Tuesday, August 14, 2012
The title Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice in all its kooky glory may have you envisioning barmy Mighty Boosh-style spectacles of all things random, off-the-wall and altogether rather tripp…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:29AMNot content with the smearing of gruesome deaths and macabre psychotics already inscribed into Shakespeare’s Macbeth, former Fringe First winners Biuro Podróży have wrenched open the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:23AMSunday, August 12, 2012
What happens when dissatisfaction crashes upon a nation? Where do you turn when a crumbling economy, the demise of family values and the ever-growing wealth of corrupt bankers becomes too mu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:17PMIn an of course entirely fictional, exaggeratedly apocalyptic vision, Coalition presents a government at breaking point with a flapping Deputy Prime Minister fumbling from one bad decision t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:26AMSaturday, August 11, 2012
In the velvet dark of a smoky underworld, the gambler emerges broke and desperate. A fin de siècle world of moody colours and heavy vice, the gambler stands in the relentless endgame of the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:11PMUnsure whether to be a play, a set of monologues and duologues or a kind of prosaic poem, Oh the Humanity and other Good Intentions nevertheless does exactly what it says on the tin: it take…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:04PMTwo stories, four lovers and one constant feeling – this quietly small premise is all Hartshorn-Hook productions offer tentatively to their audience. A quartet of powerful, complicated…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:26PMMusical theatre, we are told, is all about the triple threat: the actor, dancer and singer. Yet, each year at the Fringe, One Academy Productions bring a very different kind of triple threat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:20PMBuried under the thick pile of half-crumpled flyers advertising the swarms of theatre, comedy and musical shows on offer at the Edinburgh Fringe, a fashion show with hints of physical theatr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:53AMThursday, August 9, 2012
As a cross between the madness of The Clangers and the sketchy wonder world of Tim Burton, The Elves and the Shoemaker is a charming children’s show that takes big and little listeners on …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:19PMHitler’s wife, improvised Danish, and a tormenting Oxford graduate interview are just some of the delights of Vinegar Knickers: On the Edge. In this tongue-in-cheek nose dive into the so-c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:59PMToday, Ruth Snyder is a name that most likely excites nothing more than a blank indifference. Yet in the late 1920s, Snyder was the highpoint of gossip: an American mother who had murdered h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:41PMCaught between the seconds of time, straddled between dreams and moving as a mist between this world and the next is a beautiful and sublime place called Beulah. Manned by proud lions, elega…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:49PMIn the heart of South African apartheid, Magdaleen champions her treasured femininity far above her white race, seeking a sisterhood that will hold her together. Now, 81 and passing her last…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:28PMIf Beckett is the absurdist rebel of the theatre world, Jason Robert Brown has to be his musical theatre counterpart. With no narrative, plot or definitive characters and complexly barmy mus…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:22PMThey say that the way to a woman’s heart is through her stomach and for this woman, that adage applies in absolutely all circumstances, including theatre. So settled still slightly bleary-…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:16AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Ladies and gentleman, wilkommen to EastEnd Cabaret – an evening of scintillating sexiness that forever quivers on the wrong side of risqué. Join the dangerously kinky Bernadette Byrne, a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:54PMTuesday, August 7, 2012
The Loves I Haven’t Known confesses to be “an almost entirely true story based on things that never actually happened”. Sparking off all kinds of existential nightmares within that one…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:39AMDripping with decadence, Don Juan invites us into a seedy world that strips down the male playboys of history. From the lavish costumes to the luxurious language of the script, this is a pro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:32AMIn a mesmerizingly witty piece of improvised comedy, Bristol Improv dig out their ties and shirts and dive into an all too familiar world that shakes up the funny bone of students, employees…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:20AM 
