Sunday, May 6, 2018
A woman and a man are going to have sex. They need to have sex, in fact. It might be
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Over the course of Joan MacLeod's Gracie, we see the entire early life of a girl raised in a community inspired by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Benjamin Alborough's Cream Tea and Incest is less similar to the 'Daddy's Boy' skit in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt than I
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SOURCE: ayoungertheatre.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2018
The heat is rising in the Alabama Delta. On an isolated fishing trip, Betty is trying to talk to her girlfriend Kendra,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 14, 2018
Emotional labour is a necessary term, however misapplied it can sometimes now be, due to its high profile. John Fitzpatrick's Reared is sympathetic to the often unnoticed burden which falls …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Horror theatre, and horror comedies in particular, often leave you feeling grimy. FacePlant Theatre's The Service, now in a revamped form at the King's Head Theatre, has the advantage of ens…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:15AM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2018
Seething resentment: Bruce Graham's play applies the heat to an exploration of prejudice and hypocrisy in Philadelphia.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:20AM[SHARE]Frigg Theatre is a Nordic company with an explicitly feminist focus, which aims to create original work "about subjects that are generally considered taboo". Domestic violence, the theme of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 24, 2018
This new version of Chekhov's Three Sisters, directed and written by Ross McGregor, largely leaves the play undisturbed in text and production: a depiction of the grinding awfulness everyday…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]It's a fantastic story, in that it's one that is almost impossible to believe " yet, more fantastically, true " and brimming with potential. Francis Turnly's The Great Wave is the first full…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Frey Kwa Hawking explores the slippery territory of defining a dramaturg's role, and forging a practice in a world that requires both productions and people to be marketable.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2018
"Sit and bear witness". It's difficult; of course it is. In Foreign Body, the product of some four years of development, Imogen Butler-Cole trains everything she has at the subject of sexual…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2018
The artists aren't just present, they're relentless. Action Hero's Slap Talk is more than a dialogue, and more even than a six-hour long dialogue, though its length goes straight to some eye…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 10, 2018
I should have loved this play. I'm into Christ, I'm into being gay. Terrence McNally's script, in the right hands and possibly another context, can probably reach beautiful and painful level…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2018
DumbWise does not quite live up to their big claim that they have "reinvented" the gory myth of the house of Atreus with their Electra; unfortunately, there isn't too much here to distinguis…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 25, 2018
Vault Festival's array of new productions continues with another solo show: Stardust, performed and devised by Miguel Hernando Torres Umbra and his company, Blackboard Theatre, with writing …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 18, 2018
The Battersea Arts Centre is the kind of place you could imagine Romeo and Juliet meeting: the ceilings are high, the paint gaudy but peeling, the lighting soft. It lends slight atmosphere t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2018
Like the character at the heart of The York Realist, the playwright Peter Gill was also once a young, learning director working on a revival of York's Mystery Plays in the 60s with a cast of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 11, 2018
The Soul of Wittgenstein, which first appeared at the excellent King's Head Theatre two years ago, is once again with us in London, with the same cast and core crew but this time at the Omni…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 7, 2018
The Vault Festival is a fantastic initiative, and one of the best opportunities out there to see really promising new work that with proper attention should go on to reach even larger audien…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 4, 2018
One of the main appeals of video games and action films is power-fantasy fulfilment: step into a digital world and you can exercise abilities far greater than any you might be capable or bot…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 3, 2018
Asia and theatre! Not a contradiction. Foreign Goods 3’s third showcase of new writing about and by Asians, at the Arcola, launches their new book published by Oberon, Foreign Goods…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 1, 2018
I was embarrassingly eager to see this, one of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s earlier works, on a triumphant return to the Young Vic. McCraney’s profile has naturally risen since Moonli…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 27, 2018
Claudia Jefferies is a charismatic, confident performer " you watch her and have to give her the respect she knows is her due. Syd and Sylvia has a fantastic concept behind it and, because o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:57AM[SHARE]Monday, January 15, 2018
This is a deeply horrible play. I don't mean that this is a dark play, or that Time and Tide's production of it is a bad one, but that very early in the play I could tell why it received poo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Clearwater Collective's Dark Suit and Lavender Shirt, Standing bills itself as a "multi-disciplinary" production on the life of Egon Schiele, mainly focusing on his relationships with Gustav…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:44PM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2018
Anniversaries: 150 for the Finborough Theatre, 80 for Nanking. Into The Numbers isn't a perfect production, but once again the Finborough shows its excellent feel for European premieres, rev…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 16, 2017
Amy Herzog's Belleville, at the Donmar Warehouse this winter, grasps at a few things: the experiences of 'expats' vs. 'immigrants' in foreign countries, the romanticisation of the city of Pa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 14, 2017
I'd probably have appreciated Macbeeth better had I not the night before watched some Garth Marenghi's Darkplace with friends, which remains one of the most perfect examples of genre parody …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Monobox, the not-for-profit workshop and play resource which gives those at the start of their careers a path into theatre, has recently directed a request for help to the theatre community.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 5, 2017
I actually spent much of Dear Brutus watching Michael Billington looking dissatisfied then leaving as fast as he could (similarly, the two friends of an actor I talked to outside after the p…
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