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Thursday, August 7, 2014

Review: My Night With Reg, Donmar Warehouse by Andres Ordorica

There are few plays that sit in the genre of gay dramatic literature and stand out as unarguably necessary and canonical, surpassing their temporality and remaining an evocative and meaningf…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:56PM

Friday, July 25, 2014

Review: Holy Warriors, The Globe by Andres Ordorica

‪Holy Warriors, a new play by David Eldridge, is billed as “a fantasia on the Third Crusade and the history of violent struggle in the Holy Lands” — like other plays of such …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:46PM

Monday, July 21, 2014

Review: The Importance of Being Earnest, Harold Pinter Theatre by Andres Ordorica

It is always somewhat controversial when a production takes a classical, and daresay canonical, piece of drama and alters the text significantly. Countless classical stage plays are updated,…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:27PM

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Review: Tack-On Tours by Andres Ordorica

Unhinged, uncomfortable, unbridled are all fitting descriptions of Pamela and Sharlene’s Tack-On Tours Presents the Ugliest Buildings in London, but to simply leave it at that would negate…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:19AM

Monday, June 23, 2014

Review: Dream of Perfect Sleep, Finborough Theatre by Andres Ordorica

Dream of Perfect Sleep (a new play by Kevin Kautzman) is an imaginative study on how adult children deal with death and the imminent loss of aging loved ones. Director Max Pappenheim takes t…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:47PM

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Review: This Is How We Die, Ovalhouse by Andres Ordorica

This Is How We Die is an explosion of epic poetry that tackles the absurd nature of life and the human desire to compartmentalise the self, the other and humanity. A one-man performance piec…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:56PM

Monday, June 16, 2014

Review: Johnny Got His Gun, Southwark Playhouse by Andres Ordorica

Johnny Got His Gun (directed by David Mercatili) revolves around the story of Joe Bonham, a young twenty-something American from Colorado. He enlists in the U.S. Army to serve in World War I…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:56AM

Monday, June 2, 2014

Review: Ten Women, Ovalhouse by Andres Ordorica

A life-size advertisement sits as the backdrop to a completely bare stage. In big black lettering it reads: ‘COMING SOON’. These words are there to whet the audience’s appetite…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:20PM

Friday, May 30, 2014

Review: A Human Being Died That Night, Hampstead Theatre by Andres Ordorica

A Human Being Died That Night, currently playing at the Hampstead Theatre Downstairs is theatre, truly, at its most sublime and gut-wrenching. Nicholas Wright’s play comprises two char…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:34PM

Friday, May 23, 2014

Review: John Ferguson, Finborough Theatre by Andres Ordorica

As soon as the lights give way at the Finborough Theatre, the audience is transported to a bleak country. A beautifully minimal set, painted in greys and charcoal evoke the hardship of Ulste…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:12PM

Friday, August 17, 2012

Review: Julius Caesar by Andres Ordorica

I have never been to a press night with such hoardes of paparazzi as those waiting outside the theatre when I saw the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Julius Caesar. Yet, far from being ove…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:12AM

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Review: Twelfth Night by Andres Ordorica

I was in awe as I walked into the Roundhouse in Camden. Having attended shows in Stratford-Upon-Avon previously, I felt immediately as if I was in that beautiful provincial town viewing a pl…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:27AM

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