Friday, July 25, 2014
Last week, the playwright Samuel Adamson tweeted an image of the cast list from his 1999 adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters. It was one of those propitious line-ups where nearly everyon…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:27PMThursday, July 18, 2013
Cush Jumbo is performing a knock-kneed Charleston. Her elbows extend, her legs kick and flail in every direction; she has transformed into an exuberant rubbery jester. She is in the role of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:02AMTuesday, July 16, 2013
‘It’s difficult to know where to start With the strange undoing of Prudencia Hart.’ So begins David Greig’s eponymous revel, In which a Scottish academic has a tryst with the dev…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:06PMFriday, June 7, 2013
Rutherford and Son, Northern Broadsides’s revival of a muscular Edwardian drama, arrives in the West End with a timeliness that is almost mystical. Yes, there are historical parallels; the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:26AMSaturday, March 2, 2013
The mysterious past misdeed, whose nature is withheld until the play’s closing stages, is a staple of the nebulous sub-genre known as New Writing. Suitably enough, Fear of Music – by up-…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:13AMSaturday, February 16, 2013
In celebration of its fiftieth birthday, Kennington’s OvalHouse has been holding a season called Counterculture 50: a series of five theatrical works, each commemorating a different decade…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:37AMSunday, February 3, 2013
In his curmudgeon’s gospel The Smoking Diaries, the late Simon Gray rued his unjust neglect by the modern theatre. In the main, this neglect continues: it is a mockery that, while in the W…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:40AMMonday, December 31, 2012
A new production of August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death marks the end of an extraordinary year for the work of the Swedish polymath, the centenary of whose death has aroused a flurry of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36AMTuesday, December 18, 2012
The Tempest is a play about mastery. The storm masters the crewmen, Prospero masters the island, Ferdinand masters his emotions. If only Grassroots Shakespeare had mastered The Tempest. Ho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:58PMMonday, December 10, 2012
In the Epistle Dedicatory that precedes Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw contended that “in Shakespeare’s plays, the woman always takes the initiative”. This may be true f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AMDolah, the protagonist of Unbroken Line, is having an identity crisis. A trainee accountant transplanted to Peckham from his native Malaysia, he’s not sure where his allegiances lie: ̶…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:52AMFriday, November 23, 2012
Edward Thomas’s status in the public mind can be split into two clear eras: pre-Hollis and post-Hollis. As a result of the success of Matthew Hollis’s momentous biography, Now All Roads …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:46AM 
