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 08:41AMAfter a successful Edinburgh Fringe run, ThickSkin’s production of The Static is touring the country with its high-energy tale of young love and the difficulties of being a teenager. The c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:49PMSome art is universal, some is completely a product of its time. Nicholas Pierpan’s You Can Still Make a Killing could not have been written before the recession made us all aware of the e…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:19AMIt may be nearly a hundred years since Desire Under the Elms was written, but the stage still brims with the barely-repressed desire promised by the title of Eugene O’Neill’s controvers…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:35AMSomewhere in Essex, on the muddy banks of the Thames, two boys are hiding from the police. Charlie and Wayne are jubilant, elated. They have “actually dared to do something” at l…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:40AMAs you traipse down the stairs to find a seat, the stage in Pleasance Two seems to be set for a kind of Eighties cabaret act. Lulu (Milo Twomey), a drag queen, is made up but not yet dressed…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:32PMIf there was an award for ‘Most Misleading Title of the Fringe’, Juana in a Million would have to be a contender. Initially put off by the pun, I only realised this was a must-see play u…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:09PMAs I descended the steps towards my ‘new school’, Saint Dumbiedykes, I felt a flutter in my chest of something curiously like nerves. Of course this is ridiculous – Back to School is a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:03PMWhen Richard and Katie meet on a night out – he at a stag do, her a hen – it isn’t love at first sight. Or second. Or third. Written and performed by Katie Bonna and Richard Marsh, Dir…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:30PMIn the wake of Richard Bean’s much-lauded adaptation of Servant of Two Masters – the National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guv’nors, currently running on Broadway – one might see the dec…
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