Tuesday, May 10, 2016
The Marked weaves fantasy and fairy-tale into a story set on the streets of modern day London. Jack (Samuel Fogell) is a prince-cum-man who has grown up in the grasps of a damaged queen, his…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:15PMSunday, May 8, 2016
Wired Theatre’s Dancing in the Dark takes us behind closed doors to tell a story of a dysfunctional, middle-class family consisting of a mother and her three grown-up children. Set in Brig…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:32PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
You may well have heard of, or seen, a production of Shit-faced Shakespeare before. Well, it’s back in time for Shakespeare 400 celebrations, and this time in the form of Magnificent Basta…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:13PMSunday, April 24, 2016
George Orwell, under his birth name Eric Blair, quit his middle-class life to live amongst the poor whilst writing his 1933 novel Down and Out in Paris and London. Nearly a hundred years lat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:08PMSaturday, April 23, 2016
Who is the dependent: he whose legs have been physically blown off, or he who is mentally compelled to nick his legs with a knife over and over again? Blue on Blue, written by Chip Hardy (fa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:51AMSunday, April 10, 2016
Matthew Warchus’s new production of The Caretaker at the Old Vic theatre sees Harold Pinter’s tragicomedy performed with an impressive set, humorous gusto and a cast including Timothy Sp…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:40PMThursday, April 7, 2016
Fye and Foul’s Cathedral plunges its audience into near darkness, letting audio take the lead in their latest show which features fragments of tape recordings – the voices of two former …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:45PMSaturday, March 5, 2016
It’s an uncomfortable truth that torture is taking place in silenced pockets of the world, as I write now and later as you read. Mario Benedetti’s play Pedro and the Captain aims to tell…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:10PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
A girl who is deemed inferior to the damaged and/or questionable men surrounding her is the subject of Eimear McBride’s award-winning novel, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, now adapted for …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:02PMSunday, February 21, 2016
“Can you maybe just tell me what is going on? I’m really spooked,” says Brett (Norma Butikofer) in a statement which seems to capture the entire experience of watching Crude Prospects…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:33PMThursday, February 11, 2016
Anthony Green’s new production Hamlet Peckham splits Shakespeare’s protagonist into three Hamlets, each played by a different actor. Hamlet one (Sharon Singh) is ‘the problem’, Hamle…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:20AMWednesday, February 3, 2016
Transporting Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet from sixteenth century Verona to twenty-first century London, Shakespeare Up Close has modernised this great romantic tragedy to make it enjoyab…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:49PMSaturday, January 30, 2016
There’s something very enticing about watching theatre in the vaults at Waterloo: the dingy chambers filled with passionate pieces of up-and-coming theatre, the makeshift, bottom-numbing w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:34AMSunday, January 24, 2016
To today’s liberal, British audience, the notion of being censored and jailed for writing a hedonistic and homoerotic text is an alien concept. However in 1891, when Oscar Wilde published …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:03PMWednesday, December 30, 2015
Told in a tone of light-hearted jest, through physical theatre and skilful puppetry, Bears in Space is exactly what it says on the tin: a play about bears in space. This comic production is …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:49AMThursday, December 10, 2015
After a sell-out stint at the Royal Court this autumn, Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen continues to delight West End audiences at the Wyndham’s Theatre with its illustrative set, punchy script…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:58PMWednesday, November 11, 2015
For the final chunk of the Staging a Revolution festival, Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) abandon their nomadic style, doing away with the practice of texting their audience a secret location at …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:26AMTuesday, November 10, 2015
Banned in their own country, Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) push their audience squeamishly towards the edge of their seats with Trash Cuisine, part of their Staging a Revolution festival taking…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:21PMThursday, October 29, 2015
Husbands & Sons simultaneously tells the stories from three of D.H. Lawrence’s plays; chopped, re-ordered and enacted side-by-side on the Dorfman stage at the National Theatre. Lawrenc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:25PMCrushed is set amidst the student protests of 2010, in which between 30-50,000 protesters marched against the Tory-Lib Dem government proposal to raise tuition fees from three to nine thousa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:19PMTuesday, October 20, 2015
Blending Ovid’s epic Roman poem into scenes of 1940s London, and peppering this concoction with slick moments of magical realism, Pants on Fire have created a theatrical masterpiece in Ovi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:26PMSaturday, October 10, 2015
A teacher-pupil love affair. The premise is not in itself original, however playwright Fiona Evans lays something new on the table that spices things up and shifts the focus to gender: do ou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:25AMMonday, October 5, 2015
In what has been described by Robert O’Dowd, Chief Executive of the Rose Theatre, as their “biggest and most ambitious project to date”, Trevor Nunn’s revival of The Wars of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:52PMSunday, October 4, 2015
Natalie Wilson’s Rise Up is set in the throngs of the civil rights movement of 1960s America. In search of equality, we join four Freedom Riders on a Greyhound bus and travel from Wash…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:04PMFriday, September 18, 2015
It’s a shame when a quality piece of writing that’s brought to life as an accessible and enjoyable dramatisation is left to be performed without an audience. Whether it’s the result of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:36PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
Souvenir T-shirts and overpriced programmes. Ice cream tubs and politely grinning ushers. We’re front of house for the new Britney Spears musical, Oops!… I Did It Again, but toni…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:41PMSaturday, September 12, 2015
Rose & Pen Productions’ The River Spirit weaves old folklore into modern-day environmental issues, in a tale told partially through folk music. It sounds good on paper, and there’s …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:50PMWednesday, September 9, 2015
There is one thing that unites most tribute shows: they’re made with fans in mind. Good autobiographical shows tend to have a genuine desire to portray the subject in the best possible li…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:00PMSunday, September 6, 2015
Marooned on an island that is encompassed by the sea and the tales of its occupants, we find ourselves within the setting of Rebecca Rogers’ new play, Reckless. On this island, where l…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:18AMSaturday, November 1, 2014
Swanky jazz notes entice the audience into a snug auditorium within the Young Vic theatre. Once inside, we are invited to sit at tables or on benches either side of a traverse stage, where w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:15PMFriday, October 18, 2013
Nestled in a Texan home that’s torn between the glamorous rebellion of 60s America and the conservative traditionalists of the previous generation, we find the characters of Horton Foote�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:48AM 
