Monday, August 10, 2015
So 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 …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:50AMBarely two minutes into Mancunian Rhapsondy, a “true-ish, jew-ish musical comedy” and BAM, there’s the Hitler joke. Not the most subtle reference, but best to get it out the wa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:50AMHere’s a confession: any hint of puppets in plays tends to make me pretty cynical. Maybe it’s the awful image of sock puppets that jumps to mind, maybe it’s some traumatic experience I…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:49AMAbout a third of the way into Girl From Nowhere, Jeannie (Victoria Rigby) picks up her guitar, and finally lets rip that bluesy rock and roll she loves. From her box filled attic we are tran…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:49AMSaturday, April 25, 2015
The time is 1650 and revolution is in the air. Caryl Churchill’s play is about Ranters, Levellers, Diggers and the gentry. Or in other words, the English Civil War, seen through snapshots …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:54AMWednesday, February 18, 2015
For one week only at Battersea Arts Centre, spoken word artist Polarbear, aka Steven Camden , is reviving his original show with If I Cover My Nose You Can’t See Me. It is, as I learnt fr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:21PMMonday, February 16, 2015
As part of their second season of ‘Into the Mire’, Boireannach theatre presents Dealanach at the Vault Festival in Waterloo for a run of just two nights. A devised piece of verba…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:18PMPlease Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone is a co-production of five short plays from Les Foules and the MKA theatre of new writing. As part of the Vault Festival, the show is here for a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:51PMThursday, January 15, 2015
If you are after a jolly, rousing Christmas show – one that might make you walk out filled with the joys of the festive season and ready to sing ‘Step into Christmas’ at the top of yo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:18PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
On walking into the rebranded spanking new Dorfman Theatre, you would be forgiven for thinking that the National had paid the wrong developers. The Dorfman doesn’t look like a theatre, it …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:05PMMonday, September 29, 2014
Immersive theatre is a certainly a strange world, but it is one that I’ve found increasingly enjoyable the more I encounter. My latest experience of it was CoLab’s Fifth Column, a spy t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:50PMSunday, September 7, 2014
Oh, the Humanity and Other Good Intentions is the maiden outing from End of Moving Walkway, a newly formed production company founded by a group of students. You tend to be inclined to exp…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:13AMSunday, June 29, 2014
So Hostage Song, now on at the Finborough Theatre, is described as ‘an indie rock musical’ about two American hostages held captive in an unspecific time and place. No, I didn’t really…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:24PMSaturday, June 7, 2014
A Simple Space is rather like watching up close the kind of amazing acrobatics you see on Britain’s Got Talent, but with all the cheesy ‘I Have a Dream’ nonsense firmly removed, and a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:02AMMonday, April 28, 2014
Aristotle talks a lot about the importance of plot. He considers plot the most important ingredient of drama. Sadly that plot was missing from Belka Production’s A Dashing Fellow. This pr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:30PMTuesday, April 15, 2014
Secret Cinema events are, as my friend commented “quite the strangest evening” you can imagine. This is the second Secret Cinema event I have been to, and I have to say they do k…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:49PMMonday, April 14, 2014
Have you ever seen a jazz clarinet playing Hades? Or a mincing French Hermes? No? Funnily enough, I thought not. To fill that almighty hole in your life, you should get along to the Batterse…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:09AMMonday, March 3, 2014
If you haven’t already, watch The Grand Budapest Hotel trailer. Imagine what it might be like if that came to life in a large warehouse-like building in the middle of London. That is more …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMSunday, February 23, 2014
So, it’s 9pm on a Wednesday and I find myself hiding behind a curtain from some security guards with my nose pressed against a window, looking out over Marylebone High Street with a guy I …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:23PMSunday, February 9, 2014
I am a frequent visitor to Peckham but I never realised it had a theatre in in, and certainly not one so vast – but here I am at The Bussey Building, and right now it is housing the Whist…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:06PMMonday, January 20, 2014
‘We can go anywhere,’ the robed pardoner tells us with gleaming eyes, ‘play with reality, pluck worlds from this air’. And that is exactly what Lewis Gibson’s adaption of Chaucer�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:55AMSunday, January 19, 2014
Thinking about it, the 1940s seems a good fit for a Shakespeare play. It’s just long enough ago that some of the anachronisms that can never quite fit into a modern production can make sen…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:40PMThursday, January 16, 2014
Valley of Song is the last musical written by Ivor Novello; although left unfinished at the time of his death, it was completed by his collaborators Christopher Hassall and Ronald Hammer. De…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00AMMonday, July 22, 2013
Billy Budd is an stage adaption of the novella of the same name by Herman Melville (who is most famous for Moby Dick). Both book and play are the story of an innocent young sailor, William B…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:20PMThursday, June 27, 2013
I love a good farce. As a genre it can be looked down upon, but I think there are few things which provide such unrestrained entertainment as watching people being wondrously silly. Done w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:22AM 
