Monday, February 2, 2015
Actor turned writer/director Alex McSweeney has illustrated one of the most important catalysts for the feminist movement in a new play. Drawing on historical facts regarding the ill-fated…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:48PMSaturday, December 20, 2014
1927 theatre company is back after a successful worldwide, three-year tour of its début show, The Animals and Children Took to the Streets, with a new show loosely inspired by Gustav Meyr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:13AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
Perhaps the most startling revelation about Manfred Karge’s one woman show, Man to Man, is that it is a true story. It’s pre-war Germany and Ella Gericke is hounded by genuine m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:48PMFriday, April 18, 2014
With family, it’s all relative. In Noel Coward’s comedy Relative Values, we see a family dynamic entrenched in historic values disturbed by a shift in society. Sam Hoare as Nigel, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:06AMWednesday, February 19, 2014
George Orwell’s prophetic 1984 was released more than 30 years before its title date and yet is more relevant in modern Britain than ever. The development and growth of technology, and the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:35AMFriday, December 20, 2013
It begins to look a lot like Christmas when I hear that Slava is in town. When the concept of the show was explained to me two years ago, I didn’t get it: a bunch of very sad-looking c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:49AMSaturday, December 14, 2013
Over the next two weeks in the heart of Soho, Nish Kumar is being funny. Humbly inspiring affection from the audience and, more remarkably, his critics, Kumar speaks about being “ethn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:35AMThursday, December 12, 2013
Julie Donaldson’s The Gruffalo, with spectacular illustrations by Axel Scheffler, is a book which has kept children entertained for over a decade. So successful is this five minute chi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:40AMSunday, October 13, 2013
Sarah Rutherford’s bold play opened at the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, the theatre at which she is writer in residence. Adult Supervision tackles prejudice against mixed race people, an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:22AMFriday, October 4, 2013
James Graham’s Tory Boyz is a fly-on-the-wall peek at what happens behind closed doors in the House of Commons. It is a wholly fantastic 90 minute play with some great young actors. R…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:48AMWednesday, July 10, 2013
Noel Coward’s Private Lives is an absolute scream, much like those issued by divorcees Elyot and Amanda during their many sparkling skirmishes. It’s really no wonder that this production…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:16PMSaturday, May 18, 2013
Many months ago on my daily commute through Finsbury Park station I noticed the beginnings of a renovation project on a decrepit, old building. The reason why I noticed it was because it had…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:04PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Graham Greene’s Travels With My Aunt at the Menier Chocolate Factory is spectacular in its deviation from the ordinary. The story is narrated to the audience by ex-bank manager Henry P…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:01AMFriday, April 19, 2013
Between Ten and Six by Chris Mayo is a cautionary tale made up of all the grisly things your mother warns you of in big, bad London. Set in North London, Ed and Charlie meet when Charlie app…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:15PMMonday, November 12, 2012
Alan Bennett’s new play, People, confirms his status as a national treasure. In a piquant confession of humanity’s secret opinions of the rest of humanity he delivers an intensely enjoya…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:36AMWednesday, February 8, 2012
Though not the most visually rich set, with basic lighting and a bare stage (save for a wooden bench, a lamp and a window on the blacked out box-like platform), Broadway Studio Catford made …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:58AMTuesday, December 6, 2011
Though fully prepared that pantomimes are by their very nature camp, this production thoroughly exceeded all expectations. I have always been very wary of any production that trades on sexua…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:08AMFriday, August 19, 2011
When signing up to watch a play as part of any type of festival, particularly one where you are led into the bowels of an institutional, albeit slightly infamous drama school, you must expec…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:50AMSunday, July 24, 2011
Who knew one bus ride could be quite so exciting? The Oval House Theatre’s Young Writers Company have commandeered an old Route Master bus and driven it onto a square a stone’s throw awa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:32AMMonday, June 27, 2011
Louis Nowra’s Cosi, a semi-autobiographical play full of unexpected twists, really came alive in the small Kings Head pub theatre, the first of its kind since Shakespearean times. Set in a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:37AMThursday, June 23, 2011
With free face painting for children, and at just over an hour long including interval, The Birmingham Stage Company’s fresh take on Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale The Jungle Book at R…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:13AMWednesday, June 15, 2011
Every year 3,500 heart transplants are performed worldwide and roughly 800,000 people need a new organ. Heartbreak Soup follows the story of 11 year old Cuddy Gill, a boy with a big imaginat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:24AMThursday, May 26, 2011
In 2007, 27 teenagers were stabbed to death in London. Since then, this number has increased. Mad Blud at Theatre Royal Stratford East is the fourth version of this progressive piece, devise…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:12AM 
