Wednesday, January 14, 2015
The Write to Play programme is Graeae’s writer development programme, now in its second year and this time around focussed on the North West of England. I interview Amit Sharma in person a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:04PMThursday, January 8, 2015
I arrive at Graeae’s Bradbury studios to talk to Amit Sharma about their Write to Play scheme. Graeae are pretty much unique – a theatre company run by Deaf and disabled artists that cre…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:22PMSunday, December 14, 2014
Jon Brittain is a busy man. We meet in a cafe opposite an old church he’s rehearsing Potted Sherlock in – he’s directing – between days of filming short sketches for a four-minute Ch…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:56PMWednesday, November 19, 2014
Image by Manuel Harlan Alistair McDowall is fidgety and nervous when we meet at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, where his play Pomona is about to open. He recently caused a stir with a G…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:33PMThursday, July 31, 2014
Confirmation is a show about confirmation bias. A one man show by writer/performer Chris Thorpe and directed by Rachel Chavkin. A show about how our brains favour or interpret information in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:49AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
You probably won’t know the name of the director Adam Penford. But it’s pretty likely you or someone you know will see something of his work this year. Because Penford’s productions ha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:01AMThursday, April 3, 2014
When Captain Amazing strides onto the Soho stage later this month, cape aflutter, it will be the latest step in a heroically long journey. The one-man, multi-character show is the story of M…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:05PMWednesday, March 12, 2014
Pests is about two sisters, Rolly and Pink, who live in a tiny, rotting room and have nothing in the world but each other. They even communicate in their own way. That’s the very first thi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:44AMMonday, February 3, 2014
It’s easy to lose of track of what’s happening in a city as frenetically busy as London, where any space is a potential theatre. It’s easy to miss out on the next big thing, or not hav…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:58AMThursday, January 30, 2014
Being led up the stairs to through Theatre Delicatessen’s current building, Marylebone Gardens, is like being backstage of the biggest show you’ve never seen. Each corner of the b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:21AMThursday, November 14, 2013
“The Gate that I run is there to say a charming and mischievous ‘fuck you’ to the world”. I’m in the dressing room of the Gate theatre, surrounded by unused lanterns, upend…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:19AMThursday, November 7, 2013
Transport Theatre’s As You Like It opens in a squat in Calais as a migrant reads the play to try to teach himself English. Then the play takes over. It’s a framing device drawn almost di…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:10AMWednesday, October 9, 2013
As the Lyric gears up for Show 3 of its Secret Theatre season, AYT talks to ensemble cast member Billy Seymour about engaging new audiences and taking inspiration from German theatremakers…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AM 
