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 05:24PMThe most infectious feature of Kieran Knowles’s debut play is the tight amity and paced unity of the cast that is matched by the inherent camaraderie in the plot. Operation Crucible refers…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:42PMPole is about to make its way to the exhaustingly incredible Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it’ll have to scramble its way into the consciousness of thousands of visitors choosing betwe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:20PMMusicals are a genre I love to hate, or sometimes hate to love. I have to be in the mood for one. In general that which niggles me about them is the same as what I whole-heartedly like about…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:39PMMuch Ado About Nothing is the Shakespeare play I am fondest of. It may not be his most earth-shattering play or packed with integrity and emotional undulations, but it’s smart, fast-paced …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:18PMSecond Soprano takes a slice of our history and slams it, right where it belongs, in the present. Based on a spoken family heirloom of a female’s First World War, we are privy to a tribute…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:48PMBash by Neil LaBute is made up of three one-act plays, connected only by their attention to the domestic darkness of people. Each depicting, differently, how even the most ordinary of us can…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:49AMThe Eighth Wonder of the World. As if the modest title isn’t enough of a build up, there’s the structure itself: the Thames Tunnel Shaft. You don’t expect to find a wonder tucked away …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:06AMSometimes you need to watch something that makes you think differently. Sometimes you need to watch something that resets your moral compass. Sometimes you need to watch something that rein…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:34PMA temple is a place of ultimate worship. Temple is about what we individuals, in this modern world of ours, deem worthy of worship. Like fish in a net, we’re fraught and tangled between wo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:51PMThe Pleasance Theatre is a place of reminiscence and tummy-bubbling excitement for me. Tucked away in a cobbled mews in Islington, flashing yellow in the murky grey reminds me of one thi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:16PMThe Globe. Nothing major. Just a little piece of national heritage. A symbol of our historical culture, too proud for a space on the Monopoly board, but on the tourist map the world over. Ne…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:23PMThe Park Theatre is its own boss – it seems to do whatever the hell it wants and does all of it well. Each new play eats alive the 200 faces before it with new statements and new thought …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:55PMThe Angry Brigade were a part of Britain’s counter-culture in the early 70s. They began as a bubbling and angry undercurrent of a society that was ordered and suppressive. A culture that w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:37PMWhat makes a good comedian? It’s impossible to tell, I’ve seen so many that I have loved one week and felt drained by the next. There are few that I’d recommend, I don’t like the pre…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:27PMThe National Theatre. The. National. Theatre. A title heavy with the loom of expectation. No pressure, Everyman. Well, maybe a little bit of pressure for the National’s new captain, Artist…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:15AMThe Etcetera Theatre in Camden is another fringe venue that I happen to hold a candle for, once you get past the on-the-seedy-side pub that it crowns. I love that it hosts a new writing fest…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:34AMCarmen Disruption is utterly unshakeable. The disruption doesn’t erupt but imperceptibly breathes its way into the audience, catalysed by words and visions that move so fast it’s hard to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:38AMBased on a short-lived, off-Broadway, cult classic I wondered how smooth the transition from stage to screen would be for The Last Five Years. I’m, guiltily, the sort of person that perpet…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:00PMPlaying at The Lion and Unicorn’s attic, Voices is a two-handed account of the ever-remembered Great War. Tissues at the ready, I strapped myself in for overwhelming waves of remembranc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:38AM“What are you seeing tonight?” my flatmate said, “a play about Margaret Thatcher”, “well that should be a barrel of laughs,” he said with all the sarcasm …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:59PMThe overwhelming question Number 1, The Plaza, left me with is: “have I missed something?” I circulated the bar after the show, like I do, all G&T and bewilderment, asking a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:30PMSoho Theatre Upstairs strikes again, bringing all that’s new in experimental emerging theatre companies and falling straight into the hands of Encounter. This company make it their mission…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:13AMWhat Idle Motion does so cleverly is it delicately interweaves different perspectives of the same story. Those perspectives come in a myriad of forms from the narrative to how they manipulat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:57PMBad Jews is quite the title. It gives you just the right amount of wince to get you interested – a play that’s playing hard to get. It also seems to have an accessible whiff of self-depr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:46AMShaftesbury Avenue: a street that blinds you with bright lights, mighty signs and five stars. You get bedazzled by the offerings and bashed by tourists happily taking 20 minutes to walk two…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:23PMWhen I picked up my ticket for Frozen the lovely girl on the box office made sure that I wasn’t expecting a sing-along tale of princesses in snow, anecdotally recalling that a mother had …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:56PMI’ve always had a soft spot for Trafalgar Studios 2. It feels like a tight fit, forgotten spot but it’s slap bang in the middle of the West End. Almost like a secret that makes you feel …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:50AMLardo pretty much has everything you need for a good, solid chunk of entertainment. It is riotous in humour and violence, with all its own stunts, never seeming to stop for breath or slow do…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:49PMWritten and performed by boy-wonder Harry Melling, his debut play, peddling is so perfectly balanced, cleverly staged and unnoticeably acted that it’s difficult not to just nip this in the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:19PMBased on the novel Push by Sapphire, and re-imagined and devised by the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, I had mixed expectations. One of which was a flashback to the time I’d wa…
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