Friday, 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 09:42AMWednesday, April 30, 2014
Avenue Q enjoyed massive success on Broadway and in the West End after its début in 2002, and has been revived at the Greenwich Theatre after leaving the Wyndham’s Theatre for its la…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:11PMMonday, March 10, 2014
That scary-faced old lady in the picture? That’s me. No, my face has not been ravaged by harsh stage makeup, tears from bad reviews and constant rejection, Withnail-style fags and boozing,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:16PMFriday, February 7, 2014
The Play That Goes Wrong is a slapstick farce written and performed by Mischief Theatre, a company founded by a group of LAMDA graduates in 2008. The play follows in the meta-theatrical trad…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:30AMFriday, January 31, 2014
Right. I’ve done my tax return, tidied my room, emptied the dishwasher, done an excessively long warm-up with added zizz-ing, refreshed my email inbox precisely eleventy times and invented…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:07AMThursday, January 23, 2014
I almost shouted with glee during the first few minutes of Carrie Cracknell’s new feminist piece, Blurred Lines, at the National Theatre Shed. The eight actresses give a deadpan list, in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:13PMSaturday, January 11, 2014
“I’M SOAKING WET AND I WANT TO GO CLUBBING”, I texted to my boyfriend after leaving Fuerzabruta last night. I was so exhilarated I didn’t know what to do with myself. So I ra…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:31AMTuesday, January 7, 2014
Actors are very backward things in many ways. Not only do they spend their lives pretending to be people they aren’t in front of an audience of people who know full well that they aren’t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:02AMFriday, December 20, 2013
When I learnt that one-man mime act The Boy With Tape On His Face would be playing a full-length show for one night at the Palace Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, I wondered how a performer …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:54AMSaturday, December 7, 2013
Being an unemployed actor, I have lots of time to sit and wonder why I’m an unemployed actor. It could be that I’m terrible at acting, which would be unfortunate. Maybe I’m OK at it bu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:20AMFriday, December 6, 2013
Looking at reviews from the Edinburgh festival this summer, it seems that The Boy With Tape On His Face is just one of a spectacularly quiet rabble of mime shows to have made a splash – ac…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:00AMTuesday, December 3, 2013
I’m waiting to hear back about an audition. It went well. Ish. Well, I think it went well. Maybe it was horrible. I don’t know. Of course I’ve been replaying every second of it that I …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:38AMFriday, November 29, 2013
Daniel Evans is the Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres, comprising the Crucible, the Crucible Studio and the Lyceum, all of which good-naturedly share a piazza in Sheffield’s newly-re…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:22AMThursday, November 21, 2013
It’s funny how people’s jobs stop them from enjoying things. My friend who is a designer got upset the other day because the name of a hotel was written in lower case letters on one side…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:27AMTuesday, November 12, 2013
Apparently, now that we’ve blackmailed our neighbours into giving us confectionery, burned a human effigy, and watched an airborne chemistry lesson, it’s officially Christmas. Well, I’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:13AMThursday, October 31, 2013
As you will have gathered, I am positively a wilting flower when it comes to discussing social issues, and have not in any way been known to bore on and on on Facebook about this article tha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:53AMFriday, October 25, 2013
Most mornings I find myself lying alone on my bedroom floor going “zzzzz” in the name of voice work, which involves (I hope my voice teacher doesn’t read this – sorry Alex) a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:19AMMonday, October 21, 2013
Kaleider is an Exeter-based theatre organisation that it would be reductive to call simply a production company; working in collaboration with a diverse range of groups from theatre companie…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:16AMFriday, October 18, 2013
Like many people, I trust my mum to be the supreme arbiter of many things in my life, such as how t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:08AMFriday, October 11, 2013
When you become an actor, you quickly learn to redesign your notions of communication. You might (you should) have conversations on stage which involve listening and responding appropriately…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:03AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
Many people’s jobs require them to account for their time in order to get paid. They write reports, they give presentations, they, they – well I have no idea what normal people do in nor…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:04AMWednesday, September 25, 2013
Trawling the casting websites for work is an actor’s daily ritual. Each day, another musical will need an “Understudy/Assistant Stage Manager”, another music video will need a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:48AMFriday, September 20, 2013
Nic Jackman is a recent graduate from LAMDA’s three-year acting course and is in rehearsals for the Donmar Warehouse’s new production of Arnold Wesker’s Roots. The play is set in rural…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:02AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
You’d think that with all the advice that actors are offered all the time, it’d be a pretty easy ride. Whenever I tell a non-actor that I’m an actor, they usually assume (correctly, as…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:00AMThursday, September 12, 2013
This week my happy, lefty, lazily anti-capitalist ideals took an unpleasant bashing as I realised that, particularly in the acting world, most of the time things just don’t work without mo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:32AMSunday, September 8, 2013
In my last blog post, I addressed my latest acting-related identity crisis and inexpertly thrashed it out a bit. But then I forgot to stop thinking and I realised that I don’t even really …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:55AMSaturday, August 31, 2013
I’m having an identity crisis. People keep asking me what I am – and it’s not just because they’ve caught me at 7am before I’ve had a chance to organise my face into something that…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:33AMThursday, August 8, 2013
I’ve come to the end of our run, looked around, and realised that of the roughly eleventy-billion industry professionals I invited to see me in Macbeth, precisely none actually came. True,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:01AMTuesday, July 30, 2013
I recently met a guy who asked me, “Do you want to hear about the worst job I’ve ever had?” He’d once had a summer job in a tin can factory. As the tin cans came down the conveyor be…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:17PMWednesday, July 24, 2013
Shaking up the genders has always been trendy in Shakespeare. Far cleverer and better-informed people than me have written fat books about it, and that’s because it’s always really inter…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:36AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Tonight is opening night. The red carpet has been swept and the champagne glasses polished. The press are camped outside the stage door, poised to snap the cast as we sweep out of our black …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:27AM 
