The post office in Coolatully is all boarded up. The local pub only stocks ready salted crisps and is struggling to break even. This used to be the sort of place you could leave your windows…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:00PMRobert Holman is a playwright rarely revived. The Park Theatre’s staging of his 2008 play Jonah and Otto will be the first of his works to be produced in London since Making Noise Quietly…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:09PMThings are going well for Vinay Patel. After a succession of short plays his debut full-length play, True Brits, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. A relative newcomer t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:31AMSome years ago Victoria Melody and her husband Mike bought a plant. The logic being that if they could keep it alive they might one day go on to buy a dog. And then, eventually, a child -exc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:50PMRia Parry is in a reflective mood as she nears the end of rehearsals for Albion, the new play by Chris Thompson which opens at the Bush Theatre next week. “It’s funny when you look back …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:10AMAlfred Hitchcock once said that the length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. At a little over two hours and thirty minutes, Chris Urch’s first…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:32PMThe need to distinguish between genres is simultaneously vital and irrelevant at the Edinburgh Fringe. Choosing whether an all-male, all-singing, all-dancing, promenade staging of The Wizard…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:27AMThere are two things you need to know about Catherine Ireton: one, she comes from Ireland; two, she has the most remarkable singing voice. Living in Limerick in 2005, Ireton got hit on in a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:02AMMark Ravenhill admired Sean Holmes’ Secret Theatre company so much that he wrote to him asking to be involved. He said yes and Show 6 is the result. When it first launched, advance informa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:53AMConfirmation could just as well be called confrontation. Because that’s what it is and how it feels. Devised by Chris Thorpe in collaboration with Rachel Chavkin of Brooklyn-based ense…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:23AMThis is no ordinary love story. On the way into Summerhall’s Red Lecture Theatre we are handed a pair of wireless headphones, arousing an anticipation of the auditory experience to come. W…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:20PMAs we come into the Demonstration Room, Greg Sinclair has a box on his head. He has been instructed to do so by a group of children. The 11am performance slot at the Edinburgh Fringe is syno…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:46PMOn 22 May 2013, ITV News obtained footage of a man addressing a camera on a south London street. He makes a series of political statements before walking towards the body of Drummer Lee Rigb…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:26PMGeddes Loom is a band which got lost in the theatre section. In its debut piece, Prelude to a Number, it tries to make sense of the chaos of the universe. You certainly couldn’t accuse…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:31AMMental takes place in a bed in a residential building just outside the city centre. The walk back takes about 20 minutes. In the shadow of Arthur’s seat we cross a road by some traffic…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:24AMThere are endless brilliant things about Every Brilliant Thing. The play sees writer Duncan Macmillan reunited with Paines Plough following their critically acclaimed collaboration on Lungs…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:16AMTwo years ago, Chris Goode and Company made a piece in which the words of children were spoken by a cast of adults. In Travesti, the new piece from Unbound Productions, something similar hap…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:29PMBottleneck is a masterly demonstration of pulling-the-rug playwriting. Written by award-winning playwright Luke Barnes and produced by HighTide Festival Theatre, the play was one of the brea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:23PMWhat are you reading this on? Your phone? A laptop? A tablet, maybe? In a world so reliant on technology, do you ever look at the screen in your hands and wonder what you’d be without it? …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:15PMspeak in a parallel universe they try to words but the words exactly they just stop when they try to speak they just stop as you say yes they stop not so much stop as start start when it sta…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:34PM“All of our brains are programmed to see patterns”, Ross Sutherland tells us in Standby for Tape Back-Up, “even when no patterns exist”. They say that after a break-up, it’s as if …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:19PMChange is progression. That’s the assessment of The Hemline Index, which examines the extent to which women have changed in the last thirty years. The Hemline Index of the title, in case …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:04PMHave you ever wondered what happens after the lie-detector results are revealed on the Jeremy Kyle show and the participants are left to their own devices? In this nasty new play by Richard …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:40AMSat around a table littered with mugs of tea, discarded flyers and the Fringe programme, three performers while away another afternoon in their squalid Edinburgh flat. It’s a set-up you’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:59PMIf you were to stand opposite the person you loved most, knowingly for the last time, what would you say? That’s the impossible question at the centre of Liam Borrett’s stunning debut pl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:20AMLegend would have it that an apple once fell from a tree, hit someone’s head and helped them discover gravity. As in all such legends, this is almost certainly not true, but in Tim Fol…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:16AMIn an age of Tinder and teenage trips to Malia, attitudes to sexuality are more liberal than ever. Phoebe Waller-Bridge tackled the subject at last year’s Fringe with her award-winning Fle…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:14AMThe team behind 2012′s The Horror! The Horror! return with an appendage – and the final curtain of its title hangs like a guillotine over Alfred Brownlow’s variety troupe. Audience…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:10AMInvited to write a wish on kite-shaped paper and hang it on a twinkling tree, the opening moments of Cirque Tsuki: Birthday hint at the sort of intimacy and interactivity that can make this …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15AMSometimes it’s easier not to talk. That’s the logic of So It Goes, a wonderful piece of wordless storytelling by Le-Coq trained company On The Run. There are words of course, they just a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:50AM“You can still be a feminist and like getting cum on your face,” says Amy Cade, a porn actress, escort and sex worker based in Berlin. Her sister, Rosana, is a shaven-headed lesbian. The…
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