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 09:08AMThe 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 04:00AMFCUK’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 08:36AMDavid 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 11:36AMKinkens 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 11:42AMCrime 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 02:42PMThe 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 07:06PMGetting 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 01:42PMOn 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 01:24PMWhite 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 02:12PMThe 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 08:33AMAs 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 09:42AMWatching. 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 06:48AMRob 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 08:33AMFREAK 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 09:36AMWithout 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 12:42PMThe 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 07:06AMPlaying 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 07:48AMTerror 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 03:06PMRose 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 11:18AMBilled 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 11:18AMEdgar 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 10:48AMCommon 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 07:18AMOn 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 06:33AMI’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 07:18AMSeveral 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 10:18AMThere 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 05:54AMDusty 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 10:54AMIt’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…
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