Saturday, December 13, 2014
It’s panto season, so get ready for singing along, holding hands with the stranger next to you and lots of “boooo!”-ing from the audience – all of which your reviewer dul…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:30AMMonday, December 8, 2014
Based on the international classic by Kenneth Grahame, this Royal Opera House production (moving into a West End venue once again) was first performed in 2002 and Will Tuckett’s choreo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:59PMSeen at the Edinburgh Fringe earlier this year, Back Door tells a story similar to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Now set in Paris, Tabitha (Laura Louise Baker) and John (Polis Loizou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24PMWednesday, December 3, 2014
Another musical revival in the wake of British classics Evita and Cats comes from the other side of the Pond. Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, first performed in 1990, has opened at the M…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:37AMMonday, December 1, 2014
A memorial in south London: the familiar sight of a bunch of letters, candles, flowers and postcards marking a crime scene. Young and homeless Sam (Amy Cornwell) has chosen the spot to beg �…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:21PMSaturday, November 29, 2014
A psychiatric prison in the USSR, 1978. We’re on an island and see dissident author Gavriil (Graeme McKnight), a Ukrainian convict, in the interrogation room with Doctor Yurchak (Matth…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:22AMThursday, November 27, 2014
As part of the Gate’s season of ‘compelling, complex female protagonists’ (Who Does She Think She Is?), Chimera is a transfer from New York’s Public Theater. Written …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:02AMMonday, November 24, 2014
The 1999 Mark O’Rowe play Howie the Rookie was written as a two-hander, but the writer decided on a different version not long ago, which is now at the Barbican’s Pit for a limit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:18PMFriday, November 21, 2014
Company Chameleon has it all: in not much more than an hour, the cast do virtually all the styles of dance to the widest variety of music. The six men explore the idea of what it is to be …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:51AMThursday, November 20, 2014
After winning a Fringe First at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, The Collector is at the Arcola for a week showing off its critical treatment of the war in Iraq. Henry Naylor has written …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:44PMMonday, November 17, 2014
American company Burning Coal revives three of David Edgar’s plays on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Your reviewer saw The Prisoner’s Dilemma; the other tw…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:09PM“Everything bad is real.” Moe (Sean Rigby) the security guard appears to give the audience a clue, somewhere in the second half of this mind-bending drama. Set in an apocalyptic …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:42PMSaturday, November 15, 2014
In truly modern fashion, pianist Owen (Philip Honeywell) is a data entry clerk while girlfriend Holly (EJ Martin) urges him to then at least do some weddings. Owen cannot physically touch a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:10PMTuesday, November 11, 2014
Marion Banning (Janet Suzman) lives alone, in the South African middle of nowhere. Not in town, not in the township. She writes to her daughter, who lives in Australia, lengthy letters that …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:39PMThursday, November 6, 2014
Verbatim theatre and recorded delivery, made famous through Alecky Blythe’s London Road (2011) and more recently Little Revolution is a way of telling real people’s stories with …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:05PMFriday, October 31, 2014
Visible Ensemble was founded out of a frustration with the lack of serious roles for older actors. At some point, so it seems, you’ll only be cast as silly old grandma or friendly elde…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:50PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
Edgar Allan Poe could not be absent during this year’s London Horror Festival, and in Gimcrack Productions’ debut his short story The Fall of the House of Usher is the basis for …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:17PMFriday, October 24, 2014
When it was first performed in 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals stirred controversy over its portrayal of Irish characters and a disastrous opening performance. Sheridan re…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18PMTuesday, October 21, 2014
The Scottsboro Boys were a group of nine black boys travelling through Alabama in 1931, pulled from their train, falsely accused of rape and convicted to the electric chair. The trial, which…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:32PMThursday, October 9, 2014
Now that gay marriage is legal in the UK, while in Russia matters only seem to get worse, the Hen and Chickens this week presents a double bill inspired by these developments. One is To Be a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:42PMMonday, October 6, 2014
Boy Blue Entertainment’s The Five & The Prophecy of Prana, attempts, like its title, to invoke an elaborate theatrical world drawn from manga comics and films – the show even inc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:44PMCharlie Conlon (Joseph Begley) and Jake Quinn (Niall Bishop) are thirty-something, unemployed and live in a small Irish town in County Kerry where Hollywood has just landed to shoot a rural …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:34PMWednesday, October 1, 2014
There was bound to be a play about phone hacking. But Richard Bean’s new work (like his previous hit One Man, Two Guvnors, a National Theatre transfer) takes on the holy trinity of pu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:50PMIgor and Moreno’s Idiot-Syncrasy begins with the two standing side by side, wearing colourful and ill-fitting rain jackets and sports shoes – a far cry from the designed and often m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:55PMWednesday, September 17, 2014
Forbidden Broadway, the musical aiming to spoof all others, has been in existence since 1982 and its latest incarnation (transferred from the Menier Chocolate Factory, direction by Phillip G…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:44PMMonday, September 15, 2014
“Puppetry theatre”, I thought, “that could be interesting”. With productions like War Horse and Complicite’s The Master and Margarita showing off serious puppet…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:55PMTuesday, September 9, 2014
It is three summers ago that London burned and that verbatim playwright Alecky Blythe (London Road) took to the streets of Hackney, recording her conversations with the local community. Bett…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:53PMThursday, September 4, 2014
Reptember is the rep season at New Diorama Theatre, and resident ensemble The Faction present nine classic works of theatre and literature remodelled into one-person shows. These are divided…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:09PMTuesday, September 2, 2014
Set in Temple Church, in the isolated medieval splendour of the area between Fleet Street and Embankment, Antic Disposition’s Romeo and Juliet is seen in the round, underneath the twel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:08PMSunday, August 10, 2014
Centred around Oscar Wilde’s lover – the one that inspired Dorian – the story in The Picture of John Gray takes on the challenge of delving deeper into Wilde’s set. Trackin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:46PMMonday, July 14, 2014
As part of the annual RADA festival, BurntOut Theatre presents Much Ado About Nothing in the middle of Russell Square, a fitting backdrop to the Bard’s coquettish comedy about love, ma…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:14AM 
