Friday, September 13, 2013
This review does not reveal the name of Secret Theatre Show One, but it does describe the visual elements and does give a very small clue as to the text used. We’re plunged into total …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:45AMThursday, September 5, 2013
Chris Thorpe and Hannah Walker, following their last show, The Oh Fuck Moment, bring another audience-exposing theatre piece that challenges our perspectives, this time in the form of I Wish…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:58AMWednesday, September 4, 2013
(3/5 Stars) A pristine white floor and wall mark the start of Vincent Dance Theatre’s Motherland at the Edinburgh Fringe. This white expanse is covered in dirt and blood by the end of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:36AMMonday, August 26, 2013
A beach. A skull. A voice. Pan Pan Theatre’s take on Samuel Beckett’s 1959 radio play Embers is no easy experience. The piece focuses on Henry (Andrew Bennett) as he sits on the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:35AMSaturday, August 24, 2013
Lasting 30 minutes and with not a single word uttered from leading man Michael Gambon, you’d think that you were being taken for a ride with Samuel Beckett’s Eh Joe as part of t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:56AMFriday, August 23, 2013
(4/5 Stars) A creature resembling a woman is wrapped in plastic sheets, her eyes are ablaze with the sort of curiosity you see from a cat, but there’s a darkness there too. Wrapped in …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:38PM(3/5 Stars) Untied Artists’s For Their Own Good looks at our relationship with death. Not the happiest of topics, but having won a Fringe First at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:55AMThursday, August 22, 2013
(3/5 Stars) Jokes are funny, are they not? That’s the purpose of them, to make the receiver of the joke to laugh, which will make them release endorfins, make themselves feel better, f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:54PMTom Frankland and Keir Cooper are bringing Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quijote into the modern day. Finding and sharing the quests of those who have tried against all odds to achieve una…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:21AM(3/5 Stars) Being six metres below sea level, the chances of East Anglia slowly disappearing with the rising of sea waters is inevitable. The stretches of land that extend into the horizon, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41AMMonday, August 19, 2013
(3/5 Stars) I know I shouldn’t be, but I can’t help but to sometimes feel a little sceptical when it comes to new writing at the Fringe. There’s so much new writing from co…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:17PM(2/5 Stars) Rhum and Clay Theatre’s newest work, The Man in the Moone, follows the adventures of a man who is determined to reach the moon. Having proposed a paper that outlines the th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:33AMTeatro Cinema’s Histoire d’amour is no easy piece to write about, nor is it an easy piece to watch. After the novel by Regis Jauffret, a man falls in love with a woman on the sub…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:23AMFriday, August 16, 2013
(3/5 Stars) Space is integral to any performance, and in the case of work being programmed at the old veterinary college, Summerhall, a consideration of which space you’re inhabiting i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:43PM(3/5 Stars) At what point does the act of doing something become a performance? Is it when an audience is placed in front of the work? Or when careful constructs are formulated around an ide…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:17PM(3/5 Stars) All female company Smooth Faced Gentlemen brings Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus to Bedlam Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It’s difficult to not pass…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:11PMWednesday, August 14, 2013
(4/5 Stars) Made In China are innovators within contemporary theatre in the UK. It’s a company which continually tests its audience, pushing themselves as performers and makers closer …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:14PMHamlet, perhaps the greatest Shakespearian play for any actor to tackle. With a history of being played by some of the finest actors to ever walk our stages, it is often seen as the highest …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:30AM(1/5 Stars) Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a phenomenal piece of writing. Following the journey of Oscar as he attempts to track down the l…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:15AM(4/5 Stars) In Amit Lahav’s director’s notes for Gecko Theatre’s latest production, Missing, he suggests that “I honestly don’t know what Missing will mean t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:43AM(3/5 Stars) Behind such medical breakthroughs as the Polio vaccination, cloning, HIV diagnosis and studies into genome identifying are a number of leading scientists, recognised for their ac…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:16AMTuesday, August 13, 2013
(4/5 Stars) Having shined during the BE Festival and subsequently toured as part of the Best of Be Festival, Spanish performance makers Atresbandes bring their hilarious performance Solfatar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:13PMMonday, August 12, 2013
We’re soon to hit the halfway point at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which seems a perfect moment to pause and take stock of everything that we at A Younger Theatre have seen and achi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:55PM(2/5 Stars) As a ten-year-old boy stands on the roof of his school, he contemplates his relationship with his father and his school friends, and he thinks of the lies and truths which we tel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:28AMSunday, August 11, 2013
(2/5 Stars) Honoré de Balzac’s 1833 novel Eugénie Grandet is, for the first time, brought to the stage in an adaption from Jonathan Choat for Hartshorn-Hook Productions at this year…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:39AMSaturday, August 10, 2013
(4/5 Stars) As a platform for young people in the arts, it seems terrible that this is the first time A Younger Theatre has had the chance to experience the work of the Glasgow-based young p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:51PM(2/5 Stars) Le Mot Juste’s No Place Like combines a number of verbatim conversations with observations and experiences from the company’s own life with elderly people in care hom…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:13PM(3/5 Stars) Having been at the Edinburgh Fringe for the past nine days, there seems (to me at least) to be a distinct lack of theatre pieces that are making good use of music. There’s …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:40AMFriday, August 9, 2013
(4/5 Stars) In the year that Alan Turing is given a formal apology from the Government, emerging theatre company Idle Motion brings the story of cracking the Enigma code and the lives of tho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:24AM(4/5 Stars) It’s not often a piece of theatre can pierce me like an arrow and strike my heart. This was the sensation I felt after leaving Babakas’s Our Fathers at Summerhall, a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:39AM(3/5 Stars) The average life expectancy in the UK has now hit 79.5 years we are told in The Paper Birds’s new piece, On The One Hand. Depicting the relationships between several gen…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:47AM 
