10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Review: God of Carnage, Cambridge Arts Theatre4.0starsGod of Carnage is the very epitome of a kitchen-sink drama, despite taking place in a living room. It follows two married couples whose …
Review: Voices From Home, Arcola Theatre 4.0stars Reader Rating 0 Votes What better way to spend a Sunday evening than by seeing five short performances for the price of one? Not that I paid…
Review: Sadler's Wells Sampled, Sadler's Wells Theatre4.0starsThere has never been such a day for this celebration of diversity as today, the 31st January, just 3.5 hours before Britain leav…
Review: Kunene and the King, Ambassadors Theatre3.0stars'Things were good for us, and we wanted to ride it to the end' reflects white South African actor Jack (Antony Sher) to his black nurs…
Review: VOiD, VAULT Festival3.0Overall ScoreIn the damp bereft space of the Pit in the Vaults, we join Sophia Capasso as she anxiously jitters her leg, trembling, grinding her jaw and nervou…
Review: Body Talk, VAULT Festival 3.0stars There is an abundance of theatre documenting the Queer experience at the Vault Festival and Body Talk brings us a vibrant and positive production s…
Review: Tarot, VAULT Festival3.0starsThe cold and dark vaults are set on fire by this show. It is a warm, magical and sometimes breath-taking experience. The audience sit in a semi-circl…
Review: Sound Cistem, VAULT Festival 5.0stars As part of VAULT Festival, Plaster Cast Theatre have come all the way from Manchester to perform at London's fringe festival. Transgender and no…
Review: Carmen, London Coliseum 4.0stars It's probably quite predictable to say that I went into Carmen filled with a more than slight suspicion. I'm twenty years old, I've seen one opera in…
Review: For the Sake of Argument, Bridewell Theatre1.0starsFrom the outset, For the Sake of Argument is obsessed with the virtue of a well-made point: as its protagonist Eleanor Hickock (Ash…
Review: Something Awful, VAULT festival3.0starsThe internet is a scary place which only becomes scarier still when the on-screen chaos and storytelling leaks into our own lives. Something Aw…
Review: Santi & Naz, VAULT Festival4.0starsHeart-warming and distressing, elegant and silly, Santi & Naz is a moving story of pairs that at first glance belong to distinct, different…
Review: Bombshells, East Riding Theatre 3.0stars In many ways, Joanna Murray Smith's 2004 play is due a revival in 2020. It's a one woman play covering several women at moments of crisis in …
Review: The Sugar Syndrome, Orange Tree Theatre5.0starsBack in the early days of the internet, people seemed a lot more scared of it; I vividly remember being warned by my Year 5 teachers th…
In a new series, Samuel Nicholls interviews small theatre companies to find out what strategies they use to stand out in an over-saturated industry. This month, he talks to Get Out of My Spa…
Review: The Welkin, National Theatre 5.0stars Stemming from the Old English word for 'cloud', the welkin is a vault in the sky: the home of the legendary Grigori, an elite race of angels tas…
Review: Faust: That Damned Woman, Lyric Hammersmith3.0starsBased on the story of Doctor Faustus, in which our hero sells his soul to the devil in exchange for the possession of all human kno…
Review: The Morning After, Above the Stag Theatre3.0starsThe littering of a young man's possessions colour the set which reeks of early 80s opulence; strewn socks, an unbuckled belt, a wet t…
Review: Pictland, Katzpace3.0starsSquabbling over the identity of a society struggling to get by, arguing over which procedures should be considered legitimate and on what grounds, uncoverin…
Often, retellings of slavery are depicted in horrendous, gratuitous ways for the benefit of a white, guild-ridden audience. The RSC are about to stage The Whip which aims to relay this narra…
Twelfth Night, Greenwich Theatre Studio 1.0stars It is a crowded auditorium buzzing with noise and expectation. The small space is intimate, however, the seats aren't in any way tiered and s…
Uncle Vanya, Harold Pinter Theatre4.0starsChekov; one of the giants of early modernism and perhaps one of the most famous Russian playwrights. The highly anticipated adaptation by Olivier Aw…
Happily Ever Poofter, King's Head Theatre4.0starsReader Rating 0 VotesSome day his prince will come, but not within the heteronormative rules that Disney so arduously enforces on poor Prince…
The Glass Will Shatter, Omnibus Theatre & Althea Theatre3.0starsJoe Marsh's new play The Glass Will Shatter investigates the consequences of the Prevent Strategy, a counter-terrorism ini…
Review: Scenes with girls, The Royal Court5.0starsWe're in 2020 and it is still such a political act to see a show performed by three female actors, written and directed by women, specifical…
