Monday, June 1, 2015
Anthony Burgess’ 1962 dystopian novel is realised in theatrical form by The Theatre Workshop, charting young delinquent Alex’s imprisonment for murder and his attempted rehabilitation vi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:44PMFriday, May 22, 2015
Journalist and author Mathilda Gregory presents How to be Fat, a solo show that is part stand-up, part storytelling, and an all honest account of what it is like to be fat in a culture that …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
Sex in Shorts sees six snapshots of some very disparate characters with very different lives, all linked by one thing: sex. Three writers, four actors and two dancers take us from Australian…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:33PMDirector Jari Laakso presents Pam Gem’s 1978 play about the tumultuous life of beloved French diva Edith Piaf, with a commendable cast and live music. Samantha Spurgin must be highly congr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:17PMMonday, February 2, 2015
It makes sense that a theatre dedicated to “showcasing and supporting the best new work” would spearhead a festival that situates solo performance and new writing at its core. This Febru…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:28AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
Photo By Marc Brenner An exciting new season of theatre is taking place in the West End’s Trafalgar Studios. Trafalgar Transformed, spearheaded by artistic director Jamie Lloyd, is dedicat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:31PMSaturday, November 29, 2014
It’s hard to know where to start with Brighton: Theatre Uncut. Five short plays with so much to say – I left feeling overwhelmingly riled up. Ruthless in their take-downs of modern socie…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:53AMWednesday, November 26, 2014
Uncut in rehearsal Behind closed doors, in pub function rooms and bedrooms and libraries, Brighton’s creative community is hard at work. Whispers are being exchanged, and a plan is bubblin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:50AMMonday, August 18, 2014
When Stuart Bowden peered out from behind the curtain, barefoot, with his bespectacled face, angular beard and pale, skinny legs protruding from a lumpy green sleeping bag, I really wanted t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:21AMSunday, August 17, 2014
The best way to describe Figs in Wigs’s work is a kind of avant-garde cabaret. Its new show flits from comedy to dance to music to circus in this variety performance about narcissism and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:36AMSanitise throws a lot of things sharply into focus, namely, our highly gendered expectations of flawlessness and sexuality. Directed by Caitlin Skinner, Sanitise is a nod to the pressure wom…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:30AMSmug in its own sense of indulgent hedonism, Bonenkai tries really hard to be outrageous. But its desperation to be as debauched as possible doesn’t leave much in the way of plot. The stor…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:26AMBloom sees two soup kitchen volunteers, Robert Scobie and Abraham Parker, tell the true stories of Michael and Anthony, two men who they met whilst working at the Glasgow City Mission. This …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:08AMDrug-addled duo Raoul Duke and Dr Gonzo, played by Tom Moores and Rob Crouch, embark on their wild adventure to Las Vegas with the most extensive collection of illegal substances you’ve ev…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:05AMIn outer space, Russian cosmonauts Casimir and Oleg have been drifting helplessly for 12 years, forgotten. Desperately, they try to contact Earth with faulty communications equipment. Back o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:58AMThe scene is set in 1940s London. A backstreet abortion that turns into a birth. But it wasn’t a baby that was born that night… Flash forward to 1964. Everyone’s wearing flares and tur…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:52AMSaturday, August 16, 2014
In a fluctuating global climate for LGBT rights, Sochi 2014 protests the human rights atrocities being committed in Russia today and the controversy surrounding the 2014 Winter Olympics. Wri…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:09AMIn the unrelenting darkness of the Traverse theatre, writer and performer Valentijn Dhaenens brings us face to face with the fear, trauma and above all, futility of war. Sequel to politicall…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:47AMLippy is the terrifying reconstruction of four women’s final days after making a suicide pact, and one man’s attempt to find out what occurred after they shut themselves inside their hom…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:45AMAs we enter the room, the stage for Donald Robertson Is Not A Stand-Up Comedian is set up with the sparse but unmistakable collection of props that can only denote one thing: stand-up comedy…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:37AMFrank and unapologetic, writer Owen McCafferty’s Unfaithful is an insight into how two couples navigate the rocky roads through their relationships, negotiating age, sexuality and death. T…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:31AMMultiple layers of truth weave in and out of one another in David Leddy’s Horizontal Collaboration, a play with a premise like no other. Each night, a different cast of four actors walks o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:24AMThursday, August 14, 2014
Adam El Hagar is the charming, personable young Johnny Depp in this frenetic depiction of his relationship with larger than life gonzo journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, played by Sam…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:45AMBoosters is a merciless critique of the British justice system and its considerable pitfalls. Through a combination of story telling and poignant real life recordings of victims and convicts…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:40AMAn abrupt death. A rape. A glue factory full of slightly deranged people. Another death. The Kneejerk of Sloth sounds like grim viewing. But it’s not, really. Strangely endearing, this new…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:56AMBritain, 1942. We enter 18b as three women are being questioned on suspicion of endangering the state, under regulation 18b, a law that allows the imprisonment without trial of suspected Naz…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:52AMIn the not too distant future, an attempt is being made to get humans to Mars. It’s not the first attempt; the Mars mission of 2025 mysteriously went missing. There’s something head honc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:49AMWednesday, August 13, 2014
The Curious Incident of the Frog in My Sightline is a surreal yet witty exploration of, well, what might happen if everything were suddenly to become frogs. Due to its absurdist nature, it i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:15AMPertinently taking place in the same year as the 100 year anniversary of the First World War, Mingled Yarn’s Harry the King, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, is a bold, modern tak…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:10AMA walking contradiction, teenager Amy Jones loves Strictly Come Dancing and reading Orwell; she’s bright but her grammar is terrible. But she’s electric, and fighting for change. Emma Pa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:35AMWhen Biddy starts to go off the rails at a music festival, her friends just assume it’s the drugs. But when she fails to come down from her outrageous high, the men in white coats are call…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:21AM 
