A nifty ornate clock presides over the stage at Princess Suffragette, the new historical play by Subika Anwar-Khan at London’s VAULT Festival. Instead of hours, the clock, which cast membe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12PMWhat takes place behind closed doors when two major historical figures meet? Motivating plays like Michael Frayn’s celebrated Copenhagen (the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg) a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:54PMWon’t someone please think of the men? Why one AYT critic took issue with the Telegraph’s Dominic Cavendish’s plea for women to steer clear of Shakespeare’s male roles. Like Dominic …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:24PMThe National Theatre’s promotional campaign for Simon Godwin’s new Twelfth Night has been all Tamsin Greig, all the time. The video trailer and the programme design devote themselves ent…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:48PMWhat is The Cherry Orchard? In 1903, Anton Chekhov responded vehemently to Stanislavski’s directorial interpretation of the play as a tragedy, asserting that, “what has emerged from me i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54AMOh, to be young and on the run from the Corporation. That’s the plight of Moonshine, the thirteen-year-old heroine of Magic Maverick’s half term show for kids, Moonshine’s Entirely Nec…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:24AMThere is no shortage of pillars around the perimeter of the London Coliseum, but two more appeared onstage at the opening night of the English National Opera’s The Pirates of Penzance: a c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:42AM“I don’t have dreams – I just want to be full,” the puppet sings, turning his pleading, extraordinarily expressive eyes towards the audience. He is Tarrare, “The Gentleman Glutton,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AMThe young refugee turns to the audience, beseeching someone to help her, begging for someone to listen. When no one speaks on her behalf, she follows the bus driver, whose help she so desper…
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