10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Slut is a developing yet impressive piece of physical theatre and dance by Amina Kayyam Dance Co. It aims to explore and challenge perceptions of female sexuality, and the way it is often…
The Durham Revue's show is called Laugh Actually. The university sketch comedy group are quick to tell us that their act has nothing to do with Love Actually. This isn't strictly true, as it…
During a year of politics in which George Orwell's 1984Â has been constantly referenced and drawn parallels with, an adaptation of the novel for the stage is always an intriguing prospect.…
An Evening with An Immigrant is an hour-and-a-half of stories, anecdotes and poems from Inua Ellams. He tells us of his experiences of childhood in Nigeria; of being forced to flee, and o…
Theresa Ikoko, winner of the Alfred Fagon and George Devine Award, presents the theatrical masterpiece that is Girls, alongside Talawa Theatre Company, HighTide and Soho Theatre productio…
How to Win Against History is one of those plays at the Fringe that has the double-edged curse of "hype". Last year, it played in the tiny Box at Assembly George Square " this year, it's pla…
Hinging on a brilliant central performance by Adam Scott-Rowley, This is Not Culturally Significant is a dizzying one-man show jump-cutting from character to character. Over the course of an…
Safe Place is a play which brings together the personal and the bigger picture. It explores the conflict between trans rights and third wave feminism through the lens of a relationship betwe…
London Hughes Superstar (it’s just nobody's realised it) is a witty, relatable show about race, boys and superstardom. Hughes, with perfect comedic timing, talks about how she couldn't…
Aditya Roy, with the help of Teamwork Arts India @70, showcases The Offering (Guru Dakshina) at Edinburgh. Roy, from Delhi, trained in multiple forms of martial arts which he pairs with danc…
Coming in at under an hour, The Black That I Am sought to look at black (specifically Jamaican) identities and the way in which different people exist and see the world. The set felt a littl…
Nilaja Sun's one woman show Pike St. features just under a dozen different characters and she plays every single one of them; from the anti-immigration neighbour, to a little boy, to a soldi…
The title of Elinor Cook's latest play, with its double-meaning akin to Enduring Love, signifies a play that cruxes on duality. Best friends Lorna and Grace are two sides of a coin, doing th…
Ed Night is something else. He's not in his late twenties, he's not from a cushy background and he doesn't dress in button-up shirts (at least, not on the night I attended his show), and the…
Julia Croft is a contemporary performance artist, first manipulating her own body in an effort to take hold of the microphone, then the sound of her voice to add emphasis on a distorted soun…
An Act of Kindness by new London theatre company Rascal Theatre takes place at a London bus stop. This is where Leila and Martin meet. Leila, a waitress, takes the bus to work here every day…
Everything about this show exudes confidence. Asif Khan as an actor and Hassan Abdulrazzak as a writer know how to use mannerisms and words to play their audience. Khan took on 3 characters …
Eve is an autobiographical play by Jo Clifford, a woman here to tell us about a story of growing up and of realisation. She uses this play to explore her lived experience of what is means to…
This dark new myth is brought to us by Christopher Harrison, who uses his unique storytelling ability to bring to life a reimagined England full of mystery and fear. As the audience arrives …
Lists for the End of the World by fanSHEN theatre company sounds, on paper, deceptively simple. The production's creators have compiled hundreds of crowdsourced lists and during the show, th…
One thing most of the Fringe's audience probably have in common is that they have never had a desire to spend 15 minutes in the pitch-black darkness inside a shipping container. And yet Summ…
The defining wit of Oscar Wilde shines through brightly in this subtle yet inventive adaptation of the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray from Boxtale Soup. The novel is the well-known and fr…
Jenifer Jewell's adaptation of Goblin Market, fresh from Off Broadway in New York, is a retelling of the beloved poem by Christina Rossetti that breathes new life into the story by setting i…
Dickens for Dinner is probably one of the funniest, silliest Fringe shows for grown-ups out there (though it's appropriate for children as well). In what seems like the result of a bizarre b…
Wiry, tattooed and dressed like a boxer, a short, slim man appears onstage and begins to sing the Jungle Book's 'I Wanna Be Like You' into a warped mirror: 'You see it's true/ an ape like me…
