Sunday, June 20, 2021
Drama instigates debate and changes lives. With venues open again, this is a chance to build a truly civic theatre culture
Theatre may not seem like a natural place to go in order to underst…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2017
A performative preview: the members of Barrel Organ explore debt, friendship and grief ahead of their Edinburgh Fringe show.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2014
(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Survive | Thrive} blog salon, curated by Caridad Svich.) Financial models supporting the creation …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2014
Repertory theatre is back in fashion. With the Secret Theatre ensemble working through a number of shows at the Lyric and the Royal Court producing its own six-play season last year, it seem…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2014
"You're a very good leader and you're very good at listening to others". Ellie Stamp has just met me, but she tells me this 'fact' based purely on the numbers of my birthday. It sounds lovel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2014
Phrases which Little Soldier uses to describe its work emphasises a crossover between humour and drama: "Life imitates art in the most tragic way" (Pakita); "Funny yet touching" (You and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:31AM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2014
"They can be quite unnerving," Mark Ravenhill says of the Secret Theatre company, suggesting that their 12Â months of working together has given way to a kind of openness he hasn't come ac…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Five years on from its première, Void Story is still during the rounds and continues to delight audiences. It’s a strange but beautiful mix of live graphic novel, post-apocalyptic nov…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:20AM[SHARE]In the past, the shows of pop deconstructionists Frisky and Mannish have mixed styles and genres in order to demonstrate the basic history and rules of popular music, and have even considere…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:09AM[SHARE]Theatre Ad Infinitum is a company which constantly reinvents itself; two years ago, Translunar Paradise told a heartbreaking story of two people in love using masks and music, whilst 2013…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:07AM[SHARE]Magic cards on the table: I 100%Â do not believe in psychics or fortune-tellers. Being a rationalist, I refuse to believe that the human mind has any ability whatsoever to reach out to ano…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Were you to make a list of acts who may play music festivals, the Royal Shakespeare Company would not necessarily be a name which featured highly. You'd probably be right in thinking that, m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:02AM[SHARE]Friday, May 2, 2014
To say Grounded took last year's Edinburgh Fringe by storm may be a bit of an understatement. For about a week, George Brant's play about an American pilot who finds herself sat behind a des…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:41AM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2014
It's not often you get handed a pair of ear defenders when walking into a rehearsal room; they are ordinarily 'safe' spaces with an air of creative calm, cultivated in order to provide the b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Although it's a cliche, there's a lot of truth to the old adage that, as Stephen Unwin says in his new book, "Brecht is often sloppily taught". Many teachers of his plays and theories ignore…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:19AM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2014
Considering the snobbery with which many people and media outlets in England discuss the concept of Scottish independence, it's unsurprising that many of our neighbours in the north are look…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2014
Many interviews begin with a bit of history and finish by looking forward to the future. When chatting to critic Jeremy Kingston, however, we decided to start by looking ahead and work our w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 9, 2014
The subtitle of Nicholas Ridout's Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism and Love, and its central argument " "that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of wo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2013
About halfway through our conversation, Kieran Hurley tells me a brilliant and quietly moving anecdote about The Bloody Great Border Ballad, a show which Northern Stages ran nightly at its E…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2013
The title of Duska Radosavljević’s Theatre-making would, you’d expect, refer to professionals who actively do the making, creating works of art for others to experience. And …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2013
(2/5) I now properly "get" that word-of-mouth is the most important tool for selling a show in Edinburgh. Though Donal O'Kelly's Brace – Skeffy was awarded a Fringe First last week and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:28PM[SHARE](3/5) Young women committing acts of violence on small animals seems to have become a bit of a running motif throughout this year's festival. After the grotesque ending of Phoebe Waller-Brid…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:57PM[SHARE](3/5) CONTAINS SPOILERS. After a successful run at last year's festival, Elephant and the Mouse has returned with Repertory Theatre, its bizarre, absurdist Hamlet-inspired two-man farce. It'…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 14, 2013
(4/5) I haven't seen anything on the publicity for Tristan Bernays's The Bread and the Beer that suggests this is a piece attempting to understand English identity, but in the context of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:41AM[SHARE](3/5) London Road is a street in the now-affluent Cape Town suburb of Sea Point. But it wasn’t always that way. It was once seen as a dangerous area due to absent landlords and a high …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:27AM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2013
(3/5) There are only really four long lasting visual images in Sven Werner's Tales of Magical Realism, all with kinetic parts: a train compartment with trees rushing past the window; a railw…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:54PM[SHARE](3/5) There is no shortage of 'nation' plays at this year's Fringe. Most that I'm aware of, however, discuss the notion of an independent Scotland and its identity, sidestepping the fact tha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:47PM[SHARE](3/5) We tell stories to keep ourselves going. To make us laugh, to make us cry, and to remind us that we're human. Storytelling forms the crux of Thunderbards, a two-man comedy sketch show …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2013
(3/5) Bella Loudon's Family Tree is at its best when it is undergoing an experiment in form, exploring the representation of different versions of reality on stage as ghosts of the mind haun…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:12PM[SHARE](3/5) We live in a world, so they say, far too full of information. As we all try to come to terms with the biggest shift in knowledge dissemination since the invention of the printing press…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:34PM[SHARE](3/5) Miles Davis and John Coltrane are names which tower above others. At the height of their powers, these two men shifted the musical landscape on an almost weekly basis, constantly tryin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:43AM[SHARE] 
