Thursday, September 3, 2015
Feminism is a loose theme running throughout this comedy show from The Durham Revue, epitomised by one of the performance’s early sketches; the company’s two women (Charlotte Whistlecrof…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:49PMOscar Wilde’s philosophical novel The Picture of Dorian Gray was heavily censored before its first publication in 1890 and even then it caused controversy, “violating the laws of pub…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:49PM“I’ll cut the shit and get my monkey out.” It’s her final night of Edinburgh Fringe and Nina Conti is done with the pleasantries. She reaches into her oversized canvas bag and pulls …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:30PM‘An incendiary new play about power, fear and fanaticism’ is how the programme describes Gareth Jandrell’s latest work for Dawn State Theatre Company. The plot revolves around a tourin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:30PMMonday, August 31, 2015
Christian O’Connell is a radio DJ, found hosting the weekday breakfast show on Absolute Radio. He’s also a stand-up comedian and in this show he discusses his show and the number of comp…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:16PMSunday, August 30, 2015
Off the back of a run in King’s Head Theatre in London, I Went To a Fabulous Party is no stranger to venues that specialise in nurturing new talent. The party in question is held by Lee (M…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:33AMAn apparent sufferer of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Michael (Gary Quinn) is a casualty of the British armed forces. He suffers frequent flashbacks of his previous tours in Afghani…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:33AM“Dad died when I was 17”; a simple blunt statement from Hannah Moss. She doesn’t voice this to the audience, she writes it on a whiteboard. She writes everything on the whitebo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:33AMTrisha Duffy makes her writing debut with Broken Biscuits. The story tells of Rita (Leanne Martin) and Maggie (Jane Hogarth), both with sons in the armed forces. Rita’s son was killed in A…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:33AMStage manager Claire Mellon must have loved this choice of musical, since it involves the construction of a growing man-eating plant, which can bring down the whole show if it doesn’t …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:33AMSaturday, August 29, 2015
“I started a joke, which started the whole world crying.” Puddles, a giant black and white clown resembling something from a worn-out fairground show, opens with this line from ‘Th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:04AMAnother musical adapted from a film, Dogfight tells of a group of U.S. Marines on their last night in San Francisco before shipping out to Vietnam. But this is 1963 and America had only just…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:04AMFriday, August 28, 2015
“The problem with birds is, they can fly.” Harriet is a falconer and descends from a long line of falconers, ornithologists, twitchers and pheasant pluckers going back to Henry VIII’s …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:52PMExtempore Theatre has taken the ‘Weird Tales Magazine’ as their inspiration for this particular production. Popular in the 1920s times the magazine was renowned for publishing weird and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:52PMTo improvise a show requires the cast to think on its feet, work together easily and anticipate each other accurately. To improvise a comedy sketch show requires the cast to produce funny sc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AMThere are three separate companies performing Into the Woods at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. A Sondheim classic, it is in no way an easy ride, but then which of Sondheim’s creations is?…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AMMagicians have a hard time impressing the crowd nowadays. Everyone expects more risky, more daring and altogether more show-stopping tricks. Modern fantasy books and CGI-animated films show …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AMSuccessfully improvising a show requires the cast to think on its feet, work together easily and anticipate each others’ lines. Improvising a musical requires the cast to do all of thi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AMIn Arc, a square construction made of steel scaffolding is suspended above the stage. Three performers are lying asleep on it. They awake, scared and dazed at their surroundings like abando…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:31AMThursday, August 27, 2015
All teenage boys are inherently a bit weird. When Oliver Tate (Jonas Moore) is faced with trying to rescue his parents’ failing marriage or trying to keep his own relationship alive with J…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:37AMThe Scottish play at Edinburgh Fringe Festival – not the most original of ideas. But in this case Youth Music Theatre UK have transformed the production – the set is modelled on a more m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMBallet is such a versatile form of dance, capable of being fused with so many different styles. In this case, Balletronic fuses it with colourful Cuban and Latin influences to create a vibr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMFrank Olivier is certainly multitalented. He’s also crazy. So when the performers for Frank and Paul’s cabaret show fail to turn up one evening, Frank insists on performing every act him…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMAvant garde musicals are all the rage. The last 10 years have seen Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon reach astronomical levels of fame on Broadway, in the West End and around the world. Jesus …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
Rich (Blake Kubena), a typically confident and aloof writer, breaks the news to his former lover Saul (Joey Bartram), as well as friends and family, that he has AIDS. He battles with illness…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:34PMThe Fringe can be a tough gig for comedians. With an audience spoilt for choice on both ticketed and free shows, sometimes you sit in a show with only a few other people and see the look of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:20AMCharlie, Louis and Beren are obviously good friends. They have a chemistry that sets them apart from other acrobatic dance troupes. Their cheeky chappie and incredibly cool personalities add…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:12AMWith the look of Sarah Hadland and a musical comedy act akin to Victoria Wood, Tamar Broadbent is a real pocket rocket. She would either hate the anti-feminist connotation that this phrase h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:12AM“Pineapples don’t exist. They’re like unicorns and eskimos.” Wise words uttered by old matchmaker crone Fanny (Camille Ucan) as she attempts to find a suitable wife for Peter (Ben Cl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:55AMComedians often work for months and months on their stand-up sets. They hone each joke, test out all sorts of material and make sure that they are as funny as they can be before hitting th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:55AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
It’s always a good start when you get offered sweets as you walk into a theatre. It’s less satisfying when you realise you can’t eat them and have to drop them into a coffin on the fro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:07PM 
