90s Brixton. Raves. Dub Music. Beer. Love. A heady cocktail of swirling colours, thumping music and flirtatious sprees. Or not quite. Harry MacKrill’s production of Paul Boakye’s Boy w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PMCan a family be left to self-govern their own laws? If acts of brutality are inflicted upon family members by family members, should the family retain control of the consequences? Two couple…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:31AMOften romanticised for their gangster lifestyle, the East London Kray twins hold an iconic status, further pronounced by the 2015 film Legend featuring Tom Hardy playing both Ron and Reggie.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AMOriginally an RSC commission in 2013, Alice Birch was asked, along with three other female writers, to respond to the provocation that well behaved women seldom make history. The result is a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:22AMSet over three levels of Peckham’s popular cultural hub The Bussey Building, the Youth Music Theatre company deliver an energetic but chaotic musical hinged on a quest. At the heart of the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:55PMBritish Comedy is apt at tenderly teasing individuals varying from the everyday to the obscure. As history has so far proven, British audiences have a soft spot for observational humour. In …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:27AMTraditionally, the middle child has been a pitied figure, in danger of living in the older sibling’s shadow and wanting the same the comfort blanket gifted to the youngest. It has been sai…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:33AMLegend has it that an X marks a spot of valuable treasure, whereas in this new offering from the Royal Court, X becomes an emblem of multiple unknown dangers that threaten detrimental impact…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:45PMTeenagers can be pretty nasty. You may have gathered that from your own school experience or at least seen a few films or read enough fiction to know about a huge spectrum of teenage persona…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:20PMNineties pop fireball Ronan Keating once sang ‘if tomorrow never comes’ as a starting point to consider telling loved ones of their worth in the wake of his impending doom. Samuel Evan�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:34PMA familiar coming-of-age tale, of a young man developing his artistic identity at university in the shadow of an intoxicatingly brilliant companion, is set alight with poetry. The flaming wo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:52PMAn homage to Film Noir that doesn’t digress into a parody, Hardboiled is a dynamic love letter to the great works of the 1940s. Noir is perhaps best typified by Raymond Chandler’s imagin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:43PMThe sensation of watching L’Étoile is akin to watching the infamous scene in Moulin Rouge where Toulouse and his band of misfits drink Absinthe and watch the green fairy gyrate in front o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:39PMBull offers a ‘how to guide’ in annihilating your opponent in under an hour. Like Matadors, two office colleagues wave a red cloth to lure a beast into rage, then playfully side step his…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:19AMThe London housing crisis has been foregrounded for a while now, but it seems with the recent closure of businesses along Brixton’s arches and the rise of Pop Up Brixton, artisanal cocktai…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:43PMOut of India: Modern Moves is a showcase of three distinct pieces demonstrating the rich dance offers of India. NH7, the first piece of the evening, deals with the effect of capitalism on I…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:36PMA textured and poetic production, Song of Riots tells an urban fairytale through multiple components working harmoniously on stage, bringing an elaborate experience to the audience. Like vib…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:16AMFarinelli and The King tells of the unification of two men who feel equally at odds with their position of privilege having been thrust upon them, and the role of the king’s wife, Isabella…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18PMJessica Swale’s Nell Gwynn is a delightful jaunt through the life of one of the British stage’s most notorious actresses. Both breaking and adhering to the traditions of theatre, the pla…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:04PMLady Anna: All At Sea is a new play from Craig Baxter, inspired by the work of celebrated Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope. The play was commissioned by the Trollope Society as part of th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:09AMYoung Jean Lee’s show, We’re Gonna Die, has the aspiration of sharing a remedy for loneliness, one that isn’t too flashy or instantly life altering. It is an answer so simple in its …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:51PMBased on And The Ass Saw The Angel, Nick Cave’s debut novel, Fledgling Theatre Company’s Jericho Creek provides a gothic understanding of humanity that observes our inclination toward vi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:44AMIt is a truth rarely acknowledged that regardless of age, you will never really know what the heck goes on inside your brain. Sure, as a teenager this question may seem more pertinent, cons…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:20PMTo begin the show, the audience are guided through to the Clare Studio, the Young Vic’s smaller space. The space has a semi-circle of chairs facing away from each other and toward in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:45PMImmersive experience is a phrase currently thrown around freely in production blurbs, the majority of which refer to a singular touch that an actor inflicts upon a lone audience member or th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:14PMAre we bikini body ready? House of Burlesque’s brand-spanking new show, Straight Up, delights the liquor lovers in the audience by taking us of a sensual journey of seduction via our …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:25PMWithin the Bussey Building for the last full week of June, Paradise means a chance to be voted the winner in a competition of beauty and skill in a televised pageant. With a distinctly 80s f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:18PMNature versus nurture is a good starting point when thinking about Hamish Pirie’s production of Violence and Son, the new play from Welsh playwright Gary Owen. To what extent does our …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:49AMDennis Kelly penned the blisteringly successful stage musical of Roald Dahl’s Matilda, transforming the much-loved children’s book into a West End epic. His latest, Our Teacher&#…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:49AMHaruki Murakami is one of modern literature’s most well-loved authors, both inside his native Japan and amongst broader reading populations across the globe, with a particularly strong fol…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:45PMThe Merchant of Venice has been a long-serving vessel of discomfort for critics and audiences alike, unsure whether the play fuels anti-Semitic sentiment or provides an on-going platform for…
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