Saturday, September 3, 2016
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 08:22AMFriday, July 1, 2016
Back 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 01:24PMWednesday, June 29, 2016
Florian 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 06:41PMSunday, June 26, 2016
Hampstead 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 05:15PMTuesday, June 21, 2016
Rupert 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 06:40PMTuesday, June 7, 2016
The 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 07:39AMMonday, June 6, 2016
Once 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 03:25PMSaturday, May 7, 2016
I 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 05:51PMSunday, April 17, 2016
The 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 05:25AMSunday, April 10, 2016
Call 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 02:34PMMonday, March 14, 2016
I’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 04:52PMFriday, March 11, 2016
The 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 02:32PMThursday, February 11, 2016
David 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 10:58AMSunday, January 31, 2016
The 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 01:03PMSunday, December 13, 2015
It 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 11:20AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
A 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 12:49PMThursday, November 26, 2015
Jamie 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 07:04PMMonday, November 16, 2015
Simon 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 11:38AMMonday, November 2, 2015
Donald 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 09:28AMSunday, November 1, 2015
David 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 06:51PMSaturday, October 31, 2015
The 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 08:12PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Sarai 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 07:15PMFriday, September 25, 2015
Ian 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 07:01PMMonday, September 21, 2015
Pig 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 04:39PMSaturday, September 19, 2015
Wilton’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 06:12PMMonday, September 14, 2015
Delirium 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 11:13AMTuesday, September 8, 2015
The 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 08:49AMSunday, September 6, 2015
Aeschylus’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 12:30PMMonday, August 31, 2015
I’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 06:46PMThursday, August 27, 2015
Until 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 08:09PMMonday, August 24, 2015
Needless 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…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24PM 
