Friday, August 9, 2013
(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…
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:10AMThursday, August 8, 2013
(3/5 stars) Two young men are in hospital, sharing a room as one recuperates and the other gets slowly worse. We watch them bicker, fart and giggle away their long, lonely days together, as …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:04PM(4/5 stars) David Leddy’s Long Live the Little Knife is such a clever piece of writing. Treading a very find line between intelligent and incomprehensible, Leddy’s play (which he…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:11AM(3/5 stars) Oh Edinburgh. Where else but the Fringe are you going to see a Hammer Horror-inspired production of Pinocchio? It’s a somewhat baffling choice by Pants on Fire theatre comp…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:06AMWednesday, August 7, 2013
How to write about this show? This is a play beyond words, above star ratings and separate from the usual concerns of reviewing: it would feel pointless, wrong even, to comment on the lighti…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:27PM(2/5 stars) This super-camp, massively melodramatic re-telling of Jekyll and Hyde takes itself far too seriously despite all of its self-mockery. Trying to mix gothic horror with inventive s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:15AM(3/5 stars) Bryony Kimmings’s new show, Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model, is a mish-mash of ideas, tropes and songs. It feels like it was created by a child – it’s scatte…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:30AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
(3/5 stars) Hand Head Hand is a simple show: Laura Jane Dean sits on a chair in a tiny studio and talks to us about her life with OCD. She takes us through the rituals she finds necessary an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:19PM(2/5 stars) For all of its constant talk of darkness and gore, this is a bloodless and gutless version of Angela Carter’s complex and knotty tale. In Carter’s story, the well-wor…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:21AM(3/5 stars) Tap Tap Theatre has made a show of original stories, some of which follow familiar themes (seeing past appearances, for example) and some of which manage to find new things to s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:39AM(3/5 stars) Chalk Farm is half a take on last year’s London riots, and half an examination of a mother-and-son relationship. It does both well but never quite makes either soar, despit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:16AMMonday, August 5, 2013
(3/5 stars) What starts off feeling like a self-indulgent take on a traditionally gothic Victorian ghost story gradually reveals itself to be a far more complex and multi-layered thing. Our …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:02PM(5/5 stars) The Wrong Crowd has taken the folk-tale, child-eating witch, Baba Yaga, and given her a voice. And what a voice. Laura Cairns plays Baba Yaga, with a sniffing, questing, monstrou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:12PMSunday, August 4, 2013
(3/5) There’s a lot of whimsy floating around at the Edinburgh Fringe this year – I’ve seen three shows in the past two days that have “love” in the title. This isn’t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:22PM(2/5 stars) For a show almost exclusively about sex and violence, L.O.V.E. manages to be surprisingly dull. It’s extremely well-choreographed, and the physical prowess of the performer…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:15AM(2/5) On the Beach is a whimsical, sweet-natured show that rather overstays its welcome. A one-man piece, where performer John Osborne tells us about a lunchtime walk on the beach, it’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:53AM(4/5 stars) A bittersweet, tragicomic look at life, the universe and everything from one woman’s perspective, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s new show is a cracker. A hugely impressive ho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:03AM(3/5 stars) It ain’t over til it’s over, as they say, and this is an apt summary of William Gaminara’s The Three Lions. Quite why anyone would want to dramatise the build-u…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:33AMSaturday, August 3, 2013
(4/5 Stars) Love in the Past Participle is a gentle show, which wears its sometimes difficult subject matter lightly. As the title suggests, the piece explores relationships which have now …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:08AM(4/5 stars) Shit-faced Shakespeare does what it says on the tin. After its debut at the Fringe last year, Magnificent Bastard Productions is back, this year with its unique take on Much Ado …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:33AMFriday, August 2, 2013
(3/5 stars) A wide-eyed and charming Alice guides us through Wonderland with an endearing mix of petulance, bravery and wonder. Oxford University Drama Society‘s production of the famo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:57PMFriday, July 19, 2013
My inner child – never far from the surface – was well and truly unleashed at Bristol Old Vic’s gloriously enjoyable The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Re-telling the tale of the bored boy sh…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:04AMFriday, July 12, 2013
As she prepares to star in a self-penned new show at the Bush, Cush Jumbo talks to Eleanor Turney about the life of an actor, not being pigeon-holed and why female characters should be allow…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00AMThursday, July 11, 2013
Written in 1894, George Bernard Shaw’s Candida is a play deeply rooted in its time, making it tough to stage a production that is palatable to a modern audience, dealing as it does wit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:09AMSaturday, June 22, 2013
Karl Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind is famously said to be “unstagebale”, so kudos to all involved in this production for actually getting the show onstage. It’s a rambling…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:25AMFriday, June 14, 2013
The Postcards Festival at Jacksons Lane, now in its third year, offers a huge range of circus and cabaret work. Artistic Director Adrian Berry and performer John van der Put (a.k.a Piff the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AMThursday, June 13, 2013
We all know the story of Bluebeard, but this deeply unsettling version by Hattie Naylor is grimmer than Grimm and makes its audience uncomfortably complicit in its graphic descriptions of se…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:30AMMonday, June 3, 2013
The father-daughter relationship is heavily foregrounded in Jeremy Herrin’s extremley funny production of The Tempest. Continually shot-through with nostalgia and a tenderness that bel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:48AMSaturday, May 25, 2013
Incredibly difficult to watch, Belarus Free Theatre’s Trash Cuisine is a hard-hitting and haunting 90 minutes that will stay with you long after you leave the theatre. Introduced as �…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:51AMThursday, 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 06:10AM 
