It has been a couple of years since Tim Crouch’s Adler and Gibb doused the Royal Court stage with its unfurling question of reality versus art and whether or not there is value in either. …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:22AMBack to the trusty Old Red Lion to see it housing what it houses best: new writing. This time produced by Velvet Trumpet, a company whom I have been following quite ardently over the last ye…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:24PMFlorian Zeller is the man of the moment, following the West End, heart-wrenching smash hit that was The Father, and the equally involving The Mother at the Tricycle. Now he brings us The Tru…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:41PMHampstead Theatre’s proscenium is so neat that its stage looks like a television screen: stark, claustrophobic and coaxing. Even more so when that stage is transformed into a hotel roo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15PMRupert Goold’s production of Richard III is bookended by the discovery of Richard’s remains in a Leicester car park in 2012. We see the scientific excavation and we hear the news report …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:40PMThe Taming of the Shrew is the second in Emma Rice’s inaugural ‘Wonder’ season at the Globe – a season that promises so much. Wonder being the prime promise: a feeling o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:39AMOnce again the Old Red Lion hits the nail of everything pub theatre should be on the head, housing Richard D Sheridan’s Odd Shaped Balls. Another punchy, socially relevant and boundary-bas…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:25PMI have an awkward confession to make: I’m not really a musical person. There, I’ve said it. I don’t know how it happened or when. I’ve always been impressed with the three-pronged ta…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:51PMThe Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie. It takes a second to digest that, just as a title. As a title alone, it packs quite the punch; it’s about as a catchy as a limerick, it’s fl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:25AMCall me judgemental, but there’s something about the phrase ‘one man show’ that gives me the heebie jeebies. More so when that phrase is accompanied by ‘written and performed by …�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:34PMI’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I love pub theatres. There is something inherently butterfly inducing about walking through a pub full of beer drenched football fans, up a stairc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:52PMThe Lion and the Unicorn Theatre was taken over by Chris Mellor, former Senior Arts Officer LB Camden and Creative Producer at Broadway Barking, last month. Mellor, has quite the fight on hi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:32PMDavid Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole is delicate. It portrays the delicacy of one family’s new normality in grief and the delicacy of our own normality. Rabbit Hole shows us that it only t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AMThe day before I saw Red Velvet at The Garrick the audience evacuated the auditorium. The various authors of social media reported loud cracking sounds halfway though the first half. Some fe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:03PMIt is nigh on impossible to take Kim Noble: You’re Not Alone as a singular piece of theatre, a song and dance about the inevitability of loneliness. It delicately fuses numerable disciplin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:20AMA Table Set For Two is The Underground Clown Club’s fourth, penultimate show for their ‘Five Years, Five Shows, Five Months’ season. A pretty ambitious undertaking, I’m sure we can a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:49PMJamie Lloyd brings us the fiftieth anniversary of (the god that is) Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming – a play that in 1965 was slap bang in the middle of people’s hunger for howling, t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:04PMSimon Longman’s Sparks is a play of two halves. Ish. Kind of. One half, the first, is marginally longer than the second, though seems even longer than that, as it is action free for the mo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:38AMDonald Margulies Pulitzer Prize winning play Dinner With Friends is a domestic kind of masterpiece. Depicting, intricately and poetically, the ripple effect of divorce and the vulnerability …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:28AMDavid Hare’s The Moderate Soprano is, on the surface, a play about the construction (literally and artistically) of Glyndebourne opera house. Within that, it charmingly incorporates a side…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:51PMThe potential problem of an hour and a half worth of monologue as a piece of entertainment is self-evident: it can be one-dimensional. It creates an insular atmosphere that demands a subtly …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12PMSarai is a recognisably age old tale. Our protagonist Sarai (Karlina Grace-Paṣeda) longs for a son, and is given an ever-echoing prophecy that promises that and more: “remove yourself fr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:15PMIan Kelly’s Mr Foote’s Other Leg, a historical fiction, is jam-packed in every way that it is possible to be jam-packed. Not content with ‘merely’ following the legendary Samuel Foot…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:01PMPig by Alex Oates is a part-verbatim, part-naturalistic offering from theatre company Silent Uproar. A company born and bred from the 2017 UK City of Culture (nothing like forward planning),…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:39PMWilton’s Music Hall is the world’s oldest, surviving music hall. It is hidden behind a single set of sturdy, wooden doors in an alleyway in East London, an area of town that is steeped i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12PMDelirium have already made quite the name for themselves constantly moving and evolving with the theatre scene since 2009. They are famed for exploring humanity: tapping into the way we work…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:13AMThe Man Who Had All the Luck is a small offering from a big name: Arthur Miller. It’s not on any GCSE syllabus to be gratuitously laboured through with a fine toothed comb. It’s not been…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:49AMAeschylus’s The Oresteia is in high demand at the moment, with new versions sprouting up left, right and centre, and The Globe houses The Oresteia in its most authentic form. Director …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:30PMI’ve been going to the National Theatre for as long as I can remember and I have fought to be there. As a student I would sprint from the closing of the doors and get there just in time fo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:46PMUntil yesterday the biggest mistake an audience member could make at a comedy show, as far as I was aware, was to sit in the front row. But oh no, no – the biggest mistake an audience mem…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:09PMNeedless to say, The Playboy of the Western World is a classic, and with that this production is lumbered with the task of living up to that label. John Millington Synge’s play has been kn…
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