10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
After the success of Dracula in 2013, Mark Bruce Company now returns with a similarly grungy telling of The Odyssey. In the programme notes, Bruce himself admits "it is a difficult tale to t…
A familiar coming-of-age tale, of a young man developing his artistic identity at university in the shadow of an intoxicatingly brilliant companion, is set alight with poetry. The flaming wo…
Divorced and abandoned, ‘Boxman’ sleeps in a box in his living room. His battles with OCD and alcoholism prevent him from living a full life, until he meets Mandy, the checkout g…
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. In …
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Hello Norma Jeane is described in its programme as “a funny drama that is full of surprises”, and this statement is true. That being said, the drama often feels a little over-pla…
Sarah Kane's Cleansed is a tangled tapestry of torment. It depicts torture, rape, hanging, mutilation and murder. It has a couple of softer moments, in which lovers make sacrifices for one a…
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 Play…
Run 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 …
Though in a small black box theatre and with only two stools making up the set of Poll Function, Greg Shewring " playing one of the two “west country plonkers” returning to th…
The programme for a performing and visual arts festival taking place across Norfolk and Norwich has launched. The Norfolk and Norwich Festival celebrates performance, theatre, music, visual …
Dame Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is the world’s longest running theatre production. It’s been going for just over sixty years, has toured around the world and been met …
Firebird tells the excruciating tale of a fourteen-year-old girl named Tia who we see groomed into a Asian sex ring and brutally abused. Tia, played by Callie Cooke, is lured into the car of…
Re.Home | The Yard Theatre | 9 Feb – 5 March 2016 Presented by Offstage Theatre with Paul Jellis and The Yard Theatre Ten years on from the demolition of the Beaumont Towers …
London Classic Theatre’s revival of The Birthday Party makes for a funny and chilling evening. The pairing of comedy and unsettling drama is not a natural one, but this Harold Pinter c…
Lola is a very Spanish woman, who enjoys Sangria, Flamenco dancing but really hates tap dancing because it “sounds like cockroaches”. She has a boyfriend, Fernando, who plays gui…
A new arts festival is launching in Luton, as part of an effort to change the public opinion of the Bedfordshire town. Luton is often linked with the airport, the League 2 football club, and…
It's nearly March and we're still getting panto. Well, sort of panto " more like the cold, corporate, Disney-fied product that is children's theatre. Pick a fairytale, get some famous wri…
Phoenix Dance create some truly outstanding pieces of dance theatre. They make full use of theatre as a storytelling medium, utilising all of its production aspects to enhance the superb per…
Hidden in the murky depths, we are brought into the dystopian town of Ashley Combe where we are taken on a journey to, and past, the world's end. The inventive combination of theatre and gig…
A girl who is deemed inferior to the damaged and/or questionable men surrounding her is the subject of Eimear McBride's award-winning novel, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, now adapted for th…
In Liverpool a group of young people aged 16-22 are working on a play with a massive claim; The Environmentalists is the UK's first carbon neutral play. How this is possible is one of the fi…
The Devil Speaks True is an immersive, multi-sensory production that places each audience member into the "mind and body of Banquo" as we see the Macbeth narrative from the perspective of th…
Vault Festival seems like the ideal place to stage a show that begins with a relatable twenty-something dancing to the charts with a glass of wine. Primadonna, is both quirky and new, full o…
"Can you maybe just tell me what is going on? I'm really spooked," says Brett (Norma Butikofer) in a statement which seems to capture the entire experience of watching Crude Prospects, th…
