950 stories by "Laura Kressly"
Everyone has a relationship with food. For some its straightforward, for others it's complex. Food in terms of nourishment isn't just that which we eat, either. Love, security, and all sorts…
Shakespeare without words. What's left? In Ludens Ensemble's Macbeth: without words, plenty. Drawing on the aesthetic of silent films and Victorian gothic with the near-constant use of live …
Things have never been easy for Abby. She doesn't get on with her mum, she's didn't do well in school, she drifts from one shitty job to another without any purpose or goals. She misses her …
Playwright Alice Birch wants to start a revolution. Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. seeks to challenge the patriarchal language and social structures that hold woman second place to men.
When fourteen-year-old boy Red starts at a new school after his parents' divorce, his mum anxiously worries about him making friends. Soon, his mobile is constantly buzzing with texts and he…
On 1 September 2004, a group of terrorists stormed a school in Beslan, holding over a thousand people hostage on the first day back after summer holidays. Most of them were children. When th…
It must be rather dull hanging out on a Scottish Heath with your sisters, waiting for some poor soul to come along to manipulate to the point of ruin. Fire Burn: The Tragedy of Macbeth tries…
Sarah wants to know everything. She's inquisitive, gregarious and energetic, the life and soul of any party. But now that she's in her thirties and wants to start a family, she needs to sort…
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, the US and Mexico came into effect on 1 January, 1994. I was eleven years old. The agreement ushered in a degree of national p…
Michael, a typical New York City lost soul, is obsessed with Hamlet. He knows the play inside out and pours over every bit of scholarship he can find on it. His neighbourhood secondhand book…
What would Hamlet have been like as a child? Ophelia? Were they close? Did they squabble or were they the best of friends? Shakespearian Lovers, a new female-led company from Italy, attempt …
Jack, feeble in body and mind, wiles away the days watching news broadcasts from operation Desert Storm. The former WWII soldier, now safe and looked after in a care home, vividly recounts m…
There's a good amount of Shakespeare-based work for children and young people at the fringe, which is a great way to introduce children to his work as well as give theatre makers a chance to…
A cultural relic of its time, the bible is hardly pro-women. Lucy McCormick, here incarnated as one of those vapid pop stars who evangelically (and often inappropriately) rallies for the cau…
I was gutted when I found out Janet Adler and Margaret Gibb aren't real. The portrait Tim Crouch paints of this fictional couple and their anti-capitalist approach to their art, in striking …
A Tale of Two Cities: Blood for Blood is a rather different beast from Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. This choppy, convoluted adaptation lacks the detail and finesse of the novel, th…
Though there was likely to have been a level of improvisation in Shakespeare, Impromptu Shakespeare creates a whole new, short play every performance inspired by Shakespeare's style and lang…
On 16th June 2009, the body of a man was found dead on a beach near Sligo, Ireland. He had given his name as Peter Bergmann at his hotel, but postmortem investigations determined that was an…
The self-deprecating, all-female company of players from Baltimore boot that myth out of the theatre with relish. Having learnt 45 scenes, speeches and moments from Shakespeare's cannon, the…
Author Hector Hugh Munro, otherwise known as Saki, is in WWI's trenches. He and his men been out there for nearly a year, and they are long fed up with life on the front. To entertain his fe…
Though climate change has long been a problem, political theatre often ignores it. DugOut's Swansong faces the issue head on, placing four survivors of a global flood in a swan pedalo.
A woman sings behind a gauzy white curtain. We cannot see her face, but in her soaring cries we hear her passion. This is Tahirih, born in what is now Iran in the early 1800's (we don't know…
Whilst there's plenty of Shakespeare at the fringe, it doesn't get much coverage. It's understandable " the Bard doesn't count as a potential Next Big Thing, and he's favoured by student and…
It's a big day at Bleach for the Stars. The Welsh salon has been nominated salon of the year by Clip Advisor, and dim-but-enthusiastic manageress Sabrina has a lot to do to prepare, like fil…
Charlotte Josephine's BLUSH tells the stories of five unrelated individuals effected by revenge porn, trolling and the proliferation of easily accessible online pornography
