Friday, May 6, 2016
A bare bum is on stage in less than ten seconds into Matthew Compling’s play, Abominations. Not an inappropriate start for an edgy-sounding production that whisks up dark comedy, Christian…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:45PMThursday, February 4, 2016
There is no theatrical experience quite like Light. And that’s not just because Theatre Ad Infinitum’s latest offering is a rich, fascinating dystopian thriller with a terrifying totalit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:10PMMonday, January 25, 2016
“A big amalgamation of thoughts and ideas and dreams,” says writer and director George Mann when I ask him the origin of Light, Theatre Ad Infinitum’s dystopian piece returning to Lond…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:28PMSunday, December 20, 2015
The Wasp starts innocently enough: a cafe, chamomile tea and two women who have lost contact since school. But then cash is slammed on the table along with a shady business proposition, and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:32PMThursday, December 17, 2015
A miniature, golden and glittering town has cropped up in the artsdepot’s Studio Theatre this Christmas. This is the Land of Lights by Oily Cart, a delightful, immersive adventure for unde…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:31PMFriday, November 27, 2015
Daniel Vale of the make-believe Daniel Vale Theatre Company gleefully boasts that his cast of four will play the 70,000 characters of Ben Hur with historical accuracy. Even if you don’t kn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:45PMSunday, November 22, 2015
Charity and theatre company The Big House enables care leavers to create theatre. Telling the fascinating, surprising history of Rio Cinema in the immersive Electric, the theatre company has…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:44AMThursday, November 12, 2015
A recording of female breath breezes over a lightly-pounding beat. Pages from Fifty Shades of Grey flutter to the floor as a serious, eerily calm Hannah Silva tears them with her teeth. Silv…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:49PMWednesday, November 11, 2015
A recording of female breath breezes over a lightly-pounding beat. Pages from Fifty Shades of Grey flutter to the floor as a serious, eerily calm Hannah Silva tears them with her. Silva eyes…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:10PMSunday, October 25, 2015
A musical crafted as a patchwork of stories from Dr Mel Hughes’s The Parents’ Story Project, which documents the lives of parents affected by substance abuse, Score tells tales that have…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:46PMSaturday, October 17, 2015
The Vaults is where the magic-cum-terror show Master of the Macabre chooses to house its horror. There are not many venues more suited to hosting the first solo stage performance of Benedict…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AMFriday, October 16, 2015
Theatre503 and Sheer Drop Theatre’s Valhalla has a lot going for it. Not only did it storm past over 1600 other submissions to become the joint winner of the Theatre503 Playwriting Award, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:04PMThursday, October 8, 2015
For a play with such an elegant, poetic title as The Love of the Fireflies (El amor de las luciernagas), I perhaps expected a little less swearing. But, if nothing else, The Love of the Fire…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:09PMMonday, October 5, 2015
For a play that frankly and often discusses STIs, including HIV, it is perhaps appropriate that the creative team encourages the audience to be sexually healthy. Thankfully, the ticket for 5…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:40PMI have mixed feeling about Nobody’s Business – mostly bad. Promising to be a satirical, comedic look at sticky EU regulations, entrepreneurship and ideas, Nobody’s Business deflates to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:40PMFriday, October 2, 2015
Daniel Goldman is in the CASA Festival’s office when he answers my call: “I better get out of here! They’ve heard it all before. Must know it off by heart.” But, as the interview pro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:13PMSunday, September 13, 2015
Mouthful is a relentlessly harrowing reminder that humanity is getting it dangerously wrong. Upon entering, we are cheerily told there will be an opportunity to eat cricket at the interval; …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:55PM“She is absolutely adorable, lovely… She wants to help,” is Christopher Oram’s verdict on Nicole Kidman. Not that I’ve met many, but anyone who can make any personal comment on Kid…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:13AMSaturday, September 12, 2015
Spiegeltent may be old-style, but the pop up venue holds its own at the feet of Canary Wharf’s glittering skyscrapers. Not a face of it isn’t colourfully painted. Inside, carved wooden p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:50PMWednesday, July 29, 2015
“The breathing gets heavier and more frantic, like a dinosaur is sitting on Santa and tickling him at the same time. Finally, as it all crescendos, TINY COOPER comes into the world…” A…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:02PMSaturday, July 18, 2015
A motherless monkey, a scruffy giant, a fish with a big imagination and a wise old man – Scamp Theatre’s Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales stitches together Julia Donaldson and Axel Schef…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:03AMFamily mysteries, a looming wedding and way too much wine is never going to be a match made in heaven. Taken in Marriage by Thomas Babe is a clash of personalities: two generations of sister…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:52AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
What goes well with a beautifully crafted, relevant interrogation of the twisted acts that humanity performs in the name of religion? A pile of human waste, crude jokes and a demon with a Co…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:58PMSaturday, June 6, 2015
Image by Greg Veit “Why did you choose to perform an all-female Shakespeare?” a radio interviewer asked The Flanagan Collective, a York-based theatre company described by its artistic di…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:16AMPhoto by Jonathan Keenan For an anarchic theatre company who excel in inventive, fantastical devised pieces, performing the 1920s classic The Ghost Train might seem a mad next move. But th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:16AMMonday, April 27, 2015
“We’re not alone”, says theatre maker Yolanda Mercy, as she describes her one woman play, On the Edge of Me. “Even if you have those days where you feel scared, sad or just don’t w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:55AMWednesday, April 22, 2015
One late night, two self-confessed circus obsessives notice that circus performers lack a platform where they can share ideas. The fix? Circus Geeks, a blog and theatre company that focuses …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:36PMMonday, March 23, 2015
Their initial concept for Fight Night, where actors voted each other out of a performance, was almost forgotten by experimental theatre company Ontroerend Goed. Years later, the freeze in th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:25AMWednesday, March 4, 2015
Image credit: Anna Soderblom With the banned Moonfleece, the hit Tender Napalm and the prestigious Scotsman Fringe First Award winner Dark Vanilla Jungle, writer Philip Ridley and director D…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:12AMThursday, February 12, 2015
Ian Brown is the former artistic director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse, the freelance director responsible for Park Theatre’s current run of the sexy comedy Contact.com, written by Mich…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:51PMMonday, January 5, 2015
Image by Carol Rosegg Director Clare Lizzimore tried to keep to the swift and beautiful aggression promised by the title of her latest production, Bull. After runs in Sheffield and New York …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:43PM 
