In the hundreds of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, you know there is a hidden gem waiting to be discovered. It couldn’t come any more energy-filled and exciting as Charlotte Joseph…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:15PMNational Theatre of Scotland bring their laugh-a-minute production of Appointment with the Wicker Man under the guise of The Loch Parry Players to Assembly Music Hall at the Edinburgh Fring…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:29PMNeil Gore adapts Stephen Lowe’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists into a stripped two-handed play that keeps both Gore and fellow performer Fine Time Fontayne running around the A…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:07PMOntroerend Goed are no strangers to Edinburgh, having brought a string of productions that have provoked, shocked, or just allowed their audience to feel something more than being lifeless …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:49PMX, a housewife with two children, has moved to a small village with her husband, away from the chaos of the city. Here, in the quiet landscape of rural life, she attempts to find herself and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:44PMIn Ontroerend Goed’s production For once and all we’re going to tell you who we are so shut up and listen, Nathalie Marie Verbeke and Charlotte De Bruyne showed audiences that j…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:54PMGreg, a thirteen-year-old school boy, is on the cusp of his birthday and becoming a man. From fumbling with girls to stealing newspapers in the hope of making some quick cash to watch his dr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:00PMThe Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre is, much like the National Theatre’s Cottesloes Theatre, a space that offers experimentation to limited audiences. Hidden at the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:31AMIf there is one thing I have learnt recently, it is how much of the National Theatre is hidden from sight amongst the cocooning layers of concrete. Where Made In China’s Get Stuff Brea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AMHere is a little large round up of the most common mistakes made by arts organisations, individuals and companies when using Twitter. Feel free to add your own in the comments afterwards, an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:39AMWe’ve all seen those statistical reports about the current opinion of Londoners in magazines and papers. They’re quoted in government reports, and slowly filtered down so that th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:30AMGanesh Versus the Third Reich as part of LIFT Festival sees the return of Back to Back Theatre, the Australian company that brought Food Court to the Barbican in 2010. Working to provoke and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:49AMI’m an emotional person, this much I know about myself, but when it comes to theatre I have developed a heart of stone. I’ve spoken previously about how music can make my heart s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:39AMIn a dusty forgotten part of Greenwich, set against the backdrop of Canary Wharf and the financial district, Motor Show is being driven for a sold-out audience. A hybrid of performer/car d…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:47AMIn Joshua Conkel’s UK debut at the Finborough Theatre, The Sluts of Sutton Drive, the somewhat insignificant life of Stephanie Schwartz (played by the superb Georgia Buchanan) is given…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:40AMIn Made In China’s last piece We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) it hoped that we were happy, truly happy with the world that we lived in, despite all the pain and vio…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:48AMAs crowds gather on a blustery Friday night in front of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, there is a certain electric excitement in the air. Word on the ground is that we’re a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:26AM“Utopia: a place or state of things in which everything’s perfect. The opposite of Dystopia.” The brilliant irony of this sentence is that one person’s utopia is someone else…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:14AMAppearing as part of the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, Handspring Puppet Company UK, which is behind the hit War Horse puppets, presents Crow by Ted Hughes. A long collecti…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:30PMOur friends at Soho Theatre have an offer for half price tickets to Greg McLaren’s hilarious new show Doris Day Can Fuck Off and yes, it really is called that. It’s only valid on…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:21PMDreamthinkspeak, the immersive and installation-based theatre makers under the direction of Tristan Sharpe, present a stripped and reconfigured version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in The R…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:30AMIt took Elevator Repair Service ten years to develop and get the rights to perform The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, and this verbatim-read version, Gatz, is the result. Performing at …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:13AMLadies in Lavender is comfort food in theatre form. Looking around the auditorium before the start of the performance it was clear that if you were under 50 then you were very much in the mi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:52PMThe below speech was given at the Theatres Trust’s Conference on Delivering Sustainable Theatres on Tuesday 12 June. You can see the full line up of speakers here. When I was invited t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:10AMIn Notion Theatre Company’s presentation of Bobby Cronin’s musical Daybreak, we follow the challenge of finding your reason for living and finding another person to live it with.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:53AMWhen Purni Morell took over the artistic direction of The Unicorn Theatre there was an air of excitement over the work and artists which she could bring across from her time leading the Nati…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AMIpswich wouldn’t be the first place you’d call to mind when thinking about the hotbed of contemporary theatre talent that the UK is nurturing. The city might only be a short trai…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:10AMIt seems to me that if I am to write or respond to anything that the theatre world has to offer me, it has to come through the conditions of my being. It feels impossible to see the world th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:30PMCan Themba’s short story The Suit, depicting the black cultural hub of Sophiatown, Johannesburg in the 1950s, is given a touching and honest adaption and direction (by Peter Brook and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:09AMIn a collaboration that sees the theatre cultures of England, Estonia and Germany clash, divide and mold together, Three Kingdoms at Lyric Hammersmith, part of World Stages London, is a whir…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:29AMUninvited Guests is inviting audiences to scour newspapers for all that is bad in the world before pushing it into a performance space and, like the evolution of man from his primitive ape d…
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