Sunday, October 2, 2011
Football 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…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:04AMMonday, September 26, 2011
Opera can be a difficult affair to open your heart and mind to, however there are numerous organisations and companies which are bridging the gaps between conventional opera and wary new ope…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:14PMWednesday, September 21, 2011
The weekend offers me, like most people, a chance to relax and enjoy my own time in my own surroundings. Having recently acquired an iPad, I’ve found myself falling into a little tradi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:20AMTuesday, September 20, 2011
Harold Pinter, perhaps best known for his pauses, dialogues within contained rooms and tormented characters, is perhaps less known for some of his one-act plays such as One For The Road and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:38AMTuesday, September 13, 2011
There is a transcendant quality to Kneehigh Theatre’s newest creation by Joint-Artistic Director Emma Rice in The Wild Bride at the Lyric Theatre. It feels both a step back to the rust…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:49AMSunday, September 11, 2011
Dear GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN, This is a response to your show External which is a response to the show Internal by Ontroerend Goed. It would be fair to state that this response to your response…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:11AMWednesday, September 7, 2011
The National Theatre has announced its Autumn/Winter season of shows, and whilst in true NT fashion there are the usual star-studded performances (Lenny Henry and Simon Russel Beale) and top…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:20AMMonday, September 5, 2011
The work of dANTE OR dIE, under the direction of Daphna Attias and Terry O’Donovan, sees its latest explorative dance-theatre piece taking over a host of buildings across the capital t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AMSaturday, September 3, 2011
As the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks steadily approaches, tributes to this remarkable and devastating moment are beginning to take place, and naturally theatres are programmin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:50AMThursday, September 1, 2011
It’s rare that I return to see the same show more than once unless it is a West End musical and only to please some family member in town. Rarely am I so enthralled that I will quite happi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:41AMMonday, August 29, 2011
There are times when you can watch a show and understand what the theatre company has done, you can see their thoughts and intentions shimmering on the surface of their work. Now, this might…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:37PMSaturday, August 27, 2011
This is not a lecture, an angry protest or rebellion, this is an awakening. Or so we are lead to believe by Gary McNair in his one-man show Crunch. Looking at the way in which we value money…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:38AMThursday, August 25, 2011
There are some stories that will make you laugh, some that will leave you angry, and occasionally a story that will leave you tingling with emotion. Some Small Love Stories provides the latt…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:40AMTuesday, August 23, 2011
ChickenShed is a theatre company that doesn’t do things by halves. Wwhen it commits to a project or a show it presents with such energy and certainty that you know you’re going t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:18AMWhen does a piece of theatre become self-indulgent? This was the question that I was left with after seeing Hotel Methuselah at Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh Festival and British Counc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:24AMIt seems rare that a piece of theatre that is based around the subject of being gay is able to stay away from cliched boy-meets-boy narratives and camp dialogue. It’s great to finally …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:06AMMonday, August 22, 2011
We seem to take social networking, particularly Facebook, for granted. It’s so integrated into our lives, especially young people’s lives, who are brought up on poking and wall-t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:03PMDumbshow takes to the stage in an imaginative and energetic new performance for the Edinburgh Festival. ROAR (by Oliver Bennett, Jack Cole and Jack Howson) mixes songs with a twisting narrat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:54AMThe human brain and its method of functioning is deeply complex, and requires years of study and thousands of pounds-worth of medical research to begin to scratch its surface. In Analogue…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:48AMThe tale of Bluebeard is a commonly told fairytale, featuring a husband who kills off his wives, and the struggle that the final wife endures when she discovers the dark secrets of her new h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:42AMA group of squatters take over a building and throw a party in aid of ‘A Better Planet’, a scheme the group wants to deploy to rid the world of capitalism. Their peaceful (and dr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:36AMI’m very weary of one-person shows. I’ve written before that with only one person taking the stage, the pressure to captivate, engaging and present a piece of theatre on top form…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:31AMTime For The Good Looking Boy by Box Clever Theatre seems like a timely piece to be performed at the Edinburgh Festival. As young people across the country gain their A level results and ‘…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:38AMIt’s time for another competition, and this one is a quick one, so get your typing hands at the ready to enter. We’ve been given two tickets for Double Feature 2 at the National …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:35AMTuesday, August 16, 2011
The subject of home seems to be a somewhat troublesome topic of late. When we see the streets of London, Manchester and Birmingham littered with glass and looted shop items, it does not in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:38AMMonday, August 15, 2011
A new musical about the serial killer Steve Wright who murdered five prostitutes in Ipswich might not sound like a hit for The National Theatre, but London Road is this year’s triumph.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54AMFriday, August 12, 2011
Those of you who are regular followers of A Younger Thestre will know who the Filskit Theatre ladies are from their regular blog here. Having been working on their new production Snow White …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:58AMFriday, August 5, 2011
If the National Theatre’s Double Feature 1 (read Lois Jeary’s review here) captures a new side of the National Theatre in this recently unseen backstage area (the Paintframe is n…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:06AMThursday, August 4, 2011
The Almeida Theatre might not strike you as the most youth-friendly of venues. Its work under the artistic directorship of Michael Attenborough sees top-quality plays performed by some of th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:40AMMonday, August 1, 2011
The Old Vic New Voices 24 Hour Plays is now taking applications for this year’s 24 hour challenge. Now in its sixth year, The 24 Hour Plays gives 50 young actors, writers, directors an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:12AMSunday, July 31, 2011
Youth Music Theatre UK are presenting Terry Prachett’s Mort, The Musical and are offering a special £10 ticket offer for AYT readers. See below on how to get your discounted ticket, b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:42PM 
