“It is the start of a journey that [Emma] Rice hasn’t quite finished yet”, I speculated after seeing Kneehigh Theatre’s The Wild Bride some two years ago. Rice, joint Ar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:45AMAs a child, my backyard was 18 holes of a golf course, as my parents ran the accompanying bar and restaurant. In the long summer months I’d find myself tangled in the reeds by the pon…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:55AMThe relationship between television and theatre has always been an intimate and challenging affair. So close are the two mediums, sharing audiences and industry professionals, that it is eas…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:29AMRational madness. What is it and why should we care? Alirio Zavarce’s performance, The Book of Loco Zavarce, attempts to outline his ideas on rational madness and why we should take n…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:20AMIt’s not often you leave a theatre show feeling that what you’ve seen has actually had an impact on you. Too often theatre seems to rebound off the armour that I’ve built f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:15AMIt’s difficult to know where to begin with Cat Jones’s Glory Dazed as it continues its tour from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival via the Adelaide Fringe Festival before returning t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:18AMFringe Festivals always have an ability to turn unexpected places into performance spaces, often barely disguising their former lives. In the case of the Urban Spaceman Vintage, a retro clot…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:06AMReturning from the sell-out and award-winning success at the 2006 Adelaide Fringe, Ben Woolf’s comic and compelling play Angry Young Man finds its home once again at the Holden Street …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:45AMThere are two ways to look at Rowena Hutson’s The Unstoppable, Unsung Story of Shaky M playing at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. The first, and this is how I experienced the piec…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:12AMHow do we see the beauty of someone? Does it rest on the surface or lie hidden within? Is it caught from the side of your eye, or at a certain time of day? Tahil Corin’s play One for t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24AMStories are the foundation of our society. They weave themselves into the everyday, from childhood tales at night time, to the hushed whispers of gossip between neighbours. Stories fuel the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:52AMMedia has consumed our everyday living. We can’t walk down the street without being inundated with headlines and advertisements and stories and news and products and media, media, medi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:46AMThey’re sprawling across the streets, their voices raised in alcohol-fuelled exchanges as they stumble blindly home through the night. In this perfectly timed production at Downstage T…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:12AMThere is no denying that War Horse has found a place within the hearts of the British people. Now in its sixth year, including a worldwide tour, this National Theatre production shows the p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:56AMMarking its twentieth production, Kooza by Cirque Du Soleil at the Royal Albert Hall brings together two of the company’s foundation blocks: the arts of clowning and acrobatics. In a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:36PMA magic piano that, when played, makes everyone around dance uncontrollably. A tramp lends this piano to a couple of young lovers who are desperate to escape parental control. Cue a town ca…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:04AMIn November we introduced the Top 5 Theatre Trailers of the month, but for December we’re opening this out beyond trailers into the widespread area of general theatre related videos. S…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:01AMAs a child of the 90s The Spice Girls played a huge part in my upbringing. It wasn’t just the music, it was the momentum and power behind the message and global reach of the British gi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:02AMOpening the newly-formed Michael Grandage Company’s 15-month-long residency at the Noël Coward Theatre, the former artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse directs the first of five …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:15AMGive the theatre collective Shunt a space and it will create a spectacle in it. From its first incarnation in the railway arches in Bethnal Green, to the Shunt Lounge in the tunnels undernea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:55AMChristmas spirit might be invading every corner of London, but at the Camden People’s Theatre an altogether alternative take upon the December cheer is taking over. It’s not Chri…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:46AMTrailers for theatre shows are becoming important tools for arts marketers. Here is a roundup of the five best trailers that we’ve found for November – from the dramatic and high…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:56AMYou can feel the bass rumbling beneath your feet, passing up your legs and reverberating in your chest. The lights are glaring, dazzling, mesmerically addictive. Swaying from the drink that …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:40AMWant to play at the Monkey House? Award winning Fourth Monkey are back in London, following another critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Edinburgh festival and would like to work with …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:06PMWhat if there were an infinite number of outcomes for our lives, where every action and moment realigned us subtly but indefinitely. Nick Payne’s Constellations first appeared at the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:01PMIara Solano Arana stands in a black dress and dons a blonde wig. Lit from the side she is bathed in a yellow hue as she presses her lips against the microphone that crackles and sparks at th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:32AMThe Finborough Theatre, under the direction of Neil McPherson, has produced and presented high-quality plays of all shapes and sizes. But in Khadija is 18, by newcomer Shamser Sinha, somethi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:17PMIn 2010, contemporary Polish theatre company TR Warszawa brought to the Barbican Centre their version of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis, a gripping, emotional piece that had me rooted i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:18PMA pile of rugged rocks stretching up into the ceiling of the Soho Theatre Upstairs makes it look as if the roof above has fallen in. The combined weight of the rubble and the dust that still…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:54AMUnder the title of London, Simon Stephens’ short solo pieces T5 and Seawall are placed side by side in a Paines Plough, Live Theatre and Salisbury Playhouse production currently on …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:04PMSince it began in 2010, BE Festival (Birmingham European Festival) has flourished, now bringing an abundance of European theatre and performance to the city of Birmingham. This year, the fes…
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