Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Essex is immersed in the mythology of the East End gangster. Coming from Dagenham, a town much like Barking’s smaller, scrappy brother, sharing a borough in the way that they might relucta…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:51AMFriday, August 9, 2013
Ajax takes its title from the famed warrior of Sophocles’s fifth century Greek tragedy. Driven mad by jealousy, Ajax attempts to murder his generals but is tricked by the goddess Athena t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:30AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Amongst the looming skyscrapers from which, I imagine, many of us secretly plot our escapes from the nine-to-five drudgery, two tramps are plotting their own via the single gnarled tree that…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:11AMThursday, June 6, 2013
It is not often that I am proved wrong. In fact, if you were to push me to an estimate, I would say that I am only proved wrong around 94% of the time, which gives me a keen 6% in my favour.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:54PMSunday, June 2, 2013
Women make up approximately 52% of the population and yet research conducted by the Guardian last year reflects a troubling lack of representation, with an average 2:1 male to female ratio u…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:13PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
The last time I saw a production of Hamlet – and for better or for worse I have seen a few – was Dominic Dromgoole’s great production at the Globe. The very nature of that stage, wi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:25AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
The Queen’s Theatre was my first experience of the stage, regularly accompanying my family to the various pantomimes and children’s shows with a great deal of excitement each time I step…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:17PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
The Wilton’s Music Hall is a fairytale venue for this production of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, The Great Gatsby. Stepping through the great oak doors on an otherwise inconspicuous Sh…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:28AMMonday, December 31, 2012
Pah pah! Polka Theatre’s production of The Wind in the Willows roars along at the pace of Mr. Toad’s motor car, sweeping up its audience of under-11s, and many of the adults too, into a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:52AMMonday, December 10, 2012
Working in a school, I was delighted to learn that the year sevens would be studying pantomime for their Christmas assessment this year. I was less delighted to learn that very few of the ye…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:34AMSunday, November 18, 2012
Caution – contains spoilers “Where are the robots?”, Kris Kelvin asks his fellow scientist. From my seat in the Courtyard Theatre, I found myself asking the same. The dated set of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:16PMMonday, November 5, 2012
Upon entering The Pit at the Barbican for the Dutch company Het Filaal’s performance of Miss Ophelia, one is transported into a Blue Peter world of cardboard box towns, shadow screens and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:39AMMonday, October 8, 2012
Set in the breathtaking beauty of St. Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch, statues of saints and holy men peer scornfully down at Knowledge of Angels from every corner, bathed in a strange and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12AMThursday, October 4, 2012
Below Zelda Fitzgerald’s high school graduation photo are inscribed the words, “Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:31AMSaturday, August 18, 2012
“Us lot don’t have a chance in this world or the next; if we ever got to heaven I reckon we’d have to help with the thunder.” As someone who can often be found holding pi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:13PMSunday, June 17, 2012
“Deep is the darkness that falls down on me…” Set in the blistering heat of small town Mississippi, Summer and Smoke is a play that, on the surface, invokes endless sun-drenched da…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:46AMSunday, May 27, 2012
Tap, tap, tap. For a play first performed more than 40 years ago, Events Whilst Guarding the Bofors Gun still maintains an almost frightening intensity, strong enough to unsettle even today�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:09AMTuesday, May 15, 2012
The Rose Theatre is an awe-inspiring place. One of the first Elizabethan theatres of its time, its structural remains were discovered in 1989 during the construction of a new office block. A…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:38AMTuesday, May 8, 2012
Quite how I’d arrived in Dartmoor in the dead of night, the wind howling in my ears and the incessant pounding of the rain threatening to engulf me, I did not know. The strange thing was t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMThursday, April 26, 2012
“The strongest thing I ever made, was a set of claws for a girl to wear, the strongest thing I ever made was a pair of claws for a girl to tear her way to freedom…” Once upon a tim…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:49AM 
