302 stories by "Louise Penn"
Paul is dead, killed at his own party. Everyone is a suspect, and most of them had a motive. Written and performed by Emily Head, directed by Guy Unsworth, The System is filmed live in one t…
Garry Roost's play Warhol: Bullet Karma focuses on the events around his shooting by Valerie Solanas (this ground was covered from a more feminist perspective in Femme Fatale).
Lost in Love is a new play presented by Flow Stage Productions. A brash and funny lady, Emily (Rachel Pryde) has something to tell about her life and the men in it.
Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies (the title refers to a Davis quote of some years later about old age) references the women's lot in the Golden Age of Hollywood " exploitative auditions, unequa…
Till Love Do Us Part isn't one of the flashiest productions on the digital fringe in terms of its technical style, but the writing carries it through.
Over on the ZOOTV platform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, you'll find Planet of the Grapes, a delicious livestream performed live in New York City. I'm told that on Sunday the city was be…
Marie Lloyd Stole My Life is a beautifully written show, full of pathos and conjuring up the mores and expectations of the time " notably, both Power and Lloyd died prematurely, which highli…
Nuworks Theatre, from Australia, bring their lively and passionate musical (written, directed and designed by David Dunn, with choreography by Meg Dunn) about the fight for women's suffrage …
East Belfast Boy intrigues from the first frame, and lends itself perfectly to the new format, redefining the boundaries between disparate art forms.
In Call Me Elizabeth Kayla Boye takes on the difficult task of writing about, and portraying the icon which was Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011). Just like Marilyn Monroe, you feel you already k…
Celebrating 21 years as a hit radio show, the Dead Ringers team " in this case, Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey " have taken up a late August residency in the Big Top venue a…
Originally planned to be performed live at Summerhall, Katie Bonna's audio play, The Entertainment, is "about what we carry around inside us".
Written and performed by Patricia Légaré Eddisford, The Tarantula is just under an hour of monologue, a story that transcends its one-room location.
Quackpot Productions has brought fresh and quirky show Meet Cute to the Camden Fringe, in which Tim and Gill's budding romance goes anything but smoothly.
Streaming now on the Summerhall Online platform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Fow is a very clever and engaging love story from a deaf-led perspective.
Not a lot happens, yet everything happens, as Big Big Sky's premise is about ordinary people living ordinary lives. Under Tessa Walker's direction " she has collaborated with Wells before " …
Filmed entirely on Zoom, whether depicting calls or trips in the car or out into the garden. Regina Frod's production of Nana and Paige is now streaming in the Online@TheSpace platform at th…
Captain Condom & the Covid-19 Conundrum masks a very serious message about sexual awareness and education in a funny show utilising the superhero theme.
Now streaming at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the Pleasance Online platform, Popelei presents PUSH, a filmed theatre piece about a woman and a pregnancy test. The language is weird, stat…
In partnership with Crisis, the And Tomorrow Theatre Company has developed a quintet of plays (Abdictation, Dissolution, Isolation, Desolation) which take Shakespeare's King Lear as inspirat…
Currently streaming on the Fringe Player platform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Ithaca is a one-person stage to screen version of The Odyssey.
Marrying Jake Gyllenhaal, a one-person show written and performed by Melissa Center, is a sweet and sometimes very funny piece which is honest about family and human connections.
While John & Jen can sometimes veer into the sentimental, it does try to bring in numerous issues in modern America, and particularly succeeds in bringing to life the special bond betwee…
Written and performed by Alice Underwood, and directed by Izzy Carney, Don't Ask Don't Get, Baby focuses on what happens if you are a "Donor Conceived Person? Honestly I think I prefer Test …
Based on the true story of how the inhabitants of the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, coped with the diversion of numerous planes from American airspace on 9/11, Come From Away at the Ph…