Monday, February 17, 2014
In the hours before Valentine’s Day there must have been hundreds of holiday-specific shows that aimed to make their audience fall in love. Kiss me, Figaro! is certainly successful in …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:24PMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Transports is effortless. It is beautiful, heartbreaking and thought-provoking. Every moment of it is about connection, about consistency and, most importantly, about love. The story of sixt…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:07AMSaturday, September 14, 2013
The Finborough Theatre is a wonderfully intimate space that gives no sense of grandeur or expanse upon entering the doors. It lets the drama speak for itself, in this case giving nature its …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41AMFriday, August 2, 2013
Still life and Red Peppers are two single-act plays which, in combination, are killer. Both with a bit of romance, a lot of comedy and a hint of the sinister, this double feature showcases C…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:17AMTuesday, July 9, 2013
After a half an hour setup, I was hoping that Al Cubo would be something entertaining and spectacular. It was lovely, funny and wonderfully sentimental, but I felt a little short changed tha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:55AMTheatre with children and animals is always a tricky one. In this case, the animal was a teddy bear and the child was thoroughly blessed with comic timing. Handy for a young Hamlet, unaware …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:49AMObserve how Tiredness Defeats the Thought brings to the table another level of theatre, asking the audience to set aside their preconceptions about love and theatre. I have never seen a grou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:03AMRemember Me was an intense start to the closing night of the BE Festival 2013. Plunged into darkness, we are met with the figure of a young singer, coming offstage into what appears to be a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:30AMLa Belle Escabelle is something entirely unexpected. As a change of pace to the rest of the productions, compared to weighty abstractions on heavy and ‘important’ things, it is f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:28AMStereo held me in utter captivity throughout, and I ran the gamut of enjoyment and repulsion as though my mind was going through a blender. One moment I was enjoying it, understanding it and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:45AMPlant B could have been a lot of things. There appeared to be the elements of comedy, a sweet relationship and even a little drama in the movement sequence which played out before the audien…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:43AMRunning at only 11 minutes, one could be forgiven for thinking that (remor) is a piece that is easy, unnecessary or aimless. In fact, it is everything but. (remor) is beautiful. It is tiny, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:30AMAn Opus… is a festivity of movement, confusion and excitement. It is the physical manifestation of puberty, of growing up and understanding who they are, working out what fits, who ea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:28AMThe BE Festival aims high and does not relent in its quality, with a multitude of theatrical experiences available to the audience member with excellent value for money. With four or five sh…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:24AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Nothing about this play is subtle, from the almost neon IKEA-advert set, to the bright strobe lighting which segues one act into another, Public Enemy doesn’t try to pretend. Translate…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:29AMFriday, May 10, 2013
The set of Passion Play is a stark contrast to its content. Bright white, with light to illuminate every crack in the happy couple façade that Eleanor and James present. The play opens gent…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:36PMSunday, April 14, 2013
Live music, magic tricks, singing, dancing and interval entertainment. Things which, in combination, made up a lively night at a music hall in the Victorian era and – quite aptly for a det…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:30AMMonday, December 10, 2012
It’s always in the run-up to Christmas that West End theatres find themselves stocked with early-morning offerings for young children, and Little Charley Bear and his Christmas Adventure i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:17AMGoing into Echoa knowing nothing about what was to come was more than exciting. The questions “How does a percussionist dance?” and “What is the sound of a dancer?” are all over the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AMThursday, November 29, 2012
It is hard to imagine growing up without Michelle Magorian’s beautiful children’s novel Goodnight Mister Tom. For all those who wish to be treated to a trip down memory lane, this tr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:15PMWednesday, November 14, 2012
Upon entering the tiny Gate Theatre, the audience is transported into a prison facility-cum-hospital, with three beds taking up most of the space in what is – or at least was – a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:27AMWednesday, September 5, 2012
To think of Shakespeare – at least in terms of popular culture – is to think of the soliloquies, of the closing couplets, the words that mean so much that as a collective we can …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:24AM 
