Robert Icke’s Hamlet, at Almeida Theatre, has been eagerly anticipated, particularly since the announcement that Andrew Scott would be playing the lead. Icke’s productions of Oresteia an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AMIn Marietta Kirkbride’s new play The Long Trick, Tristan lives aboard a boat on the Helford river in Cornwall, and reluctantly robs second homes to support himself and his teenage daughter…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PMGemma Arrowsmith’s comedy sketch show Earthling is a series of sketches which present the best and the worst of humanity to an objective alien observer. Arrowsmith is fixated by the events…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PMLuke Courtier’s latest show, The Texas Tax Man, is a meta-theatrical comedy about freelancers and the shame of missing the self-assessment tax deadline. Two shy, thoughtful cowboys set out…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:18PMThe Union Theatre’s decision to put on a rendition of Anyone Can Whistle is exciting: it is a lesser known Sondheim musical which has never enjoyed much fame or success. It is a strangel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54AMLiz Carr, actor and prominent disability rights activist (D-list celebrity, in her own words), brought the enormous and tangled issue of euthanasia to the stage in Assisted Suicide: The Musi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:12AMMarisa Carnesky and her group of Menstruants have created a fantastically provocative and hilarious show which seeks to undo the taboos surrounding menstruation. This group of eight daring p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:06PMIn A Pickle was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and originally performed as part of The World Shakespeare Festival in 2012. It is a totally immersive show designed for 3-5 year…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AMCyphers’ production of The Three Musketeers sets itself the ambitious task of reducing the whole of Alexander Dumas’ dense and action-driven story into a comedy stage production, using j…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24AMMad Meg is a fine piece bringing together music and dance to tell a simple but very memorable tale, as the finale to the Blue Elephant Theatre’s ELEFEET Dance Festival. The piece is devise…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PMIn Your Face Theatre’s returning production of Trainspotting is first and foremost a show, rather than a piece of theatre. Having moved into a bigger venue at The Vaults on its return to L…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:36AMSet in the top of a lighthouse in an unfamiliar past or future dystopia, The Acedian Pirates explores the morality and logic of war through the story of a failing occupation. This play knits…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:06PMFrom Velvet Trumpet comes James McDermott’s debut piece, Rubber Ring: a one man show about growing up gay in a rural Norfolk village. McDermott writes and performs in this open account o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:06AMMaud Dromgoole’s new work Acorn is a highly intelligent play in all aspects. It is a two-hander which uses the myths of Persephone and Eurydice to tell a contemporary story about female st…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:19PMRoss Sutherland’s first drama Party Trap is an entirely palindromic play (title included) in which every line in the first half of the play is repeated in reverse in the second. Out of the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:12PMThe use of physical theatre in this production is its main strength and certainly hints at the great potential this young company have. Marrying this physical theatre with a science-based st…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:26AMIn this inventive and ambitious piece of theatre, SharkLegs pulls off an impressive feat by making an interactive adventure story both touching and very, very silly. Gavin Plimsole finds out…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:10PMCats, Selfies and the Scattered Mind of the Incurable Dreamer is a verbal collage; a comedic piece of internet verbatim which is also a loosely coherent narrative about two strangers connect…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:09PMSarah Tattersall has written and produced a strong debut show in Sally’s Alright. It’s an engaging mix of a show, in which Tattersall plays a 20-something ‘washed-up woman’, now clea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:16AMThunderstorm’s busy opening night at the London Coliseum marked the opening of The Shanghai Season. Shanghai Opera’s Thunderstorm was developed as an opera from the play of the same …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:21PMFury is playing as part of the ‘Who Runs The World? Girls’ Autumn Season at the Soho Theatre, and it starts off the run on an exceptionally high note. Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s newest pla…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:57PMDavid Hare said of verbatim theatre, that it “does what journalism fails to do”. Lanna Joffrey’s verbatim play Valiant, which is playing as part of the Women in War Festival, brings to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:03AMLulu Raczka’s brilliant double monologue Grey Man, playing at Theatre503 this week, was developed out of a one-hander first performed as part of the Shakespeare In Shoreditch festival in A…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15PMThe constancy of Marc and Bella Chagall’s love for one another from the moment they met until Bella’s death was a consistent influence on Marc Chagall’s work. Their love also provides…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24PMThis Much (Or an Act of Violence Against the Institution of Marriage) is a richly detailed and astutely written piece about the difficulty of being certain of what we want from our relations…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:45AMLisa McMullin’s latest work Rapture raises challenging questions about the value of individuals’ lives in a world where continuing to sustain them all is the high price of civilisation b…
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