Friday, March 15, 2019
Review: Blood Knot, Orange Tree Theatre4.0starsWe are in apartheid Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1961. The world outside is divided by race. We sit with the light-skinned Nathan McMullen’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:20AMThursday, March 14, 2019
Review: Queen Cunt: Sacred or Profane? Bunker Theatre3.0starsChina Blue Fish and Deborah Antoinette present an evening of sketch comedy circling around female genitalia, sexuality, body imag…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:00AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Review: The Ridiculous Darkness, Gate Theatre4.0starsPlease don’t ask me what the plot is for The Ridiculous Darkness as it’s impossible for me to tell you. Wolfram Lotz’ absurdist rad…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:00AMReview: Art, Richmond Theatre 3.0stars Art is a good laugh. Written by award-winning French playwright, Yasmina Reza, the production was originally directed by Matthew Warchus and is now rev…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:31AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
A man, surrounded by a blue glow, falls slowly into what looks like sand. The stage is dark. A woman in red watches him with a solemn expression. Suddenly, 215 bodies turn to their sides on …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AMSaturday, September 29, 2018
I really love Pop-Up Opera. Not only because they make opera accessible to those who wouldn’t pick Covent Garden as their first choice of entertainment; or because they make work that can …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:06PMSaturday, June 30, 2018
How does one adapt a graphic novel and turn it into a musical? And not just any graphic novel, but
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:24AMThursday, June 21, 2018
Karen meets Nick at a train station. Jamie meets Naomi on a dating app. Feel follows these four characters as
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:33AMFriday, March 23, 2018
There are many things that dazzle in Daniel Kramer’s new production of La Traviata: shiny excess, costumes from many different eras and cultures, even a ball pit. Unfortunately, fewer thin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Leoš Janáček’s final opera never promised to be easy listening; based on Dostoevsky’s novel set in a Siberian gulag, the piece might be difficult to digest at first hearing. It is a m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:04PMWednesday, February 7, 2018
The first thing you notice about Nicholas Hytner’s Julius Caesar is its atmosphere: we arrive at a political rally, a band playing The White Stripes’ ‘Seven Nation Army’, beer and co…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:02AMSaturday, November 18, 2017
The Secret Keeper has every trope a fairy tale needs: the archetypes of a young prodigy and greedy parents, a miracle, and human flaws, which lead to an inevitable downfall and a moral lesso…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:12AMSaturday, July 15, 2017
I climb the steps of the Hope Theatre as I read the blurb for Torn Apart. It says the play ‘puts women centre stage and deals with issues such as feminism, immigration, male repression…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:48AMThere are many reasons why you laugh at Lily Bevan’s Trump’s Women. First of all, you laugh because it’s truly funny. Written and directed by Bevan, the play takes a look a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:24AMDarryl is not John, the drag queen he met in a pub and called a ‘she-bloke’. ‘Not yet’, as he repeatedly tells us. He is an unemployed, ‘plain’ guy in a p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:06AMTuesday, May 23, 2017
The Young Vic’s versatile main space has been transformed yet again; this time we are sitting under designer Lizzie Clachan’s huge white disk, a canvas for projection stretching over the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:18AMMonday, May 15, 2017
According to the blurb for Phina Oruche’s one-woman show Identity Crisis, the show is about Oruche’s personal journey through fashion and media, and what these different platform…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:54AMSunday, May 14, 2017
Curious Flamingo’s Egyptian Extravaganza is part of Colab Factory’s immersive season and promises to be a fancy dress experience exploring Egypt in the 1920s and the dangers of c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:48PMMonday, May 8, 2017
‘It will be 3 hours and 20 minutes with one interval and a short pause’ the staff member warns me as I receive my copy of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman. It is thicker than the noteboo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AMSaturday, May 6, 2017
Very rarely does a play give me an increasingly uncomfortable feeling, a growing unrest. Most productions give some signals that allow me to predict their trajectory, preparing me for shock,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:31PMSunday, March 12, 2017
Walking into the Harold Pinter Theatre, already one can feel the excitement in the air. Expectations are high. We take our seats, knowing we are about to see a spectacle: not only is Edward …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:24AMThursday, March 9, 2017
I walk out of Killer with relief, a huge grin, and a lingering chill down my spine. Above all, I want more, and that’s how I know that the play has done its best. Philip Ridley’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AMMonday, February 27, 2017
“If we shadows have offended…” says Puck, closing the two-hour long production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the well-known epilogue. And while Joe-Hill Gibbins’ produc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:54PMThursday, October 20, 2016
The Red Barn is David Hare’s new play based on Georges Simenon’s novel La Main, a story of crime, jealousy and desire. We are in Connecticut in 1969, and a snow storm is raging o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:39AMTuesday, October 18, 2016
Rose (Sue Wylie), a retired actress and now drama teacher, is diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease and Kinetics follows her struggle as she is determined to fight the disease and defe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:39PMThursday, October 6, 2016
Getting Better Slowly (which, cleverly, is GBS for short) is a piece created by Adam Pownall, who was affected by Guillain-Barré Syndrome. This is his story, adapted by Nick Wood into an ev…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:02PMMonday, August 29, 2016
JB Priestley’s little known play The Roundabout is a light comedy about the class system in 1930s England. Richard Kettlewell (Brian Protheroe), a wealthy businessman is losing all his…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:58AMSaturday, August 27, 2016
Spawny John (Lydia Lakemoore) and his friend, Duck (Rosie Grundy-Orchison), an inflatable duck, are sitting halfway down a Butlins water slide, eating and chatting away. They are frequently …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:56AMThursday, August 11, 2016
The curtains open and we see a man holding on to a huge piece of light fabric, dancing in the air, moved by a circle of fans. The wonder begins and I suddenly feel like a child again, recept…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:18PMWednesday, August 10, 2016
Virtual Reality is in vogue: we are constantly presented with numerous opportunities to be surrounded by artificial atmospheres and immersed in the experience. But if wearing goggles isnR…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:39PMTuesday, August 9, 2016
Virtual Reality is in vogue: we are presented with numerous opportunities to be surrounded by artificial atmospheres. But if wearing goggles isn’t your thing, Ron Arad’s Curtain …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:07PM 
