Thursday, August 31, 2017
Hinging on a brilliant central performance by Adam Scott-Rowley, This is Not Culturally Significant is a dizzying one-man show jump-cutting from character to character. Over the course of an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AM[SHARE]How to Win Against History is one of those plays at the Fringe that has the double-edged curse of "hype". Last year, it played in the tiny Box at Assembly George Square " this year, it's pla…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 29, 2017
The title of Elinor Cook's latest play, with its double-meaning akin to Enduring Love, signifies a play that cruxes on duality. Best friends Lorna and Grace are two sides of a coin, doing th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24AM[SHARE]Friday, August 25, 2017
Part-gig, part-theatre, part-satire, Elsa, by Roundhouse Resident Artist Isobel Rogers, has a little bit of everything on offer. Roger tells us the story of Elsa, an artist working in a caf�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AM[SHARE]You may have heard of real-life sisters Flo and Joan (real names Nicola and Rosie Dempsey) from their song about 2016 that did the internet rounds last year. Or you may not " they were at th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 24, 2017
Where to begin with Education, Education, Education, Wardrobe Ensemble's love letter to school in the 90s? It's brilliant " that's a good place to start. Focusing in on a chaotic muck-up day…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 20, 2017
How to Win Against History is one of those plays at the Fringe that has the double-edged curse of "hype". Last year, it played in the tiny Box at Assembly George Square " this year, it's pla…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 16, 2017
After an act of unfaithfulness, a seemingly ordinary British couple book a holiday together to try and salvage their relationship. We watch as the couple, Mark and Fran, attempt (a little lo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PM[SHARE]Before Prom Kween even starts, I have glitter on my face and am singing along to the Spice Girls, the lyrics projected on a screen over images of famous RuPaul's Drag Race lipsyncs. This kic…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PM[SHARE]It's Tom's 55th birthday, and his daughter, Sophie, prepares him for a visit by two of his friends. But Tom has an unspecified degenerative disease that affects his memory and understanding …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Heather, created by theatre company Dancing Brick, twists and turns around the story of an unexpectedly successful fantasy novel and the elusive author behind it. Rife with Harry-Potter-esqu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:04AM[SHARE]Wide-eyed, wide-mouthed, and completely in awe, a child no more than seven years old watches in amazement as a grown man in a skin-tight bee costume tells the angst-ridden story of losing th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:04AM[SHARE]Set up in order to "reflect the diversity of the real world on stage", Clumsy Bodies is a queer theatre company formed by disabled artists presenting their take on the ancient Iphigenia myth…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:04AM[SHARE]Leaving Milly Thomas' play Brutal Cessation, I glance at the playtexts sold outside the theatre. One line on the blurb catches my attention: it suggests that one of Thomas's main questions e…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:54AM[SHARE]Hull " 1997, 2007, 2017. Middle Child's part-gig part-show All We Ever Wanted Was Everything hop-skip-and-jumps across time, telling the story of Leah, Chris, and their parents, examining ec…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Ah, “immersive”. That age-old buzzword. A word I’m usually cynical about "Â after all, it doesn’t really mean all that much. Surely all theatre is, or should be, im…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2015
I don’t know about you, but I get a real buzz out of walking into a theatre I’ve already visited and having difficulty recognising the space. It’s something about being dup…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Abi Morgan's Fugee is the perfect play for the Southwark Playhouse Young Company. The characters constantly tell us that they don't exist, and that they're being played by actors who are tel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2015
At the beginning of the month, the announcement came that IdeasTap is to close on the 2 June. Following the news, it didn't take long for many of the site's members to speak up in support of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 28, 2015
February is a big month for comedy group Casual Violence. Their new show, The Great Fire of Nostril, runs at the Soho Theatre next week, immediately followed by the recording of a new "podca…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Since its establishment in 1981, London International Festival of Theatre " or LIFT " have been bringing bold and ambitious theatre to the capital with its bi-annual festival. This year's fe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:21AM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2014
It's almost two months since Chris Urch's play Land of Our Fathers, finished its West End run at Trafalgar studios, but the playwright is showing no signs of stopping. Having won one of the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2014
When I enter York Theatre Royal for the press launch of TakeOver Festival, I'm hit with how buzzing and alive the foyer is. Music fills the room, courtesy of a ukulele band (the brilliantly …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:47AM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2014
There’s been some debate recently about realism, reality and realness, prompted by the Almeida’s current production of Little Revolution, which constantly springs to mind whil…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2014
"I got an email from someone saying, ‘I'd like to reserve a ticket for The Love and Devotion of Ridley Scott," playwright Miran Hadzic laughs. "And I was like " it's not a biopic of Ri…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:31AM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2014
Hats off to theatre company Waldeinsamkeit for the play's misleadingly ominous title: turns out (spoiler!) no one buries anyone in the company's debut show. Well, not literally they don't. I…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 7, 2014
Despite an entire Edinburgh run and considerable publicity around Anna Jordan, its Bruntwood Prize-winning playwright/director, Freak still managed to be an entirely different play to the on…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:37AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 16, 2014
Alright " any show that encourages its audience to start drinking at twelve noon is already working its way into my good books. Theatre company Not Too Tame has taken a pub in Edinburgh, the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 2, 2014
There's an ironic moment during Back Here! Theatre's production of Fairytales and Fire in which two characters talk about clichés " ironic because they seem unaware of quite how many cli…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:22AM[SHARE]In four bite-size chunks, Push showcases four dance pieces by renowned choreographer and dancer Russell Maliphant. Two of the pieces " which are chronologically titled ‘Solo’, &#…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Hurrah! A play about a trans-woman, devised by trans-people, performed by trans-people. At last, a piece that has gone out of its way to explore the experiences of trans-people, and which re…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:16PM[SHARE] 
