Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Although Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis is a play familiar to most people in touch with the world of theatre, Paula Garfield has directed a first: the only production of 4.48 Psychosis to be …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:42PMWednesday, June 6, 2018
We are welcomed into the all-too-perfect linoleum suburban kitchen of Walt (Gareth David-Lloyd) and Barb (Gala Gordon), with their two
The post Review: Blueberry Toast, Soho Theatre appeared…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AMSunday, May 6, 2018
Writing about writing has been done before, countless times. But Ella Hickson’s new play, The Writer, transcends the usual preoccupations.
The post Review: The Writer, Almeida Theatre appe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18AMSaturday, March 17, 2018
‘Every story ends with a dragon’, we are told. We could believe this statement, but there is suggestion in our brain that it isn’t fully correct- so with the story of Beowulf. It is an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:15AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Did you know there are actually five north poles? – FIVE! Rory’s Dad was a geography teacher. Rory’s Dad loved explorers. Rory’s Dad always wanted to go to the North Pole. Rory’s D…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AMNaomi Sheldon’s explosive one-woman show is an inspiring union of feminism and the best kind of comedy- refreshing honesty. Spanning the years 1995 to 2018, we see the development of the 9…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:00AMFriday, February 23, 2018
On entering the theatre, one is led to worry for a few minutes that one has entered the wrong play: Jeremy Paxman has arrived (wig n all) to conduct the latest episode of university challeng…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:16AMSunday, February 11, 2018
The latest show at The Old Vic is the dystopian vision of Alan Ackybourn – The Divide. It depicts a future world in which men and women must live separately due to a plague that has ridden…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:00PMSunday, February 4, 2018
At a time when Ireland’s abortion referendum is floating in the air, the clashes of Catholicism’s conservatism with a liberalising society are prominent and pressing. Meg Hodgson and Ale…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:08AMMonday, January 15, 2018
East, the lyrical play written in 1975 by Steven Berkoff, has been revived at the King’s Head in a performance that is raucous, energetic and enthralling. Fittingly, the play is set in Eas…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:33AMThursday, December 14, 2017
The National’s new production of the timeless Italian classic, Pinocchio, is nothing short of magical. Written by Denis Kelly (Matilda the Musical) and incorporating the Walt Disney Soundt…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:18PMMonday, December 11, 2017
Four time periods, four gay relationships, and one masterpiece of writing. In 1680, Arabella Hunt, the star of the opera La Callisto, is engaged in one of the first recorded gay marriages in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:06AMFriday, December 8, 2017
“If you ignore your history then you become a shadow” – Edmund, Shadows Shadows, a new play from Carguil Lloyd George Webley and directed by the white American Kevin Michael Reed, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36AMThursday, November 30, 2017
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine”. These are the opening lines of Jane Austen’s debut novel, Northanger Abbey, f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PMSaturday, November 18, 2017
In her introduction for the programme, writer Jane Upton wrote of her new play, All the Little Lights, ‘I hope it does some good, somehow.’ This sense of expectation- one of realist deje…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:12AM“Take the ‘e’ out of emotion and what do you get?” “You get where you want to be.” And that’s all there is to it. Well, that’s all there is to the single-minded, professional…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:12AMTo celebrate his 240th year of having a book in print, the illustrious Tristram Shandy is touring the country to promote and celebrate his hilarious, obscure and unique autobiography. Of cou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:12AMFriday, November 17, 2017
Sparkles, sweets, and singing; dancing, toys and music – sounds like a standard children’s show. Princess Charming, however, is an urgently needed cabaret. Not because of the joy it …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:33AMFriday, November 10, 2017
Everyone has heard of the well-known phrase ‘all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others’. Unfortunately, Orwell seems to have hit the nail on the head a few too many time…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36AMMonday, November 6, 2017
People’s images of the character of Pinocchio are likely to conjure up largely those of long noses and animation, but Jasmin Vardimon’s play takes the story back to its Italian roots, aw…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:06AMSunday, October 22, 2017
Terrorism, a word that needs no introduction. Guillermo Calderon, the Chilean playwright, has tackled this topic with a unique angle in his new drama, B. Directed by Sam Pritchard, B is a fa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AMWednesday, September 27, 2017
All eyes are on Emma Rice, the Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, who is stepping down in the new year, and the new play under her management, Boudica, is nothing short of pure brav…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:12PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
The March on Russia is the story of an old couple and their three middle-aged children on their 60th Wedding Anniversary. Set in the playwright’s (David Storey) hometown in Yorkshire, a de…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:33PMSunday, August 20, 2017
Anyone who was around in 2012 (or indeed most of 2011) will remember the HYPE that surrounded the London Olympic games. Stepping through the doors at Theatre N16 and seeing copious amounts o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:36AMFriday, August 18, 2017
If you have ever read The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot you probably have a good idea of how it felt to watch the first piece in this double bill. Certain lines, such as ‘Here is water and only …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54AM‘Sex is the loneliest thing you can do.’ These words, spoken poignantly by young porn star, Blaize (Michael Hanratty), drill right into the heart of this fantastic play by Matthew Kyne B…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
Run by the 2faced Dance Company is, in fact, a collection of three different pieces: all emotive, potent and wholly individual. The opening piece, which is also the longest, is entitled ‘F…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:54PMMonday, April 10, 2017
Run by the 2faced Dance Company is, in fact, a collection of three different pieces: all emotive, potent and wholly individual. The opening piece, which is also the longest, is entitled ‘F…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:12AMMonday, March 13, 2017
‘Almost everybody thinks of himself as a nobody. A cipher, not a cog.’ These are the nullifying, yet somewhat pertinent, words of playwright Tom Stoppard when discussing the mentality be…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:36PMSaturday, March 11, 2017
The visceral austerity of the English Touring Opera’s (ETO) set, with its sharp lines, captures the murky undertones of a Rome in 1800 at the centre of a European power struggle in this pr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36AMThursday, March 9, 2017
Although they set themselves on a task as brave, and almost as challenging, as that of our exploring protagonist, Marlow, this arresting production Heart of Darkness by Scandal and Gallows T…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:03PM 
