Reading Time: 3 minutesEva Hudson’s ‘855-FOR-TRUTH’, directed by Lydia McKinley playing at the Hope Theatre, follows an aspiring but worried young climate scientist and an obsessive yet charming 18-year-old Christian cult member as they navigate through their different life approaches facing the same problem: the world actually ending in 6 days.
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Ordinary Madness is about the beauty in the dirt, the extraordinary in the mundane, the hard shell with the soft centre, about that bluebird in our soul that wants to get out.’
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The Value of Names’ tells the gripping story of former actor Benny (Jeremy Kareken) who has to confront the man who ended his career, Leo (Tim Hardy) as his daughter Norma (Katherine Lyle), also an actor, is met with the choice about whether to work under the creative direction of her father’s nemesis.
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe world premiere of There’s A Bear On My Chair at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall is on Wednesday 19 February. Adapted from Ross Collins’ beloved books and directed by Toby Olié (Spirited Away, Animal Farm, War Horse), this playful production brings Bear and Mouse to life through captivating puppetry. A Youngish Perspective holds the dialogue with Toby Olie, the director.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTesto is the latest work by Wet Mess, a drag artist, cabaret performer, and movement director, and is a surreal and dark exploration of masculinity, femininity, the trans man experience, and bathing in butter.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDavid Brady’s 75 minute exploration of a man’s life in the face of the apocalypse has some touching moments, and some strong performances, however does not quite hit the heights it has the potential to hit.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFollowing the success of his OffWestEnd nominated play, Kunstler, Joseph Jefferson Award winning playwright Jeffrey Sweet’s The Value of Names will have its UK premiere this February 2025. A Youngish Perspective runs the dialogue with Jeremy Kareken, who will be playing Norma's father, Benny.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA mix of mediation and exquisite dance that expands your consciousness ∞ {Infinite} is visionary dance company Humanhood’s first dance theatre meditation, leading the audience on a mystical journey through themes of movement and consciousness. The sound…
Reading Time: 3 minutesOutlying Islands is a stunning example of environmental theatre made accessible. Seeing Outlying Islands is an experience that cannot easily be divorced from the venue in which it is staged. Descending into the Jermyn Street Theatre is…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Ben Fox, star of a new adaptation of The Passenger, that premieres at the Finborough Theatre for a five-week limited season running until 15th March 2025. Get tickets here.