Wednesday, June 10, 2015
ENO concludes its latest season of work with The Queen of Spades, an opera that’s been dormant in their company for over 20 years. David Alden’s staging of Tchaikovsky’s opera as the d…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:08PMMonday, June 8, 2015
There’s something strange about watching a production in which there are no fictional characters. Shows after which a quick Google search or snoop on social media could reveal more about t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:19PMSunday, April 19, 2015
Discussions around rape culture have been building steadily over the last few years, with attitudes slowly changing. Rape culture is talked about actively and openly by groups such as Cuntry…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:57AMThursday, August 28, 2014
Towering over us and elegantly decked out by designer David Curtis-Ring in a full feather gown, Caroline Smith is the modesty-lacking part-bird, part-diva Rita. It is apparently a very real …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:50PMMonday, July 14, 2014
Each act of Daytona focuses on a dramatic revelation, and both are bursting with potential for discourse. Without revealing too much, the primary concept addressed focuses on what is morally…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:20AMFriday, June 27, 2014
Hats were thrown, people were swung and dance skills were tested at the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels digital press night. I haven’t danced properly in well over two years no, so the prospect of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:35AMSaturday, May 10, 2014
Headlong have created a vivid and energetic production of Anya Reiss’ Spring Awakening. Fully updated from Frank Wedekind’s 1891 text, it reflects on the lives of teenagers today through…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
It’s quite possible that there isn’t a more apt location for Open Works Theatre and Look Left Look Right’s production of Debris than the Little studio of the Southwark Playhouse. A ski…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:16PMMonday, May 5, 2014
This new revival of Irish writer Billy Roche’s A Handful of Stars is a slick and pacey production that sees the cast breeze quickly through a smooth and straightforward text. It’s the cl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:25PMWith rapidly increasing cuts to the arts it’s perhaps quite surprising that the growing art form of puppet opera is now making a more regular appearance in children’s theatres. As the lu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:16PMThursday, April 10, 2014
There’s an omnipresent sense of danger lurking somewhere underneath the surface of Blister. The lighting, in its contrasting states of either a dim yellow or eye-achingly bright white is u…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:34PMTuesday, April 8, 2014
It’s almost 40 years since Billy Hayes endured a gruelling and anxiety-inducing escape from Turkey’s Imrali Island Prison. Yet even long after having successfully reclaimed his own freed…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:47AMMonday, March 31, 2014
The concept of a musical set on a submarine entitled Long, Hard and Full of Seamen is promising in itself. Surely there are endless jokes to be had and wildly entertaining plot twists to fol…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:48PMWednesday, March 26, 2014
In an age where there is irrefutable evidence for science and an overwhelming urge to further knowledge, it seems almost imponderable that a mere few hundred years ago authorities shunned th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:20PMMonday, March 17, 2014
Kali Theatre has flipped polygamy on its head with an insightful new production that delves into life in a fictional society where the fairer sex rule. In a world where polygamy is widely ac…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:35AMTuesday, March 11, 2014
I Wish I Was Lonely is a layered and playfully experimental look at whether technology is drawing us closer, or pushing us further from the world around us. It’s an interactive show wher…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:30AMVictoria Melody’s ability to laugh at herself is infectious. In an uplifting and welcoming show charting some of her slightly absurd life choices, Melody invites us to laugh with her a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:19AMMonday, March 3, 2014
The 21st Century can be pretty scary and confusing. At times it feels like we are hurtling towards a more progressive society, one that embraces diversity and welcomes individual lifestyle …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AMTuesday, February 25, 2014
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan is simply astounding. If there is another company that can transfix an audience in this way with its display of sheer strength and stamina, whilst summonin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:02PMFriday, February 7, 2014
It may be just a muscle, albeit an incredibly important one, but the emotional significance of this vital organ is enough to drive the plot of Canadian writer Matthew Edison’s sensitive an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00AMSunday, February 2, 2014
Middle-aged siblings Cory, Monroe and Ike can’t last more than half an hour in the same room together without one of them passing a snide comment. They are pretty much estranged and ha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:58PMSaturday, February 1, 2014
It’s been quite a while since a play has held me as captivated and enraptured from start to finish as Faction Theatre’s The Robbers did. Updated from Schiller’s classic Ger…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:46AMWednesday, January 29, 2014
The plot of Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels is blissfully simple. Two self-proclaimed ‘happily’ married wives have their faith in their loyalty to their husbands, and each other, shaken w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:27PMTuesday, January 21, 2014
The subtitle of the fabulously named Gay Naked Play is ‘a satire on artistic compromise’. This satire is wonderful in its ability to mock all things show-business and the ferocious campn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:44AMMonday, January 20, 2014
Fiji Land may have been groundbreaking at the time of its first reading in 2007, shortly after the Guantanamo Bay revelations. Seven years on, though, and a whole swathe of films, television…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:27AMThursday, January 9, 2014
Baby farming and the ill treatment of young children is certainly a topical issue, as director Jonathan Rigby rightly comments in the programme. Since the tragedy of Baby P, the media has be…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AMSunday, December 15, 2013
An enchanted flying wooden horse, a donkey, a talking French crab and a vizier who is constantly far too nervous to even hold a cup of tea steady on a saucer are just a few of the characters…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:50PMSaturday, December 14, 2013
Since its inception 18 years ago, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake still hasn’t lost its charm or sophistication; Bourne’s striking contemporary retelling of Tchaikovsky’s widely-p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:50AMWednesday, November 13, 2013
Tom Morton-Smith’s new play In Doggerland, is a tentative step towards exploring the lasting effects of organ donation – both the emotional upheaval facing the family and friends of all …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:11AMMonday, November 4, 2013
Will Dickie’s solo show, Memories of Suburbia, packs a powerful emotional punch which is unexpected from a performance that lasting a mere 35 minutes. Attention to detail is key though in …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:45AMMonday, October 21, 2013
People Show is the longest running alternative theatre company in the UK. It has been producing its distinctive zany, meta-theatrical work since 1966, and is now performing its one hundred a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:59AM 
