Thursday, May 23, 2013
This beautifully scattered shot and occasionally confusing piece presents a bleak and affecting portrait of mental illness, told through the eyes of the ill woman’s children. In a worl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:10AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
If you want to see lazy, offensive stereotypes of Thailand, head down to The Brewery to catch John Moran’s Goodbye Thailand. Not only is it an incredibly poorly-executed piece of perfo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:46PMThere’s a lot that’s wrong with the world, isn’t there? War, hunger, pain… the list goes on. I could list all the things that are wrong, but I won’t because it …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:52AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Not Until We Are Lost is a beautiful thing. Ockham’s Razor has created a delicate, comtemplative aerial show, which is a hymn to flight and the human body. Performers Alex Harvey, Tina…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:08AMSaturday, May 18, 2013
Ever heard Grendel sing the blues? Seen an academic transform into a dragon? Or heard Beowulf describe himself as a sexy motherfucker? BBB’s unconventional Beowulf has all of this and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:27AMFriday, May 17, 2013
Jenna Watt’s delicate one-woman show kicked off Mayfest for me, offering up its bittersweet mix of hope and hate in a delightfully unselfconscious manner. Essentially, Flâneurs tells …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:11PMKate Tempest is blazingly good. Everyone’s been telling me this for ages, and she won the Ted Hughes Award in March, but to see her take the stage and do her thing is mind-blowing. Usi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:08PMFriday, April 19, 2013
There are some plays that knock you sideways. It’s not necessarily the best-written or the most moving, but there are times when something you see on stage chimes with your own circums…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41AMSunday, April 14, 2013
Trying to cram more than 1,000 pages of Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo into a two-hour show was never going to be an easy task. Company Boudin make a good stab at it but t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:24PMThursday, April 11, 2013
The thrust of Andrew Hilton’s second Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory play of this season is simple: men are idiots. Some are more or less idiotic than others, but, in essence, none …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:46AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
The hair is big and the grievances small in Mike Leigh’s 1977 play Abigail’s Party. Beverly and Laurence are married, but don’t like each other much. Angela and Tony are ma…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:29AMFriday, April 5, 2013
As Peter and Alice continues its run in the West End, Eleanor Turney talks to its young stars, Olly Alexander and Ruby Bentall, about getting started, working with Judi Dench, and playing Pe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:00AMThursday, April 4, 2013
It’s hard not to feel a little bit grubby after watching Amanda Whittington’s play about the last woman in England to be hanged: we are invited into her life in such a way as to …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:01AMMonday, April 1, 2013
Bristol Old Vic artistic director, Tom Morris, talks to Eleanor Turney
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07AMThursday, March 21, 2013
David Auburn takes the deep complexities of maths and uses them as a subtle metaphor for human interactions, creating a piece that is so much more than the sum of its parts. Mariah Gale̵…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:23AMFriday, March 15, 2013
Tennessee Williams looms large over Richard Greenberg’s The American Plan, but this delicate tale of wasted lives and frustrated potential is not overshadowed. The piece examines the m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:30AMFriday, March 8, 2013
There’s an awful lot to like about Tom Morris’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a fair amount that doesn’t quite work. On balance, the show is a grea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:03AMMonday, March 4, 2013
Playwright Jack Thorne on the transfer of his play Mydidae to Trafalgar Studios, working with directors and avoiding the rehearsal room.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:52AMMonday, February 25, 2013
Tom Morris’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream marks his first collaboration with Handspring puppet company since War Horse. Eleanor Turney caught up with Akiya Henry (…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:31AMThursday, February 21, 2013
It helps that there’s something cadaverous about John Mackay, with his close-cropped hair and his deep-set eyes, but he makes a chillingly convincing psychopath. In Andrew Hilton’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:29AMWednesday, February 20, 2013
A mish-mash of jazz, spoken word, freestyling and stories, Tongue Fu brings together people who love words with people who love music and lets them riff. The result, as you would expect, is�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:38AMRehearsals have begun for the London production of The Book of Mormon, which previews at the Prince of Wales Theatre from 25 February 2013 – that’s next week! From South Park creator…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:43AMThursday, February 14, 2013
I’m the world’s biggest wimp. I don’t watch horror movies and a tiny bit of me is still afraid of things that go bump in the night. So I feel almost cheated to have come ou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:57PMTuesday, February 12, 2013
From uncertain beginnings to a third round of Molière via Liverpool's tenure as the European Capital of Culture, Roger McGough and Gemma Bodinetz tell Eleanor Turney why they are drawn to t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:40AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Naked animals and Doctor Who...all in an interview with Kill The Beast, a young company making collaborative work.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:07AMA Very Old Man with Enormous Wings has been delighting audiences across the UK; having finally caught up with it at Bristol Old Vic, it’s easy to see why. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:25AMTuesday, January 22, 2013
From Börkur Jónsson’s ingenious upside-down set to David Farr and Gisli Örn Garðarsson’s subtle direction, this is a fantastic show. Garðarsson is also a wonderfully sympath…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
Nassim Soleimanpour cannot leave Iran. Only those who have completed their two years of military service are granted a passport, and he has not done his. Consequently, he has written a play;…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:05PMMonday, December 10, 2012
In NIE’s wonderfully quirky Hansel and Gretel, playing at Bristol’s Tobacco Factory, the traditional tale is turned on its head. All of the expected elements are there, but NIE a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:53PMFriday, December 7, 2012
What Old Money almost succeeds in doing is taking old tropes and making them new. With a cast of walking clichés (repressed housewife, selfish daughter, senile granny, tart-with-a-heart), S…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:34PMWednesday, December 5, 2012
If it’s not compulsory to have Bristol stalwart Tristan Sturrock in every Bristol Old Vic show yet, then it should be. Last seen doing his one-man show Mayday! Mayday! and as Long John…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15AM 
