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Thursday, September 24, 2020

Review: Scenes for Survival – Credo, National Theatre of Scotland by Iris Pearson

Review: Scenes for Survival – Credo, National Theatre of Scotland5.0Overall ScoreHow do you turn a poem into a piece of theatre? Morag Fullarton’s answer, as she directs Liz Lochhead’s…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:06AM

Review: Scenes for Survival – The Quiz, National Theatre of Scotland by Iris Pearson

Review: Scenes for Survival – The Quiz, National Theatre of Scotland4.0Overall ScoreIn one view, Sanjeev Kohli and Isobel McArthur’s The Quiz, a six-minute comic short written as part of…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:03AM
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Review: The Watsons, Menier Chocolate Factory by Iris Pearson

Review: The Watsons, Menier Chocolate Factory 3.0stars From beginning to end, The Watsons pays homage to Jane Austen. Laura Wade’s experimentally metatheatrical play engages Austen’s wit…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:24PM
Thursday, October 3, 2019

Review: Blood Wedding, Young Vic by Iris Pearson

Review: Blood Wedding, Young Vic5.0stars‘Marina is a lightning conductor for pulling the visceral charge of language right through words and back into the earth where that force belongs.�…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:36PM
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Review: Youth Without God, Coronet Theatre by Iris Pearson

Review: Youth Without God, Coronet Theatre4.0starsIt is a stroke of genius. Christopher Hampton has decided to adapt Ödön von Horváth’s novel Jugend ohne Gott into a play. Set in the la…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AM
Thursday, September 26, 2019

Review: The Permanent Way, The Vaults by Iris Pearson

Review: The Permanent Way, The Vaults4.0starsThe privatisation of the railways: how could this make for nearly two hours of exciting theatre? I’m sure I’m not the only one who wondered. …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:24PM