Review: Endgame and Rough for Theatre II, The Old Vic 4.0stars “And to think that is organic waste! All that splendour!” Director Richard Jones tones down the nihilism of Beckett’s End…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:48PMReview: Nora: A Doll's House, Young Vic 3.0stars “You’ve lies in the whites of your eyes, Nora. What have you done?” Playwright Stef Smith re-works Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play A Doll’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:03PMReview: MÁM, Sadler’s Wells5.0stars‘MÁM’ is a primal scream that oscillates from sensitivity to invasiveness. Creator Michael Keegan-Dolan leaves us with impressions, rather than na…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:32AMReview: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, National Theatre3.0starsKathy Rudd’s staging of Neil Gaiman’s children’s book brilliantly interrogates the ever-thinning separation between re…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:54AMReview: Until The Flood, Arcola Theatre 3.0stars Dale Orlandersmith’s Until The Flood is a collage of personalities; it explores the way in which a moment is monumentalised. That moment wa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:42AMReview: Stripped, King's Head Theatre 5.0stars A play about bodies, and the minds that sculpt them, Stripped gradually peels away the layers of hypocritical gloss that shroud the politics of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:33AMReview: Woman SRSLY Seven, The Yard Theatre3.0starsAs I enter the Yard, I’m greeted by a collection of brightly suited women called the Yonis, who methodically weave bananas through each o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:54AM‘Gaman’ is a Japanese word that cannot be adequately translated into English. Instead, Director Ailin Conant unravels its meaning through a play that is drenched in metaphors. Fi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:06AMDom O’Halon’s musical Side Show pays homage to the Siamese twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, staging the tumultuous story of their upbringing, followed by the gloomy realities of celebrator…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18AMVOID is unique and hugely daring; its form is entirely distinct from other productions, leaving you shaken and intrigued, searching for clearer lines between reality and fiction. There are t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:00AMFrom the moment you are plunged into the Madhouse, you want to exit. But that is precisely the point. Access All Areas is proudly and defiantly other. It forces the audience to confront the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:10AMInterrogating the nature of ballet itself, this boldly experimental performance goes far beyond the bounds of expectation. Made up of three distinctive pieces which explore new dimensions of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:30AMRafaela Carrasco’s Compañía Rafaela Carrasco – Born a Shadow is a compelling celebration of all things feminine. The ensemble, led by Carrasco, is a mesmerising, almost warrior-lik…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24AMThe fusion of film and theatre entangles the audience’s gaze in an ever-evolving web of sound, movement and visuals. This sensory overload replaces linguistic expression, as 300 el x 50 el…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:25AMProvocative, bold, yet slightly deflated. Director Bethany Pitts admirably sets herself a near impossible task: empowering prostitutes. There is a paradox between the inherently patriarchal …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:04AMDirector Ian Rickson brings Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party to the stage, with a gaze that penetrates below the skin. First staged in 1957, Pinter’s play was met with a dismally stale…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:00AMDirector Michael Longhurst stages an exuberant and poignant revival of playwright Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, who died in June last year. Originally staged in 1976 and brought to acclaim by t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:57AMAfter its performance at the Hollywood Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Writer, Director and Performer Ellyn Daniels stages Emotional Terrorism in the Drayton Arms Theatre …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:33PMUpon entering the casually constructed set of the Barber Shop Chronicles, sharply designed by Rae Smith to be inclusively global yet endearingly personal, you’ll find that the cast consist…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:06AMSensual gluttony. Bolshoi ballerina Svetlana Zakharova and other members of the company created Amore, which allowed my eyes and ears to gorge upon this celebration of aesthetic and sonorous…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:12PMThe tension mounts as the audience is led through a labyrinth of dimly lit stone staircases and dingy corridors, before finally arriving at a deserted underground car park. The serious expre…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AMThe inaugural performance at The Playground Theatre transformed the space from what was previously a bus depot into a bull pit-come-court room, exhibiting Picasso’s sometimes playful and s…
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