Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Scott Wings’ intimate performance poetry piece Icarus Falling erupts into a blistering glimpse into the darkness of one man’s battle with depression. As Daedalus crafts his infam…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:08AMAn air of ancient legend hangs about David Grieg’s sweary modern romance in a way that’s quite difficult to put into words. Maybe it’s just all the majestic deer and the Sc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00AM[CONTAINS SPOILERS] Inside a dirty shared flat with underwear strewn across the furniture and a Pot Noodle lingering by the sink, three housemates create a peculiar imagined world called Dar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:57AMSitting on a wooden football stand with mournful eyes penetrating the audience, three people give their testimonies of the 1985 Bradford City Fire. Devised from interviews with many of those…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:55AMOnline forums provide a place to share interests and jokes about Willy Wonka or somewhere to get support when you feel alone at the beginning of Chatroom. But they are also open to abuse tha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:51AMSquidboy is about the adventures of a very camp, cat-eating squid. Squidboy is about a boy who thinks he’s imagining that he’s a squid, or a squid who might really be a boy. Squi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:43AMSunday, August 24, 2014
No Mean Feet’s ode to literature and the life of an English student is not just clever, it’s hyper intelligent. Settling down in a cosy library set The Canon: A Literary Sketch S…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:22AMWhen Marlin finds a bill for a hotel room and a hefty bar tab tucked into an expenses folder she’s instantly suspicious. Probing deeper into the company’s finances, she discovers…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:16AMFriday, August 22, 2014
Buried deep somewhere in The Lincoln Company’s ambitious physical theatre piece The Baron Conspiracy is the story of Thomas Baron, a NASA safety and quality control expert who died in …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:06AMAn unlikely concoction of Victorian horror, American cop dramas of the 1950s and modern language proves a success in Jack and I, a new musical based on the story of Jack the Ripper. Sadly th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:03AMHere are two things you should know about Rob Ford: 1. he is the Mayor of Toronto, and 2. he smoked crack cocaine. For the rest of the 21 Things You Should Know About Toronto’s Crack-S…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:56AM“We all like a good yarn,” says Bonny Boys Are Few‘s director Rob Jones as he takes to the stage. This is not a good yarn. In fact it’s a bit of a stretch to call i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:27AMThursday, August 21, 2014
The idea is simple: the audience provide the genre, title and setting, and Mischief Theatre creates the movie. Once we’ve chosen our film, movie-buff Oscar delves into his collection (…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:58AMWe all recognise the Charlie Chaplin of the silver screen with his signature moustache, bowler hat and waddle but who was Charles Chaplin, the man behind The Tramp? Chaplin tells the ultimat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:56AMThe British occupation of Iceland in the 1940s has been forgotten by most, but for young Icelandic women Selma and Kate the soldiers’ stay in Reykjavik is a period that will never lea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:52AMAs the ever-present murmurings about Boris Johnson’s intentions continue, Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky imagine a world where a bumbling Mayor of London is a shoe-in for PM once a vacan…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:47AMHenry Naylor’s topical horror story The Collector is haunted by the now infamous photograph of a hooded man forced to stand, arms outstretched, during his torture in Abu Ghraib prison.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:34AMAfter a shaky start, According To His Need finds its feet and blossoms into something probably never seen before, a Communist romcom, which is probably about as original as new writing gets.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:31AMThe dysfunctional Callow family come home to roost on a houseboat surrounded by musical mallards in Bricks and Mortar Theatre company’s comedy romp Barge Baby. Those absurd serenading …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:26AMWednesday, August 20, 2014
Outings really shouldn’t have to exist. When the first openly gay ex-Premiership footballer Thomas Hitzlsperger came out he said “Hopefully if some players follow, one day it wil…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:37AMAustentatious, a Fringe favourite, is back and selling out. It’s easy to see why – this is a clever, properly funny improv show that buzzes with energy for a full hour. The troupe’s ta…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:26AMPlays aren’t often set on the Isle of Wight. Jane Upton’s Swimming is a pretty damning depiction of the island as a sequestered ecology, where three young adults, Milly (Grace Watts), Lu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:23AMTuesday, August 19, 2014
Everyone’s favourite Eastern European leather puppet brothers Boris and Sergey are back, this time bringing the Astonishing Freakatorium, their Gothic Victorian freak show complete wit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:52AM1960s crooner and heartthrob Andy Williams had three secret wives and they lived in a convent, says this funny offering from Old Trunk theatre company. The nuns huddle around a television se…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:49AMThe booming voice that spits out Genevieve Hulme-Beaman’s dark and rich monologue jars so strongly with her cute young girl appearance that it is at first shocking then deeply unsettli…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:45AMAfter a tour of bookshops across Asia and Europe, Made in Macau attempts to bring its tale of writer’s block, Puzzle the Puzzle, to life in a different setting. They’ve brought a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:40AMMonday, August 18, 2014
Jethro Compton cranks up the tension for the second instalment of The Capone Trilogy: Lucifer. With Capone himself locked up in jail there’s a puncture in ‘the outfit’ and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:15PM“I just wanna be liked,” declares the song as the audience await the beginning of Making The Move and this show certainly does. Wanna be liked that is: it, and its loveably awkwa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:29AMNorse mythology checks in to a grotty hotel room in 1920s gangland Chicago for Jethro Compton’s brilliant Loki, part one of The Capone Trilogy. With a canny gender swap, this Norse G…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:18AMIt’s hard to be a daedalist when you’re cooped up in a call centre, so, with a head full of words and dreams, Wendy quits her job to seek out art and adventure. We join her in th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:12AM 
