Hinging on a brilliant central performance by Adam Scott-Rowley, This is Not Culturally Significant is a dizzying one-man show jump-cutting from character to character. Over the course of an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AMHow to Win Against History is one of those plays at the Fringe that has the double-edged curse of “hype”. Last year, it played in the tiny Box at Assembly George Square – this year, it…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AMThe title of Elinor Cook’s latest play, with its double-meaning akin to Enduring Love, signifies a play that cruxes on duality. Best friends Lorna and Grace are two sides of a coin, doing …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24AMPart-gig, part-theatre, part-satire, Elsa, by Roundhouse Resident Artist Isobel Rogers, has a little bit of everything on offer. Roger tells us the story of Elsa, an artist working in a caf�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AMYou may have heard of real-life sisters Flo and Joan (real names Nicola and Rosie Dempsey) from their song about 2016 that did the internet rounds last year. Or you may not – they were at …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AMWhere to begin with Education, Education, Education, Wardrobe Ensemble’s love letter to school in the 90s? It’s brilliant – that’s a good place to start. Focusing in on a chaotic muc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:42AMHow to Win Against History is one of those plays at the Fringe that has the double-edged curse of “hype”. Last year, it played in the tiny Box at Assembly George Square – this year, it…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:33AMAfter an act of unfaithfulness, a seemingly ordinary British couple book a holiday together to try and salvage their relationship. We watch as the couple, Mark and Fran, attempt (a little lo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PMBefore Prom Kween even starts, I have glitter on my face and am singing along to the Spice Girls, the lyrics projected on a screen over images of famous RuPaul’s Drag Race lipsyncs. This k…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PMIt’s Tom’s 55th birthday, and his daughter, Sophie, prepares him for a visit by two of his friends. But Tom has an unspecified degenerative disease that affects his memory and understand…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:24PMHeather, created by theatre company Dancing Brick, twists and turns around the story of an unexpectedly successful fantasy novel and the elusive author behind it. Rife with Harry-Potter-esqu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:04AMWide-eyed, wide-mouthed, and completely in awe, a child no more than seven years old watches in amazement as a grown man in a skin-tight bee costume tells the angst-ridden story of losing th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:04AMSet up in order to “reflect the diversity of the real world on stage”, Clumsy Bodies is a queer theatre company formed by disabled artists presenting their take on the ancient Iphigenia …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:04AMLeaving Milly Thomas’ play Brutal Cessation, I glance at the playtexts sold outside the theatre. One line on the blurb catches my attention: it suggests that one of Thomas’s main questio…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:54AMHull – 1997, 2007, 2017. Middle Child’s part-gig part-show All We Ever Wanted Was Everything hop-skip-and-jumps across time, telling the story of Leah, Chris, and their parents, examinin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:54AMAh, “immersive”. That age-old buzzword. A word I’m usually cynical about – after all, it doesn’t really mean all that much. Surely all theatre is, or should be, im…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:48PMI don’t know about you, but I get a real buzz out of walking into a theatre I’ve already visited and having difficulty recognising the space. It’s something about being dup…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:57PMAbi Morgan’s Fugee is the perfect play for the Southwark Playhouse Young Company. The characters constantly tell us that they don’t exist, and that they’re being played by actors who a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:14PMAt the beginning of the month, the announcement came that IdeasTap is to close on the 2 June. Following the news, it didn’t take long for many of the site’s members to speak up in suppor…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:45AMFebruary is a big month for comedy group Casual Violence. Their new show, The Great Fire of Nostril, runs at the Soho Theatre next week, immediately followed by the recording of a new “pod…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:23PMSince its establishment in 1981, London International Festival of Theatre – or LIFT – have been bringing bold and ambitious theatre to the capital with its bi-annual festival. This year�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:21AMIt’s almost two months since Chris Urch’s play Land of Our Fathers, finished its West End run at Trafalgar studios, but the playwright is showing no signs of stopping. Having won one of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:10PMWhen I enter York Theatre Royal for the press launch of TakeOver Festival, I’m hit with how buzzing and alive the foyer is. Music fills the room, courtesy of a ukulele band (the brilliantl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:47AMThere’s been some debate recently about realism, reality and realness, prompted by the Almeida’s current production of Little Revolution, which constantly springs to mind while …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:19PM“I got an email from someone saying, ‘I’d like to reserve a ticket for The Love and Devotion of Ridley Scott,” playwright Miran Hadzic laughs. “And I was like – it’s not a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:31AMHats off to theatre company Waldeinsamkeit for the play’s misleadingly ominous title: turns out (spoiler!) no one buries anyone in the company’s debut show. Well, not literally they don�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:09PMDespite an entire Edinburgh run and considerable publicity around Anna Jordan, its Bruntwood Prize-winning playwright/director, Freak still managed to be an entirely different play to the on…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:37AMAlright – any show that encourages its audience to start drinking at twelve noon is already working its way into my good books. Theatre company Not Too Tame has taken a pub in Edinburgh, t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:28AMThere’s an ironic moment during Back Here! Theatre’s production of Fairytales and Fire in which two characters talk about clichés – ironic because they seem unaware of quite how many…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:22AMIn four bite-size chunks, Push showcases four dance pieces by renowned choreographer and dancer Russell Maliphant. Two of the pieces – which are chronologically titled ‘Solo’, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:10AMHurrah! A play about a trans-woman, devised by trans-people, performed by trans-people. At last, a piece that has gone out of its way to explore the experiences of trans-people, and which re…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:16PM