Image by Robert Workman Since 2012 Kathryn O’Reilly has toured both nationally and internationally as the strong but savage Liz Morden – a total of 318 performances as the female convic…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:11PMSpanish-born, London-based choreographer Avatâra Ayuso has been dancing since she was seven. Now, at Sadler’s Well in London, she’s launching her own company in the UK for the first tim…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:46AMDebs Gatenby has just driven across the Yorkshire Dales and, as this interview takes place, is staying at her mum’s. It’s an appropriate location, givien that the topic of conversation i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:19AMMike Bryher, Artistic Director of Dumbshow Theatre, started in theatre by doing a National Youth Theatre course when he was 16, then going back to university with a new skill set and a passi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:42AMWhen Louis Hartshorn and Brian Hook first met, first started considering working together, they couldn’t have guessed that a simple introduction would turn into such a fruitful partnership…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:27AM“This show is fun, highly entertaining, and very necessary. It will definitely make you laugh; it will definitely piss some people off – I expect some people to walk out… but it’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:37AMEvery year Red Rose Chain Theatre Company takes theatre away from the stage and into the trees with Theatre In The Forest. Artistic Director Jo Carrick has been there since the project start…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:18AMCome June, the Junction in Cambridge will be hosting a weekend theatre festival unlike any that’s come before: Night Watch will condense an entire festival’s worth of new performance, t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:20AMWhat happens when a Brit (Lucy Fenton) and an American (Kevin Shen) with a passion for theatre and acting come together, decide to make theatre, and star in it? Well, apparently it becomes t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:25AMIf you cast you mind back through the celebrity scandals and moral panics that have graced the newspaper headlines throughout the past few years, you may remember a story that grabbed public…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:13AMJames Grieve and George Perrin have been working together since the were at university – they started their own company, Nabokov, and co-ran it together for 10 years. So when the job of Ar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:07AMShelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey was a landmark in British theatre – one of the ‘kitchen sink’ dramas that revolutionised theatre as an art form – and drew on issues of race, cl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:27AMSat at a table in an empty office floor space, Tom Morton-Smith mulls over his latest play script. The actors are taking a lunch break and the floor is divided up with squares of black tape,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:51AMMark Leipacher is one of The Faction. This may sound like the name of a shady secret society, but in fact, The Faction is a London-based ensemble theatre company exploring and revitalising c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54AMMy Neck of the Woods: A live stream from the young people of Manchester, telling our stories and asking our questions. Last weekend a group of six young people – including me – took to t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:00AMGo wandering around a bookstore or a cinema and you’ll struggle to go five minutes without seeing a film or novel that boasts the tag line “Based on a true life story! Telling stories b…
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