101 stories by "Lauren Mooney"
4/5 stars The plight of the Chilean miners, trapped below ground, gripped the world a year ago. One billion people watched their eventual rescue on television screens across the globe; that …
(3/5 Stars) Colin Hoult's solo sketch comedy shows have garnered him a loyal following at the Edinburgh Fringe over the past few years, and rightly so " Hoult is an engaging performer, likea…
(3/5 Stars) Moving in with your boyfriend for the first time is scary enough, but any concerns Jen might have are pretty much dwarfed by the health scare she has just weeks after moving in w…
(2/5 stars) Blythe Duff is a seriously talented actress, capable of commanding the attention of an auditorium with absolute ease, as if the large audience were merely a handful of friends at…
(3/5 stars) The team behind Kubrick3 wastes no opportunity to remind their audience that the show is based on completely true events, and it’s easy to see why. Alan Conway was a man qu…
(4/5 stars) Amy Mason and Eddie Argos used to be a couple. Now they’re not. She’d almost forgotten their one trip away together, to the Isle of Wight, until a particular shade of…
(3/5 stars) The Guardian called Ella Hickson the voice of our generation, and if that's true, Boys suggests that we are not a very happy one. Set in a student flat in the dead days between r…
(4/5 Stars) The Pilot lives to fly " she dreams of the blue sky and nothing makes her happier than to be out in it, alone. But it isn’t all blue skies: this pilot flies an F1 Fighter p…
(3/5 stars) There are shows you see at the Fringe that you can’t imagine succeeding in the same way anywhere else. It’s unquantifiable, a charm based on some combination of inven…
(2/5 stars) That we are, as human beings, susceptible to certain impulses is a truth universally acknowledged " the desire to make a noise in a quiet place, perhaps, or tell someone a secret…
Josephine, Boris and Sistahl are putting on a play with some songs in it. As they pile onto the stage, tripping over each other like children doing a show for their parents, they admit that …
Blackshaw Theatre runs a regular new writing night in Lambeth and is committed to nurturing budding playwrights. As part of the Wandsworth Arts Festival and Fringe, they have now brought two…
Grief, in all its permutations, is complicated. In May, it will be re-categorised by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as an episode of …
Despite the fact that women make up roughly half of this planet’s population, it is an undeniable fact that the fairer sex are still largely neglected by the media. They may not always…
Spanning roughly a decade as it moves between flashbacks and the modern day, Tu I Teraz is an ambitious production telling the story of Marysia, a single mother who brought her son Kuba f…
It’s easy to be a Scrooge about panto season – often saturated with jokes you can see coming a mile off, predictable audience interaction and formulaic structures. But itR…
It may be billed as a Victorian farce, but watching The Magistrate is probably the closest any of us will ever come to seeing a pantomime at the National Theatre. Though lacking in “he…
After a successful Edinburgh Fringe run, ThickSkin's production of The Static is touring the country with its high-energy tale of young love and the difficulties of being a teenager. The cor…
Some art is universal, some is completely a product of its time. Nicholas Pierpan's You Can Still Make a Killing could not have been written before the recession made us all aware of the ext…
It may be nearly a hundred years since Desire Under the Elms was written, but the stage still brims with the barely-repressed desire promised by the title of Eugene O'Neill's controversia…
Somewhere in Essex, on the muddy banks of the Thames, two boys are hiding from the police. Charlie and Wayne are jubilant, elated. They have “actually dared to do something” at l…
As you traipse down the stairs to find a seat, the stage in Pleasance Two seems to be set for a kind of Eighties cabaret act. Lulu (Milo Twomey), a drag queen, is made up but not yet dressed…
If there was an award for 'Most Misleading Title of the Fringe', Juana in a Million would have to be a contender. Initially put off by the pun, I only realised this was a must-see play upon …
As I descended the steps towards my 'new school', Saint Dumbiedykes, I felt a flutter in my chest of something curiously like nerves. Of course this is ridiculous " Back to School is a site-…
When Richard and Katie meet on a night out " he at a stag do, her a hen " it isn't love at first sight. Or second. Or third. Written and performed by Katie Bonna and Richard Marsh, Dirty Gre…
