Sunday, January 26, 2014
What the Women Did opens charmingly, nostalgically, with the cast grouped around the piano singing classic great wartime songs together. It sets the tone admirably for the evening – commun…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:35PMFriday, November 1, 2013
Children of Fate opens with a sense of anticipation. A man huddled next to the remains of a fire in an oil drum, while a body stirs and whimpers under a pile of rags beside him. For an uncom…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:50AMMonday, March 25, 2013
Dotted Line Theatre’s The Engineer’s Thumb appears as part of the Firsts Festival, a season of puppetry premiers by emerging companies. It is produced by, and takes place at, Li…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:09AMSaturday, January 12, 2013
Fiona Shaw performing The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: arguably, two national treasures sharing the stage at the Old Vic Tunnels. Having seen Shaw’s delicious performance of The Waste Land…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:56AMMonday, December 10, 2012
Everyday Maps for Everyday Use contains moments of brilliance. As part of the Papatango New Writing Festival, inevitably the writing is offered up for scrutiny. Everyday Maps for Everyday Us…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:20AMCul-De-Sac, the first play from stand-up comic Matthew Osborn is not the sort of show you’d usually expect to see at Theatre503. Plumbing the darker depths of suburbia, this is a snappy sa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:41AMMonday, November 12, 2012
“I came to the city. I saw the people were filthy. And those who were not filthy were still filthy.” Howard Barker’s visceral and confrontational new play imagines the Bibl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:43AMTuesday, November 6, 2012
It’s rare to see a completely astounding production. Even rarer, a completely astounding production of Chekhov. But Rimas Tuminas’s production for Vakhtangov Theatre is exactly that R…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:29PMFriday, November 2, 2012
NSFW explodes onto the Royal Court stage with the force of a firework. Split between a lads’ mag (Doghouse) and a women’s glossy (Electra), this is a play about gender in the cut-thr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:03PMFriday, October 19, 2012
Entering Shelf Life through a giant vagina, you know at once that this show does not shy away from the ridiculous. Shelf Life is a new immersive promenade show from young company HalfCut …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:20AMSaturday, October 13, 2012
I ♥ Peterborough doesn’t let its audience off the hook. Staged with intimate directness on a claustrophobic, cramped corner of a living room, this play spills out of its space, confronti…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:40AMMonday, October 8, 2012
A couple lie, partly naked, asleep, apart, on a rumpled bed in a hotel room. The matching upholstery has an air of faded grandeur. Watery sunlight leaks in through the drawn curtains. The in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:16AMSunday, April 22, 2012
The Overcoat describes itself as “this modest but warm hearted story”, and in many ways this is an accurate description. This performance is nothing if not modest: economically t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:26PMSunday, February 26, 2012
Brightest and Best begins as a caustic portrayal of the City rat race, and metamorphoses into a sophisticated musing on teaching. It follows the story of Rob (William Owen), who quits his hi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:49AMMonday, January 30, 2012
Port Authority is a play about love, but not the play you expect. Many things about this nimble, eminently subtle piece are unexpected. In one of Conor McPherson’s most sophisticated and h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:19PMMonday, January 9, 2012
Silver Shores opens in a week that could not be more pertinent to its subject matter. The week that saw footballer Luis Suarez suspended for racial abuse of a fellow player. The week in whic…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:28PMFriday, December 2, 2011
BLAST! is aptly named. It is like a firework, a rocket, exploding and illuminating for an instant, and then gone. For me, the success of this show is in the moment, rather than the whole. As…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:50AMMonday, November 21, 2011
With a blast of emotive classical music, five actors walk onto a polished stage full of clean lines and shining metal, a political party conference room. They are backed by a set of TV scree…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:54AM 
