Saturday, December 10, 2016
Months after the acclaimed television adaptation, and weeks after the tickets for this run were snapped up in a record-breaking ten minutes,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMSaturday, December 3, 2016
After a lumbering first half, Peter and the Starcatcher rears into brilliant life. It’s great when it gets going – a beautiful
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMWednesday, October 26, 2016
The theatre’s decision to dispense with its groundbreaking artistic director reflects a mindset that resists change – especially when a woman is driving itIt was announced yesterday that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMFriday, June 3, 2016
One of London’s premier new-writing theatres is seeking a resident assistant producer. As well as working on various different productions, including development and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:40AMFriday, May 13, 2016
You’ve probably been in a pub with a noisy expert and felt the need to say you like a playwright you don’t. That’s exactly what stops us engaging with theatreThe new artistic director …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMFriday, August 8, 2014
Jostling for position amongst the huge range of companies working up at the Fringe are a set of newcomers – newcomers to the Festival, to the city, to Europe itself, in some cases leaving …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:52AMSaturday, August 2, 2014
If you’ve been frequenting the Edinburgh Fringe long enough, there’s a chance you’ll be most familiar with Tom Basden as an Edinburgh Comedy Award (formerly the Perriers, n…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:41AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
The front wall of the newly rebuilt Liverpool Everyman Theatre feels like a statement of intent. It’s not often you can say that about a wall, but this one features portraits of 105 pe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMSunday, April 13, 2014
Tin Shed Theatre Company is busy, busy, busy. I speak to Company Director Georgina Harris on a chance free day between school tours of An Inspector Calls and Of Mice and Men, educational wor…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:55PMMonday, March 10, 2014
Kill the Beast burst onto the fringe theatre scene last year with a spatter of blood and a porcine squeal. Its debut show, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, based on Tom Baker’s novella of the same…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:56AMMonday, February 10, 2014
Meeting Nir Paldi upstairs at the Southbank Centre, I’m not entirely convinced I’m going to recognise him. After all, the last time I saw him, five months ago at the Edinburgh Fr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:38AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
It would seem that in the 37 years since Susan Sontag published On Photography – her collection of essays discussing, amongst other things, the ‘outsider’ status of the photog…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:41AMTuesday, October 22, 2013
Earlier this year, when Brian Logan and Jenny Paton opened applications for the annual Sprint festival, they were struck by the sheer number that dealt with a recurrent theme: those “t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:39AMSaturday, August 17, 2013
(2/5 stars) In this re-imagining of Sarah Kane’s famous play, first performed posthumously in 2000, DEM Productions attempts to turn this dark, highly-stylised swan song into something…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:33AMFriday, August 16, 2013
(4/5 stars) At a time when young people across the country are experiencing agony or ecstasy as a result of something as ultimately trivial as tests and grades, Toot has created a bizarre, s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:39AM(4/5 stars) Graham Chapman died of cancer in 1989, just shy of the celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. In this one man show written by Tom Craws…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:34AM(5/5 stars) Kabul, which bears the name of the troubled city in which it is set, is both the story of a place and something far more personal. Set in 1997 when, during the civil war in Afgha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24AMThursday, August 15, 2013
(2/5 stars) The puppetry impresses far more than the writing in this Queen Mary Theatre Company show about a successful actor who is diagnosed with a rare, fast-acting form of muscular dystr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:32AMWednesday, August 14, 2013
(3/5 stars) This new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox sees a young company waver between making a children’s show and, an important distinction, simply adapting a chil…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:58PMIt isn’t easy to juggle the demands of being a superhero with marriage, fatherhood and a job at B&Q. Bruntwood prize-winning writer Alistair McDowall excels in this intelligent and war…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:51AM(2/5 Stars) Dr. Maisah Sobaihi, an academic who works at a University in Jeddah, wants to challenge our perceptions about life in Saudi Arabia. Saudi-born but American-accented, having spent…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:22AM(3/5 Stars) In this new play by Darren Richman and Garrett Millerick, a group of traffic wardens, a Police Community Support Officer and a chemist are not so much ‘first against the wall w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:20AM(4/5 stars) This fast-paced adaptation of Stephen Kelman’s acclaimed novel is the perfect showcase for its young cast’s diverse range of talents. Harri, played by Daniel C. Johnson, guid…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMTuesday, August 13, 2013
(2/5 Stars) London can be a vast and terrifying city for the uninitiated – but after coming down for the funeral of the father he never knew, Tom decides to stay put. Some might say that t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:07AM(4/5 stars) Stuart Shorter was a troubled man in so many complicated, inter-connected ways, from drug abuse to homelessness to violent episodes, that it must have been almost impossible to p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:04AMMonday, August 12, 2013
(4/5 Stars) In a not-too-distant future, where technological advances have created total gender fluidity, people transition between sexes – referred to as “becoming New” – as…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:35PM(2/5 stars) Children’s theatre isn’t easy and it’s naïve to assume that a littler audience will automatically be a kinder one. Lincoln Company is about 75% of the way to a properly go…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:49AM(1/5 stars) An angry young woman is spending New Year’s Eve alone for unspecified, but presumably quite miserable, reasons. She’s oddly misanthropic when it comes to real people, but…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:40AM(2/5 stars) Cartwheels is a play of two halves. Not temporally, in the usual way, but quite literally: the stage is divided into two separate, equal halves. On the left is the Dining Table o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:34AM(3/5 stars) A storm in the darkness, the roar of the sea and a boy in the water: Vessel’s opening moments set the tone for the physical theatre sections that return throughout, as well as …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AMSaturday, August 10, 2013
(4/5 posts) A few years ago, Take it Interns wouldn’t have existed; it concerns a curiously modern phenomenon. The people who fought for workers’ rights such as minimum wage would have b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:29PM 
