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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Review: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Gate Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

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
Monday, January 15, 2018

Review: The Narcissist, Hen & Chicken’s Theatrec by Charlotte Irwin

The Narcissist, as you might expect from such a title, is a one-man show. In the space of an hour, writer and performer Will Adolphy, uses monologue, dance, and an unexpected foray into acou…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00AM
Friday, December 15, 2017

Review: FCUK’D, Bunker Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

FCUK’D – the debut play from writer Niall Ransome – is a lament to Britain’s working class men. The unnamed protagonist who addresses the audience in poetic monologue is a Bo…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:36AM
Monday, November 20, 2017

Review: David Hoyle Diamond, Soho Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

David is sick of being persecuted. In fact, David is sick of anyone in the LGBT+ community being persecuted. So, perhaps unsurprisingly throughout this multimedia, musical theatre-inspired m…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:36AM
Friday, November 17, 2017

Review: Kinkens, Camden People’s Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

Kinkens may sound like the product of make-believe, but in fact the Old Scottish word for “evasive answers to questions from curious children”, is more than fitting for Pip Hambly’s So…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:42AM
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Review: Demons, St Leonard’s Church by Charlotte Irwin

Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons: Dostoevsky is synonymous with lengthy tomes, and this reworking of the aforementioned Demons doesn’t let its author down in terms of…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:42PM
Thursday, November 2, 2017

Review: The Barber of Seville, ENO by Charlotte Irwin

The ENO’s The Barber of Seville is steeped in history, in more ways than one. Firstly, we have the inimitable Sir Jonathan Miller at the helm. Secondly, this production neatly marks 30 yea…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:06PM
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Review: The White Feminist Guide to Sex and Hip Hop and Pulp Fiction, Theatre N16 by Charlotte Irwin

Getting to Maiden Speech, the feminist voices festival taking over the confusingly named Theatre N16 (it’s actually south of the river in Balham), is a theatrical experience in itself. Tu…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:42PM
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Review: In Event of Moone Disaster, Theatre503 by Charlotte Irwin

On the night of the moon landing, dreamer Sylvia Moone loses her virginity to an unnamed astronaut. 86 years later, her granddaughter of the same name, is just that, a NASA astronaut travell…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:24PM
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Review: Salvation: Shamanic Striptease, Camden People’s Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

White guilt. That’s the shame at the core of the Salvation: Shamanic Striptease. In just under an hour White African performance artist Daniel P. Cunningham seeks to confront his past with…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:12PM
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Review: Medusa, The Crypt Gallery by Charlotte Irwin

The allure of redefining myth never fails to entice. It’s a rite of passage for many theatre companies, and with Medusa the experimental and immersive 27 degrees try their hand at teaching…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:33AM
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Review: Hyem, Theatre 503 by Charlotte Irwin

As the name suggests, Philip Correia’s debut is an exploration of the home – or as his Northumberland-native characters’ say, hyem. Set in a dysfunctional patchwork ‘family’, H…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AM
Saturday, September 9, 2017

Review: Window, The Bread and Roses Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

Watching. That is the essence behind the voyeuristic Window. A young couple –Grace and Jimmy – are settling into their life together and find unexpected escape by watching the sex life o…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:48AM
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Review: The Majority, National Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

Rob Drummond is on a democratic mission. Part game-show, part-memoir, Drummond’s latest experimental work – The Majority – is founded in truth “more or less” as he explains how…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:33AM
Sunday, August 20, 2017

Review: FREAK, The Space by Charlotte Irwin

FREAK is undeniably provocative. Juxtaposing lap dancing club orgies with first time sexual experiences, Anna Jordan’s sex-focused play seeks entry to the growing canon of flawed female ch…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:36AM
Monday, July 31, 2017

Review: My Mind is Free, Waterloo East Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

Without interval, My Mind is Free submerges you in tales of human trafficking. As four strangers huddle under blankets in a locked lorry hurtling towards their next prison this production se…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:42PM
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Review: The Dream of Gerontius, Royal Festival Hall by Charlotte Irwin

The English National Opera is on staycation. Abandoning its Coliseum home for the summer (for Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell musical) the ENO has moved to the Royal Festival Hall for its perf…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:06AM
Friday, July 7, 2017

Review: Tiresia, Etcetera Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

Playing on gender, death, myth and science Tiresia is undeniably engaging. An adaptation of the Greek myth of the blind prophet Tiresias who famously became a woman for seven years, this pro…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:48AM
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Review: Terror, Lyric Hammersmith by Charlotte Irwin

Terror is undeniably relevant. The recent attacks in Manchester and London mean that the word is all too ready at hand, a default thought, society’s daily fear. Therefore, this internation…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PM
Monday, June 26, 2017

Review: Rose Matafeo is Finally Dead, Soho Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

Rose Matafeo is far from dead. Bursting out of a coffin singing “It’s my funereeaal”, Matafeo’s frenetic performance starts as it means to go on, without a corpse in sight. Auckland-…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:18AM

Review: The English Heart, Etcetera Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

Billed as a Brexit-inspired tale, The English Heart seems to focus more on the obsessive power of sex than the political chaos of the last year. Yes, the characters speak about Brexit and fr…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:18AM
Monday, June 19, 2017

Review: Edgar Allen Poe Double Feature, Jack Studio Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

Edgar Allan Poe isn’t usually one for the faint hearted, and as I waited for the double bill of the king of gothic horror’s dark short stories to start on Thursday 8th June 2017, I w…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AM
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Review, Common, National Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

Common is a little like a medieval Midsomer Murders. The new play written by DC Moore opens with disguised villagers taking the matter of common land into their own hands, setting the stage …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AM
Friday, June 2, 2017

Review: Last Night, Roundhouse by Charlotte Irwin

On paper, Last Night is exactly what London theatres should be showing. Celebrating, mourning and mimicking London’s diminishing night club culture, the billed spoken word and music pe…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:33AM
Friday, May 26, 2017

Review: Margate/Dreamland, Shoreditch Town Hall by Charlotte Irwin

I’ve never been to Margate, Kent, let alone its theme park Dreamland. This had me concerned as I entered Margate/Dreamland at Shoreditch Town Hall’s ditch theatre. Yet somehow during the…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AM
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Review: Here She Comes, The Gallery on the Corner by Charlotte Irwin

Several audience members are cradling their knees as they sit on the bed of soil. Two or three lucky ones have managed to nab a log to perch on. I collapse onto an elusive tree stump and pra…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:18AM
Friday, May 19, 2017

Review: Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer, Camden People’s Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

There are many things you might associate with the Queen Mother. Her favourite tipple, The Belgian; organ music; group sex? Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer immerses you in the surreal world o…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:54AM
Monday, May 15, 2017

Review: Assata Taught Me, Gate Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

Dusty turquoise corrugated iron lines the walls, cracked orange patterned tiles lie underfoot, a bottle of rum is poised ominously on the side; the setting of Assata Taught Me is unmistakabl…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:54AM
Friday, May 12, 2017

Review: Brimstone and Treacle, The Hope Theatre by Charlotte Irwin

It’s not hard to understand why Brimstone and Treacle was banned in 1976. Written by Dennis Potter as a television play for BBC’s Play for Today the work explores the darkest edges of hu…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36AM

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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