Laura Davies

Laura Davies

REVIEW: Private Lives

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Royal Exchange’s production is well-paced and joyful What goes on behind closed doors? How do you treat your spouse when nobody else is around? Does love unavoidably cause insanity? Noël Coward’s 1930 comedy Private Lives reveals…

REVIEW: Lost Atoms at The Lowry

Reading Time: 2 minutesFrantic Assembly explore how memory taints and transfigures love in 30th anniversary production Imagine if the memories of your last relationship, good, bad, and somewhere complicated in between, were crammed into hundreds of drawers in a huge,…

REVIEW: Dancing at Lughnasa

Reading Time: 2 minutesDancing at Lughnasa is a co-production by the Royal Exchange Theatre and Sheffield Theatre, of Brian Friel’s incredible 1990 play. The story takes place on the outskirts of Ballybeg in County Donegal and follows five sisters struggling with money, family, identity, religion, purpose, love, and everything in between.