Sunday, March 31, 2019
Review: Grief is the Thing with Feathers, The Barbican4.0starsIt’s hard to know where to begin with Grief is the Thing with Feathers. It’s a surreal yet deceptively simple piece that alm…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:00AMSaturday, February 9, 2019
Review: No Kids, Battersea Arts Centre4.0Overall ScoreNo Kids is much more than a play. It’s an argument, a discussion, a life decision. An exchange between real-life couple Nir Paldi and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:32AMFriday, January 18, 2019
Review: Anomaly, Old Red Lion Theatre3.0starsAnomaly places itself at the heart of the Time’s Up and #MeToo movement. Focusing on three daughters of a media mogul, Philip Preston, who has …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AMSunday, December 9, 2018
To an extent, The Rave Space does what it says on the tin. You walk down the stairs into the dark basement of Camden People’s Theatre, get your hand stamped, take your purple laser, and st…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:32AMSaturday, November 17, 2018
Towards the end of Made In China’s Super Duper Close Up, solo-performer Jess Latowicki tells the audience, “I always thought my story would be one with backing dancers.” There is a cer…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AMFriday, November 9, 2018
A Pupil is a not just a play, but a concert of sorts. This strings-based affair is both visually and aurally commanding in its tale of a teenage violinist being taught by an old, female, mas…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:06AMSaturday, October 27, 2018
Travis Alabanza speaks from the heart. They open Burgerz with a short story about how someone threw a burger at them on Waterloo Bridge and shouted “tranny” in 2016. This anecdote of abu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:32PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
As you wait for POT to begin, a mist hangs in the air and around the brown-tinged set. This flat has patched up floors, a faded sofa, a grimy radiator and clutter in the form of crushed beer…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:42PMSaturday, September 22, 2018
Albert Camus’s 1942 novel L’Etranger follows Meursault, whose mother dies, and who then kills an Arab man on the beach just because the sun was in his eyes. It has now been adapted for …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:42PMWednesday, September 19, 2018
Eastern Star looks back to Burma’s 1988 revolution, comparing the viewpoints of a British Journalist and a Burmese Human Rights lawyer who reveals himself as “an architect of the revolut…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:04PMSaturday, August 11, 2018
Adam Walsh – no – Adam Welsh is an actor. An actor who found that when he Googles himself, the
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:32PMMonday, August 6, 2018
Breathe begins calmly, speeds up, overlaps, hits you in the face, and…reminds you that life can get out of control
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:32AMThursday, July 12, 2018
Where the Hell is Bernard? straddles a strange space between dystopian drama and mime. This Edinburgh preview of the play
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:18AMSaturday, July 7, 2018
Watching The Lieutenant of Inishmore you get the feeling that everyone on stage is having a good time. That might
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:42AMFriday, June 29, 2018
Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw is a story that never feels solved. It demands the questions of who
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:54AMSaturday, June 16, 2018
John Berger’s A Fortunate Man – accompanied by Jean Mohr’s photographs – was published in 1967, as a 50:50 collaboration
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:18AMSunday, June 10, 2018
This updated version of Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie, drops the Miss, and plunges us into a modernised upstairs-downstairs conundrum. In
The post Review: Julie, National Theatre appeare…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMSunday, May 20, 2018
It’s 1958 New York, and the artist Mark Rothko is painting his Seagram Murals. The series of paintings, which can
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:24AMSunday, May 13, 2018
Fox Hunting as a title evokes the countryside battles between the government and wealthy hunters who chase and kill for
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:06AMWednesday, May 9, 2018
Rodney Ackland’s Absolute Hell was originally conceived as The Pink Room. The work delving into the hilarious and often tragic
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36AMSunday, May 6, 2018
Suicide. Terrorism. Adultery. The themes of Marion Blott’s Moormaid don’t suggest comedy, but Marion Blott’s script is at its most
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Jackie Hagan is an award-winning playwright, the 2018 Jerwood Compton Poetry fellow, and working class. And so, the monologue that
The post Review: This Is Not A Safe Place, Camden People’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:06AMTuesday, April 10, 2018
The Country Wife was written by William Wycherley in 1675, but Morphic Graffiti’s adaptation brings us to the Roaring Twenties where a group of Bright Young Things – and a few not so you…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:27AMSaturday, April 7, 2018
Coraline fast became a cult classic when Neil Gaiman’s children’s novella was first published in 2002. There has since been the award-winning stop-motion film adaptation, a musical, and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:16AMTuesday, March 20, 2018
It is worth remembering that Sheep Also Dream is a work in progress. The two-man surrealist piece by real-life brothers, The Davis Brothers – Tom and Ben – is a little rough around t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:00AMSaturday, March 10, 2018
This Macbeth lives in a world of bin bag chic. Raves, duct-taped armour, heads thrown into plastic bags; this is an apocalyptic underworld where dad dancing mingles with murder, in a visuall…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:30AMSunday, February 18, 2018
As part of Sadler’s Wells’ fifteenth annual flamenco festival, María Pagés and her company take on Bizet’s opera and present their version of Carmen’s story in Yo Carmen. The affai…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:00AMSaturday, February 17, 2018
Gold Coast should demand attention. Written by Louise Gooding, who has experience as a Radio 4 playwright, and with the award-winning (and sold out) Theatre 503 as the setting, this play set…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00AMThursday, February 8, 2018
Somewhere between 1984 and The Office, lies It Made Me Consider Me. This surreal dystopian induction to R.A.L.P.H., the company which deals in the extraction and storage of unwanted human me…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:45AMSaturday, January 27, 2018
Hoxton Hall, tucked down a side street in the depths of East London, is the perfect location for the debut of Lil Warren’s new musical, Oranges & Elephants. The vaudeville-style stage …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:17AMWednesday, January 17, 2018
It has been a long while since I’ve had to wear a stickered name badge, and I wasn’t expecting my visit to Notting Hill’s Gate Theatre to be the next occasion when I would wear one. It…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:08AM 
