10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Rating: 2 stars The Brexorcist promised to be good on paper. In the Brighton Fringe brochure, it was described as "the true story of Brexit", "a multi-media political farce with a killer sou…
According to the blurb for Phina Oruche’s one-woman show Identity Crisis, the show is about Oruche’s personal journey through fashion and media, and what these different platform…
Dusty turquoise corrugated iron lines the walls, cracked orange patterned tiles lie underfoot, a bottle of rum is poised ominously on the side; the setting of Assata Taught Me is unmistakabl…
Room tells the story of Ma and her little boy Jack as they go about their daily lives within the confines of a small, square room. They play, exercise, read, and sometimes watch television. …
Rating: 3 stars The programme for At the Junction Café describes the play as an exploration of the way we choose to isolate ourselves in public places, focusing on our phones instead of tal…
Plenty of pretty sand swirls around the stage of the National Theatre in director-writer Yaël Farber's new play Salomé. But that's not enough to conceal the barebones skeleton of this te…
With the current state of political affairs, discussions of post-truth, fake news, and green aliens in body suits running the country, it feels very poignant for Love & Will Productions…
KT Jemmett’s futuristic Disconnect is an interesting concept. The premise is that there are 10 convicts aboard a spacecraft, which is to be sent from the fictional “ProxC” …
Curious Flamingo’s Egyptian Extravaganza is part of Colab Factory’s immersive season and promises to be a fancy dress experience exploring Egypt in the 1920s and the dangers of c…
A confession: I find few immersive theatre experiences as unpleasant as those in which performers take notice of me: I don't like being talked to or touched or sequestered in solitude or ask…
A triumph of physical comedy, the opening night of the London Clown Festival was unexpected, imaginative and downright delightful in its sheer, unadulterated silliness. If you are a novice l…
If you haven't been inside The Rose Playhouse, that other seventeenth century theatre on the South Bank, it's well worth a visit. Unlike Shakespeare's Globe, the Rose actually stands on the …
"Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats". I wait for a moment, expecting others to follow, but when no one does, I start making my way towards the stairs of the Rialto theatre. I turn …
Paul (Paul Thirkell) wanks to porn until he is a caught with his pants down (literally) by a ninja-clad invader brandishing a samurai sword. But it's all ok " she is just making sure he isn'…
With blind goats, flamenco dancing, and Brazilian exuberance, Turmoil is a surreal tragicomedy set in an over-the-top Jane Austenesque South-American world. Jô Bilac's Turmoil tells the s…
After a successful run at 2016 Edinburgh Fringe, Paper Hearts has returned to the stage at Upstairs at the Gathehouse. Originally 75 minutes, the home-grown musical written by Liam O'Raffert…
I’m a fan of the game Werewolf, having played a fair few rounds of it as a student. So I was intrigued and excited by the concept of it being turned into a Brighton Fringe spectacle by…
Canadian playwright Jordan Tannahill puts together two things in Late Company that should never mix: dinner parties and grief. There are two families. The hosts, whose son Joel committed sui…
What should you do if you struggle to fit into modern society? Find someone you like, or someone who's like you, and build a commune with them. Such is the solution of Brother Tobias (Christ…
Following a successful stretch at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Casus Circus bring their hit piece Driftwood to Underbelly Festival, Southbank. Based in Brisbane, Australia, the group …
Ténéré Arte presents Voices from Chernobyl, a harrowing and evocative production that poignantly conveys the abject horror of one of the worst nuclear disasters in human history. Based on…
It's not hard to understand why Brimstone and Treacle was banned in 1976. Written by Dennis Potter as a television play for BBC's Play for Today the work explores the darkest edges of humani…
History, time and legacy all play a prevalent role in this revival of Tony Kushner's epic Angels in America. It looks at the right-wing politics that dominated the US in the 1980s and how…
Live sheep are being paraded around the stage. I would be surprised, but considering this opera's surrealist inspirations, one should come expecting the unexpected. From the appearance of be…
There's something fantastically refreshing about a hugely successful writer getting their kids to do (some of) the editing of their latest book, but then, this is no ordinary, hugely success…
