Tuesday, August 18, 2015
An honest and frank exploration of female sexuality, Manwatching is written by an anonymous playwright for the Royal Court. She has chosen to remain anonymous, refusing the credit for what…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:31PMWithout question, Violet Fox is a wanker. Sonia Jalay, her creator, however, is a hilarious woman. PaperMash Theatre presents an exploration of Violet’s complicated relationship with her m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:08AMLungs, 2014’s big success from Paines Plough, is constantly concerned with time. In an hour, a couple’s lifespan has passed. Moments pass by in minutes, seemingly frozen in time, whilst …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:08AMWe This Way is the ultimate theatrical experience for fans of the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Seth Kriebel gently nudges his audience to choose A or B – blue or orange – and sh…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:09AMA woman lies naked on a vast stage. She flexes and writhes, muscles stressed under the light. The woman staggers to her feet, an elk calf dazed and astonished by the world. Around her, cloth…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:09AMMonday, August 17, 2015
As Shane (James Cartwright) struts about the bare stage in his finest keks, the overarching theme of his actions, his words, is the need to feel alive. He describes the lead up to and the ev…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:46AMHow do we remember and recover in the aftermath of a tragedy? The 56 ends in stillness, the three actors turned away from the audience, as the names of the 56 victims of the 1985 Bradford Ci…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:15AMSunday, August 16, 2015
An interdisciplinary musical spectacle, Middle Child’s Weekend Rockstars’ layers of framing show it to be a unique production at the Fringe. The show, featuring a cast of actor-musicians…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:21AMAn alarming number of shows at this year’s Fringe are using violence against women as a device. It is so disappointing, and frankly downright infuriating, to see that this issue is stil…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:32AMMinor Delays’ minimalist staging complements the wordplay of their sketch comedy beautifully. At all times, the three cast members face forwards in a row, the simplicity of this direction …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:56AMSaturday, August 15, 2015
A man is disturbed to find himself in a place in which everyone his best interests at heart, but from which he is not allowed to leave. This is George (Samuel Keefe), desperate to return hom…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:42AMFriday, August 14, 2015
Paradise is not something that can be achieved in a lifetime. The man and the woman in front of us, meticulously constructing a table, are fully aware of this. It is their job, or perhaps a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:57AMThe Girl Who Fell in Love With the Moon is mesmerising. This multisensory collection of neo-folk tales from The Human Zoo takes a look at humanity’s obsession with the skies through storyt…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:51AMThursday, August 13, 2015
Countess Erzsébet Báthory, considered the most prolific female serial killer in history, murdered 650 young women over the sixteenth century. Fourth Monkey presents a Grimm’s tales inspi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:18PMMunch is, in essence, a 60-minute poem about bondage by Ben Richards. The equivalent of Dr Seuss in a latex suit, performers Richards and Will Cousins share their account of a BDSM party (or…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:18PMAnnabelle is an elephant, the smallest elephant in the world. In fact, she’s so small that she can only be seen through a special camera. In this charming show from Howard Read, creator …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:27PMDevised with inmates from HMP Low Newton, Open Clasp attempts to refocus perceptions of women in prison with Key Change. Five women tell their story, equipped with only a boombox, a few chai…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
A pub quiz team with a weirdly specific set of skills set out to pull off a casino heist in this hilarious production from DugOut Theatre. Combining a puntastic script from Tom Black and Sa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15PMPersons A, B and C are all attending a job interview. They’ve made it through several rounds and now they’re in the final three. These characters are, at first, no more than nameless arc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:14PMIn her first full length play, Camilla Whitehill presents the compelling tale of a woman kidnapped by the most notorious gangsters in East End history, the Kray twins. Presented by Duckdown …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:39AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
The second in a Sarah Kane double bill from Fear No Colours (the first being Cleansed), Phaedra’s Love is Kane’s contemporary reimagining of Seneca’s Phaedra. We’re promised a viscer…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:13PM“In the stitches of her skin she’ll wear your say.” Annie Ryan’s one woman adaptation of Eimear McBride’s stream of consciousness novel A Girl is a Half Formed Thing is electrifyin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:10PMThe choir sings an upbeat hymn before Pastor Paul (William Gaminara) stands to deliver his sermon for the evening. “Let us pray.” A few members of the audience bow their heads and jerk b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:39AMMonday, August 10, 2015
As a huge fan of Tommy Wiseau’s drama/black comedy, The Room: The Musical is my new favourite production at the Edinburgh Fringe. Packing all the most famous parts of the film into a hilar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:04PMAttempting to pull off two Sarah Kane plays at the Fringe- that’s brave. Now what if I mention that they both have the same cast? Fear No Colours have guts, you have to give them that. Cle…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:52AMBonkers fun for anyone who’s ever wondered who they really are, If I Were Me follows a socially awkward copywriter named Philip’s (Nasi Voutsas) attempts to find himself and change his l…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:50AMThe Stolen Inches is without a doubt the greatest (and most middle class) episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians ever produced. Exploring the disparity between public and private demeano…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:50AMAn oak tree. A hypnotist. An actor, who’s never seen nor read the script, playing a grieving father. Now celebrating its tenth anniversary and having featured more than 300 different act…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:50AMA cautionary tale for the age of Buzzfeed, The Red Chair Players’ Clickbait attempts to “explore the subtle ways a person can be manipulated without knowing it”. When a peer needs to r…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:49AMIn 1860s San Francisco, a penniless man named Joshua Norton declared himself The Emperor of America. The city treated him as such: paying imaginary taxes, printing his declarations in the ne…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:49AMFusing together elements of Eastern and Western physical theatre and dance, Ryukyu Cirque’s Clown Macbeth is a compelling and polished take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Director and perform…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:49AM 
