Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Fringe festivals are known to display a variety of new writing, but there are also some hidden classics in the repertoire. This is highlighted by Lazarus Theatre’s the Tragedy of Mariam at…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:21AMFriday, August 9, 2013
It is not a good time for emerging artists. The jobs seem to have shrunk to atom-size and funding might as well be a Russian word. The new mantra in performing arts appears to be: “if …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:13AMMonday, August 5, 2013
After its massive success with Julius Caesar this summer which harvested rave reviews from critics all over London, I didn’t think Iris Theatre could possibly have any more sparkles in it.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:00AMSunday, July 28, 2013
I am not a big fan of so-called ‘monologue-shows’ – storytelling is getting more and more popular these days, even outside the black box, but I often find it hard to see past a charact…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:21AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Theatre has, since its early days, been a reflection on society: a comment on the past, present and future. It’s highly influenced by broader elements of culture, and a play will have diff…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:14PMSunday, July 7, 2013
Summertime in London is the time for Shakespeare, and the city blossoms with various productions from open-air theatre in the heart of Covent Garden and small modern interpretations, to the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:54PMWednesday, July 3, 2013
It is always a pleasure seeing one of Iris Theatre’s outdoor Shakespeare productions in the heart of Covent Garden, concealed in the sweet idyll of St Paul’s Church. Staged in the church…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:52AMSaturday, June 29, 2013
Set in 1950s Pittsburgh, Fences is one of August Wilson’s plays about the African-American experience of a divided America. Officially the country was “separate but equal”, bu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
When we are children we fantasise about becoming superheroes. We dream ourselves into a world where anything’s possible – we can fly, run through walls, our bodies are capable of anythin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:04AMMonday, May 27, 2013
“Mockingbirds just make music; they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out. That’s why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.” To Kill a Mockingbird is probably one of the most bel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:46PMSaturday, May 18, 2013
Guy’s life is running away from him without him noticing. Once a writer (he won a short story award 14 years ago, according to his talking fridge) he now finds himself stuck with a writer�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:46AMFriday, April 12, 2013
A narrative is any account that presents connected events, usually with a certain structure. When we read/hear/tell stories there’s almost always a beginning, a climax and an ending. Even …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:19AMThursday, April 11, 2013
Parveen Akram, a young Muslim barrister, fights for her clients’ liberties in the Westminster County Court but soon realises that separating her professional life and her domestic nightmar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:48AMFriday, March 8, 2013
It is unbelievably hard to get into drama school in the UK. About 4,500 young people apply every year, pay a fortune to be seen for about 90 seconds (which is outrageous, but that’s a diff…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:09PMSaturday, February 23, 2013
If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep depicts a government that has privatised the welfare state, with catastrophic results for its citizens. The play exposes the failures of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:00AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
Auditioning is hard. That’s no secret. It is terrifying putting yourself on display with the risk of failing – and even the best actors are rejected from time to time. Sometimes you are …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:09PMThursday, January 3, 2013
When you are applying for jobs it’s usually your CV you have to worry about – your experience, your degree and how it all fits in with the company for which you are hoping to work. But w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:19AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
We all dream of happy endings. We grow up with great fairy tales promising a “happily ever after” and even as grown-ups living in a world of financial crisis, one-night stands an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:28AMThursday, November 15, 2012
The Effect questions medicine at its highest level: neuroscience. We rely so much on what scientists tell us – if we are ill we trust them to give us the cure, and we do what they say in t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:31AMWednesday, October 31, 2012
When Mark (Joe Doherty) came on stage, ranting and swearing like a talking bulldog, I thought Bones would leave me checking my watch every ten seconds, dying to run out of Tristan Bates Thea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:57AMThursday, October 25, 2012
I so didn’t expect to be wearing goggles in a locker room playing thumb war with a guy on a Monday night, but that was exactly my experience of Non Zero One’s The Time Out. Today people …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:49AMFriday, October 12, 2012
President Barack Obama has killed a dog. With his bare hands. And apparently he lived with an illegal Pakistani immigrant in Harlem before jumping up the social ladder, fulfilling the Americ…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:41AMThursday, September 20, 2012
As a Scandinavian, it is very exciting when the West End takes on some of the Nordic masterpieces. And when this is Ibsen himself, whose dramatic portrayal of women had such an impact on the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00AMWednesday, July 25, 2012
Writing is not the same anymore. Where beautiful poetry and theatre pieces blossomed with Shakespeare and his contemporaries, it seems as if new writing in the 21stcentury has gone into over…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:20PMThursday, July 19, 2012
I believe every actor’s mum has told him at least once that she will be his manager when he reaches Hollywood. I’ve got at least 5 people who have promised to manage me if I ever fin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:05PMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Science fiction rarely treads the boards, with the exception of a certain Spiderman musical, which ended in disaster with four major accidents. So Misshapen Theatre’s Blast Off at the Soho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:32PMTuesday, July 3, 2012
Life in London is busy. Relaxing could easily be a Russian word to Londoners, taking a break from the city is like asking a photographer to take pictures with a shoe. Yet somehow Iris Theatr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:23AMThursday, June 21, 2012
When we buy Coca Cola in a supermarket the first thing we look for is the brand – the label, Coca Cola. If it wasn’t clear to us what the product was we would spend ages in the beer depa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:09AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Back in the days, before Timeline on Facebook, people worshipped gods. They were divine creatures we couldn’t touch. This is how we see actors today: god-figures, creatures from another wo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:57AM 
