Monday, December 17, 2012
It’s easy to be a Scrooge about panto season – often saturated with jokes you can see coming a mile off, predictable audience interaction and formulaic structures. But itR…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2012
It may be billed as a Victorian farce, but watching The Magistrate is probably the closest any of us will ever come to seeing a pantomime at the National Theatre. Though lacking in “he…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:41AM[SHARE]Monday, October 22, 2012
After a successful Edinburgh Fringe run, ThickSkin's production of The Static is touring the country with its high-energy tale of young love and the difficulties of being a teenager. The cor…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:49PM[SHARE]Monday, October 15, 2012
Some art is universal, some is completely a product of its time. Nicholas Pierpan's You Can Still Make a Killing could not have been written before the recession made us all aware of the ext…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2012
It may be nearly a hundred years since Desire Under the Elms was written, but the stage still brims with the barely-repressed desire promised by the title of Eugene O'Neill's controversia…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 30, 2012
Somewhere in Essex, on the muddy banks of the Thames, two boys are hiding from the police. Charlie and Wayne are jubilant, elated. They have “actually dared to do something” at l…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2012
As you traipse down the stairs to find a seat, the stage in Pleasance Two seems to be set for a kind of Eighties cabaret act. Lulu (Milo Twomey), a drag queen, is made up but not yet dressed…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2012
If there was an award for 'Most Misleading Title of the Fringe', Juana in a Million would have to be a contender. Initially put off by the pun, I only realised this was a must-see play upon …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:09PM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2012
As I descended the steps towards my 'new school', Saint Dumbiedykes, I felt a flutter in my chest of something curiously like nerves. Of course this is ridiculous " Back to School is a site-…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 11, 2012
When Richard and Katie meet on a night out " he at a stag do, her a hen " it isn't love at first sight. Or second. Or third. Written and performed by Katie Bonna and Richard Marsh, Dirty Gre…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:30PM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2012
In the wake of Richard Bean's much-lauded adaptation of Servant of Two Masters " the National Theatre's One Man, Two Guv'nors, currently running on Broadway " one might see the decision to w…
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