the two of you. That is, unless you're a trans or gend…
Imagine the world if the entire human population disappeared suddenly, without a trace. What would it look like after a day, a month, a century, an era? A lone performer from Belgian company…
Tommy Eden, a pensioner with a love for street performing since he retired, is dead. Local entrepreneur Alexander Sheldon's security guards are responsible. Sheldon didn't like Tommy perform…
Orla and her sister are close. Even when Orla decided to move from their small Irish town to Ibiza for a summer of working and partying, they still texted everyday. After a sudden cessation …
When I was a teenager, I discovered the Reduced Shakespeare Company's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). My love for Shakespeare had already started to grow, and I thought…
This year, four companies are receiving support from Underbelly to produce and market their latest work. Two of those are Milk Presents and Corner Shop Events, both offering solo performance…
Lucy Grace, long feeling a strong kinship with the book's protagonist Lucy Pevensie, clung onto the belief in Narnia well into adulthood. When she was 26, the dawning realisation that she wo…
Elizabeth has two daughters. Her youngest is "fine". Her eldest has profound hearing loss. This diagnosis, in our able-bodied world with all its bias and privilege for those that are "normal…
Just over two years ago, a revolution in Kiev ushered in the downfall of the Ukranian government. Protests against the government's refusal to sign pro-EU legislation lasting months had seve…
Like their debut production The Beanfield, Breach Theatre's second show Tank recreates a contentious historical event in a distinctive meta-theatrical mashup up forms and styles. In the 1960…
RashDash are angry. Like, fucking furious level of angry. They're fed up of patriarchal language and gender stereotypes that limit both men and women from expressing themselves honestly
What happened to King Lear's wife? The woman who birthed the three daughters that he loves so dearly is never mentioned in his title play. Back in the '80s, the Women's Theatre Group and Ela…
There is hardly any Shakespeare at the fringe that isn't dramatically altered in some way or another. Re-contextualisations abound, as does new work that's derivative from a story or charact…
Two women, in two different shows set on opposite sides of the world, swim as if their lives depend on it. One is training for an ironman-length triathlon, the other never learnt to swim and…
