Friday, August 28, 2015
Captain Morgan 2: Sea of Souls is an explosion of pure imagination. A sequel of bewildering giddiness, it follows Captain Morgan 1: The Sands of Time, which made its debut last year and is c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:52PMThursday, August 27, 2015
The Temptation of St Anthony is a beautiful, emotionally-charged exposition on spiritual possession. Its multicultural cast explore the topic from multiple perspectives, layering music, phys…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
Turn right, walk up the road and call a number outside the pub. The instructions demanded by a note handed over sheepishly by the box office, the perfomance of Menage has begun. Like Hula Ho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:37AMThis is a play of immense exuberance. FYSA Theatre has thrown itself into a banner-waving rendition of the Focus E15 campaign. The 29 mothers, faced with eviction notices, band themselves t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:20AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
Cheque Please allows us to meet Ivy, a girl suffering from depression; she weaves sequences of her life in between smashing the fourth wall with confessional rants. The coffee shop where she…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:22PMPole explores different people’s perceptions and reactions to pole dancing. A physically rigorous piece that is visually impressive, the three girls move in perfect synchrony, and layer th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:22PMA horizontal bar of light, a table with a chair and a coffee mug are the only things Thaddeus Phillips has to work with in his remarkable journey across borders – 17 borders in fact, each…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:22PMTwo Christmases have passed since Anna ventured outside. It’s OK though, she has loads to do: there are projects to make, an abundance of nature programmes to watch and a purity to cultiva…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:58PMMonday, August 24, 2015
Sajeela Kershi is the great aunt everyone wishes they had — bubbly, engaging, sarcastic and always smiling, she introduces us to her line-up. A diverse collection of speakers, her thre…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:19PMI, Elizabeth is a delicate monologue which allows Rebecca Vaughan to display her undeniable talent in full force, maintaining a thick tension in the room throughout. A study of Elizabeth I f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:19PMSouvenirs is a gorgeous piece of child-like theatre; it evolves, slowly, surely and playfully, explores new territories and innovative ways of using props. Centering around sentimentality wi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:19PMStanding outside a flat ten minutes away from Nicholson Street, two women argue with a policeman in the window frame. Once inside, one of those women is on a table top, the other handing out…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:09PMPicture two girls in inflated, white suits dancing on stage. They wriggle and dance with delight, resembling a pair of bizarrely elegant sumo wrestlers. Tribute Acts is a touching piece abou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:09PMSaturday, August 22, 2015
How long before a woman rubbing grated apple on herself loses its supposed existential meaning and simply becomes a woman playing with a bit of fruit? Awkward Happiness investigates. A piec…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:09PMVisceral in its multimedia effect, Francesca Francesca is an intimate exploration into the life of the elusive Francesca Woodman. The playful use of sheet, film and camera is beautiful, and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:50AMEliana and Ian meet and, with the staggering obviousness that falls upon only the most unashamed romantic comedies, fall in love after a few obstacles. Bump hangs on the communication betwee…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:50AMBette Midler … and Me is a touching exploration of one woman and her relationship with her idol. Sue Kelvin bounds on stage demanding her audience to laugh, cry, and pay attention. Like sh…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:50AMFriday, August 21, 2015
Divas is a mind-boggling, time twisting love story that is cleverly scripted to leave you immensely confused. A backwards to forwards tale of two men’s love, Divas shows moments of brillia…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AM 1972 : The Future of Sex is an expertly devised piece of comedy, peppered with an immensely intelligent commentary about the concept of sex in our society, back when The Female Eunuc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AM“ It is not the fashion to have the lady do the epilogue.” Emma Bentley bubbles on stage to bring us an ambitious monologue performance of one girl’s experience growing up in the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMProject Haha is a brilliant sequence of hypnotic trances. Utterly surrealist, one girl, clad in a yellow lemon-print dress and smiling ecstatically hums whilst the other smacks herself again…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00AMWednesday, August 19, 2015
“This is my second time watching it. I couldn’t stop thinking about it the first time so I came back to watch it again,” says a girl in the bathroom, waiting for the start of Tight…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:25PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
Stunned, the audience tumble out of the little room. Asking the man next to me what he thought about I Am Not Myself These Days, a tumultuous remake of Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s autobiography …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:37PMAs the performance begins with half the cast missing, something is clearly wrong in the zoo. Harriet Kemsley has fun with frivolous puppetry, switching between characters with ease. Despite …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:37PMAlien Lullabies invites a wonderfully diverse cross-section of Fringe society, and the theatre is full to the brim. Well-meaning but poor festival goers clamouring after the concessions, bea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:24AMAn audience is a curious, volatile thing. The audience watching Can I Start Again Please react in fascinating ways; they laugh when it’s seemingly inappropriate, they gasp and grunt to sho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:09AMMonday, August 17, 2015
A depersonalised voice with a disturbing robotic lilt booms across the stage. It is harrowing, authoritative and devoid of emotion. It sets your nerves on the very edge as it trills that one…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:39AMDandy; a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of Self. Luke Wright, has…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10AMThere is, as always, an extraordinarily tall man sitting in front of me. His neck placed directly between my head and the stage, he turns in the middle of the performance and mouths, his eye…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10AMWords. Our social relationships are almost entirely based on words. Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons deconstructs words, and builds them back up in eloquence only to destroy them agai…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Image by Richard Davenport. “The play reflects a lot of concern about the way that our society can be ‘dehumanising’ and can be have a very narrow, reductive view of how the world shou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:20AM 
