Review: The Boy In The Book, Electric Dreams Festival / CYOD and TheSpace 5.0Stars First published in 1979, the Choose Your Own Adventure books by Charles Packard were a niche but beloved pa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:18PMReview: Songs For A New World, Lambert Jackson Productions / The Other Palace4.0StarsConceptually, Songs for a New World is a tough sell: situated somewhere between a musical and a song cycl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:42AMIn our latest feature, Sam Nicholls speaks to the Artistic Director of Boundless Theatre, Rob Drummer about how merging both live and digital theatre could be the way forward. On Friday 3 Ju…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:32AMThe creative industries are already an anxiety-ridden area to get into and this has increased ten-fold in recent months. A new podcast by Brighton-based company, LOOKOUT has been produced in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:03AMReview: The Last Five Years, Lambert Jackson Productions 4.0Stars One of the last pieces of theatre I managed to see before the COVID-19 lockdown decimated normal life (and made live perform…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:48AMReview: Anansi the Spider Re-Spun: Episode 3, Unicorn Online 4.0stars The third and final episode of the Unicorn Online’s fantastic Anansi the Spider Re-Spun series, ‘Anansi and the Pot …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:36AMReview: Anansi the Spider Re-spun: Episode 2, Unicorn Online5.0starsThe second instalment of Unicorn Theatre’s online offerings, Anansi and the Two Dinners builds off the energy and charm …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:03AMReview: Anansi the Spider Re-Spun: Episode 1, Unicorn Online5.0starsWhen Anansi the Spider was first performed at the Unicorn Theatre back in 2019, the world was a completely different place…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:03AMTheatre has had to adapt swiftly and intelligently now that people are confined to their homes for the foreseeable future. Here, Sam Nicholls considers where the future may lie. Is it virtua…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:24PMReview: Bare E-ssentials, Encompass Productions3.0StarsThe tenth edition of Encompass Production’s reoccurring night of ‘micro-theatre’, Bare E-ssentials breaks the mould by being the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:03AMReview: Dem Times, Omnibus Theatre Online3.0starsProduced by Our Days, Dem Times is the story of Samuel Adjei, a British-born troublemaker forced by his parents to attend a rigorous Ghanaian…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:32PMFeeling like his theatre company was picking up speed, Jasper Frost was on cloud nine until the pandemic struck. He talks to Samuel Nicholls about what it’s now like working with the ‘Co…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:37PMOriginally performed at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and later broadcasted on BBC4, It’s True, It’s True, It’s True is the latest offering from Breach Theatre, a company that Lyn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:35PMTheatres are closing all over the world because of the Coronavirus. Is this really the end of days or could the internet prove to not only be our saviour but the start of a necessary revolut…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:48AMReview: The Time Machine, The London Library1.0starFirst published in 1895, H.G. Wells’ serialised novel, The Time Machine, not only popularised the concept of time travel, but in fact coi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:06AMReview: The Importance of Being... Earnest?, Omnibus Theatre 4.0Stars When asked why he thought that the theatre was “the greatest of all art forms”, Oscar Wilde responded that it was be…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AMReview: The Last Five Years, Southwark Playhouse 5.0stars Inspired by the breakdown of Jason Robert Brown’s own marriage, The Last Five Years has been a perennial favourite of the musical …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:54AMReview: The Apologists, Omnibus Theatre3.0StarsRemarkably, for an age where the ‘art of the apology’ is given almost equal attention to what’s being apologised for, very little dramati…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:32PMReview: The Sublet Next to Heaven, VAULT Festival4.0starsAs Hamlet famously said in one of the most widely quoted pieces of Shakespeare, “the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the fir…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:36AMIn a new series of interviews with young theatre companies, Samuel Nicholls finds out what strategies they use to stand out in an over-saturated industry. This month, he talks to Mannequin M…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:48PMReview: Killing It, VAULT Festival 5.0Stars Ever since Fleabag’s incredible journey from humble origins to explosive popularity, fringe artists have coalesced in trying to emulate its intr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:42PMReview: A Deed Without a Name, Theatro Technis 2.0stars Polish avant-garde artist, playwright, novelist and philosopher S.I. Witkiewicz posited “with fiction, you don’t make a fuss – y…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:54PMReview: Screwdriver, Lyric Hammersmith 4.0stars As posited by Oscar Wilde, “one of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:03PMReview: On McQuillan's Hill, Finborough Theatre4.0starsJoseph Crilly’s On McQuillan’s Hill was first performed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast in February 2000, opening to rave reviews. Me…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:12PMReview: What the Dolls Saw, VAULT Festival 3.0stars At home in the dank dungeon of the VAULT Festival, What the Dolls Saw promises the proverbial moon: a true-crime style conundrum “that u…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:03PMReview: For the Sake of Argument, Bridewell Theatre1.0starsFrom the outset, For the Sake of Argument is obsessed with the virtue of a well-made point: as its protagonist Eleanor Hickock (Ash…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:24AMIn a new series, Samuel Nicholls interviews small theatre companies to find out what strategies they use to stand out in an over-saturated industry. This month, he talks to Get Out of My Spa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:12AMReview: The Welkin, National Theatre 5.0stars Stemming from the Old English word for ‘cloud’, the welkin is a vault in the sky: the home of the legendary Grigori, an elite race of angels…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:03AMReview: Dial M for Murder, Richmond Theatre2.0starsWhen playwright Frederick Knott first conceived and wrote Dial M for Murder in 1948, he identified the text’s core strength as its seriou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:36AMReview: Coming Clean, Trafalgar Studios 24.0starsOriginally performed in November 1982 at the Bush Theatre, Coming Clean was acclaimed writer Kevin Elyot’s first professionally produced pl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AMReview: The Importance of Being Earnest - Played by Immigrants, Tower Theatre2.0starsAs shrewdly commented by the prickly Lady Bracknell, “never speak disrespectfully of Society… only pe…
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