Tuesday, August 25, 2015
It’s always a good start when you get offered sweets as you walk into a theatre. It’s less satisfying when you realise you can’t eat them and have to drop them into a coffin on the fro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:07PMAdam Hess comes running up onto the stage to kick off a high-energy and fast-paced comedy performance. With a more traditional take on a comedy show Hess has few props, preferring to enterta…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:58PMSometimes you have to relish in life’s slip-ups, make light of the bad situations and turn the depressing points of life into positives. In an hour’s lecture of how “crappiness is happ…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:03PMA poorly constructed corrugated iron shack is all Thandi (Zoey Martinson) can call home. Slowly dying of AIDS, she has become defeated, bitter and tired of life. Mandisi (Yusef Miller), an o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:03PMMonday, August 24, 2015
“Here in Yorkshire, we love to cycle… and not just to the dole office!” says Matthew as he shoots a promotional video for Yorkshire’s bid to host a stage of the 2013 Tour de Fran…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:20AMSunday, August 23, 2015
Ella (Margaret Ann Bain) has lived a double life. She has spent her time posing both as herself and her dead husband Max in order to avoid the Nazi regime in 1930s Germany. Naïve and too yo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:34PMFriday, August 21, 2015
On 25 April 2015, Nepal was devastated by the strongest earthquake to hit the country in 100 years. Villages were flattened and much of the historical city of Kathmandu crumbled to the grou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:28PMSaturday, August 8, 2015
Staging famous plays from well-known playwrights can often be a double edged sword for smaller theatres. It can attract a bigger crowd who will often attend works that they have heard of and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:16PMFriday, August 7, 2015
Of all the productions currently showing on the West End, there are very few that opened there without previewing or transferring from somewhere smaller. It may be from Broadway, it may be f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:14AMWednesday, August 5, 2015
Not all plays need to be packed with emotion or tear-jerking scenes. Indeed, Dear Lupin depicts a father and son who seemed conditioned not to show any outward signs of affection or emotion…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:24PMMonday, July 27, 2015
I have always loved the idea of a late night cabaret show. Going to a small, classy bar with low lighting and candles on the tables; sitting and listening to a talented singer perform some o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:50PMSunday, July 26, 2015
“If music be the food of love, play on.” A line written by history’s most well-known playwright. No matter what day, if anyone wants to see William Shakespeare’s work they are guaran…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:52AMTuesday, July 21, 2015
With August fast approaching, the smaller theatres in London are almost all filled with Edinburgh Fringe companies showcasing their latest productions. These venues are being used as a dry r…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:04PMSaturday, July 18, 2015
Theatre can take all sorts of shapes and sizes and be performed in many different areas. That’s one of the things I love about the arts – you can find great works in all sorts of inspira…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:52AMFriday, July 17, 2015
Not enough shows happen in circus tents. The traditional idea of a circus, complete with elephants and lions and horses has become all but extinct. Today’s audience require death defying s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:16PMThursday, July 9, 2015
Simon Vickery writes a series of three short plays that all deal with death – one about mourning a lost loved one, one about remembering one recently passed and one about dealing with the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:02PMSunday, July 5, 2015
It’s strange to think that in today’s society, AIDS could ever be described as a ‘gay man’s disease’. Or that you could contract it by touching another afflicted person. Or that it…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:20PMWednesday, June 17, 2015
Does your family history define you as a person, even though you’re not aware of the events that your predecessors lived through? Rosie (Jasmine Blackborow) is drawn to a city that her gra…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:08PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Pornography. In today’s society it’s everywhere. The volume of pornography available to cater for both sexes and a myriad of tastes is nowadays considered normal, almost mainstream. A nu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:21PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
Mental health has become a much more important issue in today’s society. It is estimated that one in four people will be affected by their mental health at one point in their life, and adv…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PMThursday, May 28, 2015
Crime-based plays are not a common genre anymore. Since the likes of Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes and James Bond hit out cinema and TV screens, we have craved more elaborate plot lines an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:58PMFriday, May 22, 2015
A corrugated iron shack. A wheelie bin. Five cast members dressed in dishevelled clothes and sporting maniacal grins. This is what the audience are faced with two minutes into From the Cradl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:23PMSunday, May 17, 2015
An award-winning photographer returns to the country that made him famous. 20 years previously, in the midst of the civil war, he shot a photo of a girl in an explosion that captured the ess…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:55PMFriday, May 8, 2015
“It’s not good for one’s morals to see bad acting” is one of the lines that I remember most in this 90 minute one-act play. I assume that this line stuck with me throughout the produ…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:57PM 
