Wednesday, May 18, 2016
For a while, it was considered unfashionable to be too overtly partisan in political theatre. Undermined, Danny Mellor’s hour-long one-man show about the mining strikes of the mid-eighties…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:55PMSaturday, May 7, 2016
Ask someone to name a JB Priestley play, and they’ll instantly say An Inspector Calls, probably because they studied it at GCSE. Ask them to name another and they probably won’t …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:26AMTuesday, May 3, 2016
In 2014, a video uploaded on Youtube, secretly filmed from a rucksack, showed clips of a woman in jeans and a crew-neck walking the streets of New York City for ten hours straight. In it, th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:05PMSaturday, April 30, 2016
While Alistair McDowall’s X furiously inspects what becomes of humanity when all one has ever known disappears at the Royal Court, Nick Payne dissects the interplay of identity and memory …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:13PMFriday, April 29, 2016
Lessing’s Emilia Galotti is a prime example of ‘bürgerliches trauerspiel’ apparently, an eighteenth century dramatic movement that was popular in England – where it became …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:08PMThursday, April 21, 2016
It feels slightly sacrilegious, particularly three days before the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death (like you didn’t know that…), to strike a dissonant note against the re…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:26PMWednesday, March 30, 2016
Neil LaBute’s Reasons To Be Happy is the second play in a trilogy that began in 2008 with Reasons To Be Pretty, and will conclude in the near future with the sublimely titled Reasons To Be…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:01PMSaturday, March 26, 2016
Somewhat unexpectedly, Michael Billington did not opt for Samuel Beckett’s game-changing Waiting For Godot, or even Endgame or Happy Days, when selecting his 101 Greatest Plays. Instead, h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:33PMWednesday, March 16, 2016
Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars. The RAF’s stirring motto could also serve as an epigram to define Rebecca Crookshank’s life, as indeed it is meant to in Whiskey Tango…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30PMSunday, March 13, 2016
Islington’s King’s Head Theatre prides itself on its record of championing untested, experimental theatre. It’s an approach that has won the hearts of audiences and critics alike and t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:10PMSunday, February 28, 2016
It is always risky taking something intensely personal and placing it on stage, warts and all, in front of an audience. Scary Shit does just that. Rhiannon Faith and Maddy Morgan have used t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:58PMTuesday, February 16, 2016
At a time when London is abuzz with praise of The Father and The Mother, Florian Zeller’s twin portraits of parents losing their grip on reality, another show about dementia – albei…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:58PMFriday, January 29, 2016
When Charles II, lying on his deathbed, uttered the words “let not poor Nellie starve”, he can hardly have imagined that his beloved mistress would be so in vogue 331 years later. But Ne…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:15PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
In 2014, Jakop Ahlbom’s Lebensraum was one of the most celebrated shows of the London International Mime Festival. At this year’s festival, the visionary director has returned with somet…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:46PMSunday, January 17, 2016
Luigi Pirandello’s Vestire Gli Ignudi was first performed in 1922 in Rome, the city in which it was set. Howard Colyer’s free translation, Naked, shifts the action from inter-war Italy t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:18PMA dysfunctional American family. A cast of carefully drawn, fatally flawed characters. An undercurrent of burning ideological conflict. You’d be forgiven for thinking that The Long Road So…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:18PMSaturday, December 19, 2015
Since 2008, Peut-être Theatre have been creating charming, surrealist children’s shows that have gained the approval of audiences and critics alike. Their latest show, The Little Bird Who…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:43PMThursday, December 17, 2015
About a third of the way through the second half of Robin Hood, Theatre Royal Stratford East’s pantomime, the excitable, chair-climbing child sitting next to me accidentally squirts glow s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24PM 
