950 stories by "Laura Kressly"
This charming kaleidoscope takes the model invented by Craig Taylor in his landmark play One Million Tiny Plays About Britain to present a few dozens vignettes about daily life in Reading.
My mother and her mother, and their generation, faced a crisis: How to stay connected to their heritage and history when the history was so painful? The solution for many was fantasy: unreal…
The Show In Which Hopefully Nothing Happens is a deceptively simple and wonderfully surprising little show for little ones, but grownups, particularly those with a penchant for the strange a…
The world Rosy Carrick creates through video and storytelling in Passionate Machine is both a joy and an insight into the tenacity of the human spirit and the passion that drives us.
Forgive me for blending my Shakespeares, but when I try to summarise Headlong's Richard III, the phrase that comes to mind is pure sound and fury. And wicked good fun, too.
Frankenstein is a tour de force. A choral, beatboxing, rap-infused version of Mary Shelley's masterpiece, Battersea Arts Centre's 'live concept album' manages to entertain and analyse our wo…
The Trick is another gem in the Bush's long list of shows that represent parts of society that aren't often explored, and brings sparkling joy as well as stark reality to this story of loss …
In 10, playwright Lizzie Milton wants to redress the balance. The potted stories of 10 women who have been largely forgotten in the passage of time unfold in choral celebration, serving to b…
I can't begrudge anyone their enjoyment of Six, a fast-paced display of talented women " I enjoyed it, too. However " rather like the history it's trying to tell " such awesome performers de…
Angry Alan is an angry little show with huge impact that smartly appropriates the rampant misogyny of its subject flipping the mirror so all its flaws are magnified.
Once A Lesson From Aloes finds its momentum, it keeps moving towards an ending that significantly fractures what remains of the main characters' lives. Celebrated director Janet Suzman uses …
The Grand Expedition " the title alone calls to mind the colonial narratives of Dr Livingstone or Phileas Fogg, so it is perhaps no surprise that this show is more interested in presenting a…
Mark and Marichka Marczyk's band Lemon Bucket Orkestra shares songs from their newest album in the short, intimately staged gig Balaklava Blues at the Vault Festival.
Lou and Jaz have met on Tinder and are going on a date. A simple premise, but in its use of different narratives, Greyscale highlights the complexities of relationships, sexual power and per…
If you're a 20- or 30-something It's Not A Sprint might be the most painfully relatable show you see all festival " or indeed all year " or perhaps ever
Outbox Theatre's latest show And the Rest of Me Floats is a celebration of non-binary and transgender people. It honours the blurry lines of gender and brings joy to people that endure preju…
I'm not sure whether The Justice Syndicate is a play, event, experiment, or interactive performance. Whichever of this, it doesn't really matter and certainly presents an interesting future …
It's that self-conscious laughter in Binaural Dinner Date that arises from the artifice of a first date and the things we are asked to do/share, but there are several diversions that add hum…
Thanks to three great performances and a taut script, Tryst is a gripping piece. The three characters are well-rounded and convincing, and as lies unravel and confessions are made it is diff…
Call Me Fury tells what we know of the stories of these women (although there were some men, too). The four-strong cast swoop amongst us in the small, thrust space playing judged and jury, w…
Cosmopolitan's current most-read article is a feature on a $35 maternity dress worn by Megan Markle. This is, as explored in performance artist Paula Varjack's latest work, an example of pos…
Essentially, Superhoe is a story about losing and then finding yourself again. Nicôle Lecky also takes us on a journey through our warped view of social media and what it means to be a d…
Idiosyncratic, eccentric, fearless and alien-like are just a few of the descriptors a rudimentary Google search of Tilda Swinton will throw up. Based on these, Byron Lane's Tilda Swinton Ans…
Parody is too broad a stroke to apply to Drenched at the Vault Festival. There is something more intelligent and altogether weird and wonderful at work here.
Naoise Murphy may be a fictional boxer in Kicking All the Boxes but actor-writer Liz FitzGibbon was a teenage European kickboxing champion in her own right. When she left school she left the…
