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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Review: Sigurd The Dragon Slayer, Tabard Theatre by Lydia Lakemoore

The Tabard Theatre is a wonderfully intimate and welcoming space and Sigurd The Dragon Slayer is a fitting choice for their festive production. Aimed at children from pre- to junior school, …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:34PM
Monday, November 30, 2015

Review: Cinderella, Lyric Hammersmith by Lydia Lakemoore

Pantomimes immediately welcome you into the spirit of Christmas. With catchy songs, brightly-coloured sets, and always a ‘happily ever after’, it’s hard not to get wrapped up in th…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:21AM
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Review: Beryl, Cast Theatre by Lydia Lakemoore

Triumphantly delivered with energy and pride Beryl is a northern masterpiece. Let me begin by expressing how wonderfully refreshing it is to see regional theatre giving London a run for its…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:44AM
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Review: Morgen und Abend, Royal Opera House by Lydia Lakemoore

This newest opera by Georg Friedrich Haas can be described as little other than sombre. Embracing the idea of life and death, it tells of a character – Johannes, played by Christoph Pohl …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:13PM
Sunday, November 8, 2015

Review: Gigi, Tabard Theatre by Lydia Lakemoore

Last night I was treated to one of the most delightful shows I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. Gigi is a play based on a French novel written in the early 1940s, which on the face of i…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:10PM
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Review: The Rose of Jericho, Kings Head Theatre by Lydia Lakemoore

The Rose of Jericho is the latest work by playwright Alex Martinez, and is a brutal and honest biography of an ex-army soldier. In the form of an aggressive and unapologetic one-man play, Ke…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:50PM
Sunday, November 1, 2015

Review: The Screenwriter’s Daughter, Leicester Square Theatre by Lydia Lakemoore

This evening I witnessed a piece of history, an untold piece of history, a heartbreaking piece of history. The Screenwriter’s Daughter is factually based on the lives of American scree…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12PM
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Review: Outsiders, Cast Theatre by Lydia Lakemoore

Outsiders is a play inspired and based on Camus’s novel The Stranger ,or L’Etranger. The play focuses on two of the book’s background characters, Marie and Sumaya. Here we see …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:07PM
Friday, August 28, 2015

Review: bloominautschwitz, Soho Theatre by Lydia Lakemoore

bloominauschwitz is an intriguing one man play based on Joyce’s Ulysses. The story follows the tale’s pivotal character Leopold Bloom. We see him travel through time exploring his roots …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:31AM
Friday, August 21, 2015

Review: Much Ado About Nothing, Drayton Arms by Lydia Lakemoore

The Wyrd Sisters Theatre Company was founded in 2013 with a goal to produce classical works with a twist. They often gender switched main characters aiming to cast the right personality to a…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:58PM

Review: Blood Wedding, Bread and Roses Theatre by Lydia Lakemoore

Blood Wedding, based on a newspaper account of a wedding in Spain in 1928, shot Lorca to huge success in the world of the arts. The plot centres on a kind and honourable gentleman of a villa…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10AM
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Review: My Children! My Africa!, Trafalgar Studios by Lydia Lakemoore

This intimate three-hander centres around Mr M, played by Anthony Ofoegbu, a passionate teacher at the all-black school in ‘the location’, one of the segregated black areas in South Afri…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:12PM
Sunday, August 9, 2015

Review: F*cking Men, King’s Head Theatre by Lydia Lakemoore

Do we stereotype gay men? Do we think we understand the conventions of a gay relationship? Are there even conventions to a gay relationship? F*cking Men explores and opposes what many may th…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:45PM
Saturday, August 1, 2015

Review: Impossible, Noel Coward Theatre by Lydia Lakemoore

Many people think you need to completely suspend your imagination in order to fully appreciate a magic show. Maybe I should try to do this, but I do not. After all I am a critic, and althoug…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:16PM
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Review: Carnatic Strings, Southbank Centre by Lydia Lakemoore

The Southbank Centre plays host to two wonderful and talented groups of musicians who are heavily influenced by the Eastern Carnatic style of music. Carnatic Strings is split into two halves…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:13PM
Sunday, July 5, 2015

Review: To Kill a Mockingbird, Barbican by Lydia Lakemoore

The story of To Kill A Mockingbird encompasses many different aspects of growing up that children have to go through on their long journey to adulthood. It is 1930s America and we watch thre…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:20PM
Sunday, June 21, 2015

Review: hang, Royal Court Theatre by Lydia Lakemoore

We are in some unknown years into the future, capital punishment is legal, and the law states that the victim has the final say in how their offender is killed. Three unnamed characters are …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:38PM
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Review: An Audience with Jimmy Savile, Park Theatre by Lydia Lakemoore

An Audience with Jimmy Savile is possibly one of the most shocking plays currently showing in London. Steeped in horrifying truths, scandalous admissions and cruel honesty this is a ground-b…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:22AM
Monday, June 8, 2015

Review: Waiting for Godot, Barbican by Lydia Lakemoore

It is always a liberating moment when browsing the literature in your programme to come across a blunt and brutally honest quotation by such a master as Sir Peter Hall. As the first director…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:34PM
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Review: Battersea Odyssey, Katherine Low Settlement by Lydia Lakemoore

Battersea Odyssey is a collection of untold community stories, merged together into a piece of promenade theatre. Light Box Theatre, based in Battersea, collaborated with local people to cr…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:11PM
Monday, May 4, 2015

Review: Miss Julie, Bread and Roses Theatre by Lydia Lakemoore

There is always a high sense of inquisitiveness when going to watch yet another adaptation of Miss Julie: will this be a typical rendition of Strindberg’s classic or a contemporary and in…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:56PM

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