I have a confession to make: a few years ago, I flirted with stand-up comedy. Theatremaking is collaboration; I love that in the job, but part of me was ready to speak in my voice for a whi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:58AMEvernote got hacked last week. To explain: Evernote is an app that lets you capture text and pictures from the internet, organise them into ‘notebooks’ and save these to the clo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:45PMEight years ago, Phelim McDermott was in two minds: he was devoted to his craft as a theatremaker, but frustrated with the industry and with himself. He decided to stop moaning and act, and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AMThink of a theatremaker you admire, really admire. Someone whose work has a strong and unique flavour, whose every show finds a new way to surprise you, punch you square in the brain, or ma…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:53AMBrian Clough was “the best manager England never had”, according to the caption that ends Peter Morgan’s 2009 biopic The Damned United. I’d say it’s a fair assessment. Clou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:48PMA few months ago, my friend, the actor Jennifer Jackson, tweeted a line from a book she was reading about oil painting: Technique is a tool. It is not the whole of art, but it is a very es…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:07AMThe Tesla coil offers one of science’s most theatrical demonstrations, sending blue forks of electricity cracking and spitting into the air. As its inventor, Nikola Tesla, packed up his …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:24AMA few weeks ago, an actor friend of mine started tweeting lines from a book she was reading. The tweets were aphorisms, the first reading that ‘technique is a tool; not the whole of art,…
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