Saturday, March 26, 2016
Friday night: the happiest part of every adult’s week. “Monday it’s back to grey”, exclaims Shane (James Cartwright), but on Friday the week is done and the freedom of the weeken…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:33PMMonday, March 21, 2016
A black curtain provides the barrier between stage and audience for three works from Ballet Black, a professional company for dancers of black and Asian descent. Two works are newly commissi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:01PMSaturday, March 5, 2016
Animal behaviour has long been studied through live experiments – put a rat in a maze, apply a stimulus and see how it reacts. The Truman Show is a 1990s film whereby Jim Carrey finds hims…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMWednesday, March 2, 2016
He may be one of the most well-known and celebrated playwrights in history, but William Shakespeare is not an easy man to understand. Language has moved on to such a large degree in the last…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:33PMMonday, February 15, 2016
No question about it, Angie Darcy sure can sing. As Janis Joplin in Full Tilt, she mixes rock and blues with country in a two-hour concert of fairly epic proportions. She also has a great ha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:56AMThursday, February 11, 2016
For someone who is so used to taking off her clothes in public, this is an unusually vulnerable display from Ursula Martinez. She is well-known on the cabaret circuit and her shows leave lit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AMSaturday, February 6, 2016
When you’re a child, there is no guilt, no shame, no pre-conceptions about how people should look or how a life should be lived. When you’re a child, questions such as “what do you lik…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:52AMWednesday, February 3, 2016
Patrick Marber’s three act play Dealer’s Choice is in many ways a well-chosen piece for an actor’s showcase. It presents the five students of Guildhall with a short production and six…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:48PMFriday, December 4, 2015
As the recipient of the JMK Award 2015, Liz Stevenson joins a list of 16 past winners that include Caroline Steinbeis and Polly Findlay. In Memory of James Menzies-Kitchin, who passed away i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:20PMWednesday, December 2, 2015
A disused water reservoir has been converted into a new underground opera venue in Brisbane, Australia. Spring Hill Reservoir has been re-opened by The Underground Opera Company to create a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:49PMSunday, November 29, 2015
The origin of its name is still hotly debated by the volunteers before every show. I hear newcomers asking the more experienced stage hands about it in each room I walk through and everyone …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:40PMFriday, November 13, 2015
On the anniversary that commemorates the end of one of the deadliest conflicts in history, Staying Alive is a play that examines the effect on those left behind. It’s not a play about Worl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:44PMSunday, November 8, 2015
When Kenneth Branagh announced the formation of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company in April 2015, the West End was understandably buzzing with excitement. The last time Branagh had graced t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:21PMAnother of the ‘Plays at the Garrick’ series from the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, Harlequinade and All On Her Own are two works that truly showcase the versatility of Terence Rattig…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:21PMSaturday, November 7, 2015
It is rumoured that the character of the Dodo in the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a caricature of Lewis Carroll himself, created as a consequence of Carroll’s stammer and hen…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:18PMThe diversity of culture in Britain today is very different to the world that Anita & Me is set in; the 1970s Black Country was much less culturally rich than 40 years on. Meera Syal’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:07PMThursday, November 5, 2015
The title of this particular showcase sounds like a mantra that many creative visionaries have pledged to live their lives by. As Britain’s oldest dance company, it is not out of place in …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:45PMSunday, November 1, 2015
With so many potential topics for theatre to explore, there really is carte blanche nowadays for a writer to paint the canvas of their work. So many plays look to tackle deeper intellectual …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:19PMThursday, October 29, 2015
Despite the seeming obsession the British public has with animals, I personally have never been a fan. Yet nowadays a modern British high street seems incomplete without the image of a coiff…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:09PMAs one of the world’s most well-known operas, it is strange to think that Carmen was so underappreciated in its day; Bizet sadly passed away before witnessing the true magnitude of his mos…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:00PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
“I kicked a fucking pram”, declares Jude (Sarah Mayhew) at the start of the anger management class. Straight to the point, it explains exactly why she is there in the first place and giv…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:11PMSaturday, October 17, 2015
Joanne is the central character in this production and yet she is never seen on stage. She doesn’t speak and the audience don’t see what she looks like. She is a spectre within the p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:28AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Velvet Trumpet brought its fifth edition of Soggy Brass to Southwark Playhouse to showcase potential new talent in comedy writing. Six writers presented their comedic talents on the stage in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:21PMThursday, October 8, 2015
One hundred years on from the start of World War One, Michael Nunn and William Trevitt (co-founders and Artistic Directors of BalletBoyz) collaborated with contemporary choreographer Iván P…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:16PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
I once visited a pub in Nottingham that claimed to be the oldest in England; my flatmate took me there when she was studying in the city. It dated back to 1437 and served a good cider if I r…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:19AMFriday, October 2, 2015
Like many families, the relationship between The Etienne Sisters isn’t perfect. Ree (Jennifer Saayeng) and Tree (Nina Toussaint-White) are burying their mother when estranged half-sister B…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:11AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
Five plays, five different writers, five different casts, one showcase. Sounds like a bargain, a chance to see new work over the course of an evening in bitesize chunks. The Miniaturists, no…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:02AMMonday, September 28, 2015
At just 19 years old, Dmitri Shostakovich unveiled his First Symphony in Leningrad to widespread acclaim and was compared to such greats as Stravinsky and Prokofiev. Like those bastions of t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:21AMSunday, September 6, 2015
American Psycho, Seven and Dahmer were all given medium scores on Rotten Tomatoes when they were released, with the public giving (as expected) higher scores than the critics. At least, that…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:18AMThursday, September 3, 2015
Paul G Raymond and Luke Manning collectively make up the sketch comedy duo In Cahoots, but neither are strangers to the circuit and regularly perform in the improv troupe Shoot From The Hip.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:49PMFeminism is a loose theme running throughout this comedy show from The Durham Revue, epitomised by one of the performance’s early sketches; the company’s two women (Charlotte Whistlecrof…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:49PM 
