Friday, November 11, 2011
The Rose Theatre’s performance space is an intimate balcony that looks out over the archaeological remains of the original Rose, home of many of Shakespeare and Marlowe’s plays back in t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:46AMMonday, November 7, 2011
Don Carlos at the Blue Elephant was a very special and beautiful piece of work. A simple set consisting of a blacked-out space with a bronze diamond painted centre stage, and a perpetual bla…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:16AMSaturday, November 5, 2011
Red Line Productions’ “exhilarating new interpretation” of Howard Barker’s series of short plays, The Possibilities, was, in fact, exhausting. The opening playlet was Th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:25PMMonday, October 31, 2011
Make and Bake’s double bill of Southern dramas begins with a light-hearted look at dating and the modern Southern Belle in Horton Foote’s Blind Date. In the programme for the double bill…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:01AMFriday, October 7, 2011
Mixed Marriage is an intense and claustrophobic play set solely in one location; the living room of Protestant family the Raineys. The head of the family, John Rainey (Daragh O’Malley),…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:40AMWednesday, October 5, 2011
Last week I took part in my first-ever panel discussion, at Theatre Royal Stratford East. The discussion took place after the performance of A Clockwork Orange (which I was seeing for the se…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:39AMMonday, October 3, 2011
Settling into our seats at The Bromley Churchill Theatre my companion and I turned to one another and remarked “This is nice, isn’t it?” admiring the beautiful set and the impr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:13AMFriday, September 16, 2011
“To Machiavellian Capitalism- Boo Ya! Boo Ya! Boo Ya!” A Clockwork Orange at Theatre Royal Stratford East was a brave and bold retelling of Anthony Burgess’s seminal novel set …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:23AMSunday, September 11, 2011
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is one of my favourite novels, and so I was apprehensive about whether this play version would deliver the story that I loved with as much understated trage…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:50PMFriday, August 5, 2011
The Quick opens with a heart-stopping cacophony of shrieks, shouts and loud banging. As the lights reveal the stage we are looking into a prison cell with a tiny, wiry woman with cropped hai…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:49AMBeauty is Prison Time is a one-woman show written by and starring Zoe Mavroudi, directed by Terra Vandergaw. Mavroudi takes us on an emotional journey with her as she talks of her life ‘ou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:44AMMonday, August 1, 2011
The Phoenix Artist’s Club is a delightful little dungeon just off Charing Cross Road. Inside, the walls are entirely covered with theatrical memorabilia – masks, posters, props, sign…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:34AMSunday, July 24, 2011
What It Feels Like, is Encompass Productions’ professional debut, just about to set off to Edinburgh Festival. The show got off to a shaky start, with the actors taking a little while…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:20AMTuesday, July 19, 2011
Common Sounds: Enter The Void was an evening of performances and installations that responded to the architecture, purpose and current condition of decay of the former Commonwealth Institute…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:56AMMonday, June 20, 2011
As the audience entered the intimate theatre space of the Rosemary Branch Theatre, a hidden gem atop a quaint pub full of stuffed stoats and model airplanes, the air was filled with the kind…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:31PMHand Me Down at the Tristan Bates Theatre is a compelling, one-woman show, co-created by Steve Gilroy and Kate Craddock, who performed the piece. Rarely have I come away from a theatre show …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:17PMSaturday, June 11, 2011
Wo(Men) and Me comprised two dance performances that played with conceptions of gender identity and the idea of the perfect body, choreographed and performed by Tonny A, Nick Smith and Jean …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:57AMTuesday, May 24, 2011
I was quite surprised to attend the Comedy Showcase and find not only that a fairly large section of the audience were of school age, but also that rather a lot of them knew one another. It …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:55AM 
