Monday, August 4, 2014
“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…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:32AMJust as Jaws isn’t really about sharks, How to Achieve Redemption as a Scot Through the Medium of Braveheart isn’t about the independence referendum. Not really. Rachael Clerke’s offbe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:24AMSunday, August 3, 2014
Just as the three sisters long for Moscow, Welsh-girl Buddug James Jones pines for the big smoke. Having grown up on a farm in West Wales she’s desperate to leave, but knows doing so will …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:42AMWhile the content of this two-hander by Daniel Huntley Solon might once have been progressive, its form is oddly outdated. That tension lies at the heart of Sex, With Benefits which sees t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:31AMSaturday, August 2, 2014
How would you react in a crisis? That’s the question at the centre of Eden Gate, an immersive promenade performance by Produced Moon. It’s Edinburgh. 2017. The human race is being ravage…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:52PMAh, the Scottish Referendum. With the vote on Scottish independence only weeks away, you’d think there’d be more shows at this year’s Fringe looking to unpack some of the complexities …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:41PMMonday, July 7, 2014
West-End wunderkind Nick Payne returns to the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs with another play about science. Directed with great clarity by Constellations collaborator Michael Longhurst and p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15AMFriday, July 4, 2014
Now in its 20th year, Connections is the National Theatre’s festival of new plays for young people. The productions selected to be performed here are the culmination of a year’s activity…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:35AMThursday, July 3, 2014
‘Where are all the big plays?’ asked the Monsterists back in 2005. In Beth Steel’s Wonderland they have a massive one. In 2005, a group of playwrights led by David Eldridge…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:48AMFriday, June 27, 2014
What would it look like if you put a go-pro in the guts of the trenches? Probably something like this. In this ceaselessly inventive live animation performance, Dutch theatre ensemble Hotel …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMMonday, June 23, 2014
We know Greg Wohead is not Ted Bundy. We know that he stumbled upon Ted Bundy’s confession tapes by accident on YouTube and couldn’t stop listening. We know that he decided to make a sho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:33AMFriday, May 30, 2014
A Belfast pub. Jimmy (Patrick O’Kane) and Ian (Declan Conlon), two middle-aged men, are meeting for the first time. Jimmy is at the bar, sipping on a pint, when Ian walks in. Their eyes me…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:16PMThursday, May 15, 2014
Fleabag is filthy. A potty-mouthed provocation of a play that deftly unpacks the complexities of contemporary feminism. But for all its mind-in-the-gutter hilarity, it is ultimately guilty o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:59PMThursday, April 10, 2014
Anya Reiss has form when it comes to adaptations. Her version of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening, a co-production between Headlong, West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Nuffield Theat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:45AMThursday, April 3, 2014
A middle-aged man wakes up to a broken marriage, a beckoning bedsit, and the realisation that he has done nothing to make himself memorable. Sound familiar? Yes, exactly. I Found My Horn was…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:23PMTuesday, January 14, 2014
This is theatre as endurance sport. Not on account of its length – I’ve had far longer nights in the theatre – but I have not hitherto experienced a more intense theatrical event…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:01PMThursday, January 2, 2014
I don’t speak German. Not a word. So it was with some trepidation that I travelled to Berlin a couple of weeks ago to see Hedda Gabler directed by Stefan Pucher at the Deutsches The…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:23AMTuesday, December 17, 2013
Eugene O’Neill is one of the most celebrated playwrights of the twentieth century and the first American dramatist to win the Nobel Prize for literature. But while this trilogy of earl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:16AMSaturday, December 7, 2013
The legend of Don Juan has been the subject of countless versions, adaptations and interpretations, from Patrick Marber to Mozart. Only last month Don Jon, a feature film written and directe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:21AMFriday, October 25, 2013
*This review does not reveal the name or author of Show 3, but does contain some narrative, visual and locational spoilers* “If you don’t mind me saying doctor, this could appear…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:31AM 
