Lin Young

Past Contributor

Lin Young (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the English Department at Queen’s University by day, and an insatiable theatre-goer by night. She’s seen plays in basements, gardens, bars, and in old dilapidated houses, to name a few. She has been published academically on subjects as diverse as 19th-Century children's fantasy, contemporary webcomics, and Victorian vampire fiction, and has worked as Editor and contributor to Mooney on Theatre in Toronto for over five years.

Articles by Lin

August 3, 2019

Puppets, Stage Magic and Faustian Greed in The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy

Festival
Kick & Push Festival
Kingston Theatre Alliance
Review
Storefront Fringe Festival
Theatre Kingston

The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy welcomes you into the room with a few carnival games—one in particular, ‘fast and loose,’ asks audience members to make bets on a piece of rope. Pick a side, any side, and if the knot tightens around your finger, you win. If you’re not caught, you lose. This sets the tone straight away for the show about to be played: either you’re caught, or you […]

July 21, 2019

Stupidhead! Is a Complex Comedy of Errors for the Modern Day

Festival
Kick & Push Festival
Kingston Theatre Alliance
Review

When you walk into Stupidhead! at the Central Public Library, the floor is covered in zig-zags of candy-coloured tape that suggest—thanks to a paper mâché brain that gets wheeled out when the show begins—the wavelengths of the brain.