Sunday, February 2, 2014
First presented in 1990, Doug Lucie’s Doing the Business plots a conversation between a theatre producer and a rich acquaintance as they debate how theatre (apparently an intrinsically lef…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PMFriday, December 20, 2013
Anyone who’s succumbed to the some of the more ‘sparkling’ pleasures of the workplace Christmas party may find a bubble or two of familiarity in the central themes of Ivan Turgenev’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:28AMThursday, December 12, 2013
To raucous cries of “I love Sue”, a stereotypical Sunday school teacher enters a homely set embellished with tinsel, kitsch decorations and Christian iconography. Immediately, our unlike…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:01AMFriday, November 1, 2013
Sometimes it’s good to see aspects of popular culture surviving throughout the generations; in other cases, it’s more reassuring to see a dated artform fall from its conceited grace and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:45AMThursday, September 19, 2013
There’s something decidedly downbeat about the vision of London that stains the flyer for Battersea Arts Centre’s 1-on-1-on-1 Festival, a form of sanitised speed dating for those…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:30AMThursday, August 22, 2013
Suspension breeds suspense in the first full-length work from playwright Serena Haywood, as Chris’s mother and best friend try to come to terms with their loved one’s drunken fall into a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:13AMSaturday, August 10, 2013
As absurdism is known for distorting the everyday in order to make its point, Closing the Gap Theatre has done well to seat the two plays that make up An Evening of the Absurd: Are We All St…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:09AMHow do you give unrepresented young people a voice? Well, first of all you listen to them. In this sharp and informed piece of verbatim theatre, director Nadia Fall has done just that — in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:04AMMonday, July 1, 2013
We’ve all seen those crushing casting calls: “Wanted: Actor with 3+ years’ experience and Drama UK accreditation. Must be able to lie still and portray a dead body for an entire scene.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:49AMFriday, June 28, 2013
It’s all about the high ceilings, the high ropes and the high brows in this ‘holier-than-thou’ collaboration between circus collective Circa and choral group I Fagiolini. Prese…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:34PMTuesday, June 25, 2013
Think that short has to be sweet? Think again. In Short and Stark, a flavoursome assortment of nimble plays opening at Southwark Playhouse at the beginning of July, playwright Joel Horwood i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:16AMThursday, June 20, 2013
Youth may take flight and beauty may fade, but society’s need to cast a scrutinising eye on its celebrities never grows old. Wickedly contemporary in tone despite being written in the 1950…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:21AMFriday, June 7, 2013
Which do you value more? Material possessions or the transformative power of literature? That was the dilemma pitched to Praxis Makes Perfect attendeis in the show’s “important arrival i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:37AMFriday, April 19, 2013
No matter how much the marketing team at the National pushes its £12 Travelex ticket deal in order to diversify audiences, watching a piece designed to ridicule the collective middle class …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:26AMSunday, April 14, 2013
Those who went along to Moving Stories’ Vanessa and Virginia in order to learn more about the acclaimed Bloomsbury Group artist Vanessa Bell set themselves up to be seriously disappointed…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:55AMFriday, April 12, 2013
If, with its greasy foodstores and eccentric costumes, Camden is the circus of London, then for the next few weeks the Roundhouse is, without a doubt, our capital’s big top. Throughout…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:11AMMonday, April 8, 2013
If you’ve ever suffered from a lapse of concentration during a production, you’re certainly not alone. Many theatre-goers have confessed to missing out on the moment where Godot swings b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
As Leslie Jordan’s latest comedy routine begins, the big question that can seemingly only be answered through one man’s anecdotal reflections is, “Do gay men really become their mother…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:12PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
When avant-garde extraordinaire John Cage first placed his notation-free musical composition 4′33″ in front of a New York audience in 1952, the result was anything but silent. While his …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:35AMMonday, February 25, 2013
Between the time Giuseppe Verdi debuted La Traviata in the mid nineteenth century and today, there have been enormous changes to opera audiences — and I’m not just talking about our oh-s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:56PMSaturday, February 16, 2013
Quel désastre, Britons: we live in a neglected nation! Our country may have entertained Shakespeare when he wasn’t fantasising about Italy, but come the mid-twentieth century and the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:55AMFriday, February 8, 2013
He may be the world’s greatest poster boy for innovation, but in a sketch entitled ‘A Cloudburst of Material Possession’, Leonardo Da Vinci exhibited a cynical second opinion c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:54AMThursday, January 10, 2013
The only thing bigger than the eponymous top news story in this work by Sebastian Michael is the LA-sized meteor that is due to hit earth next Thursday. It’s now Friday, and from a TV …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:45PMThursday, September 6, 2012
Taking the train back from Deptford after playing my own minor part in Teatro Vivo’s promenade adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, I found myself scribbling names onto the programme. Unus…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:35AMWednesday, August 29, 2012
Fuelled by perpetual waves of exasperation, likable comic actor Tamsin Greig (Black Books, Green Wing) sets the mumsiness to full throttle in this exploration of middle-aged anxiety and mid…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:58PMMonday, August 27, 2012
Written by Noel Coward as part of a series of short plays, Still Life was designed to be performed within a collection spanning three evenings, before being picked up as the foundation for D…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:01PMThursday, August 23, 2012
“Get out of my head”, cries an elderly Austrian therapist to the handful of guests that plague his study. He quickly exchanges the word “head” for “house”, but in an imaginative …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:27AMSaturday, August 18, 2012
At a point quite early in his show, glitter-coated baritone Le Gateau Chocolat expresses a reluctance to be “defined or confined by size, colour or sexuality”. It’s a bold stat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:45PMSunday, July 29, 2012
There are many different ways to be conventional. We can dress the same as those around us, we can fall in love with the kind of people our parents expect us to and we can subscribe wholehea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:38PMHow much is gold really worth? In this story of a young man preparing for an Olympic victory, national pride is pitched against personal anxieties as a teen struggles to balance the testoste…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:38PMMonday, July 23, 2012
Set in a bar in downtown Chicago, the collaboratively-devised A Life in Monochrome begins in style. Through the use of cabaret seating and an onstage jazz band, the company inventively trans…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:43PM 
