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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Review: Paradise of the Assassins, Tara Arts by Breman Rajkumar

This is a well-intentioned production by Theatre Accord in association with Tara Arts that examines the capacity for and dependence on mind control in organized religion. Adapted from Abdul …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:45AM
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Review: The League of Youth, N16 by Breman Rajkumar

“We are the electorate. And we are not trustworthy”. Theatre company Riot Act explore the fallible nature of democracy in this very funny and direct production. One of the Ibsen’s leas…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:18PM
Saturday, August 6, 2016

Review: Body.Dance.Nation.City, Royal Festival Hall by Breman Rajkumar

Ballet National de Marseille’s 70-minute dance drama is a quite epic foray into the possibilities of artistic expression. Using 17 dancers in the almost completely bare Royal Festival Hall…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:28PM
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Review: Cain, The Hope Theatre by Breman Rajkumar

Blue Guitar Theatre utilise and build on extracts of Lord Byron’s Cain: A Mystery to explore ideas of death and religion in this dystopic drama. We follow Cain’s story as a disgruntled, …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:46AM
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Review: This Was The World And I Was King, Arts Theatre by Breman Rajkumar

This Was The World and I Was King is a war-time drama about Evelyn, who returns to her family home; the play engrosses the audience in a nostalgiac recounting of the events of her childhood.…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:27AM
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Review: The Philanderer, Orange Tree Theatre by Breman Rajkumar

Bernard Shaw’s wonderfully wicked and witty play, The Philanderer, is a real joy to behold on hearing the text alone. Shaw utilises a seemingly innocuous configuration of love triangles to…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:08PM
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Review: The Box Of Photographs, Polka Theatre by Breman Rajkumar

This is a really lovely show. The Box of Photographs is a play that explores the imagination of a young girl growing up in inner city London. The play itself is part of a project that Polka …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:22PM
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Review: Non Stop Connolly Show, Finborough Theatre by Breman Rajkumar

The Finborough continue their series of works written about or during the time of the Great War with this engaging staged reading of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy’s brilliant piece on…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:40PM
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Review: Les Blancs, National Theatre by Breman Rajkumar

Go and see this production. Go and witness the very essence of drama in practice. Change is occurring now and right now in Lorraine Hansberry’s twentieth century masterpiece (expertly fin…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54PM
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Review: Don’t Smoke In Bed, Finborough Theatre by Breman Rajkumar

Richard and Sheryl are an interracial couple participating in a series of ‘bedroom interviews’ via webcam. The main focus is on their relationship, and there is the possibility that the …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:03PM
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Review: Lola in London, Cockpit Theatre by Breman Rajkumar

Lola is a very Spanish woman, who enjoys Sangria, Flamenco dancing but really hates tap dancing because it “sounds like cockroaches”. She has a boyfriend, Fernando, who plays gui…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:23PM
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, National Theatre by Breman Rajkumar

“That’s the thing with coloured folks – they always wanna have a good time”. I’m paraphrasing, but in this one line Lucian Msamati’s Toledo perfectly sums up this five-star produ…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:28PM
Friday, January 15, 2016

Review: Give Me Your Love, Battersea Arts Centre by Breman Rajkumar

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the subject of Ridiculusmus’s new show, Give Me Your Love, the second in a trilogy of productions by artistic directors and performers David Woods …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:20PM
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Review: Wilde Without the Boy & The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Rose Playhouse by Breman Rajkumar

As their website details “The Rose (Playhouse, Bankside) is an archaeological site” and tonight’s audience, many of whom were provided with blankets to cover and warm up their legs, wa…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:31AM
Saturday, December 5, 2015

Review: Dick Whittington and His Cat, Wilton’s Music Hall by Breman Rajkumar

Dick Whittington and His Cat concerns a quasi-fictional London of some bygone age that succumbs to the evil plans of the signposted villain ‘Ratface’. Infesting the City with rats, he sc…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:58PM
Friday, December 4, 2015

Review: Jackson’s Way, Battersea Arts Centre by Breman Rajkumar

In Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 masterpiece, Tom Cruise plays an abominable pick-up artist and we first see him introducing himself at one of his ‘Seduce and Destroy’ seminars…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:52AM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards