Review: The Distance, Orange Tree Theatre by Chloe Ravat

There are plays about murder, about incest, torture and all kinds of other unimaginable cruelties and taboos, but The Distance, a new play by Deborah Bruce, introduces one that strays into r…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 8:28am on October 13, 2014☆⚑

Review: RENT by Chloe Ravat

The Tony award-winning musical Rent has had a long and illustrious run. From its inception as a short workshop production in New York in 1994, to its cinematic adaptation and eventual close …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 7:53am on August 10, 2013☆⚑

Review: Black Cat Cabaret at Cafe de Paris by Chloe Ravat

A fire-breathing hell pig, coked-up ballerinas and a stocky man miming furiously to Queen's Don't Stop Me Now. Just some of the acts in the Black Cat Cabaret, the ultimate definition of bohe…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 5:00pm on July 22, 2013☆⚑

Review: Peace Mom by Chloe Ravat

Written by Nobel laureate Dario Fo and his late wife Franca Rame, and directed by Sergio Amigo, Peace Mom is based on the real life and writings of Cindy Lee Sheehan. Sheehan is an American …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 7:52am on July 5, 2013☆⚑

Review: FLOWN by Chloe Ravat

Walking towards the huge purple, cow-shaped tent on the South Bank which houses this year's Udderbelly festival, I got the same feeling I would get as a child when my parents took me to the …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 5:18am on June 7, 2013☆⚑

Review: Love For Sale by Chloe Ravat

Amelia Cormack's cabaret Love for Sale, is billed as “a delicious array of songs exploring the mystery and allure of 'the oldest profession'". This was enough to set my imagination afl…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:02am on March 16, 2012☆⚑

Review: Calendar Girls by Chloe Ravat

The story of the WI Calendar Girls is probably one with which most of us are familiar. The sentiment and sincerity behind the tale has me on side from the word go, before I even step inside …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 6:34am on December 1, 2011☆⚑

Review: We Are Three Sisters by Chloe Ravat

We are Three Sisters, a new play by Blake Morrison, is an intelligently bold exploration into the lives of fêted literary siblings the Brontë sisters. With clever use of Anton Chekhov'…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 1:52pm on November 20, 2011☆⚑

Review: All The King's Men " It's Reigning Men by Chloe Ravat

When it comes to All the King's Men, I have followed their burgeoning a cappella career from the group's formation two years ago at King's College London. Last night's show, It's Reigning…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 4:01pm on October 26, 2011☆⚑

Review: Season's Greetings by Chloe Ravat

If, by any chance you happened to read my last review, you will have discovered that I am, to my own detriment, quite the EastEnders fan. So when I heard that two of its popular characters, …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 7:17am on October 14, 2011☆⚑

Review: All the Fun of the Fair by Chloe Ravat

Like many others in my particular age bracket (a 22 year-old graduate), I'm probably most familiar with legendary crooner David Essex from watching copious amounts of EastEnders (shameful, I…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 4:59am on October 3, 2011☆⚑

Review: One Night at the Proms by Chloe Ravat

I'm not quite sure what I was expecting when I turned up at Richmond Theatre with my mother in tow for One Night at the Proms (even though the official Last Night of the Proms was shown on t…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:12am on September 15, 2011☆⚑