Tuesday, December 12, 2017
It’s three in the morning and Danny is at the tail end of what looks like a pretty decent housewarming. He’s the last man standing, if you’re being kind; or the creep that won’t leav…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Knives in Hens and I are almost exactly the same age, right down to the month. David Harroway’s play was first performed in Edinburgh in 1995 – so I can’t pretend to have been there, h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:06AMSaturday, August 22, 2015
From acclaimed company Theatre Movement Bazaar, Big Shot comes with the tagline, “Not The Godfather.” It is, however, certainly a piece of theatre inspired by this particular …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:50AMFriday, August 21, 2015
As Jamie Wood wanders round in his huge loin cloth and then black dress, I can safely say that this is quite the strangest show I have ever seen. This hippy homage to Yoko Ono takes its…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMThis story is really all about a game of chess, and I never thought I’d say this, but it is much more interesting then that might sound. B, yes, just B, is onboard the SS Triumphant…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMWhen best friends Joe and Billy arrive at a secret bird watching hideout, they could be like any two friends off on some runaway adventure. They innocently unpack – folding their clothes i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMThursday, August 20, 2015
Paul grew up in a very religious small town in Australia: minister father, religious public school, awkward conversations about things that teenage boys do – the whole deal, basically. Ag…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:23PMJ is a physics teacher with a weak heart and a whole load of childhood dreams. She’s been ground down by her job and is looking for a change from her pedestrian, everyday life. So what…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:23PMIn June 1985, a large group of New Age travellers were stopped by the police on their way to set up the annual Stonehenge Free Festival. The resulting violence was reportedly more or less a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:23PMMs Hyde is a life coach, motivational speaker extraordinar, friends to the stars, a ‘cult personality’. Supposedly, she changes people’s lives. But she’s gone missing and Max,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PMThe Hogwallops are not simply a circus troupe. Rather, an eccentric family of misfits who are all very good at throwing each other around the stage, and so this domesticity is given a circ…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PMAn estranged father, an aunt trying to hold it together and a lost girl looking for her friend. In deepest Australia, she hitches exactly the kind of dodgy lift with a trucker we are all veh…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PM“Who ever heard of a girl called Johnnie?” Who indeed, but here is little Johnnie Wylo and she’s made a deal with The Wind, in exchange for her heart, no less, to save her small southe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PMOne thing the Great British Bake Off has proved is that as a nation, we have a deep, if surprising love for watching a group of people competing against each other through the medium of cak…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:01PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
This is Jack and Georgia’s big break. They’re about to transmit live from right here at the Edinburgh Fringe, to what might be the third most watched show in north east Reykjavik. Exce…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:40PMStanding on the greyscale stage in a tutu and boots, this old clown (who I’m going to call Eric the Fred for the purpose of this review) has reached the end of his tether. He tears off hi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:37PM Half quiz, half sketch show, the rules of Mixtape are simple: the Mixtapers perform sketches inspired by and made out of song lyrics, and we have to guess what song and artist it is…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:31PMSunday, August 16, 2015
Growing up as the daughter of the Irish dancing teacher is not easy for Marie Clerkin, it seems. For one thing, she’s got to constantly compete with other children for her mother̵…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:13PMBoxing is a tough profession. Say you do well as an amature, you get spotted, signed. Things are going well, right? However, in all likelihood your career is going to be one as a ‘journe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:13PMSaturday, August 15, 2015
Daniel Craig has dropped out of Quantum of Solace and Alex Fox and Dom O’Keefe seem to be the only ones to save the world from having to live without another James Bond film. I guess some …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:23PMBroken window theory is the idea that a building, for example, with something small wrong like one broken window is likely to encourage further vandalism and other unlawful acts. The spark…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AMNick Burton is a London journalist bored with the City and its gluttonous, ridiculous gentrification. During a press pack visit to a new “urban festival” located on an ex counci…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:49AMChip is as tough as boots – “I know people think it’s horrible, girls fighting, but those f*cks aren’t from Dublin.” Her Da lost his job when she was seven and she’s …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:42AMFriday, August 14, 2015
In a stressful post May 7th rage, Jonny accidentally tells his four year old niece that the world is going to end because of climate change. She gets so upset that Jonny rashly promises h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:19PMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Kyle Ross’s new play, Islands, takes us into the world of Magnus and Sophie’s relationship, a couple with the most spotless middle class credentials you could imagine. Sophie works …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:14PMCan an idea truly be original? Is the meaning of art determined by the artist or the viewer? Can monkeys produce art? These questions and more are chewed over in Some Thing New, a collabor…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:14PMI didn’t really know much about Ada Lovelace, but probably should have. Born in 1815, she wrote the first ever program (or algorithm) for a computer. Devised by Edinburgh Univers…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:39AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
When originally performed in 1920, La Ronde was vehemently controversial, even prompting personal and anti-Semitic attacks towards playwright Arthur Schnitzler. The play is a series of sed…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:31PM First performed in 2001, and numerous times since, Jason Robert Brown’s acclaimed musical The Last Five Years is the story of one relationship told over its five year duration, with …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:39AMMonday, August 10, 2015
Close Up is a dance, physical theater and Circus show from award winning company, Circa. It’s chock full of amazing acrobatics, dance and circus tricks – things to make you laugh, th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:03PMSo here’s the deal: you’ve got a troop of actors and an energetic compere. The audience shouts out what they want to see in terms of location, a couple of characters, opening number and …
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