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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Review: Enfant, Sadler's Wells by Lee Anderson

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 s…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:17PM

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Review: Half A Person: My Life As Told By The Smiths, Kings Head Theatre by Lee Anderson

“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 the…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:05PM

Monday, July 1, 2013

When critics get it wrong by Lee Anderson

The 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 lan…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:35AM

Monday, June 10, 2013

Review: Mission Drift by Lee Anderson

When 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 09:39AM

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Review: 4000 Miles by Lee Anderson

It'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'sÂ The Low Ro…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:58AM

Monday, April 15, 2013

Review: Ubu Roi by Lee Anderson

How 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 that dem…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:16PM

Monday, April 18, 2011

NSDF'11 Workshops: Finding the Story in Myth with Chris Thorpe by Lee Anderson

Chris 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 08:24AM

NSDF'11 Workshop: Acting Restoration Comedy with David Newman by Lee Anderson

Dialogue, 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 1…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:13AM

Interview with Big Smoke Productions by Lee Anderson

Elizabeth Gaubert (Writer/Director), Louise Malin (Producer), Katherine Edrupt (Assistant Producer & Actor),Â Robert Neumark Jones (Actor),Â Tracey Greene (Actor),Â Jamal Hue-Bonne…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:06AM

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Review NSDF: Dealer's Choice by Lee Anderson

DugOut'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 rarely mis…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:39AM

Interview with DugOut Theatre by Lee Anderson

DugOut 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 year'…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:27AM

Sunday, April 10, 2011

NSDF'11: And so it begins… by Lee Anderson

And…we’re of! After a five hour journey from London’s sunny suburbs andÂ accross the concrete sprawl of the M4, we’ve arrived in bright and beautiful Scarborough fo…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:48AM

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