Thursday, March 9, 2017
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 and Un…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 5, 2017
In 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 03:06PM[SHARE]Gemma 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 o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 18, 2017
Luke 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 t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2017
The 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. Â It is a strangel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54AM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2017
Liz 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 09:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 24, 2016
Marisa 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 01:06PM[SHARE]Friday, December 23, 2016
In 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 08:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2016
Cyphers' 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 just …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Mad 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 devised …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2016
In 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 Lon…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:36AM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2016
Set 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 05:06PM[SHARE]From Velvet Trumpet comes James McDermott's debut piece, Rubber Ring: Â 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 06:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 8, 2016
Maud 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 stre…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2016
Ross 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 these…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:12PM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2016
The 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 11:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2016
In 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 06:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Cats, 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 04:09PM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2016
Sarah 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 cleaning a c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:16AM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2016
Thunderstorm'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 na…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2016
Fury 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 play, whi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:57PM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2016
David 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 together…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2016
Lulu 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 Apr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2016
The 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 a c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 12, 2016
This 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 11:45AM[SHARE]Lisa 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 broad…
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