Sunday, February 8, 2015
Here at York, the courses within the Department of Theatre, Film and Television love to collaborate with one another. The department’s student theatre company Platform has joined force…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:00PMTuesday, February 3, 2015
The University of York’s drama society is one of the oldest and most prolific in the country, producing over eight plays a term. These are either existing plays or newly written ones, so t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12PMMonday, December 15, 2014
There’s no disputing that Roald Dahl has written some absolutely brilliant children’s books, bringing to life fantastic adventures that children and adults alike can indulge in. It’s b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:09PMSunday, December 14, 2014
It’s Christmas! And what better way to celebrate it than by going to see a good old Christmas musical to bring everyone together? The West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds has brought to l…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:31AMSaturday, November 29, 2014
Northern Broadsides are acclaimed for injecting their unique sense of wit and energy into classical texts, and they continue this trend with Oliver Goldsmith’s well-known play She Stoops t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:40AMFor those of you that read my review of the third year Writing, Directing and Performance students’ staging of Bryony Lavery’s play Nothing Compares to You, you’ll know that they did s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41AMThursday, November 27, 2014
Bryony Lavery is a prolific playwright, and has written some well-known, cracking plays that are lyrical and evocative. Her play Nothing Compares to You, however, isn’t that well known…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:26AMSunday, November 23, 2014
It’s always great to see classic stories being brought to life in a new way, and that’s exactly what Two Bit Classics do with their new adaptation of Jane Austen’s timeless story Pride…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:05PMFriday, November 21, 2014
York Theatre Royal’s TakeOver Festival has been bringing some exciting new work to the theatre’s studio venue, and Metal Rabbit’s Johnny Got His Gun is no exception. Amidst the awesome…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:56AMWednesday, November 19, 2014
Susan Hill’s novel The Woman in Black has sparked interest for years, and this interest has only grown since its adaptation into a stage play and a film. The former has been called one of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:11PMMonday, November 17, 2014
York Theatre Royal’s TakeOver Festival has been brilliant – it’s been full of fantastic pieces of theatre and has allowed young people the opportunity to see inside the inner workings …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:30PMIt’s awesome when theatre companies draw on the past to create new, fresh and original work. This is what Actors of Dionysus has done with its new piece Helen, which brings to the audience…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:57PMSunday, November 16, 2014
For me, theatre is all about bringing something unique and different to an audience, whether it be a good hard-hitting play, a good bit of storytelling or a wacky piece of performance art th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:32PMTheatre is such a diverse performance platform that it can catapult all kinds of work at an audience, and this is exactly what York Theatre Royal’s TakeOver Festival is all about. A fittin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:05PMThursday, November 6, 2014
Every so often, a little gem of theatre comes along into your life and blows you away – or, at least, diminishes your ability to think about anything else for a few moments after the s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:56PMTheatre is one of the most unique ways to shine lights on subjects that are often kept in the dark, especially for my current generation. This is exactly what Bryony Lavery’s new play Quee…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:17PMFriday, October 31, 2014
As I keep saying, theatre is such a diverse performance platform that can accommodate such a vast amount of art. Such examples include serious dramatic plays, dazzlingly spectacular musicals…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:29PMWednesday, October 29, 2014
Theatre is, and always has been, incredibly different from film and television. It’s raw, evocative and, most importantly, alive – and these aspects come to life in a spellbinding new a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:53PMFriday, October 24, 2014
There’s nothing like a modern revival of a classic play to breathe life into some old themes and ideas that are relevant in the world we live in today. This is the case with Roy Williams�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:10PMThursday, October 16, 2014
Every once in a while, it’s nice to take a break from the big, exciting shows that catch most of the public’s attention on a theatre’s main stage, and catch some new work in a much sma…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:35PMSunday, October 12, 2014
In my last review of Harold Pinter’s play Betrayal, I mentioned that there’s nothing like a good old-fashioned play to bring an audience to its senses, especially in a theatrical climate…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41PMThursday, October 9, 2014
In the current theatrical climate that’s awash with abstract and mind-bogglingly inaccessible productions, it’s very easy to forget how powerful a good old-fashioned play can be. This is…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:33PMMonday, September 22, 2014
After blowing us away with their cracking contemporary version of A Streetcar Named Desire, Secret Theatre Company has torn down the blank white walls of Stella Kowalski’s house and re…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:26PMSunday, September 21, 2014
The Secret Theatre Company is slowly building quite a reputation for itself, and is becoming known for bringing both new and classic plays to life in a unique way. The company began to estab…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:11AMMonday, July 7, 2014
There are a lot of heroes in our world that a fair few people haven’t heard of. Take cycling legend Beryl Burton, for example – while she may have been one of the most determined…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:32AMFriday, June 27, 2014
Theatre is such a broad performance platform. It can play host to limitless staging, lighting and sound options that ultimately shape the course of a show and how an audience perceives it. I…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:22AMMonday, June 16, 2014
After success with Bennett’s classic play Enjoy, the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s Alan Bennett season continues with the musical comedy Betty Blue Eyes, based on his screenplay …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:13AMSunday, June 1, 2014
If you’re a lover of plays, pies and pints, then it’s well worth popping along to the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s new aptly named ‘A Play, A Pie and A Pint’ programme, which does ex…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:36AMSaturday, May 24, 2014
Playwright Alan Bennett has recently turned 80, and with a career in theatre, film and television spanning over fifty years, it’s easy to see why he’s one of the nation’s m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00AMThursday, May 22, 2014
The National Theatre Connections festival is a unique festival in which the new work of playwrights from across the country is showcased by youth theatres and schools. This month, the youth …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:49PMTuesday, March 25, 2014
Theatre is all about stimulating the imagination and letting it run free. It shows us things that film and television can’t and offers us a unique experience. Glass-Eye Theatre Company pro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:51PM 
