Monday, August 31, 2015
The downside of bringing a student production to the Fringe is that it faces going up against experienced acts, with the contrast between professional and amateur disciplines brought more t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:57AMIn today’s world, where black people witness the Ferguson shootings on their televisions, how can the feeling not be of being under systematic attack? In her play, Racheal Ofori takes hold…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:57AMSaturday, August 29, 2015
“If you find something funny then laugh”, says Jess Thom, a London artist with Tourettes syndrome. Alienated by the diagnosis in her early twenties, Thom took the advice of a friend: �…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:04AMFriday, August 28, 2015
‘Tis the witching hour. The crowd file in at midnight for a heavy metal band pumping with the rage of the Greeks. In Aeschylus’s Oresteia, the matriarch of the House of Atreus, Clytemnes…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:33PMWhat your computer can learn about you from your web searches and your reliance on Google Translate (despite your “fluency” in German), down to the porn you watch, makes for a startling …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:33PM If you’ve ever read Crime and Punishment now’s your chance to get sweets pelted at you by none other than Dostoyevs…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AM Drinking a crate of beer would loosen the tongue on most people but not the two women performers in Spitfire Theatre’s production, part of the Fringe’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AMAntoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince lends more than enough colourful characters for Ezra LeBanks’s jovial adaptation, produced by Californian physical theatre company Curbside.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AMThursday, August 27, 2015
When Los Angeles-based director Lars Jan unmasked the public intellectual Paul Abacus as a fictional creation, were any of us surprised (the name is a bit on the nose)? This project lit up t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:37AM“I’m gonna sing you a sad song, Susie”. The sombre lines of Kenny Rogers’s break-up anthem float over our arrival at Fringe warrior Penny Arcade’s (Susana Ventura) new show for Soh…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMThe brainchild of Belgian musicians Jonas Vermeulen and Boris Vanseveren, backed by powerhouse producer Richard Jordan, this coming-of-age performance is played in an electric fusing of musi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
Imagine the lush trees and glistening waterways of the Garden of Eden replaced by a pathetic plot where the hearty Eve (Hannah Ringham), eagerly hobbling in one heel, and average Adam (Simon…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:34PMJapanese playwright Toshiki Okada’s play was prompted into existence by the Fukushima nuclear disaster but the Bristol-based FellSwoop Theatre, in its poise and music, acts as if to inter…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:37AMMonday, August 24, 2015
“You got a lotta nerve, Jethro Compton, riding into this here town with not one but three shows under your belt.” The quips of the saloon are contagious after Blood Red Moon, one part of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:20AMSaturday, August 22, 2015
It’s time someone re-discovered the half-sunken caravan of Hester Swaine, the Traveller woman at the wild heart of Marina Carr’s play from 1998. On first look, Monica Frawley’s set for…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:15PMFriday, July 31, 2015
What explains the unwavering devotion of Emer, wife of Irish legendary hero Cúchulainn, whose husband was a known philanderer? In W.B. Yeats’s play, first staged in 1922, she even invites…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:31AMFriday, July 24, 2015
What does it say of Lessness, a short prose penned in 1969 by Samuel Beckett, that its 60 lines were arranged at random, plucked one-by-one from a container? A structure inferred by chance…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:14PMThursday, July 23, 2015
With every strike of a match, Sal, the mannerly mother in Frank McGuinness’s monologue, sniffs the sulphur and observes the incalculable time it takes for the light to go out. It’s a sim…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:13PMWednesday, July 8, 2015
It’s clear early in the Gate’s new production that a band of Russian aristocrats’ card-playing and watercolour painting won’t relieve the terminally bored Natalya Islayev (Aislin McG…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:44PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Why adapt Ulysses – James Joyce’s towering, modernist tome – for the stage? The episodic adventures of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus set on mundane 16 June 1904 don’t have the co…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:07PMSunday, June 14, 2015
Photo: Hazel Coonagh. On a brisk autumn night two years ago, I found in the corner of a Dublin city centre car park a lost statue of the Virgin Mary and a torn copy of the 1916 Proclamation …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:06AMThursday, June 4, 2015
The world of Tom Murphy’s 1983 play is filled with music: the chimes of the church bell signalling the hours, the rhythmic whacks of a telephone switch-hook to dial a connection, and, of c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:30PMThursday, May 28, 2015
When Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo presented a performance at a Japanese dance festival in 1959 in which a young man copulated with a chicken and, debatably, suffocated it between his legs…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:49PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
“Then, England’s ground, farewell; sweet soil, adieu”. The tears that fill the eyes of Derbhle Crotty’s banished duke Bolingbroke convey the heart of Druid’s ambitious production o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:19PMSunday, May 17, 2015
“Oh, Cathleen ni Houlihan, your way’s a thorny way!” In director Wayne Jordan’s staging of Sean O’Casey’s 1923 tragicomedy, the pedlar Seumas Shields (David Ganly) mentions the m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:12PMSaturday, May 9, 2015
If monsters aren’t real then why do we tell so many stories about them? When the menacing shadow of actor Peter Coonan stretches large across the opening of Ross Dungan’s new play for th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54PMTuesday, May 5, 2015
Galway Theatre Festival may have exchanged its Halloween-webbing for the temperate beginnings of May, getting its foot in the door of the festival season before anyone else, but Agustina Mu�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:27PMThursday, April 30, 2015
Nobody wants to look like a dope. Audiences mulling over the title of Daniel MacIvor’s play may suspect a pretense; what ‘it’ we are supposed to be ‘in on’. Instead of turning conf…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:28PMTuesday, April 21, 2015
There’s a moment in the Abbey Theatre’s production of Ibsen’s drama when the wearingly bored Hedda Gabbler (Catherine Walker) and recovering alcoholic Eilert Lovborg (Keith McErlean) m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:59AMTuesday, April 7, 2015
During the most iconic scene in the Gate Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet, an affable Romeo (Fra Fee) paces excitedly through the seating aisles, casting his eyes towards a seclude…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:51PMSaturday, March 21, 2015
What is the difference between generations? It’s a stretch to suggest that Fregoli Theatre Company, a troupe based on the west coast of Ireland, has had the longevity to see one generation…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:57AM 
