Light slowly rises on the vast, cavernous Sadler’s Wells stage. A motorised crane judders into life. Beneath it, the inert body of a small child lies in a crumpled heap. At the rear of the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:17PM“A sad fact widely known / the most impassionate song / to a lonely soul / is so easily outgrown”, intones Morrissey on ‘Rubber Ring’. Recorded by The Smiths two years before…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:05PMThe methodology and approach to theatre criticism is changing, and changing rapidly. It’s a truism to claim that the rise of digital technology and online media has massively shifted the l…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:35AMWhen reviewing a performance, there is a nagging feeling of being hampered by that otherwise dependable writing companion, the notepad. It can serve to distract us from the events taking pla…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:39AMIt’s turning out to be good year for American playwrights in British theatre. No sooner has the curtain come down on the Royal Court Theatre‘s production of Bruce Norris’s� The Low…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:58AMHow do you rebottle lightning? This is the challenge that any theatre-maker tackling Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi must surely face. Jarry’s prank-play was a theatrical wrecking-ball – one th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:16PMChris Thopre is writing a new version of Robin Hood for the NSDF Ensemble production this year. The hour-and-a-half session took the form of a developmental workshop which explored the creat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:24AMDialogue, text and speech were the order of the day in David Newman’s workshop on English Restoration comedy. The room was jam-packed with actors and directors ready to get stuck into some…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:13AMElizabeth Gaubert (Writer/Director), Louise Malin (Producer), Katherine Edrupt (Assistant Producer & Actor), Robert Neumark Jones (Actor), Tracey Greene (Actor), Jamal Hue-Bonner (Act…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:06AMDugOut’s adaptation of Patrick Marber’s Dealer’s Choice is an uproariously funny, meticulously crafted and wonderfully imaginative addition to this year’s NSDF. The ensemble rare…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:39AMDugOut Theatre: George Chilcott (Director), Jimmy Walters, Ed Smith, Will Barwick, Tom Gill and Harry Williams. Dugout Theatre’s Dealer’s Choice was a standout production at this yea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:27AMAnd…we’re of! After a five hour journey from London’s sunny suburbs and accross the concrete sprawl of the M4, we’ve arrived in bright and beautiful Scarborough for …
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