Sunday, October 21, 2012
Since it began in 2010, BE Festival (Birmingham European Festival) has flourished, now bringing an abundance of European theatre and performance to the city of Birmingham. This year, the fes…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:52AMFriday, October 19, 2012
Headlong Theatre’s Medea, written and directed by Mike Bartlett (whose previous Headlong collaboration, Earthquakes in London, won the company critical acclaim), features a troubleso…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:09AMSunday, October 7, 2012
Jonathan Lewis’ Our Boys is set in a military hospital in Woolwich occupied by soldiers injured in the Falklands and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Following great success at the Derby …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:29AMThursday, October 4, 2012
I’ve held off writing up a review of Little Angel Theatre’s production of The Tear Thief for nearly a week now. It is the sort of production that is best enjoyed over time, a so…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:33PMTuesday, August 28, 2012
Considered as one of the greatest pieces of religious literature, John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Process is given a playful and artful adaption by Carl Heap in Beggarsbelief’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMMonday, August 27, 2012
About five minutes into Antler’s This Way Up, as the rest of the audience convulsed with laughter around me, I suddenly found myself feeling agitated, inexplicably irritated and vaguely an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:16PMTuesday, August 21, 2012
When we think of Shakespeare we are drawn to his words and poetic form, but how often do we see a production through the images that are created from the text? Polish theatre company Song of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:08AMMess by Caroline Horton, presented by China Plate at the Traverse Theatre, looks at anorexia through the whimsical and light-hearted tale of Josephine (Horton herself) and Boris (Hannah Boyd…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:40AMIn the programme notes to Gulliver’s Travels, Silviu Purcarete says, “My performance borrows only the title of Swift’s novel, and is in fact an independent production inspired by t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12AMSunday, August 19, 2012
The thing about a Curious Directive show is that you never quite know what to expect until you’re watching it. You can presume there’ll be some mind-blowing science that is unpacked thro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:27PMWednesday, August 15, 2012
Finlay Robertson’s debut play Strong Arm takes a look at Roland Poland, a 20 stone young man, as he takes on the mental and physical challenge of changing his body from fat man to bodybuil…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:11PMLuke Barnes is certainly proving that his writing talent is on top form at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has two plays running: the first is the fantastic Bottleneck presented …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:44PMTuesday, August 14, 2012
Middle Child Theatre present their take on the last 25 years of political change and the repercussions upon young people today in their production 25: 13 Red, 12 Blue. Set in Hull and follo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:13AMThe Flanagan Collective bring their own take upon the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with their Little Festival of Everything, a collection of shows that explore the possibilities of theatre, w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:10AMMonday, August 13, 2012
Grit is an intimate and thought-provoking puppetry piece by Tortoise in a Nutshell theatre company, exploring war and conflict in Syria. Using a combination of puppets, projections and shado…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:55AMTheatre is distinctly a live experience, but it is also a communal event where we sit amongst fellow audience members and enjoy a performance collectively. Too often we forget that there is …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:34AMTadashi Suzuki, the notable Japanese director and founder of the Suzuki Company of Toga, is given a rare presentation of his theatre work as part of the Edinburgh International Festival with…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:37AMSaturday, August 11, 2012
Any lover of theatre will be able to look back and pinpoint a moment in their theatre-going and tell you that a production that was the best thing they have seen. They’ll remember cert…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:25PMThe Polish theatre director Tadeusz Kantor first came to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival back in the early nineties with The Dead Class, a piece fuelled by his stylistic design to create wor…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:25PMThe abstract artist Roger Hilton is the central figure and inspiration in Third Man Theatre’s Botallack O’Clock, a sublime performance piece that looks into the darkness of an a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AMHow often do you find yourself transported back to your childhood? Where the imagination runs wild and is free to invent stories and monsters aplenty. It’s the childhood we all had but…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:21AMFriday, August 10, 2012
An old man caught in a routine that sees the same actions repeated each and every day: he wakes, he gets his slippers, makes coffee, drinks coffee, he repeats, again and again. Caught in thi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:21PMDelivered in a mixture of Spanish and English, Panta Rei Theatre Collective’s imaginative and surreal production of Don Quixote! Don Quixote! is brought to the Edinburgh Fringe Fest…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:34PMThursday, August 9, 2012
Morning, the new play by Simon Stephens, is not just a play that enforces Stephens’s reputation as one of the most contemporary writers of our generation, but also – we hope R…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:16PMRashDash present The Ugly Sisters at St Stephens, the venue being run by Northern Stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Giving an alternative perspective on the story of Cinderella, the tw…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:06PMThis Edinburgh Fringe Festival there is no denying where some of the most exciting and provocative work can be found. Summerhall burst onto the Fringe last year and is proving to be a hit ag…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:42AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
The doors have opened on Northern Stage’s adventure at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as they take over St Stephens Church. Bringing an eclectic mix of shows from artists and companie…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:18PMPart of the Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Season, One Hour Only is written by Sabrina Mahfouz and presented by Made From Scratch Theatre Company. It shines a light on the darkness of prostitu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:47AMMonday, August 6, 2012
Actress Silvia Gallerano perches on the edge of a stool that is taller than she is. Microphone in hand, she is completely naked aside from the shocking red lipstick adorning her lips. She mu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:36PMClout Theatre, a graduate company of the Lecoq-theatre school, present their physical and comedic How A Man Crumbled at Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The piece, a comb…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:27PMIn the hundreds of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, you know there is a hidden gem waiting to be discovered. It couldn’t come any more energy-filled and exciting as Charlotte Joseph…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:15PM 
