Thursday, October 13, 2016
Reverend Production’s Nerve, playing in a double bill with Jekyll and Hyde at The Greenwich Theatre, is a show that seems to lose its way at times, yet intermittently good writing and some…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:00PMMonday, September 5, 2016
Concerning the lives of two Nigerian toilet attendants working at the fictional but oh-so-familiar ‘Club Paradise’, Counting Stars is an intriguing, thought provoking and funny productio…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:49PMSunday, July 24, 2016
A peculiar sort of show, The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall concerns the story of (one) Hans Pfaall and his endeavour to reach the moon in a hot air balloon. This production is ch…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:33AMTuesday, June 7, 2016
The final show to be staged at this incarnation of the Union Theatre, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright is a truly quality production that showcases a fine array of talent …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AMThursday, May 26, 2016
Concerning the true story of the last man to stand trial in England in the 1800s for blasphemy, John Osbourne’s A Subject of Scandal and Concern is an hour-long examination of the inca…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03PMFriday, May 6, 2016
For those who are unaware, Iphigenia in Aulis is a Greek tragedy by Euripides concerning the sacrifice of the princess Iphigenia by her father King Agamemnon (spoiler alert: of Troy-conqueri…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:45PMThursday, March 31, 2016
Fables For A Boy at the Lost Theatre is, according to the programme, “A Different Kind Of Musical”. Whilst I confess that I’ve not seen that much like it at the theatre bef…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54PMFriday, December 11, 2015
‘Twas a month before Christmas, when in some theatrical place, a man put on a dress and an inch of make-up on his face. It is, without a doubt, a singularly peculiar custom. If you h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:34AMSunday, November 22, 2015
I am filled with admiration when watching how the relationships between men and women functioned in the time before colour television. It must have been indescribably difficult for the wom…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:51AMSaturday, November 14, 2015
Following the trials and tribulations of the eponymous Stick Man, this hour-long performance at Leicester Square Theatre is a good shout for those with young children. The Stick Man is a pup…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:04AMSaturday, November 7, 2015
At some point, all of us will find ourselves languishing in the waiting department of A&E, six hours and thirty coffees away from bellowing at some poor nurse. As a nation we seem perfec…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:18PMSaturday, October 17, 2015
There are moments of brilliance in Empty Vessels and moments that… aren’t so brilliant. Leaving the Rosemary Branch Theatre after this hour and half long performance, I felt a to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:28AMFriday, October 9, 2015
Twelfth Night at the Rose Playhouse is a classic example of what you can achieve with a small budget, good direction and some talented actors. In this bare-bones production of one of Shakesp…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:25PMFriday, October 2, 2015
Take the plot of Glengarry Glenross, fast forward 25 years and change slightly the commodities being fought over (bonds instead of property), and you’ll have a good idea of what happen…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:11AMSunday, September 27, 2015
I was 11 in 2001, and I vaguely remember headlines at the time about the foot and mouth crisis. Despite the fact that I’m from West Country rural Dorset, it always seemed like it was s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00PMWednesday, September 23, 2015
Speak to 95 percent of actors and they’ll tell you that improvisational theatre is the one of the most difficult forms to do well. It’s incredibly tricky to sustain the drama of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:44PMSunday, October 2, 2011
When Jim Leonard was an English major at Hanover College in the late seventies, where I was running a one man theatre department, he responded to a request I issued for “extras” …
SOURCE: 2AMT at 03:06PM 
