Friday, August 19, 2016
It’s a busy old place is London, with its dangers and its shelters. One of the key questions at the heart of REMOTE LONDON is whether we’re most at home as individuals, or as a group �…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:16PMUnder his moniker, The Queer Historian, performance artist Tommy is here to show us the scars that homophobia leaves, physical and emotional. When Tommy was 15, a group of boys he knew assau…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:56AMMonday, August 15, 2016
It’s always a risk when you try to universally capture the very personal experience of being young, even in a youth production. The Fall by the National Youth Theatre takes it one great hu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:21PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
It all starts at breakneck speed with two lovers clashing fencing foils. Cassandra wants only to marry, move in together and nest. But don’t confuse her for a gentle flower; her temperamen…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:46PMTuesday, August 2, 2016
The preset for OPIA Theatre Company’s Unnatural Selection makes a rather accurate observational comment on a doctor’s waiting room. Two smartly dressed women sit bored, one picking lint …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:36PMSunday, February 28, 2016
It’s difficult to critique plays that are in any way autobiographical, especially when they’re about grief and loss. But Happiness is a Cup of Tea left me pondering the difficulty. I…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:52PMSaturday, February 27, 2016
Edmond Rostand’s 1897 comedy may be over a century old, but there is nothing aged about it. The lyrical sparring and mockery throughout made for a fully rousing press night at Southwark Pl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:09AMRun by Poleroid Theatre, this scratch night is well worth catching. It runs more regularly at the Hackney Attic, Castle Hotel Manchester and the Edinburgh Festival, but Vault Festival hosts …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:09AMSunday, February 21, 2016
We start with instructions about our headphones. Each audience member has a pair. And then with a clunk, we’re enveloped into the pitch black. “It’s a normal reaction to an abnormal si…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:33PMSunday, February 14, 2016
Lyle Kessler’s most famous play received critical praise from the off when it premiered in 1983. A 2013 Broadway revival starring Tom Sturridge, Ben Foster, and Alec Baldwin received two T…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:19PMThursday, February 4, 2016
It’s a lingering peaty smell that unsettles me as we enter the space. Jennifer Swingler, Sacha Plaige and Charles Adrian form a contorted tableaux less than a meter from the front row. The…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
joue le genre’s one-woman show pitches to us that Shakespeare wrote no decent roles for women. But to make matters worse, theatre institutions – from the powerhouses in the West End to o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:01PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
When the box office assistant tells you that the show you’ve been sent to review is actually a rehearsed reading, I hope I’m not the only theatre fanboy to hope they are about to witness…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:52PMMonday, August 31, 2015
The Puppet Theatre Barge, currently on a summer tour of the Thames but usually found in Little Venice, was established in the late 1970s with the intention of promoting marionette theatre. W…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:51PMFriday, August 28, 2015
We begin at 1,000,000 BC, with a set of scattered household furniture and timer starting at 1,000,000 projected onto the back wall. This begins to drop through the years at pace advancing to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AMMonday, August 10, 2015
As a play and as a performance there are elements of Splendour that I have not seen bettered this year. At the curtain call, I found myself with a reflex-like conviction in its quality. My r…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:25PMTuesday, August 4, 2015
Having just been put through the grind of flat hunting myself, Ross Hatt’s skit as the zealous estate agent in We Know Where You Live’s first scene is a real treat. Ben (Matt Whitchurch)…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:43PMTuesday, June 2, 2015
Buckets is a play about making the most of time, and dealing with the fact that one day we’re all going to run out of it. What’s great about Adam Barnard’s script is that it’s an ant…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:07PMEntering the cavernous studio space within The Roundhouse, I didn’t quite notice Sophie Rose at first – talking easily with audience members in a front row of soft sofas – until I noti…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:07PMFriday, May 29, 2015
The Yard’s NOW ’15 festival plays a double bill each night, the acts changing with the weeks. The night’s more experienced second act mentors the fledgling first, and you get t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PMFriday, May 8, 2015
It is Max Newman’s (Alan Cox) finest hour. Despite a flighty political past and dubious tabloid reputation – very consciously modelled on Boris Johnson – he is the darling of the votin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:40PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
We enter straight into the dance floor of a lively gay bar in the year 2000, around about the time that this musical by Jonathan Harvey and the Pet Shop Boys was written and originally stage…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:15PMSaturday, April 25, 2015
There is a moment in The Heart of Adrian Lovett where the actors decide to do away with the fourth wall, pull up a couple of chairs and begin a conversation with the audience about how to fi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:19AMFriday, April 17, 2015
Choreographed by the late great monolith of contemporary dance, Pina Bausch, Auf dem Gebirge hat man ein Geschrei gehört (On the Mountain a Cry Was Heard) is an unusual spectacle. At times …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:13PMNow I would never label myself a sci-fi nut, but Pioneer was one of the best things that I have seen in the last twelve months. It is an outstanding show, both in concept and execution that …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:57PMTuesday, April 7, 2015
This Edinburgh Fringe transfer from production company Patch of Blue is a love story about the relationship between two childhood sweethearts: Scott and Jen. Director Alex Howarth has the a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:43PMOriginally written in German, and award-winning, Abyss begins in an unnamed German city. Three friends start a campaign to find their friend Karla, whose disappearance has received little pr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:37PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
Entering into the black box space, we are met by three downtrodden figures. They sit crumpled, staring into space. There is little real set, bar a rarely-used hat stand. But the ceiling is l…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:05PMMonday, March 23, 2015
Over the past year, Sadler’s Wells has been running an initiative called =dance (“equal dance”) to promote disabled, deaf and inclusive dance work. Equation is a showcase of its highli…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:19PMSaturday, March 21, 2015
Staged in the immersive Buenos Aires Coup Coup Club cabaret bar, These Trees are Made of Blood is a political piece that seeks to educate. I’m quite ashamed to say that I didn’t know abo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:10AMSitting on four sides of a raised wooden platform, a blunt foot stamp kicks us into the action. Two rippled black athletes sit across from each other on wooden footstools, heads bent forward…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:42AM 
