Monday, May 7, 2012
Uninvited 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…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:19AMSaturday, April 21, 2012
I’ve been thinking about Melanie Wilson’s Autobiographer which I reviewed here during the week. It would perhaps be fair to say that I didn’t give it a glowing review, and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:00PMFriday, April 20, 2012
Melanie Wilson’s Autobiographer is a poem about life, loss and the slipping away of memory as Flora, the central character split between four performers, struggles with dementia. In it…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:22AMI’ve been thinking a lot about the digital in theatre, and how this affects us as an audience, and as industry professionals and theatre makers. At the moment, it’s all about the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:23AMMonday, April 16, 2012
As I was sitting watching Gross und Klein (Big and Small) at the Barbican Theatre I couldn’t help getting lost in the humour and tangential nature of Botho Strauss’s play, albeit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:15AMFriday, April 13, 2012
In David Byrne’s The Dark Room we witness the rise of Ruth (Madeleine MacMahon) as she asserts her power in the new school she has joined. From bottom of the classroom pile, she plots,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AMWednesday, April 11, 2012
In January 2011 I sat in the Pleasance Theatre watching Curious Directive’s Return To Silence. It wasn’t a perfect performance but the potential from this emerging company was cl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:16AMSaturday, April 7, 2012
With a running time of less than an hour, Squint’s Broken News at the New Wimbledon Studio Theatre packs in an energetic production with a compact story fit for the micro-narrative soc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:07PMWednesday, April 4, 2012
In this production of Mercury Fur by Philip Ridley, playing in the intimate Old Red Lion Theatre, audiences are crammed in tight and asked to be forgiving of the warm atmosphere. But it̵…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:30AMMonday, April 2, 2012
You will not find a harsher critic than me when it comes to Rogers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! Period. It’s a musical very close to my heart as it was the first musical I performed at Un…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:34AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
Hayley Squires’s debut play Vera Vera Vera, part of the Royal Court’s Young Writers Festival, is about the grief and hope that arises when a young solider, Bobby, is shot whilst fighting…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:15AMSunday, March 25, 2012
Our friends at Lyric Hammersmith have given us a pair of tickets to the hit show Mogadishu which is returning to the Lyric this week. To get your hands on the tickets skip below to find out …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:15AMThursday, March 22, 2012
Mikhall Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, an epic novel which tells of the Devil visiting Moscow and interacting with its inhabitants, is considered to be one of the best novels of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:34AMWednesday, March 14, 2012
Philip Ridley’s tour de force of a play, Shivered, is the story of a family torn apart by the beheading of their soldier son after he is taken hostage abroad. In true Ridley fashion, i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:57AMTuesday, March 13, 2012
Political correctness. Freedom of speech. Extremists. Belief. Islam. Muslim. Multicultural. Racism. Britishness. These are all words that have become more prominent in recent years, and no…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:25AMSunday, March 11, 2012
The launch of the annual Sprint Festival at Camden People’s Theatre took place not in a theatre as expected, but in the living room for an intimate audience of ten people. Birmingham-b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:11AMWednesday, March 7, 2012
“I didn’t know whether to masturbate or to vomit,” a bemused Chris Bailey declares during Made In China’s We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) at Batte…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30PMSaturday, March 3, 2012
The production of Julius Caesar staged at the Jack Studio Theatre (at the Brockley Jack) was a visual spectacle. The grungy feel of Rachel Cartlidge’s costumes placed this production outsi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:23AMSitting in the rehearsal room whilst Dirty Market works towards its work-in-progress piece is a rollercoaster ride. My presence in the process is a complicated one. The company has been kind…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:57AMTuesday, February 28, 2012
From the moment I entered the Garrick theatre the excited squeals of children were audible. They had seemingly come expecting the charming wit of Terry Deary and the joyous mirth of the tele…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMWe tend to forget, living in our cosy homes in the UK, that there is a wider world beyond our waters. The world is an expanse of land and sea inhabited by seven billion humans, living their …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:19AMWednesday, February 15, 2012
In Matt Trueman’s Noises Off this week on the Guardian Blogs he highlighted the spat caused by the recently launched online publication The Globe Mail in Australia over its first ar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:10AMSunday, February 12, 2012
Dario D’Ambrosi, an Italian performance artist, has had little exposure to UK audiences before now. His work slips between the cracks of theatre, art and performance, and is perhaps an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:36AMWednesday, February 8, 2012
As the puppet Punch celebrates his three-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday, Improbable brings its take on “that’s the way to do it” in The Devil and Mister Punch in the Barbic…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:31PMTuesday, February 7, 2012
Homer’s Odyssey is the epic Greek poem of King Odysseus’s 20-year journey to return to his homeland and wife Penelope. He meets goddesses, kills a Cyclops, survives PoesidenR…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:09AMSunday, February 5, 2012
Philip Ridley’s The Pitchfork Disney in its revival at Arcola Theatre leaves you with more questions than it provides answers. Ridley’s text is wondrously descriptive, evoking a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:32PMIn June 2011, Lyn Gardner and I co-hosted a discussion through Improbable’s ‘Devoted and Disgruntled Satellites’ with the question: “What are we going to do about the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:09PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
Federico Garcia Lorca‘s The House of Bernarda Alba is a formidable play that holds wickedness and envy between every line and subtext is all the dialogue and action. Bernarda Alba is a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:28AMSaturday, January 28, 2012
In Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan’s The Bee, a collaboration between Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and Soho Theatre in association with NODA MAP, two men push the limits in a dangerous game…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:02AMSunday, January 22, 2012
Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu’s play Skeen! has its audience in fits of hysterics within the first few lines. Appearing in Oval House’s 33% London, a festival dedicated to the 33% of lond…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:59AMWednesday, January 18, 2012
Growing old and dying are two things that haunt us all. I fear that as I get older, the person I once was will begin to disappear. I worry about the fragments of my life that I will leave sc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:09PM 
