Saturday, June 23, 2018
Printworks London, the multi-purpose venue which has set out to shake the ground of the capital’s cultural scene, has no
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AMIt’s said that epidemics are the biggest threat to the human population. Since our technologies have so rapidly advanced and
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:33AMTuesday, August 8, 2017
One of the big questions that keeps being raised when rating the impact technology has on our lives is whether it destroys our capability for empathy. Empathy – the ability to understand a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:36AMMonday, June 19, 2017
You can’t help but see the streets of Borough in the light of the horrific events that occurred recently. It seems almost surreal going to the theatre for entertainment on the doorstep of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AMTuesday, June 6, 2017
Innovative theatrical legend Robert Lepage is one of those few multi-talented sub-species that seem to be able to do anything they set their mind to. A world-wide renowned writer, director, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:05AMMonday, April 17, 2017
Anyone who remotely sees themselves as a Disney fan will sing-scream at the top of their lungs when hearing that famous opening “let’s get down to business”. Mulan is such …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:36AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
After a heatwave of Nordic Noir over the past few years, it makes my Danish heart flutter that the Print Room has decided to celebrate Karen Blixen, one of our greatest storytellers and an a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:36AMSaturday, February 18, 2017
Just moments after stepping out of Bunker Theatre, it was obvious this venue will keep drawing me back. Underground, raw and quirky, tailoring its space to each show coming in, making theatr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PMMonday, February 6, 2017
If you had a daughter growing up in today’s steamy political climate what is the advice you’d give her? Would you tell her that the blame is always on her and her alcohol consumption if …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12AMTuesday, November 1, 2016
The story of Anastasia and her presumed flight from the slaughtering of the Tsar family is a modern fairy-tale that has stayed with me since childhood. I grew up on the hope she made it out …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:31PMSunday, October 23, 2016
“A diagnosis is a release, but it is also a separation.” In a physical dialogue with her disability, Suzie Birchwood expresses her struggle with dystonia as she trained as a ball…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:19AMMonday, October 17, 2016
We live in the hope that the future will be better than the reality we have today. That there will be better opportunities, more advanced technologies, more freedom, more choice. But what ha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:19PMWednesday, October 12, 2016
Our obsessive use of technology, the freedom of the internet and our persistence to control planet seems to send us down the path of an Orwellian future. A future where totalitarianism rule,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:34PMSunday, July 24, 2016
Celebrating its forty-fifth anniversary, Jesus Christ Superstar protests once again, as Timothy Sheader adds modern spice to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock phenomenon with not just heaven on…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:32AMThursday, July 21, 2016
It’s hard to define experimental theatre in a world where everything has been done before. Like an over-used Rubik’s cube where most combinations have been explored, and still we have no…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:52PMThursday, June 9, 2016
It’s amazing how little we need to create vivid stories in our minds. That we can create worlds and people from pages in a book, from the sound of someone’s voice or the look in …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:21AMSaturday, April 30, 2016
If you’re under five, this is your show. If you’ve by far reached your pre-prime, then you can rejoice at how simple life once was with The Polar Bears Go Up. Following last year’s suc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:13PMMonday, April 25, 2016
How much would you give up to get what you want? Doctor Faustus decided everything. Shipped off his soul to the devil with a blindfold over anything called consequence. In Marlowe’s sixtee…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:46PMSensible people would probably say that 4.5 hours of Dutch Shakespeare is too much sand to swallow on a Friday night. Let alone a compilation of his history plays that with the connotations …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:46PMSunday, April 17, 2016
On paper The Suicide should be flawless. Attacking the bloodthirsty social media followers and their see-through empathy, the National would have hit it with the satirical boom it promised t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24PMSunday, April 3, 2016
When working in a conventional art form such as opera, with its roots stubbornly planted in the past, it can be difficult to imagine it shining a new light on the world. Many young audience …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:53AMSaturday, March 26, 2016
Beachy Head in Eastbourne is one of the world’s most popular suicide spots. You could say the site evokes a sense of mystery, a magnetic pulling-force; that the danger puts you face to fac…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:18AMThursday, March 24, 2016
Following Simon McBurney’s hyped spectacular that was The Encounter, it is both exciting and slightly puzzling to find another play on the London scene that explores a true story of the en…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:04PMWednesday, February 17, 2016
It’s not too bold to say that The Encounter is out of this world. Simon McBurney’s one-man show is simply like nothing you’ve ever experienced. And it is a total experience – it does…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:45PMMonday, February 15, 2016
“But the theatre isn’t glamorous”, I’ve heard my friends say countless of times. “Film is so much more powerful, naturalistic and international.” Don’t get me wrong, film is al…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:04AMSunday, February 14, 2016
It’s no news that arts funding often seems like a wishful hallucination for emerging artists. So in these often disheartening times for young creatives, it’s inspiring when you find work…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:57PMMonday, February 8, 2016
With blood and the realities of war almost at our doorstep, it seems right Peter Brook’s epic Mahabharata finds its way back to us 30 years after its original staging. Described as one of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:46PMMonday, January 11, 2016
When theatre and performance first came into their own right in Ancient Greece, their purpose was to provide catharsis to the audience – an emotional release identifying yourself with the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:43PMSaturday, December 5, 2015
It’s probably not too bold to say that Shakespeare has been done every way possible by now. After all, he’s had a few years to run on, he’s out of copyright so you can chop…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:09PMFriday, November 27, 2015
Being a proud Scandinavian I can safely say I don’t always have a great relationship with Ibsen. Because I met him very early on in my school days, he’s always felt more like an …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:14PMThursday, November 26, 2015
It’s not hard to imagine where the world is headed. With our constant bombing exchanges and cultural conflicts being a lethal topic of hot-headed shout-outs, the world of Wallace Shawn’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:04PM 
