In a new bi-monthly roundup, A Younger Theatre recommends the best theatre across the London and elsewhere. What’s hot and has the AYT stamp of approval? Read below to find out.

The Bunker Trilogy

Jake, Artistic Director of A Younger Theatre, recommends…

Now that the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is over you can catch some of the best shows as they transfer down to London. Don’t miss DryWrite’s Fleabag at Soho Theatre which won a Fringe First (read our review here), and Invertigo Theatre Company’s Outside on the Street which brings German-playwright Wolfgang Borchert to Arcola Theatre in an all-male ensemble (my review here). You mustn’t miss one of my highlights at the Fringe this year, the immersive The Bunker Trilogy: Agamemnon and Morgana by Jethro Compton (read my review here) at Southwark Playhouse, which also has Eyestring Theatre’s The Duchess of Malfi playing.

If puppetry is your thing you should be exploring HATCH Festival at Little Angel Theatre which features emerging companies with new work, whilst over at Jackson’s Lane you can see new circus performances in their residency project Fishes Have Wishes.

Folk in Wales should attend RESPONSE, a series of discussions on arts criticism in wales which AYT is co-hosting. If you’re in Manchester do not miss Chris Thorpe’s There Has Possibly Been An Incident (our review here). Leeds based? Check out The Ugly Sisters by the brilliant Rash Dash, and if you’re in Bristol you cannot miss Gecko’s Missing (my review here).

 

Eleanor, Managing Editor of A Younger Theatre, recommends…

Boringly, I’d like to start by seconding what Jake’s said above – I loved Fleabag in Edinburgh, so do try and catch it at Soho, and Eyestrings’s Duchess of Malfi was great when it was at the White Bear last year.

Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio is about to host a trilogy of Spanish Golden Age plays – Punishment Without Revenge, A Lady of Little Sense and Don Gil of the Green Breeches. The Ustinov has been on something of a winning streak recently, so if you’re in the south west, it’s worth booking in for these three.

Still in Bristol, the wonderful Tobacco Factory (now with new comfy seats to replace the bum-mumbing pews!) is hosting Filter’s Twelfth Night. If it’s Midsmmer Night’s Dream is anything to go by, this will be a riot. Don’t miss it.

Chimerica remains one of the best things I’ve seen this year, so I highly recommend seeing it at the Harold Pinter in the West End before it closes on 19 October. There are £10 day seats available at the box office from 10am every day.

Image of The Bunker Trilogy by Jethro Compton.