Thursday, August 30, 2012
After two glorious weeks of research and development we are happy to say that The Feather Catcher has started to take shape. We’ve experimented with bubbles, unsuccessfully tried to build …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:24PMThursday, August 16, 2012
Right now London feels like a bloomin’ brilliant place to be. The Olympics did not bring the chaos, disappointment or unprecedented disasters that were promised. Instead we were met with a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:22AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Youngsters, teenagers, lend us your ears! We at Filskit are miffed. It appears that young people have been having a bit of a hard time of late. And as young arts professionals (yes, 25 is st…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:06PMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Last week saw the Filskit ladies and friends pack up the Nissan Micra for the second time in two months to head off to another Fringe Festival, this time to the Pulse Fringe at the New Wolse…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:39PMThursday, May 31, 2012
Addiction: a heavy word saturating our lives these days. Narcotics, alcohol, gambling and even shopping attract this label of compulsion. Heck, you’ve most likely heard us Filskit ladies c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:38AMFriday, May 18, 2012
Wow, what a bank holiday that was! Being a part of the Brighton Fringe opening weekend was always going to be exciting, but it was even better than any of us had hoped it would be… So …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:51AMWednesday, April 25, 2012
Brighton Fringe 2012 in numbers: 3 weeks 675 events 193 venues 155 free events 3,475 performances Thousands of participants 1 million visitors to Brighton in May The Olympics aren’t the on…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:01PMThursday, April 12, 2012
Filskit Theatre is 25 – no, not the company, the ladies themselves. Now a lady never usually reveals her age but we thought this a relevant topic (and we’re no ladies!). The most jun…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:45AMSunday, April 1, 2012
Over the past couple of months there has been a question at the back of our minds: can the fringe and professional worlds play nice? This is not an original thought, but a session called at …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:08AMThursday, March 15, 2012
Many of us will be familiar with sayings such as “patience is a virtue” and “look before you leap”. On numerous occasions we at Filskit have been told we are far too …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:47AMWednesday, February 29, 2012
This weekend we Filskit ladies traded our lie-ins and lazy afternoons for a full two days of theatre talk at Devoted and Disgruntled 7 hosted by Improbable. As many of you will know, the umb…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:04PMTuesday, February 14, 2012
“What is my motivation?” Thanks to the works of Stanislavski most of us are familiar with this clichéd expression, usually associated with the more ‘theatrical’ thespians as they se…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:11PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
Snow White, Cinderella, Beauty & The Beast – just some of the well-known fairy tales you may have seen or heard in your youth. They are the ancient stories that have been manipulated o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:09PMThursday, January 19, 2012
Disclaimer: Filskit would like to apologise in advance if we appear jubilant, smug or overly excitable in this week’s blog (but we have started 2012 with a bang!). Not so long ago you may …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:22AMThursday, January 5, 2012
The first week of January is always a little difficult. Going back to work after all the Christmas dinners and mince pies can be a struggle, but while recovering from the lethargy of the pas…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:01AMWednesday, December 21, 2011
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Arts Council forms have been filled out with care, In the hope that some funding…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:24PMThursday, December 8, 2011
The theatre world is a small one and it often feels as though every time we turn around we bump into someone we know. In fact, just the other week at a Grant for the Arts funding talk we bum…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:42AMThursday, November 24, 2011
It’s that time of year again – almost the season for battling through the shops to buy Christmas gifts (or panic buying online and doing a one stop shop on Amazon!). It is also approachi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:22AMWednesday, November 9, 2011
“It’s not you, it’s me”, “we need to talk”, “I’ve met someone else”, “we can still be friends” – these and other such cringe-worthy li…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:10PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Ten years ago, nobody knew what ‘trending’ was. It certainly wasn’t shell suits and bum bags. You’d be considered a vandal if you wrote on somebody’s wall – and if you suggested …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:13PMTuesday, October 11, 2011
Anyone who reads the newspapers knows that it’s money and not love that makes the world go round. If you hadn’t already heard, we are experiencing a credit crunch and the media cannot ge…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:02PMWednesday, September 28, 2011
It dawned on us the other day that it has been a whopping two years since we graduated. Distant memories of beaming tutors resurfaced along with chuckles at the odd mortar board wedged in th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:48PMWednesday, September 14, 2011
We three Filskit ladies might seem like unlikely spokespersons for technology in theatre. It is true that we do not have a smartphone between us, and we have spent many a happy hour swearing…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:23PMThursday, August 18, 2011
At the time of writing this blog it is five days, four hours, 17 minutes and counting until our first performance of Snow White as part of the Camden Fringe. We are all stuck in a cycle of n…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:58AMThursday, August 4, 2011
It is upon us! The annual call to celebrate all things fringe has begun. Edinburgh Fringe began as an extension of the international festival that embraced alternative and new ideas in theat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41AMWednesday, July 20, 2011
Cinema has gone 3D. The big blockbusters such as Transformers and Harry Potter use 3D visuals to surprise, shock and excite their audience. Smaller budget films such as TT3D and art history …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:01AMFriday, July 1, 2011
“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde After our debut performance of Snow White at the New Diorama, we Filskit …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:13AMThursday, June 16, 2011
A fortnight ago, our last blog was dedicated to the grim reality that the Capital was in the grip of an illiteracy crisis. Spurred on by the Evening Standard’s coverage of the topic and th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:00AMThursday, May 19, 2011
There is a reason why there have been three very tired Filskit ladies wandering around this week: this last weekend we finally reached the light at the end of the devising tunnel. That’s r…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:33AMTuesday, May 10, 2011
To wait or not to wait… well that isn’t quite the question, but there is often a tussle between impatience that can drive your work forward, and patience that can ensure you are read…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:23AMThursday, April 21, 2011
“From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people… It needs no other passport than fun” – Bertolt Brecht , A Short Organum for the Theatre While no one can den…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:39AM 
