Fergus Morgan attends Paul Mason’s attempt to explain the state of the world in 2011-2017, but leaves with as many questions as answers.
Venues: Young Vic
24 February 2017
Reviews
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Young Vic Theatre
Young Vic ⋄
By Alice Saville
Joe Hill-Gibbins strips away Shakespeare’s moonshine and magic, and replaces it with an awful lot of mud.
8 December 2016
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Once In A Lifetime at the Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ 25th November 2016 - 14th January 2017
By Fergus Morgan
And that’s the joke. That’s the only joke: Fergus Morgan is emphatically unimpressed with a revival of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s hollywood satire.
1 November 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: The Nest at the Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ 28th October - 26th November 2016
By Rosemary Waugh
Nature, and all that: Rosemary Waugh reviews The Nest in a new translation by Conor McPherson.
14 October 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: The Mountaintop at the Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ 7th - 9th October 2016
By Sally Hales
A more urgent cry than ever: Sally Hales reviews the Young Vic’s revival of Katori Hall’s play about Martin Luther King.
12 September 2016
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Emperor at the Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ September 3-24th, 2016
By Alice Saville
Kathryn Hunter performs a complex, sensuous look at Ethiopia’s last emperor, Haile Selassie.
5 August 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Yerma at the Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ 28th July - 24th September 2016
By Eleanor Turney
The gradual erosion from longing: Eleanor Turney reviews Billie Piper’s “blindingly good performance” at the Young Vic.
27 July 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Now We Are Here at the Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ 20th - 30th July 2016
By Ben Monks
Seeking sanctuary: Ben Monks reviews a work created by refugees that displays “humour, resilience, and unwavering courage”.
8 July 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Queens of Syria at the Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ 5th - 9th July 2016
By Rosemary Waugh
The scent of roses: Rosemary Waugh reviews a re-telling of Euripides’ Trojan Women by Syrian refugees.
8 June 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Cuttin It at the Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ 20th May - 11th June 2016
By David Ralf
“The red fencing above is torn, twisted metal.” David Ralf reviews Charlene James’s new work confronting FGM in Britain.
23 May 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Blue/Orange at Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ 12th May - 2nd July 2016
By Lee Anderson
“Borders blur and meaning’s shift” in Matthew Xia’s production of Blue/Orange.
21 March 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Living With the Lights On at the Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ 17th - 19th March 2016
By Brendan Macdonald
Honesty and theatricality combine in Mark Lockyer’s solo performance.
18 March 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • Reviews • West End & Central
Review: If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me at the Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ 10th March - 16th April 2016
By Verity Healey
Verity Healey reviews Jane Horrocks’ “archeological exercise” at the Young Vic.
22 February 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing at the Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ 17th February 2016 - 26th March 2016
By Emma Smith
Annie Ryan’s stage adaptation of Eimear McBride’s novel “batters language into feeling”.
8 February 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Battlefield at Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ 3rd - 27th February 2016
By Amelia Forsbrook
“The survivors of war embark on a macabre and ill-fated jigsaw puzzle of torn-apart flesh,” in Brook and Estienne’s adaptation of an Indian epic.