950 stories by "Laura Kressly"
Denmark in the mid-1930s was a great place to be if you were gay. Homosexuality was legalized in 1933 and a thriving club scene allowed gay men to meet and socialize publicly. But as the dar…
Kathryn O'Reilly's debut play Screwed admirably endows women with stereotypically laddish behaviours, but there's an uncomfortably judgemental tone taken on the lack of goodness within these…
It's easy to see why Justin Trudeau is one of the darlings of world politics these days. This charming former teacher, actor and advocate, turning to politics after his father's death, ident…
When the abusive, drunken woodcutter Sganarelle beats his wife one time too many, she takes advantage of passing strangers looking for a doctor to cure a young woman's mysterious illness. Te…
Though The Alchemist can be considered Ben Jonson's best play, it doesn't get staged often. The slapstick comedy satirising a cross section of Jacobean society is swift, easy to follow and j…
In a former ambulance depot in Tottenham Hale, Philip Ridley's latest creation comes to life. This epic parallel world of wholly isolated nation states resembles the worst dystopias imaginab…
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Discovering sex is probably one of the most definitive moments of a young life. Good, bad or indifferent, everyone remembers their sexual awakening. Masturbation, losing your virginity, rape…
I always think life in a British seaside town must be idyllic. Quaint and friendly, with the smell of chips, ice cream and salt in the air, the sun always shines and people share a friendly …
Protagonist Elizabeth lives in London with her husband Harry, who she met whilst feeding the residents of her local duck pond. Their romance is a proper fairytale, until the war starts. Writ…
It can absolutely be said Edward Bond was a revolutionary of 1960s British theatre with his seminal play, Saved, that a pivotal role in abolishing censorship. It can also not be doubted that…
Stef Smith's frantic, apocalyptic story captures society's instinctive, "Must. Destroy. Everything." response to the natural world threatening contemporary human sovereignty.
Jamie Muscato does a fantastic job with Holyoake, particularly in the courtroom scenes, and the rest of the cast are a smooth ensemble of devout resistance against him. Muscato's flawless em…
Both " my favourite thing about this play is how it was written to empower an underwritten female character, and yet does such a piss-poor job of doing so. Or maybe it doesn't " maybe Barker…
Chicago, 1998. Harrison and Katherine are both struggling. Harrison's wife recently left him and he gave up a challenging career choice for a safer one as a Math teacher. Fourteen-year-old K…
Political conflict, local gossip and an unstable economy threaten the foundations of family life in Better Together, the winner of the Brockley Jack's annual new writing competition and fest…
Brian Jones. Jimi Hendrix. Amy Winehouse. Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison. Kurt Cobain. Peter McMaster? No, he didn't join the "27 Club" but he celebrates the risks and excesses of the age that t…
A young couple meet, the relationship blooms, then goes through a rough patch and eventually ends when they are much older. Was it meant to be? Are the events in our lives accidental or cont…
What happens when a dancer and performance maker loses the ability to dance due to chronic pain? She makes a solo dance piece with hardly any dance in it. A mix of emotive description, encou…
Laura Dean has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She's afraid she's going to kill herself in her sleep so spends at least two hours before bed checking her house for anything she could use to s…
Some people are so precious about Shakespeare. There's historical merit in periodic restrained, original practice productions, and modern productions with superficial concepts add a degree o…
What sort of trouble would you have got into as a teenager if you were equipped with today's technology? It's a frightening thought. What with the teenage brain's late-developing understandi…
There's been a lot of attention on the lack of diversity in theatre lately. White, middle class, able-bodied males dominate theatre and the industry is finally beginning to see that it's a p…
In 1975, Paul Hill was convicted for bombing two English pubs, along with three other people. Coerced into confessing by the police, the twenty-one year old from Belfast later retracted his …
These women that playwright Charlotte Keatley created are passionate, feisty and reflect society's views of women from the 1930s through the 1980s. Though there's been inevitable progress in…
