Tuesday, August 20, 2013
(2/5 stars) Entita Company’s Turbulence, billed as a prequel to The Tempest, asks a novel but really quite needless ‘what if..? of Shakespeare’s final play. The contest…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:36PMMonday, August 19, 2013
(3/5 stars) The three bears are having a bad day. A bad 27 days in fact – that’s how far they are through their punishing run as children’s entertainers in a dead-end shopping …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:45PMWhen the usher announces that we are about to led onto the ‘dance floor’, there’s a shiver that runs through the waiting audience in the auditorium of the Festival Theatre …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:43PMSunday, August 18, 2013
(3/5 stars) I’ve been listening to Dot Howard speak for nearly an hour now. I’ve had her words in my mouth. I’ve seen her tongue emerge, red and real, through a brown paper…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:26PM(3/5 stars) Silence please, the Artist is speaking. We, the audience – the unenlightened and uninitiated – are here to be instructed in the art of… Art. “You’re wel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42PM(3/5 stars) Playwright Shaun Kitchener’s work has developed astonishingly since his initially intriguing but ultimately unspectacular one-act It Never Rains at the White Bear back in …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:32PM(3/5 stars) Scottee sits in a photo booth, a box within the box space where we sit patiently, waiting for him to look at us. He is looking at us, or at least, we can choose to believe so. I…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:00AMSaturday, August 17, 2013
(4/5 stars) Would you like to leave Edinburgh? I mean, I’m sure you’re having a lovely time, but it’s very… very… extremely…[insert your own personal te…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:38PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
Give a nine-year-old girl the freedom to dream up her own superstar, and what do you get? A “sweet but clumsy” palaeontologist pop sensation who likes tuna pasta, dogs and dinosaurs, of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:33AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Six figures stand ankle-deep in a blanket of white fluff, kitted out in Adidas and Nike, brightly-coloured, logos blazing. “Why did you send your son away to the sports war,” they demand…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24AMFriday, July 12, 2013
Time-flies, sadistic scapegoats and morbid, singing polar bears – where else could we be but The Wonderful World of Dissocia? Anthony Nielson’s weird and wondrous play about one woman’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:45PMFriday, April 19, 2013
If there was a (realistic) Pinnacle of Social Awkwardness award, it would probably go to the premise of It Never Rains. Being trapped in a house with an estranged ex, the small talk rapidly …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMSunday, April 14, 2013
If I were to say, “I’ve just watched a play about Scotland, the 90s, pills, parties and the darkest recesses of human desperation,” you’re probably more likely to think Trainspotting…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:26AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
The Print Room maintains its reputation for compelling and considered work with a polished revival of Brian Friel’s 1994 play, Molly Sweeney – a moving deliberation on the meaning of si…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:38AMFriday, March 29, 2013
The Last Refuge’s loveable but somewhat concrete bunker-esque space has been transformed into a hazy dream world/makeshift play den of sheets, retro tat and twinkling fairy lights. Here, q…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:55AMMonday, March 25, 2013
The transfer of Bruntwood Prize-winning Three Birds by Janice Okoh from Manchester’s Royal Exchange to the city where its action is set only gives a sharper resonance to this sometimes cha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:47AMThursday, February 21, 2013
From the beginning, Love On Trial, Roe Lane’s adaptation of Malawian writer Stanley Kenani’s Caine Prize-nominated story, promises to be at least intriguing. A nation-enraging instance o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:32AMSaturday, February 2, 2013
6 June 2011, 6pm: activist blogger Amina Arraf (aka A Gay Girl in Damascus) is kidnapped from the streets of the Syrian capital. So begins Omar El-Khairy’s Sour Lips, a dense and disor…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:11AMSunday, January 27, 2013
“Does it hurt?” – a question at once hopeful, sadistic, tender, and a strange inquiry to make after a lightning strike – it echoes like a sad refrain throughout Rajiv Joseph’s Grue…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:31PMMonday, October 8, 2012
“I’m gonna fill these seats with the biggest losers in the world!” declares unscrupulous show promoter Mel Carny, eyes and smile widening as he pronounces the chilling mission statemen…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:20AMThursday, August 30, 2012
If you like your sight gags simple and stunning, your laughs loud and your submarines, well, essentially non-existent, then The Submarine Show is one to watch. Slick and often surprisingly s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:57AM“How’s mum?” Daniel asks his brother for the third time, or maybe it’s the fourth, or then again, it could be the fifth time, or is it the first time after all? New Celts writer Came…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:53AMThere is something beautifully and simply tragic about the regal wave, the Duke of Windsor notes, and he demonstrates with a slow and serene wave farewell, the last meaningful gesture of a h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:48AMTuesday, August 28, 2012
If a quasi-impressive amateur gymnastics display/mock physical theatre routine/confusing love triangle told through the medium of expressive dance (performed with almost deadly seriousness) …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:23AMMonday, August 27, 2012
It doesn’t take long to fall in love with Camille Claudel, and watching Gael Le Cornec’s impassioned and fiercely intelligent portrayal of the oft-forgotten sculptor, it’s no surprise …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:28AMExcess by name and excessive by nature, Freddy Sybourn’s most recent offering to the Fringe throws itself at the audience with such overwhelming exuberance that I’m surprised it …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:07AMSunday, August 26, 2012
It is not merely a boast when Tom Marshman tells us he has the sixth best legs in the country. In fact, it’s pretty much a proven fact. Last year, Marshman put himself and his l…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:13PMHigh-speed, high-tech, high hopes: Tagged opens strongly with an enjoyably frantic onslaught of likes, pokes and pings – a quick-fire bombardment of disgusting boasts, declarations of love…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:28PMThursday, August 23, 2012
“…Do I look happy?” ventures Nikolay Nikotine, and his sunken features, usually tremulous, are entirely still for a moment, frozen in painful hope and dread. Naturally, the audienc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:41PMBear Pit Theatre’s The Mermaid of Zennor opens promisingly enough as, in the cold aqua blue light of the empty stage, a faceless creature made of delicate fabric and rope swims through the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:35PMTo successfully adapt the work of Haruki Murakami for the stage at any age is a feat, yet this is what the six young actors of Sackville Theatre Company have aspired to do in Tokyo Trilogy, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:47AM 
