Saturday, August 10, 2013
(4/5 posts) A few years ago, Take it Interns wouldn’t have existed; it concerns a curiously modern phenomenon. The people who fought for workers’ rights such as minimum wage would have b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:29PM(4/5 Stars) Some men, as that guy in Batman once said, just want to watch the world burn; others are less keen to get in on the burning but would love to be in charge of the resultant admin.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:54AM(4/5 stars) To say that The Pearl is a lovely show sounds reductive, like damning with faint praise. But ‘lovely’ is an underrated, over-used word that can mean moving and charmi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:44AMFriday, August 9, 2013
(4/5 stars) Packed with ingenuity and visual brilliance, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs is a dark, inverted fairytale, sprung from the mind of Tom Baker and staged by Kill the Beast theatre company…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:25PM(3/5 stars) The title of Party Piece is kind of a misnomer: this play is not so much about the party as it is the morning after. In the opening moments, the cast cover the set with empty bot…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:12AM(3/5 stars) As a comedy of awkwardness and manners, The Babysitter shows huge promise: the young cast are confident and talented, the script punchy and quick, the setting well-established. S…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:32AM(4/5 stars) The closing moments of Ballad of the Burning Star may be among the most moving and powerful that I have ever seen. The ending is a gut-punch, a game-changer, it will make you re-…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:57AMThursday, August 8, 2013
(4/5 stars) Inari is a superhero in training and if only he could get some of his powers to work, he’d be absolutely sorted. Miserable and friendless at secondary school, he frequently…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:44AM(2/5 Stars) The opening sequence of The Secret Agent owes a little something to music hall, as Verloc, the secret agent of the title, addresses the audience in a style reminiscent of a music…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:42AMWednesday, August 7, 2013
(3/5 Stars) 2013 marks the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth. To commemorate his life and works, Aldeburgh Music has commissioned current musicians to compose in his style; Conor Mitch…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:00PM(2/5 stars) Harry Blake and Alice Keedwell have combined both their surnames and their musical talents to create Book of Blakewell, a show comprising a series of songs, sung by Keedwell, wit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:21AM(4/5 stars) There can’t be many shows at this year’s Fringe with a madder premise than Threeway. What opens as a naturalistic comedy of manners and sexual adventure soon becomes …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
3/5 stars One of the first things we must understand, according to John-Luke Roberts, is that ghosts are not light. They don’t float up flights of stairs or hover over beds, they skulk…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:57AM3/5 stars It’s hard to know what to expect from Birdhouse. Taking its inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic and beloved film The Birds, Jammy Voo iz concerned with a small group of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:42AM4/5 stars The plight of the Chilean miners, trapped below ground, gripped the world a year ago. One billion people watched their eventual rescue on television screens across the globe; that …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:09AMMonday, August 5, 2013
(3/5 Stars) Colin Hoult’s solo sketch comedy shows have garnered him a loyal following at the Edinburgh Fringe over the past few years, and rightly so – Hoult is an engaging performer, l…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:58PM(3/5 Stars) Moving in with your boyfriend for the first time is scary enough, but any concerns Jen might have are pretty much dwarfed by the health scare she has just weeks after moving in w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:47PM(2/5 stars) Blythe Duff is a seriously talented actress, capable of commanding the attention of an auditorium with absolute ease, as if the large audience were merely a handful of friends at…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:11AMSunday, August 4, 2013
(3/5 stars) The team behind Kubrick3 wastes no opportunity to remind their audience that the show is based on completely true events, and it’s easy to see why. Alan Conway was a man qu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:37PM(4/5 stars) Amy Mason and Eddie Argos used to be a couple. Now they’re not. She’d almost forgotten their one trip away together, to the Isle of Wight, until a particular shade of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:44AMSaturday, August 3, 2013
(3/5 stars) The Guardian called Ella Hickson the voice of our generation, and if that’s true, Boys suggests that we are not a very happy one. Set in a student flat in the dead days between…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:20AM(4/5 Stars) The Pilot lives to fly – she dreams of the blue sky and nothing makes her happier than to be out in it, alone. But it isn’t all blue skies: this pilot flies an F1 Fighter…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:31AM(3/5 stars) There are shows you see at the Fringe that you can’t imagine succeeding in the same way anywhere else. It’s unquantifiable, a charm based on some combination of inven…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:29AMFriday, August 2, 2013
(2/5 stars) That we are, as human beings, susceptible to certain impulses is a truth universally acknowledged – the desire to make a noise in a quiet place, perhaps, or tell someone a secr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:45PMSaturday, May 18, 2013
Josephine, Boris and Sistahl are putting on a play with some songs in it. As they pile onto the stage, tripping over each other like children doing a show for their parents, they admit that …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:50AMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Blackshaw Theatre runs a regular new writing night in Lambeth and is committed to nurturing budding playwrights. As part of the Wandsworth Arts Festival and Fringe, they have now brought two…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:08AMThursday, March 7, 2013
Grief, in all its permutations, is complicated. In May, it will be re-categorised by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as an episode of major …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:08PMSunday, January 27, 2013
Despite the fact that women make up roughly half of this planet’s population, it is an undeniable fact that the fairer sex are still largely neglected by the media. They may not always…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:15PMMonday, December 31, 2012
Spanning roughly a decade as it moves between flashbacks and the modern day, Tu I Teraz is an ambitious production telling the story of Marysia, a single mother who brought her son Kuba fro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:59AMMonday, December 17, 2012
It’s easy to be a Scrooge about panto season – often saturated with jokes you can see coming a mile off, predictable audience interaction and formulaic structures. But it’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:42PMWednesday, November 28, 2012
It may be billed as a Victorian farce, but watching The Magistrate is probably the closest any of us will ever come to seeing a pantomime at the National Theatre. Though lacking in “he…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:41AM 
