Wednesday, 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 06:09PMTuesday, January 17, 2012
In 2011 Julian Assange rose to formidable ‘fame’ through the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks that he founded. Revealing the truth behind things that governments would rather be …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:07AMSunday, January 15, 2012
Classic texts such as Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller are often given a facelift by companies wishing to explore them in new and exciting ways. The classic texts are often considered a rig…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:57AMThursday, January 12, 2012
Blind Summit do puppetry well. In fact, they do it bloody brilliantly and The Table is most definitely proof of this. Launching the 2012 London International Mime Festival, Blind Summit brin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:08AMWednesday, January 11, 2012
The making of theatre for and with real-life family seems to be hitting London’s fringe scene, if my theatre viewing of late is anything to go by. First was Rebecca Peyton’s Some…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:37AMTuesday, January 10, 2012
In February 2005, BBC journalist Kate Peyton died from a gun shot wound in her back whilst reporting in Somalia. Her story has since been worked into a one-woman show written and performed b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:29AMMonday, January 9, 2012
Accidentally Festival is back again for 2012 returning to The Roundhouse and presented by students of BATP Performance Arts at Central School of Speech and Drama between 31st May and 3rd Jun…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:08AMTuesday, December 20, 2011
Theatre-Rites’ Mojo is a fusion of live music from around the world with skilled and illuminating puppetry. What starts as a rhythm and beat-busting musical experience evolves into a s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:28AMThursday, December 15, 2011
Ah, promenade theatre, how you test the most adventurous of our theatre makers and show that it’s not always a style worth investing in. Promenade theatre lives or dies within the firs…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:02AMFriday, December 9, 2011
What makes a perfect flatshare? Is it the people, the beliefs, the parties or the simple things such as harmony through the washing up being done? Bridges and Balloons by young company Imagi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:29AMThursday, December 8, 2011
Lucinda Coxon’s Herding Cats is a curious play. I say this because I left feeling somewhat perplexed and frustrated by it. Somewhere during the 80 minutes of Coxon’s play it lo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:27AMTuesday, December 6, 2011
Language is something that, when I focus on a theatre production, I seem to forget amongst the excitement of the live actor before me. When reading Tim Crouch’s Plays One, comprising h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:40AMSunday, December 4, 2011
If theatre is a live product then Thomas Ostermeier’s Hamlet is a wake-up call to British directors who continually present the undead of theatre – the sort of theatre that merel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:53AMMonday, November 28, 2011
In Shireen Mula’s newest play Same Same, the impenetrable bond between mother and daughter is explored in a lyrical and poetic performance that sets the bar high at Oval House Theatre. Mul…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:46AMWednesday, November 23, 2011
When I joined Twitter two or so years ago, I had no idea that this platform would somehow propel me into an industry that I loved and dreamed to be part of. I had no idea that several years …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:33AMIn Neil LaBute’s newest play, Reasons To Be Pretty at The Almeida Theatre, two couples push what it is to be in a relationship and to look at each other’s ‘beauty’. W…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:51AMThursday, November 17, 2011
Last night, as part of OMA / Progress and The Barbican Centre exhibition, I attended a panel discussion relating to architecture, audience and the arts called Designing for the Next Generat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:34PMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Anyone who follows me on Twitter will know that I am constantly saying “‘why isn’t theatre doing this?”‘,”‘when are we going to see some digital inn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:21AMMonday, November 14, 2011
A Younger Theatre’s Editor, Jake, recently sat on a panel for Farnham Maltings’ No Strings Attached funding bursaries. The scheme is designed to be completely open to ideas rela…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:30AMIn Federico Garcia Lorca’s Yerma, a desperate wife pleads with her husband, her community and her body to deliver the baby she so rightly deserves. Women of the community are wedded, b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:34AMThursday, November 10, 2011
Matthew Bourne’s The Nutcracker is not a traditional version of this classic Christmas ballet. A number of changes have been made to the original plot, many of which add a new perspective …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:30AMMonday, November 7, 2011
Ethnic identity, interwar tensions and the fragility of human relationships are amongst the topics Edson Burton concerns himself with in Raising Kamila. Yet whilst these themes intertwine fo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:01AMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Mike Bartlett’s new play 13 is a piece about belief and the shaping of leaders. It looks at the connections that we, within society, have between us, but also the impact of these conn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:48PMSaturday, October 22, 2011
What happens when you take 50 actors, directors, writers and producers and give them 24 hours to put on a play in front of 1,000 audience members at The Old Vic Theatre? Well, you’re a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:58AMThursday, October 20, 2011
We love a bit of puppetry, which is why we’re super excited about SUSPENSE, London’s Puppetry Festival which is back from 29th October. The first SUSPENSE took place in 2009 and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:16PMMonday, October 17, 2011
Sam Yates’s very fine revival of Irish Protestant playwright St John Ervine’s 1911 ‘Belfast tragedy’ Mixed Marriage (the first London revival in 90 years), set in pre-partisan Irelan…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:16AMWednesday, October 12, 2011
When we think of prominent African-American human rights and civil rights movement leaders, we are drawn to the powerful and moving speeches of Martin Luther King. We are less drawn to, whil…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:01AMFriday, October 7, 2011
The performer’s body as a tool like a musical instrument. This is the focus of Awake Project’s international ensemble piece, Awake. Blending physical strength, vocal agility, emo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:08AMThursday, October 6, 2011
Living in the UK, we forget how comfortably we have been brought up. This island, whilst small, has survived surrounded by water under the same occupancy for hundreds of years, and aside fro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:21AMSunday, October 2, 2011
Our friends at the Lyric Hammersmith are offering AYT readers the chance to win 2 tickets to Edward Bond’s Saved at the Lyric Hammersmith on Saturday 9th October. It’s the first …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:42AMFootball and Theatre? Seems like a strange mix if you ask us, but Fit and Proper People, a new play by Georgia Fitch at the Soho Theatre in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company lo…
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