Monday, December 19, 2011
The Orange Tree Theatre is very good at Victorian and Edwardian plays with an ‘upstairs-downstairs’ theme, and Auriol Smith’s most agreeable revival of St John Hankin’s 1905 comedy T…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:59AMMonday, December 12, 2011
No, I didn’t know that Beowulf was a panto story either. It may well be the first time that this Anglo-Saxon epic poem of uncertain authorship with a mythical Danish setting been adapted i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:32PMFriday, December 2, 2011
There surely aren’t many celebrity librettists, but comedian, impressionist and recent Strictly Come Dancing contestant Rory Bremner seems to be something of an exception. Being in the mid…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:40AMMonday, November 28, 2011
Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s bittersweet Scandinavian waltz-time musical A Little Night Music (my favourite of the Sondheim canon) about love, lust and memory is one of the most per…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:59AMMonday, October 24, 2011
The enchanting Wilton’s Music Hall resembles many things, including a bath house or forum with its high ceiling and immersive acoustics, making it an ideal setting for the grandeur and rut…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:40AMMonday, October 3, 2011
When I told a friend that I was going to see Noel and Gertie, he seemed surprised that it was being revived as it was very much aimed at audience members of a certain age when he saw it in t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:21PMSunday, September 11, 2011
The Belle’s Stratagem is a play that even the most notoriously cross-referential critic would have trouble comparing to another version, as ‘lady playwright’ Hannah Cowley’s 1780 pla…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:45PMMonday, September 5, 2011
William Kerley's staging of Mozart's 1786 opera Le nozze di Figaro is the fifth time that British You Opera have produced this much-loved piece since their second summer season in 1988. One …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:55AMThursday, September 1, 2011
The neighbour who encourages the eponymous Pandora’s husband to open the mysterious box remarks, “Without curiosity, where would we be?” As an inquisitive person, a life without curios…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:50AMMonday, August 1, 2011
Dames at Sea is an affectionate homage to frothy ‘a star is born’ 1930s musicals, a cross between 42nd Street, Anything Goes and On The Town. It premiered off-Broadway in 1966 starring …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:27AMTuesday, July 12, 2011
Life upon the wicked stage ain’t ever what a girl supposes. There was certainly very little glamour to be found amongst the minor ranks of the Edwardian repertory system. The protagonist o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:02AMFriday, June 10, 2011
I always mean to see more theatre outside London, but find myself deterred by astronomical train fares, so I was delighted to be notified of Southern Rail’s 90% off sale. How fortunate, as…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:55AMMonday, June 6, 2011
Into Thy Hands begins with a speech about theatre and decay – very apt, considering that the future of the enchantingly distressed Wilton’s Music Hall is on shaky grounds after a major N…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:05AMMonday, May 9, 2011
All things Scandinavian seem to be quite ‘in’ at the moment: Swedish crime drama is all the rage and there was a Woman’s Hour feature last week about how Nordic cuisine is curr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AMWednesday, April 20, 2011
One of the many provocative points raised by James Fritz’s faux-verbatim drama Lines (which premiered at the Rosemary Branch’s new writing festival last autumn) is what it means to ‘en…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:36AM 
