The Young Ones
While this show is set back in the 1960s, featuring the music of Cliff Richard and The Shadows, it is still a very modern issue. The story involves a youth club under threat of being knocked down to make way for a building complex, leaving the young people with nowhere to keep themselves occupied. With time running out and ideas being scuppered to prevent this happening, they have to come up with an idea that will make sure the building is saved.
During the 1990s a south London youth club had exactly the same situation, using technology to their advantage and even had pop stars, such as Alicia Keys and Dizzee Rascal to promote their cause. Their club is still there. In this show, however, there is as much a battle of wills between the teenagers and the building magnate as there is total lack of council support for their plight. This is a point not even mentioned because the planning permission had already been granted. Again a point very relevant to today.
Teenagers, being teenagers and naive to how adult society works, are left in a situation with little money and struggling to find someone in high places have to try a work things in the only way they know how and with their own enthusiasm being their driving force. This means that not everything they do is legal.
This production of the show itself uses modern technology to bring theatre into the modern age, using television screens to full effect without detracting from the acting. Seeing BBC’s Richard Baker being interrupted in a newscast by the actions of the teenagers is almost a reason on it’s own to see this but it is very well put together and with the cast playing all the music themselves, is why Queen’s Theatre has won so many awards in recent times. The quality is every bit up to the standard of the West End for every performance for a much lower price.
Tim Coyle
A Real Entertaining Show, Cast was Fantastic and make shall your not too Young to miss this, or it could be a Real Cliff Hanger.
Adam Magson
My thoughts were the music was fantastic and performance,s were spot on the Money really a must see show, it had it all sexy , funny , and music performed at the highest level what more could u ask for on a night at the theatre.
Andy Barker
