Thursday, September 22, 2016
I have often heard older millennials like me bemoaning a recent slump in the quality of live children’s entertainment on TV. Our parents had Crackerjack, and we had SMTV Live, but kids now…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:25PMThursday, November 19, 2015
Image via bjaglin on Flickr. Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, considered Ireland’s national theatre, hosted a meeting last Thursday that finally gave voice to years of frustration for women i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:32AMSaturday, September 19, 2015
Image via Piero Fissore from Flickr I’m currently working on an extremely high-profile, multi-million-dollar feature film. For real. I’m on an incredible outdoor set, acting with real, p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:09AMFriday, July 24, 2015
In an artistic climate that celebrates the interweaving of different art forms and media, it is strange that we don’t see exciting collaborations like the RSC and Garsington Opera’s prod…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:06AMWednesday, July 22, 2015
Image: Arild Andersen at Creative Commons Apparently concerned that not enough of the world is quite as much in love with the sound of my own voice as I am, I recently produced my own audio…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:42PMThursday, April 30, 2015
After winning the LOST Theatre’s One Act Festival in 2014, an expanded version of By Virtue Fall appears at The Space for an extremely limited run this week. While approaching a very inter…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:45PMSunday, April 19, 2015
In our latest honorary Mate guest contribution, theatre blogger and co-operative agency actor Briony Rawle provides a step-by-step guide on how to break into the acting profession – li…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:38PMFriday, April 17, 2015
There is something terrible happening to girls and women all over the world, of which we are only just becoming aware. Female genital mutilation is a practice carried out every day, across m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:13PMWednesday, April 15, 2015
“So I’m asking you to marry me,” I said to the twelve other people in the room. They were smiling, but I wasn’t sure whether or not they would say yes. In the end they did say yes, a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:35PMSaturday, April 11, 2015
After Electra is the result of a commission of April de Angelis by the Theatre Royal Plymouth, to write a play that would showcase the badly underused talent of older actresses. Commendably,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:26AMTuesday, March 3, 2015
Image Credit: Tax Credits @ Creative Commons The little-known legal facts that could see thousands of filmmakers in court Disclaimer: Briony Rawle talks big, but is not a trained lawyer. Her…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:40AMMonday, March 2, 2015
Following the London riots of 2011, the media began to be aware of the term ‘domestic extremist’, which had been coined by the Metropolitan Police, ostensibly to describe people it was w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:43PMSunday, February 22, 2015
A while ago I wrote a blog post pompously entitled ‘How to make better films.’ I wrote it because I thought if I came across one more casting brief asking for “Curvy Thin Sexy Brunette…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:39PMMonday, February 16, 2015
It is with Verdi’s maddeningly beautiful melodies still trilling round in my head that I write this review of the ENO’s La Traviata at the company’s home, the London Coliseum. In Verdi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:47PMFriday, January 16, 2015
Bat Boy: The Musical is a joyful curveball of a programming decision by the Southwark Playhouse: a classic Beauty and the Beast (sorry, Beauty and the Bat Boy) story, dressed up in trashy B-…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:50AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
Image by Martin Tember Heckling So here I am again in panto. It’s like fondly looking back on an embarrassing memory from your past, except it’s happening right now. Thankfully there is …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:44PMSaturday, November 15, 2014
Hardcore Gothic fans will be pleasantly surprised by the comprehensiveness of the British Library’s Gothic exhibition. Beginning with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, generally ag…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:35PMSunday, November 9, 2014
Stumbling out into the acting world and realising that 87%* of the world’s population is now made up of actors (*official figure estimated by me), can make new actors panic a little. We ar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:01PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
The annual London Horror Festival is a celebration of everything dark, gory and scary in film and theatre in the run-up to Halloween. Throughout October it will bring London’s scariest act…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:54PMFriday, October 10, 2014
“Hi there, I’m your Equity representative,” said the shy, chipper, and palpably redundant chap who popped into my non-Equity panto rehearsal a couple of years ago. “I know this is a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:41AMTuesday, September 30, 2014
German director Thomas Ostermeier is on an odyssey through Ibsen. “Roughly every two years [since 2002] I have directed an Ibsen play,” he states in the programme, and his production of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24PMSunday, September 28, 2014
In case you weren’t already aware of this little-known fact (I have been keeping modestly hush-hush about the matter), I am currently part of a show called Shit-faced Shakespeare, a produc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:40PMSunday, August 31, 2014
Two days since I collapsed onto a southbound train at Edinburgh Waverley, and still the ghostly voices of the Fringe flyerers haunt me whenever I close my eyes: “Four-star physical theatre…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:55AMThursday, July 17, 2014
In my last blog post I wrote about the inevitable and recurrent meltdowns that actors should expect from time to time, when they’ve not had any work for so long that Equity have tried to f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:27AMMonday, June 23, 2014
Jonathan Kent’s brave production of Puccini’s classic opera has opened with a stellar lineup that includes the Royal Opera House’s famed resident music director Antonio Pappano conduct…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:25AMMonday, June 9, 2014
So it’s been two months since you’ve had an audition. So long since you did any meaningful acting work that your facial muscles are beginning to seize up and your alas-poor-Yorrick arm d…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:53AMWednesday, June 4, 2014
Christopher Oram’s sparse set looms ominously above this exciting adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker prize-winning novel, with metal cages overhead and a huge cross at the back of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:49PMFriday, May 16, 2014
The Pajama Game is a shiny 1954 Broadway musical based on the novel 7 ½ Cents by Richard Bissell. This production, directed by Richard Eyre, has transferred from the Chichester Festival The…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18PMRecently, I shot my first ever short film. “Your first one ever? What’s taken you so long?” I hear you probably not ask. Yes, I’ve been trying to get a showreel together pretty much …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:42AMThursday, May 15, 2014
Theatre is often at its best when it’s making fun of itself, and new musical Ushers, written by Yiannis Koutsakos and directed by Max Reynolds, makes a wonderfully affectionate mockery of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:41PMFriday, May 9, 2014
According to the blurb on the back of the playscript for Dead At Last, At Last No More Air, the playwright Werner Schwab was “the undisputed star of German-speaking theatre” at t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AM 
