Saturday, June 29, 2013
Responsible Other, written and directed by Melanie Spencer and on at the Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, focuses on teenager Daisy as she battles with Lupus disease. A lesser known illness tha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:15PMFriday, May 31, 2013
Patrice Etienne’s Venus/Mars joins a stream of new plays based around the monologic form, where monologues are injected with variety, insight and humour. In these plays, spoken conversatio…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:06AMMonday, May 27, 2013
The premise of Killing Romeo, a new piece by Jazz Martinez-Gamboa at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, has promise. The play explores the personal journeys two actors take as they grapple with t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:53PMSaturday, January 12, 2013
The cast, distractingly poorly costumed and in a cheap set, are noticeably youthful from the off. Ibsen’s play, The Lady from the Sea, is a ponderous one, and I feel that its dramatic succ…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:08AMMonday, December 10, 2012
Tara Theatre’s Dick Whittington Goes Bollywood, written by Harvey Virdi (lyrics by Farrukh Dhondy) and directed by Jatinder Verma, is overtly adult-focused from the off. Although the sexua…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:07AMSunday, September 16, 2012
King Lear can seem like a one man show, everything instigated by the mistakes of the self-deposed monarch and the play’s success entirely hinging on the lead’s act. Not so with this prod…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:34AMThursday, September 6, 2012
With its bizarre language, penchant for violence, and portrayal of an insular and dangerous youthful society, Enda Walsh’s play Disco Pigs is of the same ilk as Anthony Burgess’s infamou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:19AMFriday, August 17, 2012
Director Sam Yates has done a marvellous thing. He has managed to revitalise J.B. Priestley’s play Cornelius – a play that, tellingly, has not been produced in London for over 70 years �…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:17PMThursday, June 28, 2012
Michael Chaplin’s A Walk on Part dramatises the fall of New Labour as documented by the diaries of ex-MP Chris Mullin. Following success both in Newcastle and at London’s Soho Theatre, t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:32AMSunday, June 24, 2012
Michael Healey’s play, The Drawer Boy, is loosely based upon real events: it tells of the summer of 1972 when a group of actors lived and worked among farmers in order to devise a play tha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AMTuesday, June 5, 2012
By turns funny and tragic, deep and superficial, engrossing and alienating, Boys is a play that tries to do everything and very nearly succeeds. Set at the end of the university year, Ella …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:07AMSunday, May 20, 2012
Rather than the party that the title promises, we are presented with a gathering that stinks of second best. In Abigail’s Party, Mike Leigh’s 1977 suburban comedy, a bizarre gathering of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:02PMMonday, April 16, 2012
Now on at the Tabard Theatre, John Rae’s novel The Custard Boys has been adapted and directed by Glenn Chandler. Full of jolly schoolboys (rah-rah-rah) who have been evacuated to Norfolk d…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:27AMMonday, March 12, 2012
The performance of Someone To Blame at The King’s Head Theatre is part of the campaign to free Sam Hallam, aptly timed considering his appeal is this coming May. After a group of Hoxton yo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:24AMMonday, March 5, 2012
Self-evidently devised by the performers themselves, and ably directed by John Wright, The Summer House centres around a stag night in Iceland that goes horribly awry, with some bizarre inte…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:11AMSunday, February 26, 2012
I left the Arcola Theatre’s performance of Sofi Oksanen’s Purge in a state of shock, the tension in my ribcage palpable. The play is about how the Estonian country and women were ravaged…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:08AMMonday, February 20, 2012
Unlike other comedians, Riches’s material is not primarily observational humour; there is only the briefest smattering of crude sexual innuendos or vulgar swearing, and the one liners are …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:17AMMonday, January 30, 2012
As a heterosexual woman, I was most definitely not this play’s target audience (whatever the title might suggest). About a straight man (Lee) being propositioned by a gay one (Stanley) on …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:31PM 
