Sunday, March 8, 2015
Based 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…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:21PMFriday, March 6, 2015
Secret Theatre: ten actors, seven shows – and an entire network of theatremakers of all kinds clubbing together to make it happen. It is one engine ignited and driven by artistic director …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:49PMTuesday, March 3, 2015
The Old Red Lion’s black box space has been transported to an uncertain and confining 1984 Leeds pub. I feel claustrophobic as the tiny space is made tinier by oppressive walls of corrugat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:33PMMonday, March 2, 2015
Torben Betts’s Muswell Hill does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a depiction of middle-class, middle-aged lives in a middle England faux-suburb – attracting a similarly midd…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:02PMSaturday, February 28, 2015
Kill Me Now: even the title is bleakly comedic. The dramatic finality of death chucked into the banality of domesticity. That’s exactly the nail that Kill Me Now hits and it hits it hard a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:04AMFriday, February 20, 2015
Joy is three completely separate monologues, delivered by three completely detached men, afflicted by three completely different areas of life – love, job, the whole world – but …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:06PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Rich Mix have begun a programme exploring the small stories that make this big old city of ours, poking their noses into everything from attic flats to chicken shops and the swept-up lives o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:27PMThursday, February 12, 2015
A small theatre above a characterful pub in Camden played host to Fresh Femmes’ launch night. How fresh can a company whose title rejigs the infamously practical FemFresh brand be? Pr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:25PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Nonsuch Theatre’s Acqua Alta is a darkly modern retelling of Noah’s Ark expressed through rhythm, musicality and satire. Noah is a modern man, a millionaire capitalising on the effects o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24PMMonday, February 9, 2015
Kim Noble has produced yet another indefinably unshakeable show about the endless and fruitless human pursuit to avoid loneliness. Via a multi-faceted and inconceivable journey, he concludes…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:31PMSunday, February 8, 2015
Joan of Arc is the last instalment in The Faction’s rep season at the New Diorama. The sheer execution of a rep season represents The Faction to a T: delving into nearly forgotten traditio…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:19PMThursday, February 5, 2015
To all intents and purposes Happy Ending is a musical about cancer. Not two words frequently paired together ‘musical’ and ‘cancer’ and with good reason. ‘Happy’ and ‘ending’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:18AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Dokei translates to longing, that wrenching, pit of your stomach emotion that is indefinable and universally specific. The tagline: ‘Love as much as you can but let go as soon as you must�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:29AMMonday, January 26, 2015
The Lion and the Unicorn Theatre is my local fringe venue, where everybody knows your name, and log fires and familiarity fuel the atmosphere. And yet every time I step into the theatre spac…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:08PMTuesday, January 20, 2015
As I sat on a non-moving, severely delayed Victoria Line service, contemplating my lateness and panicking, I began to consider what my expectations of Contact.com were. Perceptually I was ri…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:59AMMonday, January 12, 2015
The ethos of The Faction theatre company is to innovate and reinvigorate classics, inflating the old and tired with a new and stimulating lease of life. If that’s your ethos then what bigg…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:23PMSaturday, December 20, 2014
Idle Motion reuses the title of Jorge Luis Borges’s essay Borges and I as a foundation to innovatively explore themes of identity, language and ownership of both. The narrative holds onto …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:40AMThursday, December 18, 2014
The Almeida is swanky: glass-fronted with exposed concrete and white walls. It is full to bursting with big names, performing big titles that are, often, the big hits of fringe theatre. The…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:41PMMonday, December 15, 2014
It would be unfair to compare Potted Sherlock to its Potted counterparts Panto and, most famously, Potter so I won’t (but if I were to I’d say that Potted Potter is slicker, wittier and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:40PMConceptually, writer Ross Howard was onto a winner, upturning the ever-loved fairytales of old by obscuring the notions of ‘happily ever after’ and true love. Brought to us through the e…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:27PMSunday, December 14, 2014
The Winter’s Tale rides on the tailcoats of the Shakespeare Sessions’ summer success, Much Ado About Nothing, blinkered by and adorned with 5-star reviews from every angle. Though Th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:47AMSaturday, August 16, 2014
Uncontrollably fast, unstoppably manic, characters changing as quickly as the mood of someone who is falling apart at the seams. There is a rush of confusion as the empty black space is fill…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:00AMThursday, August 14, 2014
The Dominio Effect is a fantasy fable, opening with the description of a fox who leaves destructive mishap after destructive mishap in the wake of his fiery tail. These falling dominos of th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:23AMWednesday, August 13, 2014
With a towering Bruntwood Prize-winning reputation to uphold, hopes were high for this portrayal of individual youth surrounded and trapped by a world much bigger and stronger than itself. W…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:08AM 
