Monday, March 24, 2014
Head Hand Head: the mantra and the motion of the obsessive compulsive. From thought to action, internal anxiety is manifested – part-safety, part-affliction. Laura Jane Dean’s so…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:38PMSaturday, March 1, 2014
Imagine a panic-stricken stream-of-consciousness calibrated into an auto-cue. Imagine looking into a fun-house mirror, with the way it takes what you know then stretches and bends it, giving…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:45PMWednesday, February 26, 2014
It’s been quite a year for Bucket Club, and to be honest, this new company’s progress is a little enviable. Formed in May 2013, a gang of like-minded Bristol graduates itching to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:17AMThursday, February 13, 2014
“This is not an interview, this is a conversation,” asserts Chris Thorpe fervently, as I’m apologising for offering a stream of personal observations on his work rather than any st…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AMTuesday, November 5, 2013
Would you let a panel of strangers choose your outfit in the morning? Or perhaps select your date for the evening? How about letting them make the call on whether to keep or delete your Face…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:03AMMonday, November 4, 2013
Billy’s back home after a year in prison and, whilst she’s bright-eyed and beaming, her conversation a mishmash of motivational ‘positive thinking’ slogans, her mothe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:26AMMonday, October 14, 2013
The Barbican plays host to the touring Best of Birmingham European Festival, offering a tasty interval meal along with this line-up of similarly appetising, if not entirely consistent, new w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:12AMSunday, October 13, 2013
In the darkness, the sound of glass shattering, ragged breaths, the dull thud of bodies thrown heavily against the floor. An orange rolls through a spreading pool of blood-red wine. A woma…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:55AMThursday, August 29, 2013
The plot of Samuel Beckett’s 1946 novella, First Love, is so very plausible that, if given only the synopsis, you’d be forgiven for thinking the work had been misattributed. T…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:02AM(3/5 stars) East 15 Acting School has developed rather a reputation recently for churning out talented all-rounder artists, and assured actor-directors Adam El Hagar and Michael Rivers of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24AMTuesday, August 27, 2013
(2/5 stars) When a tasteless office prank goes disastrously awry, the shadowy world of investment bankers becomes a whole lot darker. Against the gloomy backdrop of our current economic clim…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:00AM(2/5 stars) What might now be called ‘cabaret’ was a very different experience in 1890s France. Forget raunchy repartee, damaged divas and any trace of glitter – Nathalie Joly&…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:34AMMonday, August 26, 2013
(4/5 stars) In a rather obscure Assembly venue space tucked behind a construction site, two of the most famous people in the world take the stage in order to speak to us. It’s been a l…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:10AM(5/5 stars) Dignity, passion and human resilience take centre stage in this compelling and considered adaptation of Zdenka Fantlova’s memoir, The Tin Ring, the eponymous ring being …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AMSunday, August 25, 2013
(3/5 stars) “Would you like a kiss?” asks my Long Distance Affair guide during her off-beat and quasi-poetic opening speech that explains the practicalities of what’s about…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:51PMSome valuable life advice: if you’re a female character in an opera, do not fall in love. Chances are you’ll end up cursed, dead or trapped forever in your murderous lover’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:17PMSaturday, August 24, 2013
(4/5 stars) A struggling actor takes on a corporate role-play job – not a particularly innovative story line, you might think, but when it’s New Perspective’s The Boss of It Al…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:34PM[author post rating] (3/5 stars) You have to hand it to whoever at Natural Shocks thought of pitching the PEEP tent – all black industrial plastic and lurid pink neon – right in the mid…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:36AM(3/5 stars) Acclaimed choreographer duo Lost Dog uphold their reputation for provocative and dynamic work with this delectable double bill of dance theatre pieces, It Needs Horses and Home …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:22AMFriday, August 23, 2013
(2/5 stars) The Japanese art of Kamishibai – which translates as ‘paper drama’ – receives a drastically modern incarnation in this curiousity arousing but ultimately unsatisf…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:29PMThursday, August 22, 2013
(2/5 stars) In a palatable mixture of J.M Barrie and autobiographical material, Fishbowl Theatre offers up a unique deliberation on growing up and ‘getting real’… whatever …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:53PM(2/5 stars) I’ve a soft spot for generous and unpretentious performers, so before I cast aspersions on Swept Up Theatre’s Yellow Pears, I have to emphasise that it’s a lovingl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:17PM(4/5 stars) Ever felt homesick for a place you’ve never lived? Such is the effect of Cora Bissett’s multi-disciplinary multi-authored mini-odyssey across Scottish cities at night…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:59PM(2/5 stars) Think watered-down Waiting for Godot, populated by characters from Carroll’s Wonderland who are dressed like characters from Brideshead Revisited (go on, Google it – …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:17PM(3/5 stars) Some of the most considered and exciting work I’ve seen at the Fringe so far has come from surprisingly young companies, and Hot Bear’s dark and involving drama Daug…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18AMWednesday, August 21, 2013
(2/5 stars) I was left more than a little cold by today’s line-up at Papercut Theatre’s rotating showcase of short plays, XY. The project is an infinitely intriguing one to say t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:23PM(3/5 stars) Hovering somewhere between rehearsal and the real thing, between table read and tech-run, Michael Pinchbeck’s The Beginning is an intricate and quietly compelling deliberat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:59PMIt’s difficult to launch confidently into my response to Hyo Jin Kim’s Madame Freedom. I wish I could say such difficulty was due to the fact that Madame Freedom is a profound an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AMTuesday, August 20, 2013
(2/5 stars) Though positing itself as a great British ghost story, DBS Productions’s two-hander (As/Des)cent is disturbing for all the wrong reasons. Plot-wise, there’s a pretty…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:01PMIt’s always a difficult moment when the “customer under a train” announcement is made on the Underground. There’s a discomfort that arises not merely from the event i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:41PM(2/5 stars) Entita Company’s Turbulence, billed as a prequel to The Tempest, asks a novel but really quite needless ‘what if..? of Shakespeare’s final play. The contest…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:36PM 
