Thursday, March 9, 2017
Roundelay, a series of vignettes on love and sex in the third age, is a show of many parts. On the one hand, it is tightly spun web of interlinked stories and voices, all essentially asking …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24AMMonday, February 27, 2017
The topic of gender is never far from our minds. It informs our every interaction with other people, and goes right to the core of our self-perception. Society has made huge strides in recen…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:42PMFriday, February 24, 2017
How (Not) To Live in Suburbia feels both timelessly personal and very much of the current zeitgeist. It follows Annie Siddons, the work’s author and main protagonist, on her life as a rece…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:32PMSaturday, February 18, 2017
On a bare stage, filled only with four chairs and an incongruous looking cello, a man hesitantly appears, looks cautiously around him, picks up the cello, and begins to play. He produces a c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:18PMThursday, February 2, 2017
“How do you make space for yourself in a world that’s over capacity?” This, in many ways, is the central question of The Litterati – a short piece of original writing performed as pa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PMMonday, January 30, 2017
In 1902, when Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths premiered at the Moscow Arts Theatre, Russia was a sprawling and unwieldy empire in flux. The revolution of 1905, lead in part by the ‘lower …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12PMTuesday, January 17, 2017
There’s a certain air of the Coen brothers to The Albatross 3rd and Main, currently playing at the smaller of Park Theatre’s two spaces. The setting is similar (small town America at an …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:42AMSaturday, December 24, 2016
Drift Theatre, a kind of talent incubator formed in 2016 by Laura Jane Ayres, Jess McKenna, Emma Wilkinson and Laura Sedgwick, certainly seems to have had a successful year. Having hosted a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:54AMMonday, December 12, 2016
Balancing Acts, a subtle yet powerful piece of new writing from the Kaleido Film Collective and Feral Foxy Ladies, is part video installation, part physical theatre and part confessional mem…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:24AMWednesday, December 7, 2016
The era of silent cinema will seem to many as remote as the last days of the Roman Empire. It is difficult, therefore, to imagine the revolution the “talkies” would have sparked in the H…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:54AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
There’s a moment in After October, a restaging of a 1936 Rodney Ackland play, that made the critics in the audience collectively draw breath. “By what right” goes Clive’s (Adam Bucha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:48PMBoys is a sprawling behemoth of a play. Although based around a small group of friends in modern day Edinburgh, it spans the full gamut of emotions the unsettled and insecure generation of w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMSaturday, November 19, 2016
Perhaps expecting a musical to be subtle is like expecting a cow to understand the finer points of quantum mechanics. But even so, while Rumpy Pumpy, a piece of original writing by Barbara J…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AMSunday, November 6, 2016
Intermission Youth Theatre is, by its own admission, no ordinary theatre company. Originally founded by an actor-turned-minister in 2001, its mission is to bring young people from disadvanta…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:54PMWednesday, October 19, 2016
Method in Madness, on for a short run at the Greenwich Theatre, is part period piece, part physical theatre and part Shakespearean drama that is a joy to watch. The story follows an unnamed …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:51PMFriday, October 7, 2016
What are we without a voice? This is the central question of Can you hear me running?, a charming and funny, but also oddly inscrutable, show playing this month at the Pleasance Theatre. The…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:27AMWednesday, October 5, 2016
In a way you know what you get with Beckett. The sparse, unsentimental text; the ghostly, post-apocalyptic staging. But a new performance or, even more excitingly in this case, a new work, b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:50PMMonday, October 3, 2016
Plays about family dynamics are hard to get right. Often they are stuffed with melodrama and unfold like an episode of Coronation Street, or they are lengthy, ponderous disquisitions on over…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:25PMSaturday, September 10, 2016
Blown Youth, on this week at the Wimbledon New Theatre’s studio space, is a sprawling, expansive work with resonances of Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir and above all, Shakespeare. Its fa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:22AMThursday, September 1, 2016
A young woman is alone in a small but tidy flat, doing yoga on a pink floor mat. She stops, catches her breath and opens a bottle of wine. As she sips she stares pensively into the middle di…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:08PMWednesday, August 24, 2016
Imprisoned, two monologues written by Marie Hale and directed by Kasia Różycki and Hugh Allison, are nothing short of astonishing, both in terms of their conceptual basis and the power of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:23PMTuesday, August 16, 2016
Sellotape Sisters, playing this week at the Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden, gets off to an inauspicious start. Ethel and Phyllis, played by Charlotte Weston and Kellie Batchelor, are…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:52PMFriday, August 12, 2016
There are many positives in this production of Philip Ridley’s Dark Vanilla Jungle. I could mention the pared down staging, the simple yet effective lighting or the careful injections of h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:28AMWednesday, July 27, 2016
The Two Sides of Eddie Ramone, is as the title might suggest, a play built on conflict and tension. We see the titular character (played by Chris Sullivan), a formerly popular comedian now c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:23PMThursday, July 21, 2016
The King’s Head Theatre on Upper Street is one of a series of venues which are playing host to Festival 46, a showcase of the best of new British writing. This week is the turn of Don’t …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:48PMMonday, July 18, 2016
The year is 1988, the setting Waterbury, Connecticut. Ronald Reagan is president and Jane Fonda, by then a double Oscar winner, was shooting Stanley and Iris opposite Robert de Niro. Her hig…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:13AMWednesday, June 29, 2016
The most striking thing about Dinosaur Dreams, an original play by Will Adolphy, is its unflinching directness. Conceived in consultation with mental health professionals, the play charts C…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:22PMTuesday, June 21, 2016
Adrift is, I would be willing to bet, one of the more unusual shows on offer this week. Taking place in a public walkway under the streets of South Kensington, the cavernous space is filled …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24PMThursday, June 9, 2016
As the audience clamber to their seats in the Yard Theatre’s charmingly erratic auditorium, a silent home movie plays on a loop in the background. We momentarily catch glimpses of a New Ze…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:21AMWednesday, June 8, 2016
Just off Camden High Street, the tiny Etcetera Theatre played host this weekend to Blackout Creative Arts’ New Writing Weekend by showcasing a double bill of new plays. Fridge, by Rose Br…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:46AM 
