Monday, April 10, 2017
Modern drama, for me, often evokes the same reaction as modern art does. I consume it, I often enjoy it, but I also am left wondering ‘why?’. Why would someone make something like that? …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:12AMSunday, April 9, 2017
Nina Raine, writer of well received Tiger Country and Olivier-nominated Tribes, is back with a fiercely witty new play that brings the politics of the courtroom into everyday life. Consent f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:02AMThursday, March 16, 2017
The Labour party is divided. Its left-wing leader is unpopular within the party, and there are MPs and cabinet members threatening to leave. Labour is tearing itself apart from the inside an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:31PMSaturday, March 11, 2017
Synergy theatre project, along with Theatre503, bring us Homecomings, a festival of new plays by prisoners and ex-prisoners about getting out and going home. The Monkey, John Stanley’s fir…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PMAfter a couple of successful off-broadway runs, Stephen Karam’s Speech & Debate has been brought to the West End. Directed by Tom Attenborough, Karam’s play follows three mi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:36AMThursday, March 9, 2017
With absolutely no set, a solitary prop being a mug of tea, and on the dark stage of the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, Stephanie (Elaine Fellows) takes us on a journey known as Decibels. A rathe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:54AMArthur Pita, creator of the awarding-winning 2011 adaptation of The Metamorphosis, is back with another stomach-churning production. His new piece, Stepmothers/Stepfathers takes us to the da…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:24AMMonday, February 27, 2017
If the world as we know it were to end tomorrow, what would you do? Would you smartly ration and scrape by, rarely washing in tattered clothes? Or, given the opportunity, would you carry on …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:48PMSaturday, February 11, 2017
Deep in the bowels of Shoreditch Town Hall, Jamie Lloyd’s production of Philip Ridley’s first ever play, The Pitchfork Disney, is staged. In the long, dimly lit room known as The…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:54PMMonday, February 6, 2017
Vault Festival, sometimes described as London’s answer to the Edinburgh Fringe, is once again upon us. Amongst a wide variety of shows being presented is Crocodile. Joyous Gard’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12AMMonday, January 30, 2017
In most brilliant ‘will they, won’t they?’ stories, we kind of know that they will. But that doesn’t in any way soothe the special kind of aching frustration that bre…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:42AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Road, written by and starring Keith Stevenson as the loveable redneck JD, has delighted audiences for years at LA’s Pacific Resident Theatre on Venice Bou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:12AMMonday, December 26, 2016
In case you didn’t know, Joan of Arc was born in 1412 in a small village in rural France. As she grew up, she claimed to experience visions of Saint Catherine, Saint Margaret, and the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:48PMWednesday, December 21, 2016
Originally published in 1844 by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen is ultimately a tale of good versus evil. It’s traditionally told in seven parts, but in this prod…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:42PMSunday, December 4, 2016
An Act of Kindness, written by Helena Westerman, is a two-hander with Westerman herself playing 22-year-old bohemian free-spirit Leila, and Robert Hayes as businessman and alpha male Martin.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AMThursday, November 24, 2016
The premise of Mocketh the Weak is promising – a faux game show featuring Shakespeare’s most famous fools, competing in a battle of wits and sharp tongues. It received some posit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:31AMWednesday, November 23, 2016
Hold it! Flash, bang, wallop, what a show! After a run that received rave reviews at the Chichester Festival Theatre, the foot-stomping Half a Sixpence has ‘blown right in’ to London’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:31AMIn the Spiegeltent at Leicester Square lies a small circular stage surrounded by an audience of buzzing spectators. We’re told to ‘leave our troubles at the door’ and are promised …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:31AMMonday, November 14, 2016
The Worst Was This tells the story of three sisters running a tavern in an imagined post-apocalyptic universe in which Will Shakespeare (Ben Clifford) is a struggling young playwright who ca…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PMCharles Hamilton Sorley died in the Battle of Loos in 1915 during the First World War. He was just 20 years old. Now, over a hundred years after his death, Neil McPherson has written It Is E…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PMSunday, November 6, 2016
Imagine for a moment, that you are ill. You experience muscle weakness, seizures, paralysis, blackouts and other symptoms. You know you are ill, but you’re continuously told there’s noth…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:02PMThursday, November 3, 2016
Waiting in the lobby to see Merryville we are offered the option of ear plugs, in case the music is too loud. I take a pair, just in case, and ten minutes in am glad I did. Its creators desc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:03PMSaturday, October 29, 2016
After reading rave reviews for Beach Comets Vampire Hospital Waiting Room, I expected great things from their second B-musical – Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair, which also swept up…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:12AMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Based on the memoir of Arnhild Lauveng, Tomorrow I Was Always A Lion gives a unique and honest perspective on the mind of a girl who is suffering from schizophrenia. It is simultaneously mes…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:10AMMonday, October 10, 2016
The Autumn Garden was written by Lillian Hellman and first staged in 1951, and you can certainly tell. Set in the Deep South in 1949, the play follows a group of middle-aged adults over the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:19PMMonday, October 3, 2016
John Wilmot, the 2nd Earl of Rochester, was the licentious libertine who embodied the spirit of the Restoration era. After King Charles II returned to the throne in 1660, most of the country…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:31AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Written in 1695 by a woman simply known as ‘Ariadne’, She Ventures and He Wins was one of six plays showcased at The Rose Playhouse as part of ‘A Festival Celebrating Pioneering Women …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:35PMMonday, September 12, 2016
On the stage sits two chairs, a desk, and a curtain. All composed of or smothered in shredded paper. Washed over with a blue light, it looks cold and uninviting. Written by Simon Paris, Lo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:40PMSunday, September 11, 2016
Broken Strings is a snapshot of domestic life, tainted with the aftermath of the death of a loved one. Joe Wenborne’s story is inspired by his own experience of caring for and living with …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:00AM 
