Sunday, December 8, 2013
My nine-year-old companion enjoyed Alice in Wonderland rather more than I did, but with one of the Polka’s child-centric shows that is as it should be. I found the acting style very ch…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:33AMThursday, December 5, 2013
[Contains spoilers] The Hans Christensen Anderson version of The Little Mermaid is pretty unpleasant – our heroine feels like she’s walking on broken glass every time she steps on he…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:36AMWhat can be said about Little Bulb’s Christmas show for little people, except that it’s completely adorable and you should go and see it? It expertly treads the line between swee…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:56AMSunday, December 1, 2013
I managed to miss Sally Cookson’s production of Cinderella when it was in Bristol, despite living in Bath at the time. How great, then, to be able to catch it at the lovely Unicorn the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:47PMFriday, November 29, 2013
I think most people will have read Bryony Kimmings’s angry and honest blog about money by now. If you haven’t, do. She has asked that other people join in the conversation, and w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:38AMTuesday, November 26, 2013
Every now and then something comes along on Twitter that gets everyone talking – and we’re not referring to Miley Cyrus and her infamous twerking abilities! We’re talking about Bryony …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:46AMFriday, November 15, 2013
A mixed evening, this, with some moments of brilliance and some less successful ones. It’s always the risk you take with a mixed bill, that there will be parts one enjoys more than oth…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:57AMTuesday, November 12, 2013
Timberlake Wertenbaker’s re-working of Sophocles’s tragedy places Ajax and his platoon firmly in the modern day with text messages, references to YouTube, IEDs. And yet, this wa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:51AMTuesday, November 5, 2013
So maybe watching The Avengers with its snappy one-liners and quite impressively muscled Thor wasn’t the best idea the night before seeing an Icelandic-influenced production of Macbeth…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:34PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
Joe Armstrong (Gus) and Clive Wood (Ben) turn in solid performances in this production of Pinter’s short black comedy, but Jamie Glover’s directorial debut never quite achieves t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:52AMSunday, September 8, 2013
Jordan Morris and Jesse Thorn present the successful podcast Jordan, Jesse, Go! which is free to download. Eleanor Turney caught up with them in Edinburgh to talk new financial models, findi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:11AMSaturday, August 31, 2013
Once again this August, we at Filskit Theatre have resisted the call of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and opted to stay put in London to start working on our next piece. However, thanks to s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:45AMWednesday, August 21, 2013
(4/5 stars) I like books. So, apparently, do the Idle Motion team, as they have themed this delicate, ephemeral production around books, blindness and Borges. The great Argentinian writer is…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:02AMTuesday, August 20, 2013
Psst. You. Yeah, you. With the face. C’mere. I need to tell you a secret. Now, you can’t tell anyone this, it would ruin me. No-one would ever take me seriously as an actor again, I’d …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:03AMSunday, August 18, 2013
(4/5 stars) Somnambules and the 7 Deadly Sins is a piece that will stay with you long after the last notes of the epic soundscape have died away. Visceral and beautiful, powerful and tender,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AM(3/5 stars) In 2011, the graffiti artist Banksy spray-painted “This looks a bit like an elephant” across the side of a water tank just outside Los Angeles. That water tank had been Titus…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:30AM(3/5 stars) The basic problem with this show is that the nuclear bombs detonated on Hirshima and Nagasaki just aren’t funny. A light-hearted romp through the life of Albert Einstein, R…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:00AMSaturday, August 17, 2013
(4/5 stars) Richard Dresser’s script is a beautiful thing, given hilarious life by a cracking cast of actors under Hamish MacDougall’s direction. Full of black humour, Below the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:20AMFriday, August 16, 2013
(4/5 Stars) Casual Violence’s wonderful show, The House of Nostril, is a macabre and very silly treat. The cast of five bounce about the stage as a huge variety of characters, gurning …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:34PM(1/5 stars) Tonguetied Theatre’s Edinburgh debut is billed as “funny because it’s true”. True it may be (well, sort of) but funny it ain’t. Sol Max’s one-man show…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:49PMWednesday, August 14, 2013
(3/5 stars) Billed as “feminist burlesque”, Aisling Kiely’s show is definitely feminist but seems to have missed the burlesque. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing – althoug…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:51PM(3/5 stars) Solpadeine is an over-the-counter painkiller, comprised of codeine, paracetamol and caffeine. It’s also the most constant presence in Stefanie’s life. Moving from Cor…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:38AM(2/5 stars) The cast do their best with Power Games. They really do. But with direction, choreography and script all stacked against them, it was never going to work. One clever idea is supp…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:06AMTuesday, August 13, 2013
(4/5 Stars) Minotaur Theatre Company from the University of East Anglia should be envy of every student theatre company at the Fringe: it has managed to make a virtue of being “studenty”…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:19PMMonday, August 12, 2013
(4/5 stars) This melancholic piece crams an awful lot into its half hour slot. It is powerful and fascinating glimpse into the rather twisted psyche of one man, Owain, but at times it slight…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:25PM(3/5 stars) Superbolt Theatre’s sweet show manages to make old tropes feel fresh by giving them a sci-fi twist. Set in the future, the company has created its world well and realises i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:06AMThe first 15 minutes of Wu Hsing-kuo’s one-man dance-opera of Kafka’s Metamorphosis are stunning. The remaining 120 minutes are, unfortunately, a masterclass in why scripting, di…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:53AMSaturday, August 10, 2013
(2/5 stars) Hans Christian Anderson’s rather tedious tale of the steadfast tin soldier who battles adversity to return to the love of his life is performed in a sweet but ultimately la…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:53AMFriday, August 9, 2013
(3/5 stars) Static is not a perfect show, but it is a mature and mostly well-judged exploration of growing up and trying to make sense of the world. Our teenage protagonist, Boy (Hugh McCann…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:30PM(3/5 stars) Warwick University Drama Society’s production of Vinegar Tom makes a decent stab at staging Caryl Churchill’s play, but weighs it down with self-indulgent songs that …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:59PM(3/5 stars) It’s not easy to cram all of Wuthering Heights into an hour-long show, and unfortunately it shows in this production from 3BUGS theatre company. The cast rattle through the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:47AM 
