Louise has experience in collaborative and devised productions as well as script-based work. She has written for children, young people and adults and her plays have been performed in theatres, schools, arts centres, and community venues. They have toured the UK, France and Sweden.
She is passionate about creating work that combines text with different mediums-including puppetry, dance, music and the visual arts.
Productions include:
Jabberwocky
Directed by Steve Tiplady – The Little Angel Theatre – 2004 and 2015
Lewis Carroll’s acclaimed gobbledegook, the most famous nonsense poem ever, is a strange bird indeed, and Louise Warren has whiffled it into some peculiar shapes in this truly frabjous production.
Time Out Critics Choice
This is one of those great children’s shows that work largely in the realm of the unconscious and which has a visual imagination that is extravagant and quixotic.
The Guardian
Staging a tale of nonsensical events is a task few producers would take on. Thanks to Louise Warren’s script, inspired by the Lewis Carroll poem, the Little Angel Theatre company succeed miraculously. The production takes flight in a wonderful homage to the sadness of growing up. Rarely is puppetry so filmic, theatrical, or downright trippy. This is a lavish production, literally full of shooting stars, and conceived on a note of hymn-like euphoria.The Ham&High
Jonah and the Whale
Directed by Steve Tiplady – The Little Angel Theatre – 2002
An inspired and ingenious show for anyone over four. This Old Testament story with all its bizarre detail intact, becomes a brilliantly comic version of biblical events at the hands of writer Louise Warren.
Time Out
Quiet
Directed by Philip Hoffman – Diorama Arts centre
Based on the case histories of six women asylum patients, imaginatively constructed and choreographed, disturbingly conveys progressive claustrophobia and longing.
The Stage
Quiet is inspired by the true case histories of six women asylum patients after WW1. Through these women’s stories, the play examines the way in which society deals with those who do not conform to its standards, and looks at the suffering, self-recrimination, and desperation of those who have been cast out.
Camden New Journal
Fossil Woman
Directed by Alison Edgar and Helena Uren – Shaker Productions and Alarmist Theatre – Lyric Studio and touring
This charming play based on the true story of self-taught geologist Mary Anning and her discoveries on the cliffs at Lyme Regis circa 1800.
Time Out Critics Choice
Edwina: A Cautionary Tale for Grown-Ups
Directed by Josette Bushell-Mingo – Aspect Theatre Productions – 1993
Taking a leaf out of the David Glass, Julia Bardsley school of white faced, heightened melodrama. A stunning realisation of that emotional state which could be truly said to be the scourge of our times- envy. From the beginning to end the production vibrates with invention and colour in an atmosphere set by two female cellists whose impassive faces belie the dread and foreboding of the throbbing opening chords.
Louise Warren’s fiercely economical script entwines vivid naturalism with sharp rhymes of the Victorian nursery variety. ‘Edwina was a sulky girl/whose long brown hair could never curl/and envious of Georgina’s plaits/she cut them both off during maths/ and that’s just the start of it!’
What’s on. Pick of the Week.
Louise Warren’s clever tale, told in fragments. A dark and disturbing theatrical experience about envy that disturbs the viewer long after the performance has ended.
Total Theatre
Things Curious
Directed by Rufus Norris – Battersea Arts Centre/Working Parts – 1992
Set the complaints department of the catalogue of woe, this enchanting show, Monty Python like escapades are imbued with an Alice in Wonderland sense of curiouser and curiouser as the couple’s antagonism animates everyday objects- oranges, table lamps, paper darts, filing cabinets- as armoury to do battle against each other.
This is a show of small, but bizarrely enchanting pleasures in which the apparently ordinary is transformed into an exotic landscape to represent the characters interior world.
Time Out.
Vows
Directed by Polly Teale – Scarlet Theatre – Oval House and touring – 1991
Scarlet Theatre’s new show is a mysterious, captivating performance piece, written by Louise warren, which explores the private vows we make to keep ourselves true and the public ones which take that right away. A potent illustration of the way three women interpret the same sworn vow and how they live with the results of their decisions. Rich and rewarding.
Time Out.
Three Tides Turning
Directed by Shabnam Shabazi – London New Play Festival – 1995
Louise Warren’s three sketches are all linked by metaphors, allegories, puns and references to water. With a touching ensemble effect, Warren drums home to us the real significance of modern science and gives us a glimpse of the fine writer she might become in time.
What’s On.
Louise Warren’s play is a poetic play loosely connecting women’s lives through the motif of water. The stage, encircled with white curtains like a full sail is shared by a motley crew. A washerwoman, mermaid, sailor and meanwhile upstage is a bed where Angela, cheeky manager material, is laid up, befriending and exasperating her nurse in a funny mix of naturalism and scientific monologues.
The Times.
Other productions and theatre work include:
Theatre-Rites. Sleep Tight.
Immediate Theatre. Now you see me, now you Don’t. Interactive performance piece about the transition from primary to secondary schools. Schools touring (2004-2019)
Epping Community Play. The Dream. Indefinite Articles.
Snap Peoples Theatre. The Worst Witch.
London Bubble. The English Park. A Murder Mystery.
Brighton Festival and Beyond. The Invisible Man.
Indefinite Articles. Pinocchio.
Ripstock Productions. Over the Moon.
The Little Angel Theatre. In the Beginning. What if?
Night-Night. London New Play Festival.
Workshops and residencies in schools:
Central School of Speech and Drama. Working with first year students.
Paddington Arts centre. Working with refugees.
Hawth Arts Centre. Writer-in- residence with Shaker Productions.
Louise Warren, poet 