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Monday, October 5, 2015

Review: The Oil and The Shard, Camden People’s Theatre by George Washbourn

In an ideal world, we all want to do something in the face of injustice. We all want to tackle social inequity, feed the homeless and save the polar ice caps. And yet, we can’t quite chann…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:44PM
Monday, August 17, 2015

Review: Eight, White Bear Theatre by George Washbourn

Monologues are a risky business in theatre. Not least of all for the performer who, without the cushioned padding of their fellow entourage, bear their naked soul to potential rejection from…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:53PM
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Review: Lava Lamps, RADA Festival by George Washbourn

Part of the ongoing RADA Festival, the curiously titled Lava Lamps, written and performed by Imogen Hudson-Clayton, is a dissection of modern womanhood in all its chaotic glory. Working her …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:57PM
Friday, April 17, 2015

Review: Othello, The Pack and Carriage by George Washbourn

The hipster hub of The Pack and Carriage plays host to an entertaining and impassioned production of Shakespeare’s Othello, directed by Vince A. Gill and Sasha Stamp, collectively VG Produ…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:39PM
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Review: The Red Chair, Soho Theatre by George Washbourn

Adapted from her own book of the same title, Soho Theatre welcomes Sarah Cameron’s The Red Chair into the throng, in all its linguistic richness. A delectable, albeit overlong, flowing mon…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:49PM

Review: Mr Sole Abode, Shoreditch Town Hall by George Washbourn

Taking inference from Ben Okri’s novel The Famished Road, Benji Ried brings his 2007 show Mr Sole Abode to Shoreditch Town Hall. Constituting a brief insight into the solipsistic and fabri…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:41PM
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Review: FIRST 2015: Scratch Nights, Tristan Bates Theatre by George Washbourn

The FIRST Festival of Solo Performances returns to the Tristan Bates Theatre with a flurry of monologues from up and coming playwrights. Three works-in-progress make up the evening’s proce…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:05PM
Friday, February 20, 2015

Review: Happy Days, Young Vic by George Washbourn

“Another heavenly day,” Winnie says spritely, as she is awoken by a booming claxon to her quotidian nightmare, laid out before us in this Young Vic production of Beckett’s Happy Days. …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:27PM
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Review: Bacchae, Bloomsbury Theatre by George Washbourn

UCL’s Classical Drama Society takes on Euripides’s final tragedy in this brilliant and lurid rendering of Bacchae. The Bloomsbury Theatre, with its intense low lighting and hanging drape…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12PM
Thursday, December 4, 2014

Review: Grimm Tales, Oxo Bargehouse South Bank by George Washbourn

Once upon a time there was a grand tower, which stood on the banks of a great gushing river. Though it stood tall, gazing down over the people of the city, it was left to fall into disrepair…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:39PM
Sunday, November 16, 2014

Review: Henry IV Part 1, Bloomsbury Theatre by George Washbourn

“Why not Hamlet or Richard III or A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Much Ado About Nothing?” Salient questions, all posed to Sophia Chetin-Leuner, director of UCLU Drama Society’s renderi…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:54PM
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Review: Beached, Soho Theatre by George Washbourn

Old habits die hard, and some harder than others. These are certainly resounding words for Arty, the central character of Beached. Plagued by an addiction for food, he is the world’s fatte…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:56PM
Saturday, November 1, 2014

Review: The Wall, Hope Theatre by George Washbourn

While watching D.C. Jackson’s play, I was hit by my own wall of nostalgia for my lost childhood. Summer days spent running through the local Kentish fields, bike rides, football games in t…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:27AM
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Review: Wet House, Soho Theatre by George Washbourn

It is often said that the best writing comes from one’s own life experiences. Whilst to follow this maxim seems frightfully limiting and, in my case, would almost certainly churn out some …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:55PM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
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Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
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Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
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Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
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